- Drunken African animals | kottke.org
- Watch and listen as Randall narrates some footage of animals getting drunk from the fruit of the Marula tree. You may remember Randall from the narration on this honey badger video ("Honey Badger don't care, Honey Badger don't give a shit").
- How to Create an In-Case-of-Emergency Everything Document to Keep Your Loved Ones Informed if Worst Comes to Worst | Lifehacker • by Melanie Pinola
- If you were hit by a bus today or were otherwise incapacitated, would your loved ones be able to quickly locate your important information or know how to handle your affairs?
- Austerity in the U.S.A. | Tiger Beatdown • by s.e. smith
- This is where California’s budgeting priorities lie, to slash at services for the most disadvantaged members of society first. California desperately needs a class war, and yet so far the protests against budget cuts have been limited, and receive minimal media coverage
- Spinster aunt answers eternal question “when should I dump him?” | I Blame The Patriarchy • by Jill
- Got a mean boyfriend who gets mad at you all the time?
DUMP HIM. DUMP HIM NOW.
Reluctant to completely change your life based on the exhortation of some random Internet feminist? Then at least try out youarenotcrazy.com for some No. 1 Verbal Abuse Information. Tragically, the entire website suffers from gratuitous Flash, which makes it challenging to navigate (and copy text from), but slog through it anyway, because I promise you, you don’t deserve the shit that asshole is dishing out.
- And The Other Inequality Fairy Tale: What Republicans Do And How It Works | Echidne of the Snakes – echidne
- The Republican Party indeed desires to get rid of old-age insurance, health care for the elderly, public schooling for children and pretty much all shared concerns except the legal system and the military. Those two are excused and allowed to survive because they are needed to protect the rich and their wealth. …
The device for shredding the civil society is to focus on government deficit reduction, combined with all these other moves. It's the WE-can't-afford argument, shouted over and over and over again, even though the "rainy day" for which we are to save and scrimp is, in fact, today!
[This article is the third in a series of three. -L]
- Wednesday Geek Woman: Lise Meitner, co-discoverer of nuclear fission | Geek Feminism Blog
- Lise Meitner was born into an affluent Jewish family in Austria in 1878. She faced much institutionalized sexism: she was not allowed to attend any universities and had to secure a private education, was the only woman allowed to attend Max Planck’s lectures, and was forced to work without salary, as a “guest”, until the age of 35. Thirty years later, she would be passed over for a Nobel prize in favor of her two male colleagues. …a nuclear physicist whose work led to the creation of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, she spent much of her life wrestling with the moral implications of her decisions and her duties to others.
…she was the first to apply Einstein’s equation, e=mc2, to predict the massive amounts of energy that would be released by nuclear fission. Despite all her contributions, the Nazis refused to let Hahn credit the exiled, Jewish Meitner in the papers he published.
[My bookmarks live at delicious.com/camryl. In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Also, signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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