Random links
- Hayley Wickenheiser one of first female characters in NHL video game
- "EA Sports started including female players in NHL 12, which featured generic female characters. But this is the first time recognizable, real-world female athletes are a part of the made-in-Canada game. ... Wickenheiser ... became the first woman to record a point in a men’s professional hockey game with the Kirkkonummen Salamat of the Finnish second division. ... While the star forward may be featured in the NHL video game, Wickenheiser doesn’t think it’s a realistic goal to integrate female players into the league." Basically she seems to prefer a separate female-only league.
- Internet for those who won’t get off their asses
- "The northern town of Hoshaya is planning on installing WiFi Internet access on the donkeys it uses as part of its Talmudic-era amusement village, Kfar Kedem, Israel Hayom reported on Monday." Pictures here.
- Nokia's Bad Call on Smartphones
- The problems of getting research to market: "More than seven years before Apple Inc. rolled out the iPhone, the Nokia team showed a phone with a color touch screen set above a single button. The device was shown locating a restaurant, playing a racing game and ordering lipstick. In the late 1990s, Nokia secretly developed another alluring product: a tablet computer with a wireless connection and touch screen—all features today of the hot-selling Apple iPad. ... Consumers never saw either device. The gadgets were casualties of a corporate culture that lavished funds on research but squandered opportunities to bring the innovations it produced to market."
- Abortion and the Gender Gap Continued
- "surveys show that on average men and women have fairly similar attitudes toward abortion. Some analyses of this data show that when certain demographic factors are held constant, women are actually slightly more pro-life than men."