Interesting Links for 23-02-2013

• 59% of America’s “tuna” isn’t actually tuna
  (tags: tuna viaJennieRigg usa )
• Can You Eat Your Own Poop?
  (tags: science )
• Caste discrimination in the UK
  (tags: uk discrimination society culture )
• Mass Effect 3's final DLC hits in March, so I can finally starting playing it! (Sadly, Sim City arrives the same day...)
  (tags: games MassEffect )
• More than 7 million people in the UK have never used the internet.
  (tags: uk internet )
• How the economics of movies is changing
  (tags: movies business )
• Edinburgh parent starts petition to remove 'religious observance' in non-denominational schools (I signed it)
  (tags: religion school edinburgh )
• Playing Chess With Kubrick
  (tags: chess StanleyKubrick )
• Are juries too stupid for justice?
  (tags: law uk )
• Very nice writeup of what it's like to wear Google Glass. Want.
  (tags: transparentsociety google glass video )

I forget how much I love dancing

Went out last night for a mass celebration by erindubitably, marrog and diotina, who hired a room+bar+dance floor at The Voodoo Rooms and then played several hours of awesome music. The huge advantage of friends with awesome musical taste hiring a place to play it being that you get to dance for four hours straight. The disadvantage being that I ache somewhat today, and Julie's limbs have all detached, hidden under the bed, and are refusing to come out.

Seriously. If there was a dancercise class that played largely 90s rock and pop (with other classics sprinkled in) I'd be there on a regular basis, and probably rather fitter.

The second-best thing about the venue was the light-up floor, which I've never had the pleasure of being hypnotised by before.

The best thing was the toilet doors. I've seen everything on toilet doors from the simple text "Gents" and "Ladies" to exaggerated social norms of what different genders look like. This is my favourite solution to knowing which door to go through:


And here's my favourite cover version of No On Knows, so you can bask in its awesomeness:

Question: How much does it cost to touch-enable a screen?

I'm curious as to what the cost would be for laptop screen manufacturers to touch-enable them. Because I don't have a huge interest in a tablet*, and I'm not giving up my keyboard, but having touch as an option on a laptop would be handy.

So, for a 15" laptop, what kind of premium would need to be paid for touch-sensitivity?

*Well, not one under 12" - I'd want one for comic reading, and my preferred size for reading them is oversize hardback.