Interesting Links for 13-07-2016

Theresa May revealed as Margaret Thatcher’s final Horcrux

(tags: margaretthatcher harrypotter politics uk funny )

'Zeno effect' verified—atoms won't move while you watch

(tags: physics quantum )

What to Make of Finnegans Wake? (Fascinating, in-depth piece by Michael Chabon)

(tags: writing language sleep )

British prime ministerial statistics

(tags: uk government history )

Pokémon Go Nudes Are A Thing Now

(tags: nsfw nudity games )

The Westboro Baptist Church Is Getting Owned In Pokémon Go

I am still not sure that they aren't a performance art act.
(tags: religion games lgbt EpicWTF viaBartCalendar )

Woman gives herself a C-section and saves her own baby

(tags: babies women childbirth )

Mandarin Ducks and Koi Carp (pretty as a picture)

(tags: beautiful animals fish )

Naming pokemon using autocorrect

(tags: language games names )

Having a hard time with wall-to-wall ridiculous politics? Have a seal with the hiccups!

(tags: animals cute animated_gif )

Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte urges people to kill drug addictsdrugs

(tags: drugs politics OhForFucksSake )

Successful diets add healthy foods rather than removing unhealthy ones

(tags: food diet psychology )

Honeymoon for one: Woman's sad photos after husband denied visa

(tags: travel photos funny )

Psychologists still don't know why you are oblivious to your blinks

(tags: vision psychology perception )

Image Comics are awesome

Not the individual comics themselves. Those are fine (and some of them are pretty great). But the comics company, and specifically how they sell their comics online.

Which is DRM free, so I'm not tied to a specific store that may vanish out from under me leaving me comicless.
And with regular deals, so I get to pick up TPBs for $4 sometimes.
And really, really easy to use. With comics in EPUB, PDF, CBZ and CBR formats - and a button that allows me to put them into Dropbox _from their site_.

So now it's trivially easy for me to get an email saying "Special offers on Robert Kirkman/Ed Brubaker/Jonathan Hickman/Brian K Vaughan comics", (Plus something called "Monstress", which looks intriguing) spend $60, and have a Dropbox folder full of comics on my PC fifteen minutes later.

It's slightly more clunky to then transfer them to my tablet. But that's because I haven't gotten around to making the syncing work better for that.

I can see that this is going to be an expensive habit. Albeit one that doesn't take up too much shelf space (you should have seen the look on Erin's face when I told her I'd bought 12 TPBs...).