Interesting Links for 1-9-2011

[andrewducker]

• Cloud Atlas being made into a movie (in Glasgow). Why did no one tell me?
  (tags: CloudAtlas movies glasgow)
• Superman, Zod and Lex Luthor on Facebook. I laughed.
  (tags: superman comics facebook funny)
• The Best "Out Of Office" response ever.
  (tags: holidays email technology funny)
• Alice and Kev - a story of homeless sims
  (tags: sims homeless gaming games sims3)
• The gender differences in spatial manipulation vanish in a matrilineal culture
  (tags: gender nurture maths india psychology)
• This article rather hits home that Libya's rebels are just ordinary people who weren't going to take their oppression any more.
  (tags: libya people)
• Tories and Lib Dems at odds over reform of human rights law
  (tags: humanrights libdem conservatives politics uk)
• Stabbing, Fleeing, Heroism, Incompetence, Drama Captured in One Shot. Lucky photographer - made excellent use of his placement
  (tags: photography london police crime violence)
• German city of Bonn taxes prostitutes with meter
  (tags: prostitution germany tax)
• MARVEL One-Shot: The Consultant. A short that fits somewhere between The Hulk and Thor, I think.
  (tags: marvel IronMan video)
• Helen Mirren's Magic Bosom
  (tags: HelenMirren video funny breasts)
• 6 Reasons Professional Poker Is Way Harder Than It Looks
  (tags: maths poker money)
• When your standup comedian is quite possibly a rapist.
  (tags: comedy rape culture)
• New study pinpoints areas of the brain used exclusively for language
  (tags: language brains psychology)
• New chemical reagent turns biological tissue transparent
  (tags: biology)
• FixMyTransport - now you can report problems with public transport to the right people online.
  (tags: transport uk)
• An obituary for the 60w light bulb
  (tags: lighting technology)
• Edinburgh trams: SNP to back city centre route. Aaaand thank fuck for that.
  God, I wish I could stop being interested in a fucking tram system. Gah!
  (tags: trams edinburgh)
• Paving Edinburgh's tramway with gold would have been cheaper than the current project
  (tags: edinburgh trams funny)
• When open source is illegal
  (tags: open_source software law)

Comments

[fearmeforiampink]

Aye, that's fair enough. I was curious 'cause of not knowing of their anti-tramness, thus from the story it seeming that they'd abstained then voted for it, and none of the faffing about would've happened if they'd just voted for it in the first place.