Interesting Links for 05-09-2012

• Ken Clarke 'was breath of fresh air' as justice secretary
  (tags: Conservatives uk politics crime )
• The new Health Minister believes in homeopathy, is anti-abortion, and wants the NHS replaced. Thank goodness he has no power in Scotland.
  (tags: uk nhs politics EpicFail )
• Dealing with something hard? Lean into the pain.
  (tags: self-improvement )
• Neuroscientists successfully control the dreams of rats.
  (tags: thefuture rats dreams )
• Study of brain's visual centers finds that men and women see things differently (androgens everywhere!)
  (tags: testosterone hormones gender vision eyes )
• This review of "The Dark Knight Rises" made it worth paying for the movie.
  (tags: funny review movies batman viaMagister )
• HANSEL AND GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS - clearly the most ridiculous movie ever.
  (tags: fairytale movies )
• At-a-glance: Scottish legislative programme 2012/13 (marriage equality, referendum, and more!)
  (tags: politics law scotland )
• 10 Characters Whose Genders Were Swapped in Production
  Oh, to get Aaron Ehasz back writing Avatar again.
  (tags: tv writing gender )
• The Thin Blue Lie – how the police avoid the consequences of their actions
  (tags: police law usa )
• CSS4 does not exist, and never will.
  (tags: css standards )
• One of the Best Table Tennis Shots Ever
  (tags: sport TableTennis paralympics )

All the American TV has vanished

Seriously. We've just gone from this:

to this:

and it doesn't feel that long since the glory days of:


Seriously - nothing but Dr Who for the next three weeks? I guess we'll be catching up on Buffy (currently on season three with Julie, doing a rewatch from the beginning) and the occasional movie*.

(All images from this site, which is made of awesome. It even has iCal feeds, so you can choose the TV you're looking out for and have it appear in Google Calendar (or your calendar of choice)!

*No suggesting anything heavy. I have little brain, and she has less. If we _had_ brains we'd be finally getting around to watching The Wire.