Interesting Links for 15-06-2012

• Glasgow kirk quits Church of Scotland over gay clergy row
  (tags: lgbt religion scotland )
• The mothers and aunts of gay men have more children than those of straight men, indicating genetic link on X Chromosone.
  (tags: genetics sexuality lgbt )
• Why does a cabbage cost $28 in Northern Canada? (Because it's a very long way from cabbage-country)
  (tags: canada food business )
• The Defensive Patent License and Other Ways to Beat the Patent System
  (tags: patents law usa )
• Government sets out its plans to 'ring-fence' banks' retail and investment activities
  (tags: banking banks uk )
• Memos From Fury. The SHIELD director is not pleased, and he's going to tell you why.
  (tags: movies comics funny avengers )
• A porn star talks about the difference (for her) between porn and prostitution
  (tags: viaNeilGaiman prostitution pornography )
• Existential Star Wars
  (tags: video funny philosophy starwars )
• Designer prosthetic legs. Some of these are awesome!
  (tags: design art prostheses )
• School bans nine-year-old blogger from taking photos of her lunch.
  (tags: uk school EpicFail food censorship )
• One explanation for why a school dinner blogger was banned unveils terrifying authoritarianism
  (tags: schools censorship government scotland uk )
• Where Are The Best And Worst Countries To Be A Child (hint, the US and UK do not come out well)
  (tags: uk uk children happiness health society )
• How to Talk to Human Beings
  (tags: conversation communication advice )
• How an economist was hired by Valve to deal with in-game economies.
  (tags: economics valve software computer_games )
• A summary of Michael Fassbender's role in Prometheus.
  (tags: prometheus funny )
• Evolution to be added to primary curriculum
  (tags: evolution biology education uk )
• DragonBox: a game for teaching algebra to kids. I don't know how effective it is, but I'm addicted...
  (tags: games mathematics ios android )

We didn't have Mr Rogers in the UK when I was a kid. And now I feel a bit sad about that

From the same person that did the Carl Sagan "Glorious Dawn" mix:

Apparently PBS liked it so much they asked him to make the Mr Rogers one.

Has anything more frivolous than this been turned into a movie?

In 1997 a man writes a fake advert to fill space in a magazine:


The ad become famous, read on TV, on the radio, become an internet meme, and now it's a movie:

And now it's a movie that's getting 92% on Rotten Tomatoes

Has anything more trivial than a fake wanted ad been made into a movie? I mean, Pirates of the Caribbean was a Disney Ride, but this takes the biscuit.