Interesting Links for 28-05-2012

• I had no idea that Heinlein invented screensavers
  (tags: technology scifi )
• Scratchcard withdrawn because people couldn't understand negative numbers
  (tags: uk numbers lottery maths )
• Errors vs. Bugs - how to get better at things, and stop thinking of people as being "lazy" or "stupid"
  (tags: mistakes stupidity learning )
• Neil Gaiman's brain is broken by a question about fanfic
  (tags: DrWho neilgaiman fanfic )
• Ukraine is about to make it illegaly to be gay/lesbian in public. Please sign a petition to put pressure on them.
  (tags: ukraine LGBT )
• Results from the Heinlein Score poll
  (tags: heinlein )
• A collection of author's policies on fanfic
  (tags: writing fanfic )
• Eight Emotions Every User Enjoys
  (tags: design emotion )
• What's it like to have had Nazi grandparents?
  (tags: family nazi )
• SSD price war in full swing
  (tags: technology storage ssd )
• How the coming wave of ultra-cheaping computing devices will change everyone's lives.
  (tags: computers technology thefuture )

I am always torn by awesomely over-the-top proposals

Because while that wedding proposal was simply amazing, I really, really hope that she had already basically said yes, because otherwise that amount of pressure in front of family and friends is just unfair.

I am not sure which of this week's Mad Men and Game Of Thrones was more harrowing.

(Yes, I'm treating LJ like Twitter. I think that might be kinda fun. I may even get a special icon.)