Interesting Links for 11-06-2012

[andrewducker]

• Various animals riding tortoises. Anyone know what the one at the top left is?
  (tags: kitten animals cute )
• Hamlet the Mini Pig Goes Down the Stairs - an adorable video
  (tags: viaSkreidle video cute pigs )
• The Real UK Citizenship Test - I got 9/10, how do you score?
  (tags: funny satire citizenship uk )
• “Run,” Bakri Says. A powerful short story of save points, lost lives, and the consequences of technology and war.
  (tags: technology computergames terrorism war scifi shortstory )
• Majority of MSPs back gay marriage. (69 pro, 9 against, 51 undeclared)
  (tags: scotland relationships lgbt )
• The Pixar story rules (or, at least, a version thereof)
  (tags: pixar stories storytelling writing )
• 8 Tiny Things That Stopped Suicides (The moral being that some people just need a tiny ray of light to grab on to)
  (tags: suicide )
• How Inglourious Basterds links to the other Tarantino movies
  (tags: QuentinTarantino movies )
• 6 Movie and TV Universes That Overlap in Mind-blowing Ways
  (tags: movies )
• David Cameron decides children should earn their keep, puts eight-year-old daughter to work in local pub.
  (tags: davidcameron )
• The sexual depravity of penguins that Antarctic scientist dared not reveal
  (tags: penguins antarctic sex )
• Betteridge's Law of Headlines - is it true?
  (tags: headline questions )

Comments

[hano.livejournal.com]

I fear that teenagers will be allergic to the logic of your argument.
Not that any teenagers are going to have any jobs to go to in the future, so the chances of your children ever leaving home are somewhat slim :)

[hano.livejournal.com]

although they might be better off in an independent Scotland. Certainly better than England especially if the govt maintains its present economic course.

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

Plenty of jobs in Chinese sweatshops. Never did me any harm.

That or banks. Plenty of opportunity for someone who can pull of a good bank job.