Friday, April 02, 2010

Friday Links: April 2

I'm opening with some gloating. Scott Roeder, the loon who murdered abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in a Wichita, Kansas church, was sentenced the other day. The 52 year old man gets 50 years in prison before the subject of parole can be considered. [link]
I grew up there and saw what anti-choice (clearly not pro-life) activists did to the man. His health and welfare have been at risk for decades, but he kept working. Operation Rescue and people like Scott Roeder disrupted life in Wichita frequently. One summer they shut down a good chunk of the city every day.
Enjoy your time in prison, Scott. If you're right about there being a god and Hell then prison should just ease you in to what's coming.

March 18 marked the 100th anniversary of the first Frankenstein movie. And here it is.

A former Republican voter explains why he's left the GOP and what they'd have to do, or stop doing, to get him back. Complete with links to stories about the crap they've done. [link]

Priest Off Clergy Repellant.

Large Hadron Collider doubles it's own, and the world, record for energetic collisions. Includes a video of a tour taken by the Bad Astronomer and others. [link]

Cat table. [link]

Dark Side of the Moon performed as an 8-bit video game song.
Download the album. [link]

Superman comic sells for $1.5 mil. [link]

Bank robber gets away on his bike. [link]

Martian rover's odometer hit 20KM. That's half a marathon in only 7 years. It finds some new strangeness there. [link]

"Battlefield Earth" author apologizes. [link]

Picture of actual TeaBaggers. The people who make the rest of the world think Americans, particularly Republicans, are insane. [link]

Philosophy puns lifted from a mens bathroom stall. [link]

Bill Murray mixing drinks in some bar.

How a fish almost destroyed a childhood. [link]

First, some background. Long, long ago, a company called SCO sued IBM (and others, I think) because they claimed that part of IBM's version of Linux was taken from UNIX, which SCO claims to own. Truth be told, it certainly appeared that Microsoft was paying SCO to sue and try to harm Linux. Microsoft was losing part of the server market to the many versions of Linux which are free and are more stable than Windows (when properly installed). Microsoft was also facing federal anti-trust lawsuits. SCO's claims were a joke and everyone knew it.
Now another lawsuit has been settled. Novell has managed to prove to a jury that they never sold UNIX to SCO in the first place. [link]

Hen house that rocks. [link]

Republican Senators refusing to work past 2:00. [link]

Part of the health care bill extended funding for current abstinence only sex ed programs. [link]
This is disappointing. These programs are well proven to do the opposite of what is intended.

Michael Bay was right about something. Fake 3D movies are crap. [link]

Reddit scary story thread. [link]

Utah: this is what the GOP and the Tea Baggers want of all of America. [link]

Steampunk wheelchair. [link]

Hypothetical Coke bottle design. [link]

Turning paper back into wood. I've seen other ways of doing something similar, but not one that works this well. [link]

75 movie remakes in the works. [link]
86 movie sequels in development. [link]

Historical TARDIS control rooms. [link]
It's being changed for the season starting in two weeks.

May I suggest opening that in a sealed, airtight vault. [link]

Butterfly attack.

Children's choir singing "Still Alive" from the end credits of the video game "Portal".

The original "Still Alive".

ThinkGeek is awesome and they do great April Fools products [archive]. Their EZ-bake oven that fits in an empty CD-ROM bay [link] SHOULD exist. Last year they had a Tauntaun Sleeping Bag that so many people wanted that they contacted Lucas Arts and got the rights [link].
This year they have a Dharma Initiative Alarm Clock [link] (watch the video), Programmable Tattoo System [link] (we can do it. I've seen the technology), 2001 Monolith Action Figure [link], iPad Arcade Cabinet [link]

Vaccine links:
A pediatrician writes about the original study and his fight to comfort parents. [link]
A bachelor of science student shreds claims made by the Australian Vaccination Network. [link]
Article about a 2008 measles outbreak caused by unvaccinated children traveling. [link]
The dissection of the "vaccines aren't what ended the outbreak" nonsense. [link]

Seattle courts authorize the use of torture for traffic violations. [link]

Man with racist sign claims he's not a racist. Nor are the people screaming "nigger" and spitting on Democrats. [link]

Guide the knight through so he can't save the princess. [link]

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