Interesting Links for 24-01-2013

• Scottish exports rose by £1.6bn in 2011
  (tags: scotland business europe )
• Bitcoin casino makes $500,000 in six months
  (tags: bitcoin casino gambling )
• A Visual timeline of the One Ring
  (tags: lotr visualization )
• So, a tech-writer dies, and goes to heaven...
  (tags: technology jokes funny writing )
• Actual Facebook Graph Searches
  (tags: facebook funny )
• Gamer sends fake XBox leak to news sites, goes global in hours. (No, you shouldn't trust the media)
  (tags: gaming news epicfail media microsoft )
• A guide to UK cities for foreign people. (Edinburgh entirely accurate)
  (tags: guide uk funny )
• Catholic adoption agency told to either place children with same-sex parents or lose its charitable status
  (tags: adoption catholic lgbt )
• Scientists grow man a new nose from his own bone marrow.
  (tags: thefuture biotech noses )
• All about fake reviews
  (tags: reviews fake fraud )
• Scottish support for Independence is at 23%. Support for Scotland making all it's own decisions: 35%. People=odd.
  (tags: scotland independence )
• Eliot Chang's list of things Asians hate
  (tags: asia funny )
• Frequent multitaskers think they're good at it. Really, really, aren't.
  (tags: multitasking attention )
• New Supergel Has Strange Biological Properties
  (tags: technology biotech )
• David Cameron calls for global action on tax avoidance
  (tags: Conservatives tax europe uk )
• Labour to support Lib-Dem motion to cut voting age to 16
  (tags: uk voting age )

In case you were wondering where the various English* parties stand on Europe

They updated later to point out that the Conservatives are going to push for a Yes _if_ they get what they want in renegotiation. Which they won't. So who knows which way they'll push.

Via the Unlock Democracy FB page, which I was linked to by draxar

*The UKIP got under 1% in the last Scottish election.

A less snowy photo

Same hill, this time with less snow.



Outlined in the middle of it, you can see the usual route I take up it.

Having compared it to the one taken while it was snowing, I've realised I was significantly further away when I took this one (which is why this zoomed-in bit is pixellated). If the weather is nice tomorrow, and the snow hasn't melted, then I can hopefully capture one from the same angle. Then I'll just need to capture a shot when the weather is actually nice, and I'll have a triptych, of a sort.