Interesting Links for 10-12-2011

• Fecal Transplants: They Work, the Regulations Don’t
  (tags: fecal bacteria medicine regulation )
• Director David Fincher Takes On The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (spoilers for his previous films too)
  (tags: DavidFincher TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo movies )
• Gay, socialist and born in a squatters' camp – meet the new PM of Belgium
  (tags: belgium politics lgbt )
• Need to prove something you already believe? All you need are two graphs and a leading question
  (tags: statistics funny graphs )
• Intermittent, low-carbohydrate diets are more successful than standard dieting
  (tags: diet carbohydrates weight food )
• Apple using patents to undermine open standards again
  (tags: apple patents standards )
• Google deploys IPv6 for internal network
  (tags: google ipv6 )
• Whitstable mum in custard shortage (local journalism at its finest!)
  (tags: custard kent journalism local )
• Vagina Dentata Glow in the Dark Underwear
  (tags: vagina underwear clothes funny )

Catching Up With Awesomeness (a tab dump)

The LJ DDOS is clearly back under control, because they're updating the RSS feeds again*

My "comics"feed went back to skip 100, My Synpeople feed went back to skip 80, and I now have 37 new tabs waiting to be read, opened from all of that backlog.

So you get a selection of awesome stuff from those tabs. Lucky you!

This aptly describes my Christmas shopping experience:


I have had this conversation:


And here is a video of impressive juggling from the thread on Whatever about the awesome pole dancer video I posted a few days ago:

*No, I am not going to stop using LJ as a feed-reader. I use Google Reader (With FeedDemon on desktop and gReader Pro on Android) to read RSS for a lot of things, but anything that's nsfw, or tends towards longer articles I stick on LJ so that I can read it at home. So that's where all my webcomics go.