Link-O-Rama

Posted by Diana Hsieh on 11 October 2013 at 1:00 pm Link-O-Rama

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Work B*itch by Britney Speaks: Funny, my workday doesn’t involve any of these activities. Am I doing it wrong?
Knight v Snail: “As anyone who is familiar with 13th and 14th century illuminated manuscripts can attest, images of armed knights fighting snails are common, especially in marginalia. But the ubiquity of these depictions doesn’t make them any less strange…”
Donkeys watching a donkey on YouTube: If I had a donkey, I would show him this video pronto… and post the video of that to YouTube!
Jimmy Wales To Silicon Valley: Grow Up And Get Over Your Age Bias: Jimmy says, “How can we in the tech community make sure that unusual success at a very early age is not mistakenly thought to be the norm?”
The Happiest States In America In One Map: Go Colorado, go!
Naughty meanings and naughty words: I’d never thought of obscenity doctrine this way… but wow.
Heavy metal bands per 100,000 people: Tee hee.
See The 5 Kick-Ass Women This Mom Dressed Her Daughter As Instead Of A Disney Princess: Lovely!
The Joy of Old Age. (No Kidding.): Oliver Sacks on being 80. It’s poignant and beautiful. This is the 80s that I want.

William H. Stoddard

Pullum is often quite funny. I have his collection “The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax,” which traces the origin of the urban legend about the Inuit having a vast number of words for snow, along with such other entertainments as a critique of Noam Chomsky by Mr. Spock.
Don Kenner

The best metal bands come from Scandinavia (must be the cold). I’m not surprised the map shows that area to be suffused with metal. Of course, some of them are bat shit crazy…
c_andrew

Hmm, well unless you want a Maserati or to “party in France” I think you can keep on as you are…
c_andrew

I sense an infinite regress coming on. So really, is it donkeys all the way down?
John Pryce

Visuals aside, I actually really like “Work Bitch”. The sound is good, and so is the message.

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