Interesting Links for 26-5-2011

• San Francisco to Vote on Circumcision Ban
  (tags: circumcision usa law)
• It can never be as bad in fiction as it is in real life: Ken Kesey on One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
  (tags: writing inspiration theatre psychology)
• Italian seismologists to be tried for manslaughter for not predicting earthquake
  (tags: science law wtf earthquake)
• Bill Gates’ brilliantly accurate predictions for the Internet…from 1995
  (tags: microsoft billgates future history)
• Pork cooking temperatures lowered
  (tags: pork cooking temperature)
• Some stats about geeks
  (tags: geek)
• Large chunk of the universe's missing mass found
  (tags: astronomy physics)
• More details discovered on the different genes active in autistic brains
  (tags: autism brains psychology genetics)
• House Refuses To Vote On Abortion Coverage For Military Rape Victims
  (tags: usa law abortion military)
• There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says
  (tags: politics government privacy law)
• This is why the human race will die out.
  (tags: funny comic relationships technology)
• CyanogenMod Adds Support For Revoking And Faking App Permissions On Android
  (tags: android mobile_phones)
• Steady Decline in Major Crime Baffles Experts
  (tags: crime usa)
• Insane suggestion that Twitter vet every single tweet before publishing them...
  (tags: twitter EpicFail EpicStupidity)
• Britain is a picture of how politics should work (An American View)
  (tags: politics britain usa)

It's like flying underwater

Occasionally, I miss SCUBA diving.

via e_apraksina

I like this an awful lot

From the middle of this story, over on the journal of the journal of the ever-so-talented tiny_vice.

I believe I have a couple of Alan Rickman fans on my friends list...