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

[birguslatro]

I had neighbours whose young boy (5ish or so) liked to dress in girls' clothes. The other children who played with him, (brothers and neighbours), didn't seem to have a problem with it. As that Halloween story suggests, it's more likely to be adults where the problems will come from.

[fluffcthulhu.livejournal.com]

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

[xquiq.livejournal.com]

Interesting post on the NHS. I have private insurance which is generally great for quick diagnostics and non-urgent treatment. That said, my experience of waiting an absolute age for a private operation for an extremely painful but not life-threatening problem, I've tried to ensure I'm on both lists since*.

* For various reasons I have a large amount of interaction with consultants at the moment. I am attempting to reduce this.