Proper posts resume this weekend. In the meantime, some links:
Power Pop Criminals has a compilation of 21 different versions of the Move song Do Ya, including versions by Parthenon Huxley, Matthew Sweet, Linus Of Hollywood, Jason Falkner and more. Look out baby there’s a plane a comin’!
Scientists Grow Human Liver Tissue For Use In Transplantation
Should a dodgy paper on ‘antidepressants’ be retracted?
You’ve clearly had too many dinner parties with other Tories, public tells Baroness Warsi
How “Guido Fawkes” (P. Staines) is enabling rape threats against Laurie Penny
A free textbook on networks, crowds and markets
Millennium Dome on the economics of the cuts
Political Betting on the Lib Dem ‘collapse’ – fact or fiction?. They also have this great bar-chart
Stuart Douglas on Simon Dupree And The Big Sound – this got me listening to them for most of last night.
A rather sadly beautiful true story about entropy
Calamity Jon Morris looks at the career of the Super-Mouse in Superboy
Stanley Unwin’s epitaph nearly made me cry
Death To The Universe on representations of thought in comics
A simply *extraordinary* Buddhist temple, featuring images of Superman, Batman and Keanu Reeves
Teleportation through time is apparently possible on the quantum scale
Agreed on Mr. Unwin’s epitaph!
I’m fascinated by what exactly constitutes ‘enabling’ rape threats… I’ve read the linked page, but it doesn’t seem to say much other than that ‘rape threats’ were posted in the comments of this chap’s blog, but the link purporting to show them is dead…
Multiple individuals stated they were going to rape Laurie, some of them in reply to comments she left. At least one commenter also posted her address in the comments. That was deleted (because Staines always comes very close to the limits of legally protected speech but never over the line) but the threats themselves remained.