Wheeeeee!

The new Tintin movie looks like a lot of fun.

(Of course, in traditional Steven Moffat style there's not a single decent female character on show.)

Interesting Links for 12-7-2011

• One year on - how is London's cycle scheme doing?
  (tags: london cycling transport uk)
• Paper, scissors, stone - how the unholy trinity of government, police and media tied themselves in a knot
  (tags: media police government uk)
• An african american women’s experience in an engineering class
  (tags: academia racism sexism usa texas)
• Pratchett’s Women: The Boobs, the Bad and the Broomsticks
  (tags: terrypratchett women feminism fiction)
• The easiest and most convenient way to see the movies or TV shows you want is to get them illegally.
  (tags: movies music piracy copyright)
• Interesting insight on Google+ from an ex-Google engineer
  (tags: technology google facebook web twitter)
• What role will humans play in the wars of the future?
  (tags: robots war military usa)
• CTV's Quebec Bureau Chief explains why he quit his job, and what's wrong with both TV News and Canada.
  (tags: politics tv media journalism)
• Scientists discover first gonorrhea strain resistant to all available antibiotics
  (tags: health sex disease)
• Firefox 8 is 20% faster than Firefox 5, matches Chrome 14
  (tags: firefox chrome web software)
• Half of US social program recipients believe they have not used a government social program
  (tags: usa welfare)

Videos on my inbox

How to deactivate a cat:

(via henriksdal on FB)

An awesome cover of Born This Way:

via octopoid_horror

And, of course, you know you all want to be Canadian:

via lilysea