Interesting Links for 24-3-2011

• Where Are the Female Directors and Writers of Science-Fiction Films?
  (tags: cinema film scifi women feminism)
• Why the prescriptivist approach to language is like creationism
  (tags: language creationism prescriptivism)
• The Quintessentially Victorian Vision of “The Wire” (very nicely put together).
  (tags: tv writing CharlesDickens TheWire)
• Radioactive Tokyo tapwater HARMS BABIES ... if drunk for a year (and it will be even safer in days)
  (tags: radiation japan fukushima)
• Firefox 4 ‘Do Not Track’: How it works, what it really means. I'd still like an Adblock that left text ads in place...
  (tags: firefox advertising web)
• Budget cuts taxes on business - but cuts loopholes used by highly paid businessmen to avoid tax.
  (tags: budget tax uk)
• Forum raises $50,000 for Japan tsunami fund to ban annoying poster
  (tags: japan charity SomethingAwful)
• What Transmen Tell Us About Inequality in the Workplace
  (tags: transgender inequality feminism lgbt)

I AM RESISTANT!

I am now, apparently, immune to Diptheria, Polio, Meningitis, Hepatitis and Polio. I also have a slightly sore left shoulder (oddly the shot for Hep A and Typhoid hurt more than the shot for the other three).

Nothing for Malaria or Dengue, because apparently Pune is low risk. I do have a big squirty bottle of anti-mosquito stuff though.

In other news, apparently inhaling helium before telling your girlfriend you love her is not a terribly romantic gesture. Who knew?

Apocalpyse Postponed

We've gone on holiday by mistake!

What if someone took Richard E Grant's lines from Withnail and I, and put them in the mouth of the campest robot ever to grace a Galaxy Far Far Away...?

Have you ever wanted to see a planet get eaten?

First they unleash goo that eats all the dirt, then they unleash goo that eats all the rocks, and then they jump down and visit the limbo that's left.

via lpetrazickis, whose description I have also shamelessly copied.