Interesting Links for 14-10-2011

• Britain's answer to obesity "People should eat less."
  (tags:obesity politics uk )
• All Work and No Play: Why Your Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed
  (tags:anxiety depresion play children )
• Is everything you know about alcohol wrong?
  (tags:alcohol mood behaviour uk politics )
• The Island of the Immortals by Ursula K. Le Guin
  For some reason I had _no_ idea that she was still producing short stories.
  (tags:short_story leguin scifi )
• The Windows 8 Task Manager looks like a big improvement.
  (tags:Windows software )
• Android OS has a built in Blackberry emulator!
  (tags:android blackberry funny MobilePhones )
• Can science and religion truly be compatible?
  (tags:religion science knowledge evidence )
• Why we need better sex education
  (tags:sex education children uk )
• An open letter to that 53% guy
  (tags:society usa money liberal )

Interesting Links for 15-10-2011

• iOS5 will delete cached data. (Not apocalyptic, worth knowing about.)
  (tags:ios apple iphone )
• R.I.P., the film movie camera: 1888-2011
  (tags:movies film technology obsolescence )
• Best abstract ever
  (tags:academia funny physics )
• Median Payments for Mortgages and Rent Converge
  (tags:mortgage rent payments credit usa )

Anyone I know got a copy of Borderlands on Steam?

I picked it up for me for £6 a couple of weeks back, and want to try it with Julie. It's now back to £20 though, so if anyone bought a four-pack and wants to sell me a copy cheap then let me know...

Okay, I no longer believe anything I see on TV

Rendering Synthetic Objects into Legacy Photographs from Kevin Karsch on Vimeo.

The video shows CGI being inserted into photos. In a damned impressive manner.