Interesting Links for 30-04-2012

• Defendant's gender affects length of sentence (and believability of evidence)
  (tags: psychology law stereotypes gender )
• German manufacturing shrinks at fastest pace since 2009
  (tags: europe germany economics )
• The security around the 2012 olympics has left reality long behind it
  (tags: london olympics securitytheatre charlesstross )
• The planned obsolescence of the Apple ecosystem
  (tags: software technology apple )
• A longer version of Neil Gaiman's interview of Stephen King
  (tags: interview writing stephenking neilgaiman )
• CISPA is a threat to the world
  (tags: internet law usa security cispa )
• It is, apparently, possible to think that Animal Farm had a happy ending
  (tags: politics writing stories communism )
• The only bisexual in the village
  (tags: rolemodels sexuality lgbt )
• Judge Dredd – The Complete Case Files 01 (a review)
  (tags: JudgeDredd comics review )
• UK Border Authority accused of covering up airport delays, tries to ban photographs of queues
  (tags: censorship travel immigration uk )
• Tax is complicated - a reasonable suggestion for the Pasty Tax.
  (tags: food uk tax )

We're missing out on all the pagan fun

Julie and were planning on going to Beltane this year, for the first time in about three years. Just to watch people on fire, and be amused at the crowds washing back and forth across Calton Hill.

But we are both _still_ dead from illness, and once again I spent the whole night coughing on the sofa. And so it's an early bed for us.

*sigh*