Friday Links (5-Oct-12)

Friday Links (5-Oct-12)

Language Log takes a look at the unsourced factlets that are often used when trying to show how the youngsters aren’t literate anymore, nobody reads and hey, the sky is falling too. How racial prejudice contributed to the foreclosure crisis in terms of which loans...
Friday Links (28-Sep-12)

Friday Links (28-Sep-12)

US abortion clinics are often lined with protesters harassing those going in and giving them “literature”. What happens when one of the people going in decides to give the protesters a pamphlet of her own (a Flying Spaghetti Monster one)? Hilarious inept bigotry: a...
Friday Links (21-Sep-12)

Friday Links (21-Sep-12)

Transphobic asshole: isn’t “giving” gender reassignment surgery to people the equivalent of “giving a paranoid schizophrenic who thinks he’s Napoleon a bicorn hat and a saber”? Zinnia Jones responds There’s a particularly bad job that Google hires contractors for:...
Friday Links (14-Sep-12)

Friday Links (14-Sep-12)

Russell Glasser on how not to build inclusive communities. Summary: by not excluding certain people (in this case, those who want to flash their dicks around), you are effectively excluding a very large population — anything is is just Ayn Randian nonsense about level...
Friday Links (7-Sep-12)

Friday Links (7-Sep-12)

Amusing: if Shakespeare wrote Javascript A sobering look at the recent Pussy Riot verdict: in addition to the 3 members who got several years, another man is facing a much longer prison term but is not being covered by international media. The ultimate Streisand...