links

on Gibraltar
http://rfmcdpei.livejournal.com/2473877.html

PEI tourism suffering horrible lack of minimum-wage workers
http://rfmcdpei.livejournal.com/2475084.html

Vancouver transit trains
http://actsofminortreason.blogspot.com/2010/09/tunnel-visions-vancouvers-skytrain.html

Jo Walton on Imperial Earth
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/09/quincentenniel-arthur-c-clarkes-imperial-earth

Robotech voice actors/scriptwriters/relatives. Ardwright Chamberlain
Kosh was a writer
http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=12777231&postcount=131

Windup Girl problems
http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/2477801.html
http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/2078250.html
http://groups.google.com.gh/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_thread/thread/a6771990ff1b5788/
http://meloukhia.net/2010/09/the_windup_girl_orientalism_science_fiction_and_wasnt_your_own_culture_good_enough_for_your_dystopian_novel.html
http://silver-goggles.blogspot.com/2010/02/repost-review-windup-girl-by-paolo.html

Ireland corruption, First World economy with Third World politics
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/28/ireland-fintan-otoole-book-review

Alan Moore interview on Watchmen and DC
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/09/09/alan-moore-speaks-watchmen-2-to-adi-tantimedh/

airline seat of the future
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2010-09-10-airlinestanding10_ST_N.htm
Ryanair toilet fee
http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/post/2009/07/ryanair-chinas-spring-air-plan-vertical-seating-sections/68493635/1

engineers and terror
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/magazine/12FOB-IdeaLab-t.html

Russia harassing dissidents under pretext of searching for pirated
software; Microsoft collaborates
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/world/europe/12raids.html
or not!
http://volokh.com/2010/09/13/microsofts-response-to-russian-scandal/

different advice on study habits
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/health/views/07mind.html
alternating study environments, mixing content, spacing study sessions,
self-testing

EU vs. US, top 1% gets 10% more GDP, 'tax' to the rich
http://crookedtimber.org/2010/09/03/one-percenters/
EU vs. US, income in general
http://crookedtimber.org/2010/08/21/eu-us-convergence/

http://crookedtimber.org/2010/09/03/one-percenters/#comment-330564
As of 2007, the top one percent of households held a whopping 33.8% of
US assets. This came to 22 trillion dollars or (assuming household size
of ~ 3 persons) about $20 million per household. Choose your parents
well!

Still in Mallaig

Haven't done much of verbal interest, just gone for long walks and read Robin Hobb. Haddock was eh, and prices put me off the other seafood dinners available. I just had kangaroo, though. Basically a lean red meat, no idea if I'd distinguish it from beef in a taste test.

Nice to relax here, though feeling I should get up for breakfast has prevented me from sleeping in as fully as I'd like. I think it'll be time to leave tomorrow, though; I've now done all the walks available, and the restaurant variety is rather limited. Nice place, wouldn't want to live here.

Edinburgh for 3 days, then not sure what. Torn between poking around Leeds and Bath and Cardiff, and just bugging out of the country for the Continent. Think I'll probably pass on Ireland.

Re-reading Rose Daughter for the first time. I think I still prefer Beauty. Not sure why, perhaps preferring the bookish Beauty to the gardener one. I'm not sure why McKinley told this story twice. Later rose fetish?

At breakfast people thought they'd seen me on an island I haven't been. At lunch I saw a doppleganger for anime-Jenny, and overheard people talking about "Damien". TV in the dinner bar has just mentioned "Damien Devine". Weird.

Bar has really good chocolate mint ice cream, this is my second night for it. Not Frango Mint, but good.