Weekend link dump for June 17

Happy birthday, Eileen!

HBO doesn’t want to take your money unless you also give some of it to a cable or satellite company.

Here’s a LEGO Star Wars MC Escher diorama. Do I really need to say more than that?

The really rich truly are very different than the rest of us, if only because they have more possibilities open to them.

We need younger people running for office. And by “younger people”, I mean “people younger than me”.

Money can’t buy you happiness after all. But as they say, it can rent it for you for awhile.

Just because a technology is old doesn’t mean that it isn’t useful, even better suited for some tasks than more newfangled things.

Apparently, vampirism isn’t a religion. See here for the judges’ decision.

Even Facebook elections have voter turnout issues.

Let’s please do something about interest rates on student loans to avoid the big dumb debate we’re having about them now.

Correlation isn’t causation, but it can be an effective tool for mockery.

Pinterest is getting serious about the copyright infringement issue.

The escape from Alcatraz, fifty years later. We know from “Mythbusters” that it’s possible they made it alive.

Children are our future. The food they eat, not so much.

From the Keep It Simple, Stupid! department.

“If you’re opposing legal equality, then you don’t get to be nice. Opposing legal equality is not nice and it cannot be done nicely.”

Do you use Google Maps on your iPhone? Not for much longer, apparently.

I don’t know how to handle rude theater-goers, either.

Well, %^[} this $#!+.

It’s my party, and I’ll shoot if I want to.

Apparently, penguins are perverts, and this fact has been covered up for nearly 100 years.

Some good news for older dads, of which I am one.

The antivirus era is over, though you shouldn’t cancel your Norton subscription just yet.

How many sheep does it take to stage an Olympic opening ceremony? No, that’s not a trick question.

Remember the media frenzy last year when a psychic claimed there was a mass grave on an East Texas farm? The folks whose farm it was, which had no grave of any kind on it, are now suing the psychic, the county sheriff, and various media outlets for their role in that fiasco.

Apparently, not all people on “House Hunters” are actually hunting houses.

Setting superheroes back at least a hundred years.

If Sally Quinn didn’t exist, someone would feel compelled to invent her. And when they did, no one would consider that invented person to be even remotely plausible.

“Over four percent of the people receiving [a genuine email from LinkedIn warning them that they needed to change their password], thought it was spam and sent it straight to the bit bucket. If Linkedin sends out 6.5 million emails, then a quarter of a million people are congratulating themselves on avoiding spam, and still have a compromised Linkedin password. […] Part of the problem is that people are used to getting email that they don’t want from Linkedin and rather than unsubscribe, some of them just mark it as spam and hope that it will go away.”

Why is Jerry Sandusky bigger news than Cardinal Timothy Dolan?

Forget what you can’t say on TV. You can’t say the word “vagina” on the floor of the Michigan Legislature, even if you’re a lady and the discussion is about legislating lady parts. Thankfully, you can still say “vagina” outside the Michigan Legislature, hopefully with a powerful sound system.

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