Let me see if I've got this right

So, apparently, yesterday some people propelled a ball into a rectangle slightly more frequently than some other people propelled the same ball into a different rectangle. As a result, today thousands and thousands of people gathered in the street, all wearing clothing of a particular colour, to watch a bus go past. The bus had some overpaid teenagers on it. There was singing. Did I miss anything?

We couldn't get that many people out on the street when they dismantled the NHS, ohhh no. But apparently propelling a ball into a rectangle is important.

Linkdump 20-05-2012

• Workfare: You're putting your customers off, Mr Manager
  "Picketing shops can reap some rich rewards when the cause is as uncontroversial as `this lot force people to work for free'."
  (tags: solidarity politics workfare )
• On equal marriage
  @girlonthenet lays it down.
  (tags: )
• Origami Klein Bottle
  Apparently Cliff Stoll has a website, and it's everything I would have imagined except that it's about Klein bottles. Including this one. @iamtef, I'm looking at you.
  (tags: nerd )
• The economy: a calamitous strategy, with no end in sight | Observer editorial
  Don't mince words, Absurder, tell us how you really feel.
  (tags: news politics austerity economy )