Weekend link dump for January 24

“This is such an ancient trope — crazy scientists doing outrageous experiments with money you could be investing in my uranium mine — that I wonder if anyone actually falls for it.”

The next ice age may be a little delayed in arriving.

“Would You Ditch ESPN To Shave $8/Month Off Your Cable Bill?” No, I would not.

“The story of two women who set out to have a baby together, and were more successful than they ever imagined.”

Projecting the next five years of Hall of Fame voting.

RIP, Jim Simpson, Hall of Fame sportscaster and ESPN’s first play-by-play announcer.

The science of coin tossing, and what the heck happened at that Packers-Cardinals game.

Tim Curry to return to Fox’s Rocky Horror—as the narrator”.

“It’s no secret that the majority of the people who appear on Judge Judy and court TV shows are poor. People with money don’t sue each other over $5,000, and if they feud in public, they don’t do it on daytime television. But the biggest insight from talking with [Judge Judy‘s producer] is fully appreciating the litigants’ poverty.”

High School Musical just celebrated its tenth anniversary, and we are all very, very old.

“A team of researchers using historical documents and 21st-century archaeological techniques has confirmed the site where 19 innocent people were hanged during the Salem witch trials more than three centuries ago.”

What JK Rowling said to Alan Rickman that affected how he played Severus Snape in all of the Harry Potter movies.

RIP, Mic Gillette, founding member of Tower of Power.

RIP, Glenn Frey, founding member of The Eagles.

“Anyway, in the end this is a lesson about economics. What happens when you vastly reduce the cost of being an asshole? Answer: the supply of assholes goes up.”

What Ursula K. LeGuin says.

Tennis match fixing is more pervasive than you think.

On freezing your kids’ credit to protect their identities from being stolen.

There’s no crying in baseball, but if this doesn’t make you tear up a little, you’re made of sterner stuff than I am.

Congratulations to Kathryn Smith, first full-time female coach in the 96-year history of the NFL.

Meet Norman Carl Odam, a/k/a the Stardust Cowboy, and an inspiration for David Bowie.

The Drama Triangle, and where Sarah Palin and Donald Trump fit on it.

“Despite the massive success of Adele’s album 25, which sold a whopping 7.4 million copies in only six weeks, 2015 marked the first time in U.S. history that new releases were outsold by catalogue albums. Seems like everyone’s been feeling extra nostalgic lately.”

And if you really want to go old school, reel to reel is set to make a comeback.

Transgender athletes will no longer be required to undergo gender reassignment surgery in order to participate in the Olympics.

Ted Cruz is a lying liar. Film at 11.

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One Response to Weekend link dump for January 24

  1. Gary Bennett says:

    Republicans may have a monopoly on bat-s**t crazy anti-science demagoguery today, but it isn’t that long ago that the title was held by Democratic Senator (and hero to many liberals) William Proxmire of Wisconsin (what is it about that state?). A more consistent enemy of good science has never existed in this country.

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