Still no links

Delicious spent Easter weekend migrating their datacentre.

They got it "working" on Saturday, and then knocked off for the rest of the weekend, as far as I can tell, leaving backups and restores not working.

And also - the RSS feeds which my links posts are generated from.

I'm guessing that they'll come back into work on Tuesday and fix things.

(I'd move to a different link storage site, but the only real alternative site I'm aware of is Pinboard.in, and that doesn't autofill tags using all of your existing tags, just the most popular ones, which is rubbish for me, as I have over 3000 of them.)

I don't like mandatory voting

I want people to vote. But I loathe the idea of people being forced to vote.

People should vote because they believe it's making a difference, and they're making a positive statement that they believe a particular person/party will do a decent job of representing them.

The IPPR have suggested forcing 18-year-olds to vote. Because voting levels are dropping, and political engagement is a good thing.

To which my reply is - if you want people to vote, give them a clear choice. Give them a vote for a party that they feel represents them - a vote which will actually contribute towards the success of that party (even in a small way).

Because one of the things I learned from the Independence Referendum is that when you give people a clear choice, where their vote makes a difference, turnout hits 85%.

(It's not entirely surprising that countries with some form of PR tend to have higher turnouts than countries with FPTP.)

Interesting Links for 04-04-2015

• Watching CSS being written and animated is amazing
  (tags: css programming heart development impressive )
• 7 Myths And Facts About Breastfeeding
  (tags: breastfeeding myths facts )
• I bet this happens in Westeros _all the time_
  (tags: funny gameofthrones )
• How to Criticize with Kindness: The Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently
  (tags: criticism argument )
• What I Want to Know Is Why You Hate Porn Stars
  (tags: porn sex society viaTheFerrett )
• Occasionally I forget that the current government are, essentially, murdering people
  (tags: welfare uk conservatives )
• Warwick Uni to outsource hourly paid academics to subsidiary
  (tags: work academia business )
• What _is_ going on with the "leak" about Nicola Sturgeon?
  (tags: SNP Scotland politics Labour libdem leaks France conservatives )

Interesting Links for 05-04-2015

• How the baby boomers have inflated the stock market
  (tags: stocks investment demographics )
• This is everything a leaders? debate should be.
  (tags: Scotland debate politics )
• Useful reading to understand how databases work
  (tags: database computers research )
• Are a Tenth of the UK's 12-Year-Olds Really 'Addicted' to Porn? (Almost certainly not)
  (tags: research polls questions children porn )
• What It's Actually Like to Pay Your Way Through Uni with Sex Work
  (tags: sexwork university )
• 10 Historical Theories About How Lesbians Have Sex
  (tags: history LGBT sex viasupergee )
• In Celebration of Old-School LiveJournal
  (tags: LiveJournal friends )

Interesting Links for 06-04-2015

• Neil deGrasse Tyson on religion and belief systems
  (tags: religion belief NeildeGrasseTyson )
• It's looking like Lib-Dem activists might block any deal with the Conservatives
  (tags: libdem coalition politics conservatives uk )
• Shared parental leave law comes into effect
  (tags: parenting libdem law feminism uk children )
• Alec Guiness writes to a friend about Star Wars
  (tags: starwars )
• The Science of Happiness
  (tags: happiness science )
• A Grand Juror Speaks - how prosecutors always get their way
  (tags: law usa )
• Oh look, latest figures show electoral register has gone up, not down
  (tags: voting elections uk )
• The Princess Diaries is Pretty Woman for little girls
  (tags: women movies )
• On what we mean when we say 'pagan fertility symbols'
  (tags: easter paganism history culture )
• Is 10% of the population really gay?
  (tags: LGBT demographics )
• SNP in line for multi-million pound windfall if it becomes third-largest party
  (tags: politics money SNP )
• Sinn Féin committed to referendum on Irish unity
  (tags: politics Ireland northernireland )
• An atheist lists six things that could make her believe in God
  (tags: god atheism belief )
• The pale blue dot and some selfies in space
  (tags: photos space )

Game of Thrones + Sesame Street

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