Interesting Links for 16-10-2012

• Santander are holding credit card numbers and names in cookies.
  (tags: OhForFucksSake security web )
• Gendered Cookie-Monster costumes. Fucking ridiculous
  (tags: OhForFucksSake Muppets gender )
• Cuban missile crisis: The other, secret one
  (tags: history nuclearweapons russia usa cuba )
• NHS Reform, the bill "no one voted for"? No, not really.
  (tags: Conservatives politics uk nhs )
• On dating guides for geeks (The associated news post is also worth reading)
  (tags: comic funny dating geeks )
• Giant (inflatable) Monsters attack Toronto Bridge!
  (tags: photos art monsters canada )
• Real life fractals, as seen on Google Earth
  (tags: photographs earth fractal )
• Over the Decades, How States Have Shifted Their Voting Patterns
  (tags: visualization politics usa )
• Google Drive duplicating files in fairly common circumstances. (I'll stick to Dropbox for the moment)
  (tags: google storage )
• World's biggest geoengineering experiment violates UN rules (100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the pacific)
  (tags: globalwarming geoengineering ecology )

This is how to rock at advertising

So, this guy posted on the Bodyform Facebook page saying

Hi , as a man I must ask why you have lied to us for all these years . As a child I watched your advertisements with interest as to how at this wonderful time of the month that the female gets to enjoy so many things ,I felt a little jealous. I mean bike riding , rollercoasters, dancing, parachuting, why couldn't I get to enjoy this time of joy and 'blue water' and wings !! Dam my penis!! Then I got a girlfriend, was so happy and couldn't wait for this joyous adventurous time of the month to happen .....you lied !! There was no joy , no extreme sports , no blue water spilling over wings and no rocking soundtrack oh no no no. Instead I had to fight against every male urge I had to resist screaming wooaaahhhhh bodddyyyyyyfooorrrmmm bodyformed for youuuuuuu as my lady changed from the loving , gentle, normal skin coloured lady to the little girl from the exorcist with added venom and extra 360 degree head spin. Thanks for setting me up for a fall bodyform , you crafty bugger

And they responded, in genius manner, like this: