Interesting Links for 12-06-2013

• What are the pros and cons of destroying the sun?
  (tags: funny sun )
• Self-published ebook sales reach 20% of some genre markets
  (tags: books publishing )
• Current account switching to be hassle-free by September
  (tags: uk banking )
• Royalties and hardcovers and electronic books, oh my!
  (tags: ebooks publishing )
• The effect of reading Iain Banks on a political view.
  (tags: politics IainBanks )
• Genetic research clarifies link between hypertension and Vitamin D deficiency
  (tags: vitamins vitaminD )
• If Disney movie titles were honest...
  (tags: funny disney )
• Why the government spying on you is nothing to worry about
  (tags: politics privacy satire )
• Some Incredibly Fascinating Medical and Psychological Studies (warning: spider picture)
  (tags: psychology medicine research science )
• David Cameron may be forced to water down key G8 aim over public disclosure of shell companies to stop tax evasion (US and Russia opposed)
  (tags: uk russia tax usa )
• Edinburgh people back Princes Street revamp but are split over benefits of trams
  (tags: trams scotland poll edinburgh )
• 10 Things You Know About The LOTR Movies (That Aren’t True)
  (tags: lotr )
• Disagree With An Atos Decision? Then Starve Says DWP
  (tags: uk epicfail welfare )
• Academics at Oxford University pay to be cryogenically preserved so they can be brought back to life in the future
  (tags: thefuture cryogenics )
• Scotland is moving away from formal exams
  (tags: scotland education exams )
• The worst case of scientific censorship since Galileo: Scientists call for drug legalisation to allow proper study
  (tags: drugs science )
• UK pushes Europe to embrace GM crops
  (tags: genetics uk europe food farming )
• The geeks at the heart of the UK Government Digital Service
  (tags: uk geeks government )
• Google are downranking sites that redirect all mobile browsers to a front page (and about time too!)
  (tags: google Yay web mobilephones )
• Salvation Army says “Gays Need to Be Put to Death”
  (tags: religion christianity lgbt )

Watching you, watching me, watching me: Hobbit Edition

This is the new trailer for The Hobbit 2: More Hobbiting:

This is a couple of members of TheOneRing.net watching it. There is much squee:

And this is some of the cast _of_ The Hobbit watching the massive fangirls watching the trailer:

And I love that the internet makes the world so small that all of this happened in the space of 18 hours.

The view from the local shops

Sometimes the light on Arthur's Seat is particularly pretty. Shame about all the buildings in the way.