Interesting Links for 05-02-2013

• The Distress of the Privileged
  (tags: viaMorag equality society politics privilege )
• How to win arguments by pretending to be a simpleton (and why it doesn't work online)
  (tags: debate discussion argument )
• How to Unlearn Economics
  (tags: viafanf economics )
• Applebee’s Overnight Social Media Meltdown
  (tags: epicfail socialmedia )
• The Internal Memo That Allowed IBM's Female Employees to Get Married
  (tags: history ibm marriage women )
• Polyandry (women with multiple husbands) may have been more common than previously thought.
  (tags: anthropology marriage relationships )

Iron Man 3 Extended Look (also, I am sick)

Off work today, as I woke up at 8am having slept through both alarms, made Julie her morning tea despite feeling incredibly wobbly all the way to the kitchen and back, and then had to sit down as doing so had worn me out. Emailed my manager, and then slept until 11:00, with very odd dreams of holidays, and foreign food that kept coming back to life. Gordon Ramsay was there, and quite disapproving of my disquiet.

Now lying in bed, as standing up is apparently something my body doesn't feel entirely comfortable with. Thank goodness for laptops, and not having to entirely make sense!

I should not be surprised by my lack of brain

After all, if I just had a cough I'd be in work, I only let myself take time off if either I'm physically not up to it, or my brain has turned into cheese.

It should therefore be no surprise that attempting to kill off my massive tab backlog is going badly, because I can't actually read anything with more than a few paragraphs long that requires actual thought.

I can, at least, enjoy the music from My Mad Fat Diary, which Julie is currently working her way through the first few episodes of. Lots of awesome mid-90s music going on there.

Nice article here by the author of the (semi?)* autobiographical books the series is based on.


*I'd check, but for some reason I can't get to Wikipedia at the moment.

I absolutely love this photo

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