Aug 022013
- FOAAS: Fuck Off As A Service: “FOAAS (Fuck Off As A Service) provides a modern, RESTful, scalable solution to the common problem of telling people to fuck off.” We all need that, sometimes.
- BuzzFeed: 34 Things You’ll Naturally Understand If You’re From Colorado: You’ll need to learn this if you move to Colorado… or you’ll get kicked out of the state after a few years.
- NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails: *sigh* + *facepalm* + WTF + ‘Murica
- US ‘Could Be Sitting on a Gold Mine’ of Rare Earth Elements: I love recycling… when more value can be extracted than is expended in total!
- It’s a zonkey! Zebra and donkey hybrid born in Italy: The description in the article just cracks me up: “They were never supposed to be together. Owner Serena Aglietti built a fence to separate the two animals. But somehow, in the golden light of a field in Florence, love flowered.” It’s awfully cute!
- Psychopathic criminals have empathy switch: This fascinating research suggests that psychopaths aren’t unable to feel empathy… they just don’t choose to do so.
- Korean War anniversary: Prisoner island revisited: “Now a pretty harbour, ringed by modern factories, it was once South Korea’s wartime prison camp. North Korean and Chinese prisoners – 170,000 in total – were kept here during the Korean War: the human spoils of a vicious three-year conflict, which drew in more than 20 countries. The prisoners kept here were all captured from Communist forces, but even Geoje – like Korea itself – was divided along political lines. And, says former inmate Lee Hyung-Geun, the conflict inside the barbed-wire fences was every bit as fierce.”
- Look out, he’s behind you! Eight-ton orca leaps 15ft into the air to finally capture dolphin he wanted for dinner after two-hour chase: Yes, it’s The Daily Mail, but the pictures are stunning. It’s a good reminder that nature is red in tooth and claw… or tooth and flipper, in this case.
- Five Lessons in Grammar: Useful!
- TED: David Pogue: 10 top time-saving tech tips: Some of these were new to me, amazingly!
- Reaction to dessert treat claims teen at Camp Sacramento: This is horrifying… and stories like this are part of why I think that people should take other people’s severe allergies seriously — as a matter of basic moral decency. (FYI, I discussed peanut bans in schools on this Philosophy in Action Radio.)
