Interesting Links for 02-03-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Edinburgh parking: New permits for carers to be introduced in Capital

(tags:Edinburgh driving )

2. CNN leak shows internal distress about double standards on Israel coverage

(tags:Israel cnn journalism Palestine bias )

3. As banks buy up bitcoins, who else are the 'Bitcoin whales'?

(tags:bitcoin investment banks )

4. Waymo Will Bring Autonomous Taxis to Los Angeles—Its Biggest Challenge Yet

(tags:automation cars taxi USA )

5. Rock star: I've spent 30 years making a Scotland map from pebbles

(tags:rocks geology scotland )

6. Who *doesn't* want Tenacious D covering Britney Spears?

(tags:music video cover BritneySpears )

7. On the genetic basis of tail-loss evolution in humans and apes

(tags:genetics humans evolution )

8. Facebook, Instagram, X and Telegram fail to remove posts selling date rape drugs

(tags:drugs rape Facebook twitter OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[cmcmck]

7. There was a 19th century conspiracy theory which beieved that humans WERE born with tails but that midwives and doctors conspired to remove them at birth. :o)

[andrewducker]

I want a tail!

[mountainkiss]

What would you do with it?

[andrewducker]

Have a tail!

(I have not thought any further about it than that. Should the opportunity ever arise I will invest more thought in the matter)

[hairyears]

This might actually have been true of the Hapsburgs.

Alas, all modern references focus on the Hapsburg jaw, and I find no reference to protruding coxycces at all.

Perhaps it is an old wives' tail.