Interesting Links for 30-08-2012
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andrewducker- Some great discussion here about mainframes, and what they're still useful for.
- For poorer children, living in a high-cost area hurts academic development
- Harvard creates cyborg flesh that’s half man, half machine
- The 5 1/4 inch floppy was designed to be too big for your pocket. (The 3.5 used to fit perfectly into my waistcoat pockets)
- What if everyone actually had only one soul mate, a random person somewhere in the world?
- Republican Convention Attendee Throws Nuts At Black CNN Camerawoman: ‘This Is How We Feed The Animals’
- Climate change deniers are either extreme free marketeers or conspiracy theorists
- Naked Soldiers Salute Prince Harry. I absolutely approve.
- Awesome prosecutor finds _11,000_ untested rape kits, forces police to start investigating them.
- Kickstarter is taking the place of record labels. And about time too.
- Barack Obama inerviewed on Reddit. Now that's geek cred.
- A single link that demonstrates the stupidity of the "war on terror".
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