Interesting Links for 25-07-2012

[andrewducker]

• Chick-Fil-A Debuts New Homophobic Sandwich
  (tags: LGBT TheOnion funny )
• Some advice for authors creating their website.
  (tags: web writing books authors )
• Cutting Through The Bullshit On The Dark Knight Shooting
  (tags: usa guns )
• Huge reservoir of resurgent viruses found...in bats.
  (tags: virus disease bats )
• If you thought that US Anti-Vaccination people were crazy, take a look at this Pakistani poster...
  (tags: viaPhilmoPhlegm vaccination )
• We now have a software emulation of an entire organism at the molecular level
  (tags: TheMatrix simulation ArtificialLife software )
• BABYMETAL - where JPop synths meet shouty Death Metal. More fun than a bucket of otters.
  (tags: video HeavyMetal music )
• About 9/10 of the way through "Audition" I looked round at the audience, and they all looked like this...
  (tags: scary movies dog funny )
• Lightning captured at 7,207 images per second
  (tags: video science lightning )
• Tony Blair would come across as intellectually inconsistent, if he didn't come across as intellectually blank
  (tags: politics religion tonyblair )
• Police failing to stop Female Genital Mutilation because of "human rights".
  (tags: fgm uk )
• Why don’t we drink other animals’ milk?
  (tags: milk food animals viaFanf )
• IPv4 addresses to run out in Europe this weekend.
  (tags: europe ipv4 internet )
• Mindfulness meditation reduces loneliness in older adults
  (tags: meditation mindfulness loneliness age )
• What happens when roommates or romantic partners have different levels of tolerance for housework left undone?
  (tags: homes tidiness relationships housework )
• Is the Academic Publishing Industry on the Verge of Disruption?
  (tags: academia publishing OpenAccess )
• Newspapers frequently feign shock at the blatantly obvious in order to suck readers in.
  (tags: media politics uk )
• The bots that help run Wikipedia
  (tags: wikipedia technology )
• Gay marriage to be introduced in Scotland. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
  (tags: scotland lgbt marriage epicwin )
• David Cameron pledges to legalise gay marriage by 2015.
  (tags: uk marriage lgbt davidcameron )

Comments

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

That BabyMetal thing is the best thing I've seen in a long time.

[andrewducker]

And here's a link to the results of the consultation on same sex marriage:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0039/00397030.pdf

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

On a side note: I really dislike American brand names you have to read as a rebus. I instinctively want to read it as 'fill-er', which doesn't make much sense, rather than what I presume is intended, where the A is pronounced as an actual letter A. I dislike Apache Solr for the same reason: 'soller' not 'solar'.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

What a nasty, weaselly attempt on the part of the Spectator to politicise FGM as a form of 'liberal racism'. A very unpleasant article - I wish you'd linked to a different piece of writing on the topic that concentrated on the issues and not on presenting the 'left' as tacitly condoning child abuse.