Reflections on root canal

On the one hand it didn't hurt at all.

On the other hand I'd like to avoid ever smelling smoke coming from the inside of my mouth ever again.

Interesting Links for 5-1-2011

• RSS dead for newspapers? Not at The Guardian it isn't.
  (tags: rss media guardian)
• Swiss central bank refuses to touch Irish state bonds
  (tags: ireland banking switzerland EpicFail)
• David Tennant engaged to girlfriend Georgia Moffett.
  (tags: drwho)
• Couples that spend time together improving themselves and gaining new experiences are happier.
  (tags: marriage relationship psychology)
• UK general election system broken.
  (tags: voting elections uk)
• Grant Morrison's Flex Mentallo is being reprinted! Squee! Squee! Is ded of happy. Now just Marvelman and Zenith to go...
  (tags: comics awesome grantmorrison)
• Hair colour predicted from genes. I'm surprised this took so long...
  (tags: hair genetics])
• 40 percent of new US smartphone sales are Android. Apple also up, Blackberry crashing.
  (tags: mobile_phones android apple)
• Too-Big-to-Fail Banks Face New Limits Under EU Plan
  (tags: banking)
• Firefox just overtook IE in Europe. (IE still wildly in the lead in other areas)
  (tags: browsers europe firefox microsoft)
• A killer caught in victim's photo
  (tags: murder photos)

Evidence-based policy

I posted a poll yesterday on LJ, and then one on DW asking if people would have voted there if it had been there.

Final tally (well, 24 hours later, so final enough): 101 on LJ, 13 on DW. Which settles that, so long as there isn't a way to do a poll in both at once I'll be posting polls on LJ (and a link on DW to them).

Another day in technical support

For those of you not already reading Scenes From A Multiverse, you probably should be.

My brain is leaking out of my ears

although this is rather fun:

Dreamwidth Invites

I've just realised I still have a bunch. Anyone want one?

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