Just now I posted some “new” linkspam backdated for April. If you’ve been feeling a lack of linkspam in your life, click the !bot tag. Oddly Racist Fondant Pack Will Make Your Cake Unforgettable! While shopping in one of America’s great chain stores, an observant camera-toter spotted a “ready-to-use” fondant pack that lets you cut [...]
East London residents warned of surface-to-air missiles sited on their roofs for the Olympics – Boing Boing Charlie Stross points out that a wily terrorist who buzzes east London with an RC airplane and triggers a launch would succeed in tricking the MoD into showering a crowded residential area with blazing supersonic shrapnel. For bonus [...]
The War on Women Voting | The Nation Voting rights “evangelist” Faye Anderson says advocates who’ve been protesting new state photo voter ID laws have it all wrong. When voting rights advocates prop up elderly voters who might be disenfranchised because they may not have the correct form of ID, or the necessary documents to [...]
The Brain from Top to Bottom tags: science i heart interiors: Tutorial :: Finding An Image Source I think everyone has images they saved from somewhere that they’ve either forgotten where it was from or the source wasn’t named to begin with. Personally, I try to post only images that are mine or that I [...]
Dominique Browning: The Racial Politics of Asthma | TIME Ideas | TIME.com African American children are far more likely to develop asthma than get a bullet to their heads. In 2008, African Americans had a 35 percent higher rate of asthma than Caucasians. A study revealed that one-quarter of the children in New York City’s [...]
BBC News – Microsoft moves to disable Zeus botnet Microsoft described the action as its “most complex effort to disrupt botnets to date”. However, security company Sophos Labs said it had not seen any “significant disruption” to the illegal network. Senior attorney for Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit Richard Boscovich gave details of the operation in [...]
Plaintiff in healthcare law challenge went bankrupt – with unpaid medical bills – latimes.com – March 8, 2012 Mary Brown, a 56-year-old Florida woman who owned a small auto repair shop but had no health insurance, became the lead plaintiff challenging President Obama’s healthcare law because she was passionate about the issue. Brown “doesn’t have [...]
Take Action Now – End the use of child soldiers – Amnesty International USA While the United States is supporting efforts to apprehend LRA leader Joseph Kony, it must also ensure that other armed groups and governments in the region cease recruiting child soldiers and help rehabilitate the children who are already soldiers. [That viral [...]
Cyg: WaPo, are you seriously paying someone to draw Venn diagram jokes in MS Paint right now? Does she need an intern? Cat Breeds Join Wolfram|Alpha’s (Meow) Mix of Data – Wolfram|Alpha Blog Daily Kos: H.R. 347 Redress of Grievances Suspended in Proximity to Politicians – Feb 28, 2012 When meeting up at sea, bottlenose [...]
Ultrasounds before abortions – TimesDaily.com – 27 Feb 2012 The chairman of the Alabama Senate Health Committee said he doesn’t see a conflict of interest between his support for a bill that would require physicians to perform ultrasounds on women seeking abortions and his company, which sells the type of equipment the bill would require. [...]
Short story: ILU-486 | Panda-monium Every part of you belongs to you. tags: reproductive_justice fiction How an interview with Detroit talk show host Lou Gordon effectively ended Mitt Romney’s father’s presidential hopes | MLive.com Michigan Governor George Romney—Mitt Romney’s father—received 48 delegate votes at the 1964 Republican convention and was considered a front-runner for the [...]
New Study From Consumer Advocates Shows Mass Servicer Abuse | FDL News Desk – By: David Dayen – February 22, 2012 …“mortgage servicers continue to initiate foreclosure proceedings improperly, either while a homeowner is awaiting a loan modification or due to improper fees or payment processing.” This is a key element of the servicing standards [...]
The National Museum of African American History and Culture | About.com African-American History The museum, which is being built on the The Mall in Washington, D.C., will be devoted to the documentation of African American life, art, history, and culture. President Obama, speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony, noted that the idea for the museum had [...]
Scott Brown struggles to refight old culture war with Elizabeth Warren – The Plum Line – The Washington Post – Greg Sargent – 02/16/2012 You can watch video of the interview here. The reporter repeatedly pointed out that the measure goes much further than just exempting religious organizations from covering contraception; it also allows employers [...]
Image-of-the-Week: Boozy Fruit Flies | Mother Jones Fruit flies live on fruit, and a lot of fruit rots and ferments, so that fruit flies also live to some extent on alcohol. A new paper in Current Biology reports on whether this boozy lifestyle contributes anything besides slurred flight, impromptu couplings, and fruit fights (okay, I [...]
Yesterday in asshattery: Congressional Republicans tell us that the fight over birth control access is unrelated to reproductive rights and that the only woman put forward as a candidate to testify on the subject is “not qualified” to do so. Links below. Please sign the petition urging Congress not to reduce access to birth control, [...]
This Girl Snuck Into a Russian Military Rocket Factory | Gizmodo Her name is Lana Sator and she snuck into one of NPO Energomash factories outside of Moscow. Her photos are amazing, like sets straight out of Star Wars or Alien. Now the Russian government is harassing her. tags: photography Alternate titles for Dr. Seuss [...]
How Pinterest Changed Website Design Forever – Mashable! Even if you haven’t ever visited popular visual bookmarking site Pinterest, you might recognize its design elements — which have been popping up everywhere… “It flattens the information hierarchy,”… Pinterest puts web content into sticky-note sized blocks users can organize onto pinboards that fill the entire browser [...]
Daily Kos: Mitt Romney spits on Michigan’s unionized autoworkers in Detroit News op-ed – by Eclectablog – Feb 14, 2012 NOTE: I highly commend your attention to Congressman Gary Peters’ diary “I was there – why Romney is still wrong on Michigan’s auto industry.” [link] … Today, in a Detroit News op-ed titled “Taxpayers should [...]
Obsidian Wings: Remix at the Super Bowl When I heard the halftime show at the Super Bowl would be Madonna, I knew it was going to be something pretty flamboyant in the way of over-the-top entertainment. But I didn’t imagine that it was going to be a fannish remix. …She is performing *about* the Super [...]