Interesting Links for 17-04-2012

• Sceptic debunks "miracle", is arrested for blasphemy
  (tags: religion scepticism india law )
• Majority of England now declared to be in drought - may last until Christmas
  (tags: water england uk )
• When your non-patented drugs are spontaneously converted into patents ones. I love nanotech.
  (tags: replication drugs patents nanotech )
• The conviction rate for rape is 58%, higher than the average. Reporting it as 6% just puts people off reporting it.
  (tags: rape law uk )
• Greece,Portugal and Spain all fucked. They can't devalue, and they can't be competitive _and_ pay debts off.
  (tags: greece spain portugal euro debt money )
• When Eton and Goldman Sachs run charities, the system needs reform
  (tags: charity uk tax )
• Volcano eruptions follow Benford's Law
  (tags: volcano mathematics patterns )
• North Korean Press Bus Takes a Wrong Turn, Gets Some Unauthorised Pictures
  (tags: NorthKorea )
• Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all
  (tags: war intelligence WMD Iraq )
• Abuse At Scale: How GMail deals with outgoing spam.
  (tags: gmail email spam technology google )
• Most people not aware how much sugar there is in "healthy" drinks (like fruit juice).
  (tags: sugar diet health food )
• Can a stroke change someone's sexuality?
  (tags: lgbt sexuality stroke brains )
• The Official Doctor Who Fan Club - the story of how the BBC handed Who fandom to a 13-year-old
  (tags: drwho bbc )
• Ann Widdecombe can fuck off. "Bring back the concept of shame" my arse. (Tories trying to clamp down on drunk people)
  (tags: alcohol society AnnWiddecombe Conservatives )

The Cabin In The Woods (spoiler free)

If you like horror movies, particularly dating back to things like Evil Dead II, Hellraiser, etc. then you are in good company, because so did the creators of The Cabin In The Woods.

We're just back from it, and I spent the entire thing just about not hyperventilating, because I am _rubbish_ at horror movies. But I still enjoyed it massively, loved the way it was put together, and think it's well worth seeing.

I shall say nothing at all about it, because frankly discovering what's going on over the course of the movie is where most of the fun is (along with spotting references to movies you have previously seen). The first two thirds are merely good, meta, scary, fun. The final third is just epic. If you have a fondness for horror movies then go see.

(Feel free to have spoileriffic conversations in the comments.)