Interesting Links for 09-05-2012
- Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are author, dead at 83
- Worried about online porn? Don't regulate the net – regulate your kids
- Government gives go-ahead for the largest onshore wind farm in England and Wales
- Privileged people frequently think they earned their advantages. Which explains a lot.
- The Watchmen Prequel that almost happened in the 80s.
- Iron Sky in the UK for one day only? Here's what you can do to change that!
- Would elected peers be useful for representing the regions of the UK?
- Pirate Reverse - a long list of sites to get you around Pirate Bay Blocking
Largely listed to show how simple it is to route around censorship. I don't actually use TPB myself. I find http://Kat.ph better :->
- The Great Bioluminescence of 2009
- On writing books that are "too smart for kids".
- Pastafarianism in the military - the encounter with the drill sergeant is hilarious
- Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth - Art Spiegelman interviews Maurice Sendak
- News companies depending on Facebook to push people their way are fucked when the algorithms change.
- What's going on with the coalition-forming in Greece.
- Psychopathy linked to specific structural abnormalities in the brain
- The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 100 times larger than it was 40 years ago.
- What it's like to be a Kuwaiti censor
- A list of things scientifically verified to be as addictive as cocaine
- Africa’s Child Health Miracle: The Biggest, Best Story in Development
- Brain Scans Give Glimpse of How Your Dog Thinks
- Stories Are Like Religion