Friday Links (23-Apr-10)

April 23rd, 2010

Best news of 2010: world polio and maternal mortality rates in steady decline
Russian orphans: cruelly mistreated everywhere
You have to play this version of Tetris: it bastardly works out which pieces you need least and gives them to you!
Who’s to blame for the Catholic scandal?
Christian right lobbies to overturn 2nd law of thermodynamics. (I know the news is ridiculous lately but this one really is The Onion.)
A new market: porn for the blind. (Link is quite safe for work, but not the page it links to.)
Insanely-dumb anti-science song by Insane Clown Posse and a parody which is unable to match the stupidity.
This outrage has to be read to be believed: California officials abuse & split elderly couple into separate nursing homes, sell off their property. Now that I’ve framed this correctly, let me add this is a gay couple.
Buying carbon offsets may ease eco guilt but not global warming — who’d have thought a huge part of the industry is a scam?
What do you do when Fred Phelps plans to visit your school? Organise a mass student movement to sing away the hate

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