Today’s bookmarks
Tue, 31 Jul 2012
Asperatus clouds over Scotland via The Cloud Appreciation Society
- Olympic opening ceremony: Ai Weiwei’s review
- South Korea’s Im Dong Hyun:the ‘blind’ Olympics world record setting archer
- There Are Four Olympic Athletes Without Countries To Represent
- The Greatest Chris Brown Album Review of All Time: ‘No Stars Ever’
- Music Labels Won’t Share Pirate Bay Loot With Artists
- Computer confirms: All music sounds the same these days
- Strong evidence that a real name policy would fail to improve comment systems
- The New York Times is Now Supported by Readers, Not Advertisers
- Celebrities and their Unnecessary Public Apologies
- From Forbes: “The porn industry as I knew it is dead. And it appears a new industry has arisen.”
- Heath Ledger’s Joker was probably inspired by Tom Waits (gets an automatic yes from me)
- Where Did John Wayne Get His Walk?
- Ancestry.com Claims Obama Is Descendant of John Punch, First Enslaved African-American
- Mitt Romney follows up insulting London with straight-up racism in Israel
- Horror Hospital: The Most Shocking Photos And Testimony From The Dawood Military Hospital Scandal (warning: very graphic)
- Fall, Mortality, and the Machine: Tolkien and Technology
- Climate change study forces sceptical scientists to change minds
- The 50 Best Socially Awesome/Awkward Penguin Memes