Interesting Links for 25-07-2012

• Chick-Fil-A Debuts New Homophobic Sandwich
  (tags: LGBT TheOnion funny )
• Some advice for authors creating their website.
  (tags: web writing books authors )
• Cutting Through The Bullshit On The Dark Knight Shooting
  (tags: usa guns )
• Huge reservoir of resurgent viruses found...in bats.
  (tags: virus disease bats )
• If you thought that US Anti-Vaccination people were crazy, take a look at this Pakistani poster...
  (tags: viaPhilmoPhlegm vaccination )
• We now have a software emulation of an entire organism at the molecular level
  (tags: TheMatrix simulation ArtificialLife software )
• BABYMETAL - where JPop synths meet shouty Death Metal. More fun than a bucket of otters.
  (tags: video HeavyMetal music )
• About 9/10 of the way through "Audition" I looked round at the audience, and they all looked like this...
  (tags: scary movies dog funny )
• Lightning captured at 7,207 images per second
  (tags: video science lightning )
• Tony Blair would come across as intellectually inconsistent, if he didn't come across as intellectually blank
  (tags: politics religion tonyblair )
• Police failing to stop Female Genital Mutilation because of "human rights".
  (tags: fgm uk )
• Why don’t we drink other animals’ milk?
  (tags: milk food animals viaFanf )
• IPv4 addresses to run out in Europe this weekend.
  (tags: europe ipv4 internet )
• Mindfulness meditation reduces loneliness in older adults
  (tags: meditation mindfulness loneliness age )
• What happens when roommates or romantic partners have different levels of tolerance for housework left undone?
  (tags: homes tidiness relationships housework )
• Is the Academic Publishing Industry on the Verge of Disruption?
  (tags: academia publishing OpenAccess )
• Newspapers frequently feign shock at the blatantly obvious in order to suck readers in.
  (tags: media politics uk )
• The bots that help run Wikipedia
  (tags: wikipedia technology )
• Gay marriage to be introduced in Scotland. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
  (tags: scotland lgbt marriage epicwin )
• David Cameron pledges to legalise gay marriage by 2015.
  (tags: uk marriage lgbt davidcameron )

So, is Mark Hamill now old enough to play The Joker in "The Dark Knight Returns"?

Not that we particularly need that to be made, but it suddenly occurred to me that

could become


with a bit of makeup. And we _know_ he can do the voice.

I want more details about happiness!

There's a piece here looking at the recent results of the government survey into happiness, satisfaction and anxiety. They found that employed people are happier, more satisfied, less anxious, and feel their lives are more worthwhile than unemployed people. Staggering, I know.

But frankly, this irks me. Because the post also points out that ill people are less happy/satisfied/relaxed/etc than working people. And, presumably, unemployed people are more likely to be sick than employed people, what with disabilities, long-term sickness, etc. So I'd like to see some figures comparing employed healthy people with unemployed healthy people.

So I wander off to the data source, and discover that they don't give it to you broken down nearly enough to do that.

And now I have an itch I can't scratch. Dammit.