Interesting Links for 2-5-2011

• Gay asylum claims not being counted despite pledge
  (tags: lgbt uk asylum)
• The Vatican comes out on the sensible side in its reaction to Osama Bin Laden's death
  (tags: OsamaBinLaden catholicism)
• Man unknowingly tweets the raid on Osama.
  (tags: twitter OsamaBinLaden alquaeda usa military)
• A Rough Guide to Social Skills for Awkward Smart People
  (tags: psychology intelligence geek)
• How to raise a child who doesn't bully
  (tags: bullying children parenting)
• Is Honeycomb Android's Vista?
  (tags: android google operatingsystems mobile_phones)
• What it actually costs to provide internet access
  (tags: internet money usa)
• Osama Bin Laden is dead.
  (tags: terrorism us afghanistan pakistan)
• A 1.15 gigapixel photo of the royal wedding crowd that you can pan and zoom around. I remember when this tech was hard to do.
  (tags: photography wedding royalty photo)
• The Map of Metal. Here be...dragons.
  (tags: music metal map history flash maps design)
• Ten ways that America is #1! (Closely followed by the UK at #2 in too many cases)
  (tags: America EpicFail)
• Greens would pick up most Lib Dem 2nd preferences under AV
  (tags: libdem green voting AV)
• Fascinating piece on Marcia Lucas, George's ex-wife, and a strong influence on the original movies.
  (tags: starwars georgelucas movies)
• 20 Classic Pin-Up Girls Before And After. How adverts were made before photoshop. (slightly NSFW)
  (tags: art illustration photography pinup advertising)
• What to do when your characters won't do what you tell them to?
  (tags: comics funny writing)

Someone seems to be having a good week

via eatsoylentgreen

Mmmm, pie.

Apparently I need to make 3.15 posts/day in order to hit 10,000 posts on my 10th anniversary of joining Livejournal.

Not that I feel a particular need to have those two things happen simultaneously. It's just an interesting number to know.