Interesting Links for 20-08-2013

• "Dirty Dancing" Is a subversive masterpiece and here are four reasons why
  (tags: abortion movies usa )
• The Windows 8 real-time clock is not actually real-time.
  (tags: time epicfail windows microsoft )
• Telling white kids "Everyone's the same" does nothing to help.
  (tags: children race )
• J.R.R. Tolkien’s foremost (and only) Yiddish-language translator
  (tags: Tolkien jewish )
• How the UK government threatened The Guardian and smashed their computers
  (tags: journalism uk censorship government media )
• Guardian editor “cannot explain” why GCHQ agents destroyed computers at their offices
  (tags: uk censorship guardian government )
• LSD and other psychedelics not linked with mental health problems
  (tags: psychedelics mentalhealth lsd )
• Where is the Lib-Dem response to David Miranda's detention?
  (tags: politics uk libdem )
• On comedy, feminism and rape jokes at this year's Edinburgh Fringe
  (tags: edinburgh jokes comedy rape fringe )
• Male bosses apparently twice as good as female bosses.
  (tags: uk pay gender )
• Independent journalist scandalised by polygamy (count the "scare quotes")
  (tags: journalism polygamy relationships )