Linkblog Retrospective #1
Tags: links
The first group of 25 links from my linkblog. To see all linkblog retrospectives, click the tag ‘links’.
- Alpure Peaks (video) – Some dudes I know hit Alpure Peaks for some catboarding on Saturday with an NZ Snowboard TV film crew.
- What about Norway?
- Let’s Panic About Babies!
- New Zealand ‘world’s most peaceful nation’
- Nerds make the best lovers – survey
- Gallows humour in Fiji – Censorship fail, newspaper win.
- A brief history of cannabis criminalization
- RIP Shane McConkey (video)
- Aid is about poverty, not politics
- Could GM crops be good for the environment?
- Achievement Unlocked (meta-game) – Who needs gameplay when you have ACHIEVEMENTS?
- QWOP (game) – If you can beat 10 metres you are a champion.
- Love in the Time of Darwinism
- An Open Letter to the Next Farmer in Chief – NY Times
- 5 Scientific Theories That Will Make Your Head Explode
- I Met The Walrus (video) – Interview with John Lennon featuring incredible animation.
- Tangled up in Seuss When a musician recorded “Green Eggs and Ham” in the voice of vintage Bob Dylan and posted it online, the Grinch estate promptly replied: One fish, two fish, cease and desist.
- If Iran Were America (And America Were Iran): A Timeline
- The Future of Marriage – attacking the myth that modern lifestyles are ruining the once-sacred ritual of marriage.
- John Stuart Mill – turns out one of my philosophical heroes was also a thoroughly nice chap.
- Prohibition Returns! Teetotaling do-gooders attack your right to drink.
- America’s Next Top Model Democracy
- The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness
- David Lange’s 1985 Oxford Union address arguing that ‘nuclear weapons are morally indefensible’. One of the great New Zealand speeches; I recommend listening to the 30 minute sound recording whilst reading the transcipt.
- The Singer Solution to World Poverty
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