Friday Links (29-Jan-10)

A lot happened in the last fortnight.

• On Haiti: We were forced to buy a saw in the market to continue amputations. The Onion is brilliant as usual. Digital Cuttlefish has the best response to the “question” of God and Haiti
• Looks like three Guantanamo Bay prisoners were tortured to death, and this was in 2008 AFTER the media scandal on torture. Looks like you missed the story because for “some reason” the mainstream media has not paid it much attention.
• Internet drama: are the Skepchicks too sexy? Does being overtly sexual diminish their skepticred and feministcred? Lots of different posts but this one is pivotal
• Hindu godman arrested for standing on infants. To cure them.
• Sudanese journalist speaks out against crackdown on women’s clothing in Khartoum.
• A great automated game of 20 questions: it will guess almost any person you think of by 20 or at most 23 questions. Maybe not your relatives…
• XKCD makes fun of false compromises
• More internet drama: on the most ridiculous alternative medicine screed ever.
• N Korea graciously accepts food aid from S Korea
• Eliezer Yudkowsky takes the gloves off: “If you can afford kids at all, you can afford to sign up your kids for cryonics, and if you don’t, you are a lousy parent.”
• A wonderful short film based on a classic short story about cognitive science.
• Science as Religion’s Rebellious Child
• A look at sexual ethics across red and blue states in the US
• School bans dictionary because it contains an entry on oral sex