19 February 2019

Link round-up for 17 February 2019 (delayed)

Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week.

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The first trailer for Frozen 2 has come out!

You can't tell me this wasn't intentional.

Plormp!

He hides in plain sight.

Visit Canada's bird, avoid stress Satanically, and more.

When designing a machine, think ahead.

Here's how to determine the date of a world map.

And he can only move diagonally.

I guess the altar boy is giving the sermon.

A young musician draws an appreciative audience.

Debra She Who Seeks has dancing goddesses (slightly NSFW).  Calvin has some creepy critters.

Oh, the things religious nuts have to worry about.

Is she a witch?

OK, this is the kind of news item you don't see every day.

Trees, trees, trees!

He's hot as Hell.

Most clueless management ever.

This is Johannesburg.

Such self-righteous scum really exist.

Crazy Eddie and friends compare Trump to various kinds of extinct mammals.

Mark Alpert has written a novel about a curiously-familiar fictional President.

Not good news for my own job-hunting.

Gosh, what precaution could she possibly take?

This is an obvious scam and wouldn't even make a good cartoon.

The witch game teaches kids a valuable lesson.

This outcome was predictable, inevitable, and unforgivable.

Catholics who support the Christian Right had better hope it never actually wins.

Mass paranoia leads to harassment and worse.

Here's how Americans debate health-care reform.  Most Americans have no clue about realistic health costs.

Look for answers, don't just make them up.

The "woke" bullcrap will reduce fanfic to the level of those godawful Christian novels.

Republicans are afraid of everything, even Trump.

Can humans change God's mind?

This looks like good advice for anyone, not just writers.

Discrimination thrives in Pence's former state.

Other people's taste in sexual fantasy is just as valid as yours.

Petty, slimy, hateful language meant only to wound and insult -- nice going, Christians.

Google's "do not track" setting is basically fake.  They're going to try to sabotage your ad-blocker too.

Apparently the next big thing in consumer gadgetry will be this "mirrorworld" concept.  At first reading, it sounds to me like a horribly intrusive and commercialized nightmare.

Professor Chaos looks at idiots in the news.

This book is evil.

There's now a video game for conservatives.

A sports-store owner boycotted Nike to protest its Colin Kaepernick ad, with predictable results.

Republicans have weaponized the most gullible segment of the US population.  They're basically working toward this (found via Calvin).

What seems like evil is often just indoctrination.

Legalization of teh shrooms gets some surprising support.

The White House communications chief is married to a lunatic.

See if you can guess why Fox News rejected this ad.

Disaster is good for business.

A massive sexual-abuse scandal has erupted within the hypocritical Southern Baptist Convention.

Michigan is about to tell the cops to stop stealing stuff.

Let the Trumpanzees suffer the consequences of their stupidity.

The Christian God is as far from "love" as it's possible to get.

Pompeii is still being excavated, giving us new glimpses into ancient Roman life.

Oh, great, a flying lizard the size of a giraffe (don't worry, they're all long dead).

Hackwhackers remembers Opportunity.

The US and Europe team up to test a defense against asteroid impacts.

How much water an Earth-like planet has may depend on whether a supernova happens nearby at a certain stage of solar-system formation.

Here's why the British tend to dislike Trump.

British students take a stand against the barbarity of halal and kosher meat (though administration lags behind).

With the US an unreliable ally under Trump, another powerful nation must take a larger role in European security.

This seems like a useful form of "cultural appropriation", if true.

A vibrant Asian democracy is standing up to the world's biggest gangster state.

The rule of a religio-nationalist party is eroding science in India (sounds familiar).

The Ebola outbreak in the war-torn eastern Congo is getting worse.

Half of Republicans believe Trump was chosen by God.

Start preparing now for the next election.

Shower Cap wonders why Trump prefers "his face looking like rhino's butthole after it sat on a crate of apricot jelly beans", and contemplates the "national emergency" and its aftermath.

[Image at top:  the Opportunity rover]

6 Comments:

Blogger W. Hackwhacker said...

Whew! Welcome back! I won't say how much time I spent looking at that chart about how to determine the age of an undated map! Genius.

19 February, 2019 14:53  
Blogger Martha said...

Welcome back! So cool to see a round-up from you. It'll take me a day or two to get through it. That's the fun part :) Hope you're feeling MUCH better!

19 February, 2019 18:31  
Blogger Debra She Who Seeks said...

LOL @ that Viagra ad, although I suspect it's a photoshopped picture. Unlike that one about Rapturous Masturbation!

20 February, 2019 04:52  
Blogger Adam said...

Funny how a robot dying made major news

20 February, 2019 08:00  
Anonymous NickM said...

Great to have you back infidel! But watch those typing spanners! Trust me on that for I have had my share of problems in that dept. A lot of good stuff for the weekend for me there but I did read the Christian Lit piece. Bang-on the money. And gave me food for thought on a subject I'd already considered which was specifically why I love JRRT and find his mate CSL dreadful. I'd say more but my spex broke. All in the wars aren't we?

20 February, 2019 13:31  
Blogger Infidel753 said...

Hackwhacker: I can't tell for sure, but I bet it's all accurate too.

Martha: Thanks! I was a bit surprised that this round-up is about as big as they usually are. I put most of it together Monday -- the pain was a lot less, but I had to stay home from work because the meds were making me drowsy.

Debra: Too bad for the fundies. Masturbation is as close as they're going to get to "rapture" in the real world.

Adam: It is curious -- it didn't even "die" since it wasn't alive. But humans do tend to anthropomorphize things that show life-like behavior, even machines.

Nick: I haven't actually read any Lewis except the Narnia stuff, and the Christian allegory largely went over my head at that age. I've seen how heavy-handed moralizing and intolerance of ambiguity can ruin fiction, though.

20 February, 2019 17:17  

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