Interesting Links for 01-06-2012

[andrewducker]

• Obama - against closing Guantanamo, in favour of assassinating terrorist.
  (tags: viaJohnCoxon usa guantanamo obama terrorism )
• US court rules that you cannot copyright an API. And thank fuck for that.
  (tags: epicwin oracle java google copyright )
• Calvin & Hobbes: 26 years later
  (tags: calvinandhobbes )

Comments

[alextfish.livejournal.com]

Oh YAY, more Hobbes & Bacon! I saw the first two a while back, and they were obviously awesome. But I didn't realise the author had come back and done two more! Which are if anything even cuter. Yay!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I always seem to get horrible misinformation about what Obama's actually _done_. It seems clear he's personally directed some rather awful things, but also, whenever the topic comes up, it seems I keep seeing alternating articles either "strongly implying that guantanamo is all Obama's fault, and he didn't really want to close it at all, but just said he did because it was politically expedient" or "he really tried to get the whole thing shut down, but was stymied by congress". I assume an accurate picture is somewhere in the middle, but it seems hard to tell when even reputable news sources seem to veer from one side to the other. I feel really stupid.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Why doesn't Obama have Bernie Madoff killed, for the economic harm he has caused? Oh, because the US government is paid for by the likes of Madoff.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Apparently Reaper etc drones work best in countries with clear skies all the time and have problems with actual weather, so wouldn't work that well domestically :-)

[erratio.livejournal.com]

I <3 Hobbes and Bacon so much!