Interesting Links for 29-08-2013

• Generational shift in attitudes among young soccer players towards gay teammates
  (tags: uk football sport lgbt )
• Syria: what do Liberal Democrats want?
  (tags: libdem syria )
• The Middle East, explained in one (sort of terrifying) chart
  (tags: middle_east )
• Isaac Asimov's 1964 predictions for 2014.
  (tags: asimov thefuture predictions )
• Will we ever want to have sex with robots?
  Obligatory Futurama: http://vimeo.com/12915013
  (tags: thefuture robots sex )
• Bedroom Tax costing more than it saves as housing benefit bill soars by £1.5bn
  (tags: uk fail welfare )
• An interesting take on Miley Cyrus
  (tags: celebrity childhood )
• Five reasons why Syria is not Iraq
  (tags: middle_east libdem syria military )
• In historic vote, New Zealand bans software patents
  (tags: software epicwin newzealand patents )
• Let me tell you one of my pet peeves: Space solar power.
  (tags: ElonMusk solarpower space )
• How one genius turns annoying cold calls into cash
  (tags: phones )
• Google Hangouts switching to VP8 and WebRTC
  (tags: standards google html5 video )
• Miniature human brain grown in laboratory
  (tags: brains )
• Study shows men just as likely to be depressed as women
  (tags: gender depression )

I spent this evening pressing buttons to the tune of "Black Betty"

Playing this with my nephew was about the most fun I've had with a computer game in ages:

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Watch the first minute, and if the "chorus" doesn't make you giggle you have no soul.

He only has the demo. If the whole game lives up to that then I may have to buy a Wii U...