As I trawl through the internet, I discover a lot of things that intrigue me, and a lot that anger me. These links are opinion pieces on these things, and I generally find myself either agreeing with them or at least thinking they have an interesting point to make. In no particular order...

Doing the Sums: Does a Private Education Add Up? This ( Read more... )

The best images of 2011? Actually the one's that went viral on the net rather than the ones that are actually the best, but there's some interesting and fairly touching stuff here.

The X-Men Guide to Puberty :-)

This guy constructs images of characters from novels using police identikit software, based on the descriptions given in the books ( Read more... )

The blind man who "sees". Man, the brain is such a freaky thing. This reminds me of the tales from the fascinating book "The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat", by neurologist Oliver Sacks. Click on the link at the end for the original article, and a tiny video of the man negotiating the corridor.

5 Real Animal Friendships Straight Out of a ( Read more... )

Holidays! And I haven't done a links post in a while, so here you guys go :-).

Have I linked to this Grow game? I just can't remember. Just in case, here's Grow Tower!

What the fuck has Obama done so far? For all you Americans out there that are sick of having to answer this question, here's a handy site that does it for you!

Victorian dress ( Read more... )

Happy New Year everyone! Have stuff to read/look at/admire:

The scintillating saga of the tree brain.

Top 25 Biggest Product Flops of All Time. Hey, I kinda like the look of the Lifesavers soft drink.

LP Cover Lover. Although some of these are hard to love, I have to say...

Turn into a Zombie, using only this T shirt!

I love alignment ( Read more... )

Okay, I lost a lot of my bookmarks when my laptop was stolen earlier this year, but I now have a ton of these built up again, so here's some fun stuff to read during the holidays!

Just the thing to worry your house guests :-).

I don't know whether I'd actually want to see this crossover. I imagine insane Tintin would be... strange.

The 100 Best ( Read more... )

It's been a while, but let's see what's happening on the rest of the web. Some links care of my flist, some from other sites, some I stumbled on myself!

The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield A fifteen page comic book story about the MMR vaccination controversy. Very clear and well written. If you know anyone who's considering not ( Read more... )

And now some reassurance that under all that emotion, the world is mostly just completely insane. The theme for today's links is pure wtf-ness!

The 10 Most Baffling Action Figure Accessories of All-Time. Because what the fastest man alive really needs is a motorcycle!

Cat registered as hypnotherapist. "You will provide me with tuna. Tuunnnaaa ( Read more... )

The theme for this post is moving things. No, not things on YouTube, things that are moving emotionally. About living and dying and feeling.

I will warn you in advance; some of these links made me cry.

True stories told in one sentence. These are the most popular of all time. They are simultaneously depressing, moving and uplifting.

The ( Read more... )

Okay, I've got time on my hands, I'm going to make a concentrated effort to get some posts in this thing. And since it's been ages since I've done one of these I've got enough links stacked up to do a few of these. Hell, I can probably theme them! Let's see...the theme of this links post is inanimate objects ( Read more... )