Today I will be suspended over a great height

This is in the quarry at Ratho that's the home of the Edinburgh International Climbing Arena. It's rather impressive. I'm looking forward to being terrified.

Update: Due to administrative fuck-up I will not be hurling myself into space, and will instead be attending birthday boardgames.
I feel _many_ things about this.

Interesting Links for 10-01-2016

• Forbes forces readers to turn off ad blockers, promptly serves malware
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• Researchers find a way to decipher some words in the mind before they are spoken
  • So, given a few years to up the accuracy and reduce the size of the components, and a decent text-to-speech converter, we have telepathy!
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• ‘Would he disapprove of my single heathen lifestyle?’: One woman and her Syrian refugee lodger
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• Netflix’s hidden categories
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• Breakthrough Material Is a Better Way To Turn CO2 Into Clean-Burning Fuel (Need efficiency for round-trip!)
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• How Meteorology Changed Agriculture Forever
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• The surprising perks of being easily embarrassed (Dammit, I'm not very good at it at all!)
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• New Study Indicates Existence of Eight Conservative Social Psychologists
  • So, do convervatives not go into social psychology? Do people go further left the more time they spend in the field? MOAR RESEARCH NEEDED!
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• How does alcohol influence the mind? A look into the brain and its genes.
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• Everything Google is working on - Robots! And cars! And fibre! And living forever!
  • I wonder if Buckminster Fuller would approve of their campus design.
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• Google Energy Kite Nears Launch Date
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• The Real Value of $100 in Each State
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• A little comic about Chewbacca and one of his best friends. (Star Wars:TFA spoilers)
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• What did David Bowie do at your age?
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• The Best (Worst) Suggestions From Twitter's #BadStarWars8Names
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• The 2015 Word of the Year is singular “they”
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• Where are all the right-wing stand-ups?
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• Irregular heartbeat of the Sun driven by double dynamo - new "Maunder Minimum" predicted for 2030s
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• We are visibly winning the war against malaria
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• Who wouldn't want a speaker with a levitating UFO on top?
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