ewt | Link Round-Up

Time for another of these... as usual, my apologies if I've provided a link without giving a credit, some of these are a few weeks old now and I don't remember where I get them all the time.

julietk kindly compiled some notes on cycling in London. Useful stuff. I rode on an actual road with real alive cars on it on Tuesday and did not get squished. To be fair I was only on the road for maybe 200m before I started to get scared of the cars, but at least three of them passed me and I am not squished, so I consider that a success.

Basic tutorial for women to pee standing. Still not as convenient as the male version, though.

How to tie the ten most useful knots. I'm not sure why these are considered 'most useful' but they're certainly all worth knowing. There are about four there I don't know from memory; I ought to practise and learn them. That said, I do wonder about the lack of a round turn and two half hitches...

What Psychology Professionals Should Know About Polyamory.

How to recycle office paper into blank books. A bit obvious, but still... If you have a source of printed-one-side-only paper and also do any regular writing-with-pencil-or-pen, this is not a bad idea. We used to use them for telephone message pads.

Omega-3s have positive effect on muscle mass. Is there anything omega-3 DOESN'T do? Srsly. We seem to be adapted to eat far more of it than most people get.

Temporary bike trailer - I want to make one of these! Or something similar. Except, of course, I don't ride quite enough yet to justify it.

Possibly snoring remedy? I haven't heard about this one before. It may or may not actually work. I wonder what it does to actual sleep quality - I suppose with time the wearer would adapt and sleep normally. Hmm.

Farmers more likely to have two jobs, says Statistics Canada. Well, duh. It's not as if you can make a living actually farming any more, what with 2.6 percent of farms bringing in 40 percent of revenue. Hog and chicken farms make most money while field crops make least - of course, if you're underpaying for the hog and chicken feed you're going to make a fatter profit at the expense of those growing grain. That and I expect most farms are still suffering badly from previous soil depletion problems, even if they're not still aggravating them.

Tech writer job going at Fotango.

Temporary work at Middlesex University later this summer. I'm not going to go for it - being on the phone all day is pretty close to my idea of hell, and I can't make the training bit anyway.

Perhaps some of you would be interested in Project Talent UK - not really quite my thing I think, and even if it were I'm not really in good shape to do it just yet.

Pigs given melamine-tainted food cleared for US market. So many food scares... I figure if you didn't grow it yourself you probably don't know what's in it, and even then there are soil contamination issues.

Whenever a politician argues that ID cards are vital to make the job of our police easier, remember this: In a free society, the job of the police isn't supposed to be easy. Hear, hear.