How death has changed over the last 110 years

via

More things that will not be happening at our wedding

via absolutelymadness

(Yes, I know, it would be nice if the women were included. I assume it was tricky when they're all wearing the same dress.)

Interesting Links for 23-06-2012

• A proposal to solve some of Greece's problems
  (tags: greece tax transparentsociety )
• Three more myths about the UK economy
  (tags: uk economics politics )
• Girlie scientist role models do more harm than good
  (tags: women science rolemodels psychology )
• How to Fix Movies that Are Really Quiet, then REALLY LOUD
  (tags: movies sound technology )
• Arbitrage and equilibrium in the Team Fortress 2 economy
  (tags: computer_games mathematics economics )

Looks like there's some kind of peering problem between Cable & Wireless and LJ's hosts

C:\Users\Andy>tracert www.livejournal.com

Tracing route to www.livejournal.com [208.93.0.128]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 10 ms 11 ms 11 ms cpc17-sgyl33-2-0-gw.sgyl.cable.virginmedia.com [94.174.128.1]
2 8 ms 11 ms 11 ms sgyl-core-1b-ge214.network.virginmedia.net [81.97.49.117]
3 22 ms 11 ms 11 ms sgyl-core-2b-ae2-0.network.virginmedia.net [195.182.178.94]
4 15 ms 15 ms 14 ms leed-bb-1b-ae5-0.network.virginmedia.net [81.97.48.81]
5 20 ms 24 ms 38 ms 62.252.224.238
6 21 ms 21 ms 23 ms xe-5-3-0-xcr1.lnd.cw.net [195.2.21.209]
7 29 ms 35 ms 23 ms xe-3-1-0-xcr1.lns.cw.net [195.2.28.134]
8 21 ms 43 ms 23 ms xe-2-2-0-xcr1.lnt.cw.net [195.2.30.106]
9 * * * Request timed out.
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Trace complete.

And so I shall not be replying to LJ comments until they fix it.