Interesting Links for 13-05-2012

• Advertising People Are Not Normal
  (tags: advertising personality )
• When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed
  (tags: drugs usa death EpicFail )
• Is it time to stop writing headlines that end in question marks?
  (tags: media reporting funny )
• Why we're in danger of losing many good teachers
  (tags: bureaucracy teaching uk )
• 2012 vs. 1984: Young adults really do have it harder today
  (tags: housing inflation pay canada )
• I JUST LEARNED A LOT ABOUT BEES!
  (tags: advice nature bees )
• Fractal pancakes
  (tags: fractals food pancakes )
• The thing that people blame Joss Whedon for in the Avengers wasn't his fault
  (tags: Avengers movies JossWhedon comics )
• Civil marriages outnumber religious in England&Wales; 2-1. Remarriages too. Religion owns marriage?
  (tags: uk marriage religion )
• Top 16 Most Expensive Materials in the World
  (tags: materials money )
• Dell invites horrifically misogynist speaker to tell their female employees to shut up
  (tags: denmark misogyny dell )
• German police used less bullets in one year than the USA used against one unarmed man.
  (tags: germany usa guns police )

A poll about Tim Burton

[Poll #1840068]

Context

I have some music for you (Dr Who edition)

Imagine Pink Floyd's "One of These Days" as a cover version of the Dr Who theme tune.

Or, imagine a rather talented guitarist taking on the theme tune, and also "I am The Doctor"

Or possibly you prefer your theme music to be performed by floppy drives:

In which case you might actually like this version of Hall of The Mountain King:

(First two via skreidle, second two via philmophlegm)

I am marrying a psychopath

Julie: "Oh, you're going to run away, are you. I should probably just blow up your city for the hell of it."

(Yes, she's developed an addiction to Civ 5. And she says that _they_ started it, completely unprovoked.)

I say I want a Revolution

NBC's new TV show Revolution looks endlessly entertaining and over the top:

Largely because it's a silly idea, I'm willing to bet the writers know nothing about physics, and it has completely unrealistic sword-fighting in it. I can't wait.