Interesting Links for 22-11-2013

• How to optimise your dating experience
  (tags: relationships internet technology funny satire )
• Are E.T. and Star Wars in the same universe?
  (tags: starwars )
• Are you indifferent, restless or apathetic? Scientists identify a fifth type of boredom
  (tags: boredom psychology )
• Everything you need to know in the PS4 vs. Xbox One battle
  (tags: consoles microsoft sony )
• If you want people to accept something different, you have to keep exposing them to it.
  (tags: society change lgbt )
• The First-Ever Official Video for 'Like a Rolling Stone' Is an Interactive Masterpiece
  (tags: music video tv bobdylan )
• Microsoft is selling an anti-Google mug
  (tags: google microsoft )
• Obesity reshapes our sense of taste
  (tags: weight taste food )
• London Underground To Stay Open All Night At Weekends (And replace Oyster with contactless debit cards)
  (tags: transport london payment )
• TfL contradicts Boris, insists there is no plan to scrap Oyster
  (tags: transport london )
• I find this SNP claim about the pound particularly silly (and unnecessary)
  (tags: scotland snp independence )
• When Women Wanted Sex Much More Than Men
  (tags: sex women )
• Federal Election Commission deadlocks in proposal to allow bitcoin donations
  (tags: bitcoin usa politics )
• Bill Gates funds creation of thin, light, impenetrable graphene condoms
  (tags: sex contraception billgates )
• After Haiyan: how to act on scientific advice that's politically inconvenient? | Science | theguardian.com
  (tags: science climate climatechange globalwarming politics viaDraxar )

So, I had a haircut, so you get a selfie.

Which I was nervous about, because I never know what's going to be the result when I put someone else in front of my hair.

But it was Julie's hairdresser, who has always looked after her, and she did a good job - happily chatting to me through it (we ended up talking about the difficulty of designing computer systems for complex systems - they have a booking system that works really well for letting people book online, but doesn't cope with "Someone's kid needs a haircut, and we can fit them in for five minutes between these appointments").

And it came out well - she trimmed around four inches off the end, thinned it, and gave it a nice shape (it's slightly longer at the back than it is at the sides), and left it just long enough that I can tie it back without it looking stupid. Overall, I'm rather happy about it.