Interesting Links for 29-02-2012

• India is having a bumpy journey towards legalising homosexual relationships
  (tags: lgbt india )
• Cineworld installing vibrating seats. Would go well with porn, methinks.
  (tags: movies technology )
• Is this the most biased opinion poll question ever asked?
  (tags: lgbt polls opinion bias )
• The Great Ticket Scandal - many concert tickets go directly to resellers for a huge markup bypassing fans entirely
  (tags: music concerts fraud business )
• On Scotland being forced to join the Euro (it can't be)
  (tags: europe euro money scotland independence )
• EU law will not allow Scotland to be excluded just because it's not part of the UK any more.
  (tags: europe eu scotland independence )
• Who owns The Bank Of England?
  (tags: uk scotland banking indepdence )
• A chance in a generation to modernise the Lords
  (tags: uk politics democracy )
• Key SOPA/PIPA Post Censored By Bogus DMCA Takedown Notice
  (tags: censorship copyright law usa )
• Can Scotland be independent and keep sterling?
  Personally, I'm actually leaning towards having our unique currency. I suspect we'd drop by a bit, making us more competitive.
  (tags: currency money uk scotland independence )
• Men and women respond differently to stress
  (tags: stress gender psychology )
• KLM links Facebook to seat booking, making it even easier to sit next to tall blondes. Hurrah for in-air stalking!
  (tags: airplanes facebook socialnetworking )
• Against Big Bird, The Gods Themselves Contend In Vain
  (tags: religion egypt muppets )
• Labour set to back Lords Reform
  (tags: lords politics democracy uk )

It should be easier to buy a new phone

I've been keeping an eye on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus* to see what the price was like**. It originally went on sale for £580, dropped to £500, then £450, and today I checked Amazon to discover it was only £400. Which was just too good to pass up on.***

I was about to click "buy" when Julie suggested I try a few other sites, to see if any were better. So I did a quick search and was amazed to see Expansys had it for £340. I think I just about broke my fingers clicking buy on that, as it was beyond a bargain.

And, indeed, it was too good to be true. An hour after arriving at work I noticed the order was "pending additional information", and an hour later I received an email from them telling me that the order was in error, but they'd let me have it for £399, which was still a saving of £50 over their "actual" price. But not a saving over Amazon, who hadn't pissed me off with silly mistakes, and thus got my cash.

In any case, the new phone should arrive tomorrow (better than the three days Expansys were promising), and I have the day booked off to recover from erindubitably and marrog's legally binding ceremony of togetherness, so I can spend it playing with new tech****.




*Because I wanted an open phone that didn't have any manufacturer or carrier overlays/software installed on it.
**Aided by poisonduk
***I'd been planning on waiting until March, when I should have some more cash, but I can juggle money around and make this work, so long as I get it all sorted before the wedding, which won't be a problem.
****And doing all the washing up I haven't been doing over the last couple of days while I've been working until 7:30pm

All dressed up with somewhere to go

I really should realise that clicking "refresh" repeatedly on the Amazon Order Information page is not going to make it change from "Dispatching Soon" to "Will Soon Be In Your Sweaty Hands".

Also, part of me always feels that the nth+1 time that I click refresh I will get a message saying "Stop asking. It'll be done when it's done."

I shall, instead, continue getting ready for tonight!