Interesting Links for 24-02-2012

• Butter makes you smarter
  (tags: butter food intelligence )
• The original announcement of the creation of the web
  (tags: web hypertext technology history )
• A neat way of folding a piece of paper
  (tags: paper design )
• Presenting NUKEMAP - overlaying the effects of nuclear bombs on Google Maps.
  (tags: google nuclearweapons )
• Construction firm aims to build a space elevator by 2050
  (tags: space elevator japan )
• A history of multi-touch interfaces
  (tags: technology touch )
• Richard Dawkins and Will Hutton discuss secularism and atheism
  (tags: dawkins uk politics religion secularism )
• If buses drove themselves, how many more could we afford to put on the roads?
  (tags: transport buses )
• Things Real Dreamwidth Programmers Do (I have done versions of most of these)
  (tags: mistakes programming )
• All Dead Mormons Are Now Gay
  (tags: funny lgbt mormons satire viaSkreidle )
• What happens if you dump ten tons of sodium into a lake?
  Privacy
  (tags: viaSkreidle video chemistry explosions sodium )
• The Gendered Advertising Remixer
  (tags: mashup stereotypes advertising gender )
• Offbeatr - it's Kickstarter for porn!
  (tags: fundraising money porn )
• Frequently asked questions about political polling
  (tags: polls opinion )

Some days I feel like this

And I don't even drink coffee

via e-apraksina

This is what happens when you mess with Sacha Baron Cohen

In this case, banning him from The Oscars, because you're worried what he might do:

His latest film, by the way, is based on a book written by Saddam Hussein, with added references to Gaddafi. And you don't get funnier than that!