Interesting Links for 7-2-2011

[andrewducker]

• What life under a socialised medical system is actually like
  (tags: nhs uk healthcare)
• Remember the woman whose boy wanted to dress as Daphne for Halloween? Now cast out of her church...
  (tags: children christianity religion)
• Inquiry fails to find single trafficker who forced anybody into prostitution
  (tags: politics trafficking uk prostitution law statistics police)
• Fan Translates 139,000-Word Russian Rewrite of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (from the perspective of Mordor)
  (tags: scifi fantasy lotr Tolkein)
• A rant wot I just wrote about HDMI cables.
  (tags: cables hdmi rant)
• IE9 beating out Chrome for HTML5 sprite animation. Firefox basically nowhere.
  (tags: browser html5 animation)
• Harper Collins now sells 25% of their YA books as ebooks, up from 6% last year. St Martin's Press on 20%
  (tags: books ebooks ereader technology)
• New evidence shows changes in brain size during the menstrual cycle
  (tags: women menstruation hormones brains)

Comments

[fluffcthulhu.livejournal.com]

So, when would be the best time for Me to devour the brains of women of that age group?

[andrewducker]

Depends on whether your taste is more for larger diffuse brains, or more tightly packed neuronal tissue, which will presumably be more piquant.

I'm curious as to what sauces go well...

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Never mind the sauce, what wine would one recommend?

[skington.livejournal.com]

Côtes Du Moan?