links for 2009-03-05

Took people 10 years to get rid of 800×600?

"Fluid intelligence is analysis, maybe doing Sudoku or a Rubik's cube – speed of analysis with problem solving. You don't have to have had an education."
Crystallised intelligence on the other hand is knowledge you have learnt and then access from memory. Knowing all of the counties in the British Isles is a piece of crystallised intelligence."

"It's the number of people that you know as persons and you know how they fit into your social world and they know how you fit into theirs. They are a group of people to which you have an obligation of friendship."

62% of people in the poll admitted they turn the corner of the page to keep their place. "I consider that mutilation," said Simon. "I would never do that, what's wrong with using bookmarks – tickets, pieces of paper?"

Austen got a tentative green light, despite her novels being rather too full of "marriage, petticoats, and ponies". Dickens, Orwell and Hemingway, on the other hand, were met with firm, manly approval.
"And it's a good sign if the copy she has is well-worn – it shows she's not just reading it to show off", said one stickler. Time to 'accidentally' drop those Penguin Classics in the bath for that authentic look. – lol people are strange

Pork seller Li Xuying says people are still buying pricy cuts of meat, but in smaller quantities.
"If you have money then you eat a bit more," she says. "If you have less, then you eat a bit less." – Aw bless.

Two concepts introduced by Albert Einstein are needed to explain the phenomenon. The first is that time and space are not two independent concepts, but are interrelated forming a single continuum, spacetime. This continuum has some special properties. An object is not free to move around spacetime at will; it must always move forward in time and cannot change its position in space faster than the speed of light. This is the main result of the theory of special relativity.