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Dead Island

I am very impressed by how this trailer is put together. Very nice use of time to tell a simple story in a way that unfolds to give up its plot one bit at a time.

Interesting Links for 17-2-2011

• Some data on the cost of publishing on the Amazon Kindle - and why it might not make sense for newspapers/magazines
  (tags: kindle publishing amazon ebooks newspaper business)
• Researchers reveal first autism candidate gene that demonstrates sensitivity to sex hormones
  (tags: autism genetics gender hormones)
• Nick Clegg blocks housing benefit cut for jobless
  (tags: politics benefits welfare uk)
• Lords finally back down on voting reform referendum. Woohoo! Now, just need to win a referendum.
  (tags: referendum av voting uk politics)
• If MSG is so bad for you, why doesn't everyone in Asia have a headache?
  (tags: food msg health science)
• If World War I Was a Bar Fight
  (tags: history wwi war funny)
• Ed Miliband: Why the alternative vote gets my vote
  (tags: av voting uk)
• “How could they not have known?!” - On the invisiblity (to men) of awful behaviour towards women.
  (tags: online discussion troll feminism)
• The Craft Behind Cerebus: An Interview with Gerhard (Part Three of Three - contains links to Part One and Two)
  (tags: cerebus Gerhard dave_sim comics)
• Change and the Public Sector. (These things rarely go well together)
  (tags: change uk government)
• David Cameron bows to pressure over English forest sale
  (tags: forests uk government)
• When Dilbert came to Nokia
  (tags: nokia bureaucracy)
• What sealed Nokia's fate? (Bureaucracy)
  (tags: nokia bureaucracy)
• Microsoft: Absolutely NO Free Software for Windows Phone and Xbox Apps.
  (tags: microsoft windows opensource)
• A promising treatment for heroin dependency
  (tags: heroin addiction drugs)
• Presenting topics in a "female" manner encourage girls to study science
  (tags: education feminism psychology schools)
• Taxing stuff – what George Monbiot got wrong
  (tags: tax uk government)

Male Gaze

Pretty girl straps ultra-tiny camera to her butt to see what people behind her are doing.

Discovers that the answer is mostly "staring at her butt".