Interesting Links for 19-05-2012

• How the government is providing advice to new parents on how to raise their children.
  (tags: children parents uk )
• What if Ayn Rand wrote computer languages?
  (tags: AynRand software language satire )

My weekend began awesomely

Went to laserquest for tisme's birthday with Ed, Padmini, Brian and two of her drumming pals, won by a huge amount (750 points, next best of our group was 350), followed by mexican food with margaritas, staggered home at 11pm, slept in until 11am with the world's most odd dreams*, woke up slowly with an episode of Avatar: The Legend of Korra, and am now off for tasting for our wedding menu.

And on top of that, I'm on call for a production deployment going on from 6am today and haven't received a phone call! Could life get any more awesome?

*Who has dreams where they're on drugs and their visuals and sound don't match up?

Some pictures I found on the internet

And Inception in 60 seconds, told in animation from the 1900s:

The funniest thing I have seen all day

I'm not a fan of either Ricky Gervais or Elmo, but the out-takes from Elmo interviewing Ricky made me laugh until I literally cried:

via ami_bender