Weekend link dump for August 12

Photobombed by an ostrich. If that’s not a meme, it should be.

I don’t care what anyone says, I’m going to listen to music when I want to.

You can’t increase your metabolism by exercising.

Haven’t we all seen this movie before? Don’t rely on electric fences and supposedly bulletproof automated systems, that’s all I’m saying.

How elephants trumpet. I didn’t know that we hadn’t known that before now.

We’ll never see the likes of the ABA again.

What Arizona and Texas have in common, other than idiot governors.

Getting hacked is a whole lot of no fun.

On writing jokes for those who tell them.

The people who are fighting for marriage equality in the South are truly doing the Lord’s work.

There’s more than one way to finance your Olympic dream.

Pat Robertson sure is wrong a lot about what God supposedly says to him.

There’s less spam on the Internet today.

Damn you, AutoCorrect! Another reason why I still love my BlackBerry.

The venues from the 2004 Olympics in Greece will not last nearly as long as anything from the time of the original Olympics.

Down with algobots. Up with a financial transactions tax.

RIP, Martin Fleischmann, co-“discoverer” of cold fusion.

The Woz doesn’t like the cloud.

Bobak Ferdowski, Internet sensation.

On Chick-fil-A and Starbucks.

RIP, Marvin Hamlisch.

Even the wages of sin have stagnated.

Twitter bots are people, too.

I for one stand foursquare with Americans for More Rhombus.

“Apparently, their deep moral convictions against providing this benefit only kicked in when the opportunity to politically grandstand about the evils of contraception came up.”

Even if the Affordable Care Act did lead to a small increase in the cost of a pizza, why is that necessarily a bad thing?

What Mary Elizabeth Williams says. Also, McKayla Is Not Impressed by you.

Yes, it should. Especially now. This has been another edition of Simple Answers For Simple Questions.

It helps to have some understanding of a culture before you critique it.

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