Y: The Last Man Rising [Fan Film]

Based on one of the most critically acclaimed comics of all time. A mysterious plague has wiped out all men on the planet, and women are left to pick up the pieces of society. The only surviving man is Yorick, an amateur escape artist who is the key to the continual survival of the human race. Special Agent 355 is tasked to protect his life at all costs. Luckily, she’s really good at her job…

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What Makes People Happy

The “Happiness index” recently released indicates what features in British people’s lives are apparently increasing their life satisfaction.

According to the survey of 165,000 people, teenagers and senior citizens are the most happy – apparently after your 20s, your life satisfaction decreases till you get to about 50 and the things start looking up. Am I seeing a correlation with breeding time and children moving out of the house there?

Those living in more remote areas are happier, as are those in relationships and with jobs – especially doctors, lawyers and teachers.

I always take these things with a grain of salt though – in the end, happiness is a state of mind, a way you perceive life. You could be living the poorest existence, but find happiness in the smallest of things. Life is what you make it, so I don’t think you can blame your race, age, job or anyone else for how unhappy you are.

I mean, being a geek used to be a factor that contributed to unhappiness right? Yet geeks have stuck by their guns, and found their happiness in their passions – despite society’s perceptions.

Apparently there were some in England who thought the millions spent on this survey an unnecessary waste of expense. While I find the information intriguing, I’m inclined to agree that a survey like this does little in the way of important change and is probably not worth the money.

What do you think? Are happiness surveys worth the trouble to find out why people are satisfied in order to develop better policy-making? Or are they an unnecessary waste of money since each person is unique and finds satisfaction in their own way, and the results are simply stating “the bleeding obvious”?

[Via The Guardian | Happy People Picture via Bigstockphoto.com]



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Amazon Kindle 3G Browsing Now Limited

Seems the days of surfing the Internet in the little black and white browser of the Kindle to your hearts content has come to an end.

Apparently, some users have experienced a bandwidth warning, alerted to a “50MB limit”. They were then informed that they would be allowed only 24 hours more of surfing and then access would be limited to Amazon.com, the Kindle Store and Wikipedia (unless you’re on wifi).

There always was a limit, apparently, just Kindle never enforced it until now. I suppose that is what you get when people start exploiting generosity.

[Via GeekGadgets]