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I've started putting my posts to interesting links on Tumblr (here), but anything longer will remain here.
Didn't watch it myself, but the bloggertarians are going to hate the Queen's Christmas message, in which she said "people should share responsibility to help those less fortunate than themselves."
The Conservatives are complaining that Whitehall departments spend too much money at Christmas. The total five-year spend of Whitehall departments on Christmas parties, decorations and cards was £461,000, which works out at a
It's a great day today, as the borders between even more European countries evaporate. I wonder how long it will be before we Brits (and Irish) see sense?
If the fancy takes you, you can now download the entire National Rail Timetable in pdf format from the Network Rail website. Not as easy to use as the web-based journey planners, but good for finding slow routes that wouldn't show up on the web - like the direct Exeter to Brighton trains on Saturday mornings that are as slow as anything but also eliminate changes at Salisbury and Fratton for my mum.
If you want a representation of why the American healthcare system is so, so broken, head on over to givewell.com, where you can buy a Visa-brand healthcare giftcard, handy for all those occasions where getting life-saving treatment has to be preceded by handing over cold, hard cash.
I remember attending a lecture in the late '90s at the Institute of Economic Affairs that was saying how we should move to an American healthcare model. It seemed weird then - it seems positively crazy now.
Via MeFi
The NHS is inviting people to vote on whether the interactive bodymaps on the NHS website should have accurately represented genitals or not. Admirably democratic of them, I think.
Why movies should get over Trajan, at Goodie Bag.
My first impressions of the new customizable BBC Homepage is: I like that they've got the clock I remember from schools programming up in the top right.
