Just to stretch your friends page.

First - thanks to everyone who sent me Kitten Versus Puppy. You all rock. If you haven't seen it, here it is:

Secondly - cheers to bibliofile for the following most excellent macro:

Which was used to good effect in this post on how using the same word for trans-species and trans-race fiction might be, um, offensive.

Diversity Figurama

Standard Life carried out a massive diversity survey of their staff - the results of which are online here.

Interesting points to note:
The workforce skews more and more male as you move up the heirarchy, although 43% of managers/specialists are female.
Nearly 1% are transgender, but only 2.8% are bi/gay. Which sounds about right for stats on homosexuality, but higher than I'd expect for trans.
57% Christian - but I assume that most of those aren't very. 34% with no religion, which is nice to hear.
The vast majority of the part-timers are women - which isn't at all surprising, as I suspect most of those are women with young children.

Personally, I'm always fascinated by these snapshots of society.

Right

I just tried to reply to an email, but couldn't concentrate. So I thought I'd reply to an LJ comment, but I couldn't concentrate. So I thought I'd do an online quiz, but I couldn't concentrate.

So I'm going to go to bed.

Once I find something to read for five minutes that doesn't require concentration.