this week's linky linky

One of these days, when I have Copious Free Time, I'm going to go back through my journal and completely redo my lj memories, indexing everything I've ever written. I'll separate out all the linky bits and make that a weblog which you'll be able to view through my web site. However, before that, I have a thesis to write and several important things on my things-to-do list which have sat there for a long time, so who knows when this will happen?

Anyway, here's (some more) links for the week:
An Open Letter to PC Game Developers. Link of the day on User Friendly. Some interesting points are raised.

John Lewis's in Addams Family shocker. Amusing. From the ever-cute matthewp.

The Extreme Teen Bible. Serious, not a parody. I believe the only applicable phrase for the flash animation is "Oh my God!". Seen in a very brief scan of j00j's LJ: I will need to look at all her other links sometime.

RestrictedSection.org (a site featuring "adult" Harry Potter fanfics) gets threatened by JK Rowling's lawyer. More info here and here. I'm just reading and watching for the moment, as I try to avoid commenting before I have all the facts. It looks like the concern is only with fanfic that features explicit sex, but it could well set a precedent.

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I am feeling ill. ( Moaning follows. )

I don't know whether this is a combination of IBS and allergies (last night my eyes were so watery that Richard thought I was in a bad mood because I kept scowling and looking like I was about to burst into tears) or if I'm going down with some sort of cold with gastric symptoms. I could really do without another cold - I only got over the flu a week or so ago. Oh, for a better immune system! (And no, I can't take the vast majority of immune boosters because the reason my immune system is crap is that it's too busy fighting itself to be able to destroy any actual infections. Taking echinacea or whatever just makes me far more ill as it strengthens my immune system to fight itself a bit more).

However, in a rare piece of good news, I have found the photocopy card that I lost before Christmas. It's one of those refillable cards, and it has over £7 of credit on it. I thought I'd left it in the library or on the Tube or something, and was annoyed with myself for losing that money. Well, tonight I was sitting on my bed staring into space and I saw it on the bookshelf where we keep all our crap, but just on a different shelf to where I'd normally put it! So that's kinda cool.

A nutty warning.

I think I am going to scream. Richard has just got back from the supermarket with a packet of nuts bearing the text "Due to the methods used in the manufacture of this product, it may occasionally contain nuts". Until now, I thought that wording was an urban myth. I would hope that a packet of nuts contained nuts more than just occasionally!