The Good, The Bad and The Advertising

Bad: I'm off work today, feeling sick from what I assume is a mixture of Julie's Cold* and exhaustion.

Good: The new flatmate doesn't mind if I walk around the flat naked, and has in fact been known to do so herself.

And here's an ad  (courtesy of nhw) in favour of gay marriage, produced for Ireland:

*This is the official medical name for the Plague Of Doom that has been infesting Julie for, ooh, the last 6 months, occasionally flaring up into something nasty.

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-1-2009

• Commentary on the Disney/Marvel buy out
  (tags: funny comic disney Marvel)
• The Governator's Office is EPIC!
  That's the sword from Conan on the cabinet, and a scale model of a Terminator on the desk...
  (tags: Arnold_Schwarzenegger Geeky)
• 7 Terrifying Giant Versions of Disgusting Critters
  Aaaargh! Aaaaargh! Aaaaargh!!!!!!!
  (tags: animals nature scary)
• Holding heavy objects makes us see things as more important
  A new study which shows that simply holding a heavy object can affect the way we think. A simple heavy clipboard can makes issues seem weightier - when holding one, volunteers think of situations as more important and they invest more mental effort in dealing with abstract issues.
  (tags: mind brain perception)
• More â˜Evidence' of Intelligent Design Shot Down by Science
  Mitochondria turn out not to be irreducible. Huzzah!
  (tags: evolution science biology creationism complexity)
• Is this the worst day of the year to be born?
  Only 53% of girls and 47% of boys born in August reached the expected educational level at age seven in state primary schools in England, compared with 80% and 70% of those born in September.
  
  Their sporting prowess is affected too. Older children tend to be bigger and more confident, receive more encouragement, and their advantage grows over time.
  (tags: children development education fitness)
• How I got out of writing an essay on HG Well's The Time Machine
  Funny little bit of SF. Funnier if you've read/seen The Time Machine.
  (tags: sf HGWells timetravel funny fiction story)

Could use one more arrow.

(can't remember where I got it from)

Bonus points for the first person to point out where the missing arrow should go...

Headline of the century

And how that headline actually happened...

With many, many thanks to princealbert.

The problem with being ill

Is that I've done pretty much fuck all all day, leading to me being both incrediblt spacy and not actually tired.

If standing up didn't make me feel dizzy then I'd go for a walk (which tends to cure both of these problems).  Instead I'm going to wean myself off of the computer and stare at a book for a bit instead.

Meantime, have the BBC Radiophonic Workshop performing the Dr Who music twice live.  First time is the 1980's version, with pre-recorded backing (I think), second time is purely live.  Both are good fun, if you're a massive geek.  And if you aren't, then why aren't you???

(found via hirez, who linked to a whole bunch of them)