Posts Tagged ‘AIM’
Easter Thursday and the Living’s Easy Links
* BREAKING: The NCAA has approved unlimited snacks. Can we please stop all this silly union talk now?
* Unintentional metaphor watch: In other words, for every year Citicorp Center was standing, there was about a 1-in-16 chance that it would collapse.
* Extremism and the college classroom.
* Unpaid Interns Gain the Right to Sue. What a country!
* Women, confidence, and institutional sexism.
* “I’m sorry, that sounds horrible,” he continued. “I would have put my own wife or daughters there, and I would have been screaming bloody murder to watch them die. I would gone next, I would have been the next one to be killed. I’m not afraid to die here. I’m willing to die here.”
* Accreditors ask City College to voluntarily terminate its own accreditation. Tempting, but….
* Rare Video Of People Actually Riding Action Park’s Infamous Water Slide.
* A new study which statistically analyzed temperature data over the pre-industrial period and the industrial period has rejected the hypothesis that global warming is due to natural variability at confidence levels greater than 99%.
* North Dakota Finds Itself Unprepared To Handle The Radioactive Burden Of Its Fracking Boom.
* Informed awareness is the worst, part one: A Mrs. Doubtfire sequel is in the works. Because you demanded it!
* Informed awareness is the worst, part two: Why are they even calling this show 12 Monkeys?
* Democracy is a shell game: Cities in Oklahoma are prohibited from establishing mandatory minimum wage or vacation and sick-day requirements under a bill that has been signed into law by Gov. Mary Fallin.
* When Google Tried to Build a Space Elevator.
* Aaron Sorkin’s The Foodroom.
* The Secret “Ronbledore” Pages of Harry Potter Revealed By Court Order. I always knew.
* 1648: The first emoticon.
* What’s on Captain America’s to-do list in other countries that aren’t America.
* And your periodic reminder that child poverty is a policy choice. Maybe it’s time we just turn things over to the rats.
Random Monday Links
* Today Jim Henson has been dead for 21 years. In other news, the world has been completely terrible for 21 years.
* American popular culture hits rock bottom: Seth MacFarlane will reboot The Flintstones.
* Pollutocrat Koch fueling far right academic centers at universities nationwide.
* Is there any governmental body more useless than the FEC? I mean really.
* I grow old: AIM is dead.
* From the too-bad-it-will-never-happen file: I, Amy Myers, do hereby challenge Representative Michele Bachmann to a Public Forum Debate and/or Fact Test on The Constitution of the United States, United States History and United States Civics.
Gerry Canavan 