Interesting Links for 20-07-2012

• Lack of evidence that popular sports products work (Including Puma, Lucozade, and amino acid supplements)
  (tags: sports science EpicFail fraud )
• Disability and sexuality: everything you think you know is wrong
  (tags: sexuality sex disability )
• Is Britain behaving better? (Crime at lowest level for 37 years, antisocial behaviour also down)
  (tags: uk crime behaviour )
• Loch Lomond and Trossachs hydroelectric scheme opened
  (tags: electricity power hydroelectric scotland )
• Where Tetris blocks really come from
  (tags: games tetris viaPhilmoPhlegm )
• Oh Mr Darcy! Pride and Prejudice among classic novels to receive erotic makeover
  (tags: prideandprejudice novel erotica sex funny )
• There's a consultation on assisted dying - you can fill it out here.
  (tags: viaLuckyLove consultation uk death life euthenasia )
• Sex offenders to take polygraph tests - despite polygraphs being rubbish.
  (tags: EpicFail science lies )
• Live in Edinburgh and go drinking with friends in Glasgow? Then you can't get the train home afterwards.
  (tags: scotland rail wtf UnintendedConsequences )
• Finally, a UK mains plug you can put in your pocket.
  (tags: uk electricity plugs )
• Kinder Eggs are illegal in the US - and carry a $2,500 fine.
  (tags: usa food toys wtf viaFanf )
• Why Pot Is Illegal Everywhere in the World
  (tags: marijuana drugs viaFanf )
• Why iPhone pricing and market share in the US is so different to everywhere else.
  (tags: usa iphone business phones )
• Yahoo! by Mayer (High-ranking Googler taking over at Yahoo)
  (tags: yahoo google funny )
• Author Denise Mina predicts that ebooks will fundamentally change everything about books and publishing.
  (tags: ebooks writing publishing )
• Highland Council challenged on prayers at meetings
  (tags: prayer religion scotland )
• In utero exposure to diesel exhaust a possible risk factor for obesity
  (tags: obesity weight health pollution )
• We have five times as much oil and coal and gas on the books as climate scientists think is safe to burn.
  (tags: globalwarming climatechange coal gas )

So, we watched the first episode of Girls

It's clearly an HBO show.

The script was very well put together, I didn't like any of the characters, and I really want to know what happens next.