Interesting Links for 11-6-2011

[andrewducker]

• Who Had the Best Civil War Facial Hair?
  (tags: funny beards fashion photos civilwar poll)
• Apparently the word "nigger" is now unacceptable. Who knew?
  (tags: wwii history movies stephenfry)
• Amazing behind the scenes photographs from movies
  (tags: movies photography)
• There's an association between month of birth and a whole host of diseases, syndromes, etc.
  (tags: health time)
• An amusing account of trying to bring medical care to the needy in Haiti
  (tags: haiti medicine poverty education)

Comments

[birguslatro]

I doubt complaints about the dog's name change will be over with this, as it's new name could be problematical too. I got a laugh out of it, anyway!

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

The Haiti link struck me as more painful than funny, but it did leave me wondering....I suspect there are things yet to be discovered which are as useful as making use of numerical filing. I wonder how quickly we'd adapt if our culture isn't the one to discover them?

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

Re. the facial hair, Burnside should win, just on appropriateness of name :D

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

The Star Wars crawl WAS NOT MADE LIKE THAT. They did with computers, they HAD TO HAVE DONE. (I refuse to believe otherwise. Computers. And lasers maybe. On the moon.)

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Somehow I doubt nature is aware of months, given that these are human inventions with at most a few thousand years of existence. But human ability to breed at any point in the year is something which distinguishes us from many / most animals, even if some points are perhaps still better than others survival wise.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Re Dambusters: Why bother doing a remake at all? Why not reissue the original, as a classic, with a disclaimer stating that its use of language reflects the standards of the time? What would they do with a contemporary film of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, for instance?

[anef.livejournal.com]

"avoid having tarantulas drop on my head when I am asleep" has always been one of my major goals in life. Remind me never to go to Haiti.