Interesting Links for 14-5-2011

• Ashton Kutcher replaces Charlie Sheen in Two and a Half Men
  (tags: CharlieSheen tv)
• Video of David Gilmour playing live with Roger Waters on The Wall in London. Dammit - I'm not there until Wednesday!
  (tags: PinkFloyd RogerWaters TheWall video)
• How can you tell if a policy is working? Run a trial.
  (tags: politics science statistics)
• Iain M Banks on non-SF writers writing SF.
  (tags: literature scifi books writing)
• Would putting all the climate scientists in a room solve global warming?
  (tags: climate climatechange globalwarming)
• Activated graphene to enable high-capacity supercapacitors - would revolutionise the energy industry.
  (tags: electricity energy)
• Impatient punters trade PS3s for Xbox 360s
  (tags: sony microsoft)

I snarfed

Both via theweaselking, and I think he made the first one.

Understanding English

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via miss_s_b on Twitter.

Doctor Who

So. That was the best episode this season. I was worried that the stagey weirdness of Aunty and Uncle was going to be very offputting, but ( spoilers )

and most of the episode was just fantastic. Particularly Suranne Jones, who hit just the right tone.

I'm now wondering what was cut from the episode, or cut down, because the budget was too high.

The best of all possible cover versions of the Angry Birds theme music

I adore Pomplamoose. I probably shouldn't, but sometimes I can't help myself.

Edit:
Oh. My. God. Their cover of Lady Gaga's Telephone is to die for: