Images from around the web

Morning hugs:

via e_apraksina

An amazing discovery:


How to spell the name of that recently deceased religious dictator:

(via, and I think by, draxar)

And finally:

also via draxar, and seems to be making the rounds at the moment.

Interesting Links for 21-10-2011

• WTF is... Bluetooth 4.0?
  (tags: bluetooth Technology communications computers )
• Visualising Wikipedia
  (tags: wikipedia visualisation )
• The case for piracy. Arrr, the media industry be shooting itself in the foot.
  (tags: piracy copyright media )
• Competing with free: The anime site treats piracy as a market failure
  (tags: piracy economics anime video business media streaming online copyright )
• Personal trainer gains weight over six months so he can empathise with his customers.
  (tags: weight exercise fitness diet )
• Kurzweil Responds to Paul Allen: Don't Underestimate the Singularity - Technology Review
  (tags: singularity thefuture raykurzweil )
• Louisiana Law Bans Cash for Second Hand Transactions
  (tags: usa law money. )
• People have been in America even longer than originally thought
  (tags: usa history archaeology )
• Mobile phones do not cause cancer.
  (tags: MobilePhones cancer science )
• Levels of sexism in Russia are _staggering_. Seriously, I was speechless.
  (tags: law russia sexism harassment )
• New Decoy Website Launched To Lure Away All Moronic Internet Commenters - God I wish this was real.
  (tags: internet stupidity funny TheOnion )
• Women's jobs, as reported in the 1881 census
  doctor
  (tags: census women jobs uk )
• Neuroscientists unlock shared brain codes between people
  (tags: brain vision )
• Autistic brains develop more slowly than healthy brains
  (tags: autism brain development )
• Autistic facial characteristics identified
  (tags: autism faces )
• Are You Reading Too Much?
  (tags: reading einstein )

Dear people who want to install updates on my computer

If you are going to pop things up intermittently saying "There are updates, would you like to install them?" then please give me the option of saying "Yes, and never ask me again."

Because much though I like you closing security holes (and offering me new functionality), I do not like having things pop up whenever I open your app (or when I'm doing other stuff).

VLC, I'm particularly looking at you, with your download dialog box that overlays the screen that's playing the video I just double-clicked, and makes it impossible to click pause while the updates is downloading. Seriously. What the fuck?

The inspiration for the new WOW expansion is Kung Fu Panda????

Really???

Calvin and Hobbes explains the problem with plutocracy

Via