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25+ Deli.icio.us Links from September 2007

• Airline sacrifices goats to appease sky god - “Officials at Nepal’s state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft…” Now we know who got the goat.
• Analysis: UK gun crime figures - “Another shooting, and more fears of guns on the streets of Britain - but what do we really know about the extent of gun crime in England and Wales?”
• ‘Bin Laden’ beats tight security to get near Bush hotel - “Members of an Australian television comedy show, one dressed as Osama bin Laden, drove through two security checkpoints yesterday before being stopped near the Sydney hotel where the president of the United States is staying.”
• Bullied student tickled pink by schoolmates’ t-shirt campaign - “Two Nova Scotia students are being praised across North America for the way they turned the tide against the bullies who picked on a fellow student for wearing pink.”
• DZone - Digg for web developers.
• Five times larger than life lobster leaves his mates in the shade - “Named Poseidon for his size and strength, this lobster dwarfs others, measuring two feet in length and a whopping nine-and a-quarter pounds.”
• Footnote - “At Footnote.com you’ll be able to view, save, and share original images of historical documents available for the first time on the internet. National Archive Documents now available online.”
• How did nuclear missiles fly across U.S.? - “6 nukes fly across U.S.; no one notices for 36 hours — how could it happen?” Because big government always fails, and we are now big government.
• Liberal Interpretation: Rigging a study to make conservatives look stupid. - “Are liberals smarter than conservatives? It looks that way, according to a study published this week in Nature Neuroscience.”
• LibraVox - “LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.”
• New study shows Americans’ blogging behavior - “According to a recent Synovate/Marketing Daily survey, 8 out of 10 Americans know what a blog is and almost half have visited blogs.” Saw this coming a long time ago.
• The Psychology of Believing Something Not True - “Norbert Schwarz has been studying this issue for years and earlier this year released a study showing how difficult it was to correct people’s common misconceptions, even when you presented them with the factually correct information.”
• RFID companies, record labels become allies - “I think of this as a marriage between two of the most hated concepts in technology.”
• Scientists Burn Saltwater - “The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel.”
• Sitting straight ‘bad for backs’ - “Sitting up straight is not the best position for office workers, a study has suggested.”
• Splice - Make Music. Remix Music. Meet. Mix. Mashup.
• Steve Tucker served a 10-year prison sentence for selling light bulbs. Is America’s drug war worth it? - “1994, the Tucker family received lengthy prison sentences…without possibility of parole…federal prosecutors never charged them with buying, selling, growing, transporting, smoking or even possessing marijuana…[ investigators never found a joint].”
• Teamsters aim to block plan giving Mexican trucks more U.S. access - “The Teamsters Union said Wednesday it will ask a federal appeals court to block the Bush administration’s plan to allow Mexican trucks to carry cargo anywhere in the United States.”
• Thruster May Shorten Mars Trip - “An amplified photon thruster that could potentially shorten the trip to Mars from six months to a week has reportedly attracted the attention of aerospace agencies and contractors.”
• Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites - “Our picks for the top new or under-the-radar sites of 2007. You may not know many of the sites on this list, but you should.” Surprisingly good list.
• Top Secret Recipes - “Duplicate your favorite brand-name foods at home with common ingredients.”
• Uncyclopedia - A satirical “encyclopedia.” Very tongue in cheek.
• Victory Against School Biometrics in Illinois - “Joy Robinson-Van Gilder is a small-town mom from Earlville, Illinois (population 1,778) who began a one-woman campaign to fight the use of biometrics in the schools — and won.”
• VideoJug - A how-to video site.
• Wikipedia ’shows CIA page edits’ - “Wikipedia Scanner allegedly shows that workers on the agency’s computers made edits to the page of Iran’s president.”
• Woman pays 1,800 pounds for chicken leg - “She is quite happy to hop around on one leg. But sometimes she tries to scratch herself with her missing leg and falls over.”
• Yound adults aren’t sticking with church - “Seven in 10 Protestants ages 18 to 30 — both evangelical and mainline — who went to church regularly in high school said they quit attending by age 23…”

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