Interesting Links for 20-10-2013

• Volvo makes new carbon fiber batteries into body panels for lighter, roomier and more efficient electric cars and hybrid cars
  (tags: technology cars batteries )
• Shockingly, people trust sympathetic people more.
  (tags: niceness trust psychology )
• Science: A New Map of the Human Brain (Anyone care to comment?)
  (tags: psychology brains )
• What's inside a proton?
  (tags: physics )
• » UN Women: Showing what women have to deal with through common Google search suggestions.
  (tags: google advertising women )
• Genetic identification of neural circuit that suppresses appetite
  (tags: hunger genetics food eating )
• What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for? (and now I feel old)
  (tags: history computers windows )
• How to Not Ruin Polyamory for Everybody in 6 Easy Steps
  (tags: polyamory advice )
• Social group memberships protect against future depression, alleviate depression symptoms and prevent depression relapse
  (tags: friends depression )
• I just backed Andrew Rilstone's book on Dr Who.
  (tags: drwho )
• Yet again, I am staggeringly glad that I don't have periods.
  (tags: menstruation women )
• Turning harassment into art
  (tags: art harassment photography )
• A haul of fossils found in Georgia suggests that half a dozen species of early human ancestor were actually all Homo erectus
  (tags: mankind archaeology )
• In Defense of Fantasy Heroes
  (tags: fantasy heroism )
• Amazing Secret Dungeon discovered under my new apartment.
  (tags: awesome housing architecture construction )
• Disney Princesses dressed as pop-culture heroines for Halloween
  (tags: disney culture )
• Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?
  (tags: sex japan society )
• How plucky amateur dared to question a celebrated psychological finding and blew the whole theory wide open.
  (tags: psychology science )
• Amazing Tattoos on the Live Pigs
  (tags: tattoos pigs )

Character Creation is such fun

I didn't play dress-up with dolls/action figures when I was a kid (I played with action figures, but I didn't customise them at all).

And yet I happily spent five minutes deciding between "Ice Blue", "Cerulean", and "Turquoise" for my character's eyes. Before plumping for "Sea Green" because it nicely offset the shade of skin I'd chosen for him.

(Guild Wars 2 is on special today, so Julie and I have a new game to play...)