Interesting Links for 18-01-2015

• 15 Unique Illnesses You Can Only Come Down With in German
  (tags: Germany illness )
• Can you copyright a tweet?
  (tags: copyright Twitter )
• How different cultures perceive the same music
  (tags: music culture society emotion )
• A Year in the Merde - analysing Charlie Hebdo covers from 2014.
  (tags: satire France )

The world is not quite as small as all that

I have family geneaology up on Geni.com, as a useful way to store it.

I just got invited to share family history by someone from Hungary- and Geni helpfully gave me the genealogical links between us.

Apparently they are my great grandmother's husband's niece's husband's aunt's partner's great aunt's husband's first cousin 7 times removed.

We're practically brothers!

The opening episode of Deep Space Nine as a statement of intent

Having finished the whole of Star Trek: The Next Generation before starting DS9, it's fascinating to see what differences are shown up, particularly knowing (bits of) where DS9 is going to go*.( Spoilers for the first episode )