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Interesting Links for 4-8-2011

• An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%
  (tags: politics economics finance ecology money)
• San Francisco takes on anti-abortion 'crisis pregnancy centers'
  (tags: abortion sanfrancisco usa)
• Royal Mail wants to be able to leave post next door. I'd _really_ want an opt-out. I trust my current neighbour, but my previous one was vile...
  (tags: royalmail uk)
• Culture is Anti-Rivalrous
  (tags: culture intellectual_property)
• Security expert's daughter was wired to fake bomb.
  (tags: extortion australia crime security)
• What are the odds of Batman?
  (tags: batman statistics comics)
• Ten supportive things I’m glad somebody said to me (well, not me, but you know what I mean)
  (tags: depression health emotion)
• Google claims 'bogus patent' conspiracy against Android. God, I hate software patents.
  (tags: patent intellectual_property OhForFucksSake google android microsoft apple)
• On the reaction to the new African/Mexican Spider-Man
  (tags: spiderman comics)
• Woman goes into labour at the start of her bar exam, finishes (in possibly record time), and gives birth two hours later
  (tags: pregnancy childbirth law)
• "Real Name" policies: They just don't work.
  (tags: naming pseudonymity googleplus dreamwidth)
• On washing vaginas. The last paragraph is awesome.
  (tags: vagina health)
• A comparison of different social networking sites. (Which illustrates why I'll be keeping my livejournal very nicely)
  (tags: socialnetworking livejournal twitter facebook googleplus blogs)
• Scientists identify what makes us feel lethargic when we're sick, how to treat it.
  Of course, if being lethargic means we get better faster, then we should do that. More science needed!
• The person you want to be does not matter
  (tags: advice life)
• More on the awesome Matt Damon defending teachers - complete with the speech he gave.
  (tags: MattDamon teachers)
• Latest nightly build of Firefox copes better than Chrome when you have a shitload of tabs open
  (tags: firefox chrome)
• Vilnius mayor crushes car parked in cycle lane
  (tags: car cycle lithuania)

Joy

Fire-alarm induced break. Shame it's raining.

Warning, may contain spoilers

Okay, so there's no "may" about it. This has spoilers for all of Season One of Game Of Thrones.

But I'd still totally play an 8-bit game of it.

Cognitive dissonance makes me giggle

All via this post on theweaselking