Interesting Links for 17-5-2011

• Sharing Information Corrupts The Wisdom of Crowds
  (tags: psychology science social knowledge information)
• Using the Amazon Appstore from outside the US
  (tags: usa amazon android)
• How Windows knows it has an internet connection
  (tags: internet microsoft windows)
• If Eurovision used FPTP
  (tags: voting funny eurovision)
• Sitting is killing you (the truth about sitting down)
  (tags: health sitting)
• Cow coincidences culminate in cowshed conflagration
  (tags: cows funny)
• The Art of Endless Upgrades
  (tags: software technology infrastructure inspiration)
• Stem cells cure man of HIV
  (tags: aids hiv stem_cells)
• My Rapist Friended Me on Facebook (and All I Got Was This Lousy Article)
  (tags: facebook rape assault sex)
• When you use "he" to include women you ostracize women
  (tags: science feminism gender language society)
• The future of the library
  (tags: books future ebooks library)
• Telescopic Text - I often felt factual articles should be written like this
  (tags: writing design language)
• Should Steve Ballmer be ejected from Microsoft?
  (tags: business apple microsoft management investment technology)
• Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story' (and apparently this is news)
  (tags: science religion StephenHawking)

Mathematics is pretty

Suddenly I want to know more about why the pendulums swing how they do...

(via nancylebov)

You didn't have anything planned for the rest of your life did you?

Because Collaborative Civ is coming to Facebook:

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