Interesting Links for 9-11-2011

• NHS cancer figures contradict David Cameron and Andrew Lansley's claims | Society | The Guardian
  'David Cameron and Andrew Lansley's repeated criticisms of the NHS's record on cancer have been contradicted by new research that shows the health service to be an international leader in tackling the disease.'
  (tags: interesting awesome medicine cancer lies Conservatives politics image )
• Jasha Lottin, Oregon Woman, Took Nude Photos Inside Horse Carcass (PHOTOS)
  "…Once the couple shot and gutted the horse, 21-year-old Lottin took off her clothing, climbed inside the carcass and took photos." NSFW, bloody, dead horse content.
  (tags: wtf weird death animals photos )
• BBC News - Young foreign spouses ban revoked after court case
  "The government is to change immigration rules after the Supreme Court declared its ban on non-EU foreign spouses aged under 21 coming to the UK was unlawful."
  (tags: interesting law marriage relationships human rights via Andrew Ducker )
• BBC News - Welsh government's 'opt out' organ donor consultation
  '…The law, planned to be in place by 2015, would require people to opt out of donating their organs when they die, rather than opting in by signing the register.'
  (tags: interesting health medicine culture via Andrew Ducker )
• Can head shape determine chances of business success? | Education | The Guardian
  A new line of American-British research suggests that the shape of a chief executive officer's head can indicate how well his firm will prosper. The shape also predicts whether the chief executive will act immorally.
  (tags: amusing interesting science wtf money business )
• EU Parliament Votes To Oppose Most Farm Antibiotic Use | Wired Science | Wired.com
  In a vote that’s non-binding but high profile and influential, the European Parliament has resolved to end “prophylactic use” of antibiotics in farming, and to prevent any “last resort” antibiotics from being used in animals, in order to keep resistance from developing so that the drugs will still be effective in human medicine.
  (tags: interesting medicine health animals farming via Andrew Ducker )
• BBC News - Sarkozy called Israeli PM Netanyahu 'liar'
  'French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "liar" in remarks to US President Barack Obama overheard by journalists.'
  (tags: interesting international affairs Israel politics )

Player Natures and Demeanors for the World of Darkness. (Not characters. Players.)

Found this on a random forum. It amused me. Posted pretty much as was on that forum, with a bit of formatting added.

Many moons ago, a great and wonderful text file crossed my desktop; it was entitled "21 Types of Players," and in general made the gaming world ever so much clearer, explaining as it did how only a very few types of players existed — the Munchkin, the Loony, and so forth — endlessly repeating, endlessly changeless. I can only hope to vapulate the gaming world so.
Theslin Wanders-Through-Bramble, 9/19/96 theslin@mail.utexas.edu

( The secrets of rope laying lie herein )

[Poll #1793542]

Gender

From here.

Interesting Links for 9-11-2011

• BBC News - The strange and curious history of lobotomy
  It's 75 years since the first lobotomy was performed in the US, a procedure later described by one psychiatrist as "putting in a brain needle and stirring the works". So how did it come to be regarded as a miracle cure?
  (tags: interesting health braaaaaains weird medicine SCIENCE!!! history )
• Appeals court upholds Obama's health care law as constitutional | World news | guardian.co.uk
  'A conservative-leaning panel of US appellate judges on Tuesday upheld President Barack Obama's health care law as constitutional, helping set up a supreme court fight. [against a suit which] claimed that the insurance mandate violates the religious freedom of those who choose not to have insurance because they rely on God to protect them from harm.'
  (tags: law wtf religion america medicine interesting news )
• Sexiest Dance Moves for Men Identified : Discovery News
  'Psychologists have identified the key male dance movements that most arouse female interest -- and all are to do with central body motions which send out primal signals of health, vigor and strength.'
  (tags: amusing science SCIENCE!!! sex interesting psychology )
• How the FRA is Regulating Passenger Rail Out of Existence | East Bay Bicycle Coalition
  'What if the FAA required that jet aircraft be able to survive crashes into the ground? Or if the FHA said automobiles had to survive any head-on crash at 60 mph into a tractor trailer without deformation? Even if such vehicles could be engineered, they would be far too costly to operate. But for passenger trains, that is precisely what the FRA has been doing.'
  (tags: interesting America trains transport safety via Andrew Ducker )
• Square - Card Case - Tabs.
  App that lets you pay by just saying your name, if you've used the app to open a tab at the place you're shopping and got it on.
  (tags: interesting commercial money technology via Andrew Ducker )

"I don't have to run faster than the wolves. Just faster than you. Whoops! You fell over!"