Interesting Links for 05-02-2014

• Neil Gaiman's American Gods to become TV drama
  (tags: NeilGaiman tv )
• Hitachi are selling badges that can tell your manager where you are, who you're talking to, and how much.
  (tags: surveillance work technology )
• Who wants to see Middle-Earth from space?
  (tags: visualisation lotr )
• The law isn't there to protect us from Dieudonné's odious views
  (tags: freespeech uk )
• Inflatable AirBeams for Aerospace Structures
  (tags: architecture design materials space )
• The first life in the universe may have been earlier than we thought
  (tags: life universe space physics )

Tolkien’s Ainulindalë - illustrated

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6

In which the world springs into being, rather gorgeously.

Via phimlophlegm

Am I right that the USA is the only country with something as stupid as a "debt ceiling"?

Or is there another country where the politicians have to argue over what they're going to do and then argue again over how to pay for the things they just agreed they were going to do?

So far as I'm aware in every other country you argue over how you're going to pay for it _at the same time_ - and either pass it, or don't.

Or am I missing something?