Interesting Links for 05-02-2012

• Improving classical paintings with cats
  (tags: art cats )
• 83-year-old woman needs a new jaw, so surgeons print one and implant it.
  (tags: medicine Technology 3dprinting surgery )
• Voting party by intelligence (in 2001): Green->LibDem->Conservative->Labour->PC->SNP->UKIP->BNP
  (tags: uk politics iq intelligence )
• Do the dead outnumber the living? (Yes, dramatically)
  Luckily, most of them have rotted away to nothing, so we may still be victorious!
  (tags: demographics population )
• Spike Jonze has a new shory film, about love, death, books, and felt.
  (tags: love death sex books animation movies SpikeJonze )

Life Update

Spent today playing Twilight Imperium. Which is frankly far too complex for a game that I play about once a year, with the result that I never feel in control enough to feel like my actions count for a lot, lose concentration, and then interest. Which is a shame, because it's not a _bad_ game, just possibly more than I'm really up for at the moment. Nice to see people though.

You can get a vague idea of the complexity from this:

Except that there were 7 of us. And we had four rings of hexes around the central planet, not three.

Tomorrow we're off to Northern Ireland to see Julie's family for three days. Nice to be off work, even if Other People's Family are always more stressful than one's own*. Not sure how much internet time I'll get, but I've got all of The Culture novels on my ebook reader just in case it's not much :->

*Except, of course, when they aren't.