Interesting Links for 13-09-2015

• Elite scientists more likely to have an art/craft hobby
  • (tags: science art craftwork )
• How to build an Android device into your bathroom mirror
  • (tags: mirrors android technology )
• Orcs of New York
  • (tags: lotr funny satire )
• Nobody should be using OpenOffice. It's insecure, and not supported. LibreOffice is better in every way.
  • (tags: office software security )
• Marketing hack: Give out a USB key that pretends to be a keyboard so it can send people to your website.
  • (tags: marketing security OhForFucksSake )
• What Ever Happened to Google Books?
  • (tags: books Google )
• A short comic about cancer research
  • (tags: cancer comic research )
• Black Woman Says She Endured 8 Days In Psych Ward Because Cops Didn't Believe BMW Was Hers
  • (tags: race USA OhForFucksSake )
• Getting Rid of Women's Periods With Birth Control is Perfectly Safe
  • (tags: menstruation )
• 26 pictures to illustrate how small we are in the scheme of things
  • (tags: space astronomy perspective )
• What happens when you let a Disney animator draw in 3D with virtual reality
  • (tags: virtualreality Disney art )
• The physics of perfect happiness, and its effects upon baristas.
  • (tags: happiness physics coffee )

Q: Which Prime Minister saw the greatest increase in income for the poor?

And which one saw the greatest increase in inequality?



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Weekend: Friends, Food, and Books

Good: Saw lovely people on Friday, Saturday, _and_ Sunday. Ate a lovely breakfast in Loudon's Bakery & Cafe, and a great lunch in Cafe Andaluz. Got completely caught up to date with the collected Order of the Stick by reading book 5: "Blood Runs In The Family". Which was amazing - taking plot points which were already mindblowing in previous books and kicking them up to the point where I was _really_ annoying Julie by intermittently gasping and giggling on the sofa for most of the afternoon.
Bad: I now have to wait for the next book to be published*. Which is going to be about five years, based on how long there was between the last two books. I shall hope that Rich Burlew doesn't suffer too many more setbacks in the thumb-slicing department (or running any more wildly successful kickstarters that means he has to spend his time fulfilling stretch goals rather than writing the damn comic!**)

*Someone is probably to leap in with the suggestion that I read them online. Which I'm not going to do as (a) I think they read better when I can sit down and take in an entire plot in an afternoon, rather than a page or two per week (b) you get extra pages in the collected versions that weren't in the original books.
**Aha, turns out this is indeed the case