Thursday Links (11-Mar-10)

I’m in Melbourne for a little get-together, hopefully I’ll be posting on it in the next few days but net access may be limited. Meanwhile, all I’ve had time for is to clean out the interesting links I’ve had build up:

• Obsolete occupations
• Amanda Marcotte insightful as usual, this time on “New” technology and loneliness
• Someone’s thinking: schoolkids forced to listen to classical music as a form of punishment and it works.
• If you plan to overthrow the US government, you have to register with the US government as a subversive organisation and pay $5. No joke.
• The day they hung an elephant for trampling a man to death.
• Pat Robertson shows his evil once more. The Haiti earthquake was blamed on them daring to rise forth from their slave chains, now he blames the Chile one for them disparaging the great(!) Pinochet. The news is becoming The Onion.
• Kahneman on conflicts between immediate happiness and happiness of memory
• Are pigeons better than humans at the Monty Hall mathematical problem?
• In case you’ve been offline for the last 2 weeks, here’s the next big meme: the Soviet Rick-roll
• And another case of Only In Russia: boozy chimp sent to rehab
• Pedalling for Peace – an upcoming doco about inter-religious dialogue by Benji Holzman (someone I know from Real Life^TM)
• Senator Coburn blocks bill to help victims of the LRA genocides [Update: compromise reached]