Link Roundup 2

• Saving the Day: Save Systems in Games - I agree with the author completely; games should allow a complete save at any point (preferably without checkpoints) unless the gameplay requires otherwise, in which case there should always be at least a "save and quit" or "save token" option.
  
• tiny houses - small dwellings of every shape and size - A beautiful gallery.  I wouldn't mind living in one of these, at least for a while— especially the zeroHouse.
  
• The vanishing personal site - I don't like this "outsourcing", or at least the way that it's basically mandated for certain types of social interaction to take place.  I wish there was a more open social networking system which would allow you to link up these different services all on one site, which you could either host yourself or could host on a site like Facebook.
  
• Thinking People Eat Too Much: Intellectual Work Found To Induce Excessive Calorie Intake - AHA!  SIMON'S ROCK, I BLAME YOU!
  
• What Your Global Neighbors Are Buying - A cool map which depicts various categories of consumer spending levels in 2007 by resizing countries.
  
• Top 5 MD Myths, Busted. - I love it when people get pissed off.
  
• Klein Calls Blogger to Respond to Criticism - I see these kinds of things as the first steps towards truly utilizing the internet for citizen participation and government accountabilty. What if more politicians read was written about them on the WWW? 
• Neanderthals Not Dumb, but Made Dull Gadgets - This article seems to be pretty fail to me.  For instance, while this quote is on the spot, it has nothing to do with the findings of the study: "We've got to stop thinking of our being the only species of humans on this planet as our right, or as fate. Given different circumstances, perhaps Neanderthals would have gone on to colonize the world."  Also, this seems self-contradictory: "The superiority of blades has long been seen as evidence of human superiority. But according to Eren's team, blades had only one advantage: they can be easily attached to shafts."  Clearly, blades were superior: spears are a big deal.
• Tired of Waiting for Efficiency - Excellent points here.  People often forget that making twenty 1% improvements (each over the original) is equivalent to making one 20% improvement, and that often even a 1% increase is really helpful.  Maybe it has something to do with the way that we interpret percentages.  And finally...
• Just right for the garden: a mini-cow 

I should really credit these links, but unfortunately I'm working from a backlog of saved URLs and as such I'm not sure where a lot of these came from.  Most I either came upon directly (through RSS feeds) or I found on Polymeme.

I need to find a better way of posting these.  I'd like to just use Google Reader's share feature, but I don't just want to output an RSS feed.  Perhaps I'll write a little script to automatically merge that feed into my blog to make my life easier.