Interesting Links for 12-5-2011

• The History of Pretty Much Everything
  (tags: science history physics)
• Train firm offers phone-based ticketing across UK
  (tags: trains uk mobile_phones)
• English and Welsh rather keener on Scottish Independence than the Scots are.
  (tags: scotland independence funny)
• Plans to reform House of Lords could include a lottery to cull peers
  (tags: politics uk democracy)
• The Final Answer For What To Do To Prevent Piracy
  (tags: games programming copyright piracy)
• 'In any other job you'd call the police...' - the abuse female comedians face
  (tags: abuse comedy women feminism)
• Angry Birds on the web. Not actually as much fun with a mouse. But still...
  (tags: games angrybirds)
• Marriage Counselling for the Lib-Dems. What they need to do next.
  (tags: libdem coalition relationships)
• Best teachers _ever_.
  (tags: teaching scotland EpicWin video)
• Princes Street closes to buses for Edinburgh tram works (July until Spring)
  (tags: trams edinburgh)
• Government reviewing TUPE, 90 day redundancy consultation and discrimination compensation
  (tags: government redundancy discrimination uk)
• Turns out Botox is good for migraines.
  (tags: migraine botox)
• 'Legal highs' outstrip attempts at regulation. Shocked! I'm shocked, I say!
  (tags: drugs law uk)
• Channel 4 to air live drug-taking
  (tags: drugs channel4 tv)
• Cambridgeshire schoolboy wears skirt in protest
  (tags: clothing gender school uk)
• The contract that the magazine "Nature" makes contributor's sign.
  (tags: law research journalism nature)
• What programmers actually do with their time (very true).
  (tags: programming business)
• Things Fat People Are Told
  (tags: politics fat bodies twitter)

Even Wizards Gotta Wear Shades

Okay, so they just have to wear 3D glasses to watch the rushes from The
Hobbit.

From

There went the music industry

Figures on the left are in millions of pounds.

I had no idea this happened

(The Holocaust Remembrance Day Siren - 2 minutes at 10AM once per year when the whole country comes to a standstill.)

George Lucas finds a way to save on actors in the next Star Wars movie

(Real robots duel with toy lightsabers)