A problem shared

At the moment neither Julie nor I can see images like this:

without thinking of From Dust, and exactly where you'd put land bridges to cope with the inevitable flooding...

Interesting Links for 28-8-2011

• Five Scottish writers talk about Independence. I largely agree with Iain Banks (although I'm undecided on independence)
  (tags: scotland independence IainBanks)
• How to create a supervillain! Bwahahaha!
  (tags: superheroes funny science)
• The full scope of the ‘climate-change’ conspiracy
  (tags: conspiracy climatechange globalwarming funny)
• From model to front page - a nice example of how impossible the standards of beauty are.
  (tags: celebrity health photography photoshop manipulation beauty)
• The sheer amount of work that goes into making the file copy dialog in Windows 8 is immense. I am impressed.
  (tags: ui ux windows microsoft)
• #fakeletskillhitlerspoilers - I found this amusing. It was running riot before the episode started
  (tags: twitter doctorwho spoilers)
• The creator of Portal has a new game coming soon
  (tags: gaming computer_games)
• With every passing day the Liberal Democrats are dragging the Coalition further away from the Conservative manifesto
  (tags: conservatives libdem politics uk)
• What would it be like walking around on a cube-shaped planet?
  (tags: physics science gravity planet cube)
• Ten budget Android tablets. Prices coming down a lot, even with capacitive screens. Another two years and I might be tempted...
  (tags: tablets android)

It's all over when the fat pig sings

Muppet vs OK Go. Yum.

I remember Altavista. And Windows smartphones

[Poll #1773689]

Inspiration.

Fight!

There's a poll over on LJ, concerning whether Apple or Google is better.

You can see it here, if you like that kind of thing.