Shopping and Punching

[Poll #1443721]

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-14-2009

• Your answers to 10 tricky children's questions
  You may also have wondered how much the sky weighs yourself...
  (tags: questions children answers)
• Beat the Credit Crunch
  If you spread F Duerr & Son's Fine Cut Seville Orange Marmalade with Whisky, Champagne and Gold on your toast for breakfast, you'll be £76 poorer after you've finished the slice. Made with the finest Seville oranges, this condiment is infused with vintage Dalmore 62 single malt whisky from Whyte & Mackay, valued at £32,000 per bottle, Pol Roger Cuvee Sir Winston Churchill 1996 vintage champagne and edible flakes of 24-carat gold.
  (tags: food money luxury)
• Edinburgh most desirable city
  It is terribly, terribly sexy.
  (tags: Edinburgh)
• Cannabis may prevent osteoporosis
  (tags: cannabis osteoperosis science health medicine)
• A look back at the 21st century
  Written in 2000 and already looking rather accurate...
  (tags: economics future economy culture technology krugman)
• Massive bosons blew my unit
  Chris "BrassEye" Morris visits the Large Hadron Collider
  (tags: science physics Guardian lhc satire chrismorris cern)
• Asperger's Syndrome, on Screen and in Life
  I'm really looking forward to seeing Adam.
  (tags: aspergers movies)

I knew it!

One of the supervisors in Moon is played by Matt Berry - uber-incompetent over-sexed nitwit boss from The IT Crowd!

Ever wondered why your cat's tongue is so scratchy?

e_apraksina had this.

Worrying decisions

My flatmate earlier let me know that if you do a Yahoo image search for serial killer stabbing then the second picture is one that erindubitably took of him.

[Poll #1443899]

Five minutes, one shot

Robert Carlysle advertises Johnnie Walker whisky

Very nicely done - elegantly simple.

Five minutes from the just-finished WorldCon

Concentrating on the visual over the intellectual, obviously, but still interesting to see.

Description of the various bits and pieces depicted here at Bureau 42.

The perils of being a Sims3-widower: part 5 of a no doubt infinite number

We can't go and watch TV until a particular sim has died. This sim is now 94 and showing no signs of joining the choir eternal...