I’ve been accumulating a lot of links. Time to clear the tabs out.
A good overview of corruption in Obama’s DOJ here.
Interesting discussion of poverty here.
This must have something to do with truth in advertising: a supermarket chain has been forced to withdraw ads that show happy customers.
Useful knowledge: How to avoid going to jail for violating 18 USC 1001.
Not, perhaps, the best dietary choices.
It’s been a long time – I haven’t read much about spontaneous human combustion since I was in high school.
I’ve seen photos of people with elaborate facial tattoos before, but never in this context.
This is interesting – a section of Idaho where major crimes can’t be prosecuted.
Time for Science and Technology:
Carbon nanotube cables that conduct electricity as efficiently as copper? Bring it on!
This is a bit old, but … we can now measure the magnetic properties of a single proton.
This is also a bit old … a new type of car engine. These come around every so often. I was quite taken with the Wankel rotary engine, but it had problems with manufacturability. Maybe this one will work out better.
Visual cryptography. Interesting, but I’m not sure how easy it would be to extract the information into text form.
A visual reference to computer ports.
Fairly computer-centric, but, then, I am employed in the field of software, and I love the title – Here be dragons: advances in problems you didn’t even know you had.
New and improved wireless technology.
Fossilized feathers found in 80-million-year-old amber.
Here’s a scale model of the solar system. Be prepared to do a lot of scrolling.
On the subject of the solar system, here’s an orrery that I think is pretty damned impressive.
Continuing with science, the Ig Nobel awards are about to be announced.
Scientists are also planning to make an artificial volcano.
Here’s something unusual: placebos are becoming more effective. How’s that work?
Been hearing voices with nobody around? You may not be as insane as you feared – birds are teaching each other to talk.
A Z-machine interpreter and a list of games for it.
Technology keeps on improving our lives – here’s a self-inflating bicycle tire.
The Document Which Used To Be Called The MIT Lockpicking Guide. I downloaded a copy when it was called that. Related: a series of lessons on YouTube.
Some products aren’t well-designed. Here’s one example from a trade-magazine blog on the topic.
Time for a little humor.
Here’s something that’s a staple of Jay Leno’s “headlines” segments: marriage announcements.
I like some of these modified signs.
Not quite humor, but close … Which Programming Languages Make You Cuss More? More accurately stated: which programming languages have more cussing in comments in the code I looked at?