Writer's Block: The start of something wonderful

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I'm always torn between 'It was the day my grandmother exploded.' from Iain Banks' "The Crow Road" and John Varley's "Steel Beach" - 'In five years the penis will become obsolete'.

Interesting Links for 7-2-2011

• What life under a socialised medical system is actually like
  (tags: nhs uk healthcare)
• Remember the woman whose boy wanted to dress as Daphne for Halloween? Now cast out of her church...
  (tags: children christianity religion)
• Inquiry fails to find single trafficker who forced anybody into prostitution
  (tags: politics trafficking uk prostitution law statistics police)
• Fan Translates 139,000-Word Russian Rewrite of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (from the perspective of Mordor)
  (tags: scifi fantasy lotr Tolkein)
• A rant wot I just wrote about HDMI cables.
  (tags: cables hdmi rant)
• IE9 beating out Chrome for HTML5 sprite animation. Firefox basically nowhere.
  (tags: browser html5 animation)
• Harper Collins now sells 25% of their YA books as ebooks, up from 6% last year. St Martin's Press on 20%
  (tags: books ebooks ereader technology)
• New evidence shows changes in brain size during the menstrual cycle
  (tags: women menstruation hormones brains)

I'm not sure that marrog would approve.

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