Seen.By photography, nature section is a delightful collection of images.

UKers:
The Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust has a nasty catch-22 in its treatment of transfolk. Oxfordshire PCT will only fund gender reassignment when ones' condition, through non-treatment, has made one too ill to undergo surgery. There's a long-ish report on the subject here, and a petition to sign. The policy appears to be up for review soon, so ( Read more... )

Penn & Teller collecting signatures on a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide - at WorldFest.

Really, do people think before they sign these things?

My life according to $music_player:

1. Load all of your music into a single playlist and set it to shuffle
2. Use it to answer the question
3. Hit “next”
4. Try not to cheat
5. Tag if you do that sort of thing. I don't.

( Meme cut to spare the apathetic. )

A crude representation of tone/shape synesthesia, to a few seconds from this rendition of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto no. 5 ( Read more... )

GM humans? Already here.

Thursday, 12/18: Fire alarm (set off by steam from a burst pipe, elsewhere in the building) at 02:00, had us standing out in the cold until roughly 02:40. Zombied to the endoscopy appointment on insufficient sleep. It turns out that full anaesthesia is standard if they think they may need to do a biopsy, 'cause gagging on the scope results in ones ( Read more... )

Decompressing (finally!) with colored dots games. My current favorite is Loops of Zen.

Anti-lukemia drug found to halt, possibly reverse, multiple sclerosis. Of course, it works by destroying lymphocytes, and the side effects aren't exactly a cakewalk. But if it pans out, it'll still be an improvement over current treatments which can only slow the decline.

Bread of the Week is crunchy on the outside, soft and fluffy on the inside. And whole-wheat-ey without it being overwhelmingly strong (often a delicate balance).

I have no idea how it happened, since my breads usually turn out dense and crumbly. I think I'll be experimenting with reduced amounts of yeast and longer fermentation times, in the