Interesting Links for 24-12-2014
Dec. 24th, 2014 11:00 am- Why America continues to be a segregated country
- Civil partnerships ban challenged by heterosexual couple
- Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses
- “What’s up with the rag head?”: When I starred in a Facebook ad
- An Orangutan Has (Some) Human Rights, Argentine Court Rules
- BBC correspondent shows perils of reporting next to burning heroin
- How Virgin's cable system gets TV from their servers to your sofa.
- The Two-Income Trap (Bad in 2004. Fairly sure it hasn't gotten any better)
- The world is not falling apart: The trend lines reveal an increasingly peaceful period in history.
- Cards Against Humanity bought an Island and gave it away
- What terrible world would we have to live in, if people had to ask for consent before hugging each other?
- There's a volcano in East Indonesia which spews blue lava
- 11 writers who enter the public domain on January 1st. (Including Ian Fleming, in many countries)
- Cuba's 'offline internet' - passing around hard drives with terabytes of data
- The Underlying Assumption That's Necessary For Every Star Trek TNG Mission
- I Don't Know What to Do With Good White People
- As usual drug crackdowns are pointless and cause more damage.
- Father videos his kids coming down the stairs at Christmas. For 25 years.
- Top 10 Christmas viewing for people who hate Christmas