This morning

Andy: There's a headline on the BBC "Lesbians given equal birth rights".
Julie: What, were they not allowed onto the maternity wards in case they got too aroused?!

Age - a question for my all-knowing friends-list

Ed was asking on Facebook what it would be like if we didn't age visibly so much - after all, other animals don't tend to.

Is this actually true?  Thinking about it, most other animals don't seem to get wrinkled in the same way, nor does their fur turn completely white or all fall out.  But is this just some animals?  Do other animals age visibly the same way we do?  Or is there something odd about people?

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-31-2009

• 100w incandescent bulbs phased out
  Europe-wide from September. Over to fluorescents for all of us!
  
  I wonder when LEDs will be up to the job...
  (tags: light lighting Europe UK electricity)
• 7 Symptoms You're On The Verge Of A Burn Out
  I've definitely had clusters of these before.
  (tags: productivity stress health work)
• Good Novels Don't Have to Be Hard Work
  Anyone know if this is being discussed inside genre circles? I'd love to see a decent discussion of it.
  (tags: books literature writing culture modernism novel)
• Money and Happiness
  Money _can_ buy you happiness - but only if you spend it on experiences rather than objects.
  (tags: happiness money psychology lifehacks)

Quick poll

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Now that's just unlikely

Disney just bought Marvel.

I have to share this with you

I just came back from a planet where the dominant lifeform had no  bilateral symmetry, and all I got was this stupid F-Shirt.

(awful joke courtesy of Nick)

Damn, that's impressive.

Nick sent me a link to an MS Paint challenge on Something Awful here - you're given a stick man on one side of a cliff, and you have to "draw him across".

And some of them are pretty funny, and quite well done.

And then, here on page 18, there's a fucking masterpiece, where you can literally watch someone improve over the course of a few panels.

The internet - full of stuff you don't expect.

Bollards of the Damned!

A friend (who can out himself if he feels like it) sent me a link to a company that makes bollards that look like children, in order to help with road safety around schools.

This is all well, and good, except when you put a few of them together...