Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-26-2009

• New high-speed rail plan unveiled
  $34Bn to join London to Glasgow - via Birmingham and Manchester. 2:16 travel time rather than 4:48 as it is at the moment. I wonder if it will actually get made...
  (tags: travel UK trains)
• Multitaskers bad at multitasking
  Now there's irony for you.
  (tags: media technology attention concentration multitasking psychology)
• What determines Caster Semenya's sex?
  It is, of course, not as simple as you might think.
  (tags: sex gender genetics hormones)

Recapping on yesterday while my unit tests run

The BBC picked up on the Microsoft story from yesterday



What really gets me is the complete lack of thought. If they didn't want to have a black person in a Polish advert (for whatever reason) then why not reshoot the bloody advert? Someone didn't realise that nowadays you _cannot_ get away with this kind of thing...

[Poll #1449235]

Auto-bonsai cat!

MRI of sex

( Just in case you're in work )

8-bit Trip

I recognised far too much of this: