Interesting Links for 19-04-2012

• Thanks to a modern version of a 19th-century magician's illusion dead rappers can go on tour.
  (tags: technology illusion magic music )
• The original BBFC report into Watership Down.
  (tags: WatershipDown bbfc uk movies )
• Going With the Flow: Google's Secret Switch to the Next Wave of Networking
  (tags: google networking )
• Bloated website code drains your smartphone's battery
  (tags: web smartphone mobile_phones html energy batteries )
• In which a friend of mine does a hysterical agony-aunt page. I giggled a lot.
  (tags: funny advice )
• Selecting MPs at random would improve their effectiveness. I am completely unshocked.
  (tags: statistics politics )
• Rise of "forever day" bugs in industrial systems threatens critical infrastructure
  ICS
  (tags: Technology virus security )
• The Faroe Islands look gorgeous
  (tags: beauty photos FaroeIslands )
• Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists - looks like the things that clear up oil aren't good for you
  (tags: viaSkreidle oil ocean mexico environment )
• Why the US Can Beat China: The Facts About SpaceX Costs
  (tags: usa nasa china space spacex )
• Breast cancer is actually ten different diseases.
  (tags: cancer breasts )
• Only a 30% chance of Cthulhu, say fracking experts
  (tags: cthulhu oil funny satire )

Anyone out there know about virtualisation?

I have two general cases of use for my desktop:
1) Surf the web and check email. For which a Linux desktop would work perfectly well.
2) Play games. For which I need Windows. And no, I will not spend weeks of my life faffing with WINE or somesuch. Just no.

What would be awesome would be to use some kind of virtualisation to have both operating systems loaded at the same time, and only switch into the one which has antivirus software and all sorts of additional crud installed when I needed to. Not rebooting between them, as this would be clunky and take significant chunks of time, but something more instant.

However, so far as I understand, doing so would be tricky, as things like 3D graphics don't run well from inside a virtualised OS. And so if I was doing that I'd lose the ability to do the thing I find Windows useful for.

Is this actually the case, oh well-educated friends list and passing people? Or is it something I could set up fairly easily?