{"id":402,"date":"2014-04-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2014\/04\/14\/monday-link-salad-6\/"},"modified":"2014-04-14T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T11:00:00","slug":"monday-link-salad-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2014\/04\/14\/monday-link-salad-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Link Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think I’ve seen this before but any time you might feel like it would be nice to live in some other time, here’s a nice little list of all the ways Londoners died during one particular week in 1665<\/a>. Even once you discount the nearly 4000 dead of plague there’s a nicely varied list of possibles, many of which are much less likely to kill you these days. Yay for modern medicine!<\/p>\n

No-one knows what they’re doing<\/a> except those who don’t know how much they don’t know, and they’re dangerous – a slightly different take on the causes of imposter syndrome.<\/p>\n

“My Real Children” by Jo Walton<\/a> is a book I want to read, based on that excerpt. According to amazon it’s not out over here till August tho. So I need to remember to either buy it or check the library nearer the time!<\/p>\n

A new Civ game is announced for this autumn<\/a>. I’m a bit conflicted here, it looks like it’ll be Civ 5.5 and I didn’t like 5 as much as 4, but the set in space thing might be rather cool. I’ll likely end up buying it despite any doubts – I did get a little over a hundred hours out of Civ 5 after all and that’s quite a long lasting game \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

TV I set recording last week:<\/p>\n