Saturday morning links
Welcome to the weekend, where I share with you everything that did not make it into the morning coffee, along with a few things that did not fit.
And boy are there a lot of these this week … I promise that I actually did start to do this in the morning. I think I’m going to have to find a better way to deal with the spare links that I really do want to post here.
We start with news from the past week.
In Canada, the leading sports news of the week has been that somebody used the word “pansification” in a hockey broadcast. Now, “pansification” is not actually a real word in the English language. Apparently it needs to be added to the Canadian dictionaries, though, and we can all understand what it means. In any case, this news lead to one of my favourite quotes of the week courtesy of Don Cherry and reported in The Globe and Mail: I got a nice letter from the head of the gays thanking me very much. Gays: Did you know you had a leader? “The head of the gays”? He writes nice letters to Don Cherry. Apparently they contain no fashion advice.
Additionally, A judge has denied Obama’s request to have a Guantanamo trial delayed, leaving the new administration with a conundrum — withdraw the charges?
There is conflict amongst the wikipedians of the world regarding how to manage revisions. A teleportation “milestone” has been achieved — does anybody else think that the word “milestone” should be dropped in the world of teleportation?
In the blogs and blews of the world, Irish ISPs will be disconnecting alleged illegal downloaders — apparently guilt is assumed in Ireland these days, and suspicion is sufficient to ensure punishment. As many torrent sites insert false IP addresses into the list of those sharing files, one wonders whether they should avoid Irish ones to minimize the number of people disconnected. I say no — they should insert as many Irish IP addresses as possible. Cause thousands — no, tens of thousands of threatening letters to be sent to people who have never used these services. Have people disconnected for no reason, other than a series of numbers being on a concocted list out there on the internet. That will cause a reversal of such an idiotic measure.
Also, An interesting population density chart, funny Craigslist ads, fantastic spam, the worst Oscar-winning choices
The uncategorisable: Zombie Preparedness. Yodelling. Yeti shaving
Also: Tiny Monkeys
Digital “paintings” of celebrities;
A birthday cake ruined by Microsoft Outlook;
A fantastic poster for ballet classes;
Interesting airport hotels;
Beautiful bridges;
Cupcakes;
Beautful eyes;
Paper robots;
Sexual harassment;
Old lakes.
Finally, this video is absolutely hilarious. Make sure that you have the volume up — it’s mostly a soundbite.
Found via Boingboing. And thank you Fox News.
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