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andrewducker) wrote2014-08-16 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2014-08-16 12:00 pm
Entry tags:
- bats,
- bees,
- belief,
- bitcoin,
- brain,
- burningman,
- carbohydrates,
- cars,
- disinformation,
- edinburgh,
- funny,
- genetics,
- history,
- intelligence,
- lies,
- links,
- marvel,
- news,
- obesity,
- police,
- psychology,
- race,
- republicans,
- roleplaying,
- sanfrancisco,
- sex,
- society,
- software,
- success,
- technology,
- usa,
- viking,
- welfare
Interesting Links for 16-08-2014
- With Highway Patrol, hugs and kisses replace tear gas in Ferguson
- If cats could fly, this would happen a lot
- Guardians of the Galaxy: Clearly a roleplaying campaign gone badly wrong
- This is why you can't have flying cars
- Each copy of the AMY1 gene gives you a 20% reduction in your chances of being obese
- £100m plan to revamp Edinburgh’s East End
And about time too - it's a really unpleasant set of backstreets there.
- A great, detailed, timeline of the events of Ferguson
- Meet Gavin Andresen, the Most Powerful Person in the World of Bitcoin
- Ten tricks the brain plays on us
- Viking Ship Discovered Near Mississippi River
- Republicans now producing fake news websites in order to disseminate disinformation
- A good argument for why society owes you anything
- Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops
- Tech Industry Believes it Invented San Francisco, Burning Man, and Sex
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It was actually reading the comments that made me want to dig further, the tone of the "regulars" was a bit off and knowing, looked like a bit of editorial turfing.
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http://www.wnd.com/
(ie wingnut daily or as it used to be known World News Daily—IIRC Orson Scott Card stopped writing for them because they were too right wing)
But the About page on the pisstake site is rather good, look at who the "funders" are ;-)
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