linkspam didn't read the manifesto

[cofax7]

This is adorable.

Some stuff I didn't know about DuckDuckGo.

The New Yorker profiles Anonymous.

How to spot an ATM skimmer.

Saved for later viewing: Mallory Ortberg reading male novelist jokes.

I feel conflicted about this article. Hmm. Too much about the heroic archaeologists, not enough about the tribe's concerns (or the difficulties of

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[lady_songsmith]

From that DuckDuckGo article: '"When you do a search, you generally want an answer. You don't necessarily want to click around links," Weinberg says.'
Further proof that I am not like other people, 'cuz I can count on one hand the number of times I've done a search looking for a specific answer -- not counting ones like 'what street is that restaurant on', anyway.

[rthstewart]

OK when I saw the tags, I thought you were linking to this article about better identification of Viking corpses with weapons revealing that a larger percentage than previously believed were female.
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/09/female-viking-warriors-proof-swords

There's an update with a very good comment pointing out TOR has used a misleading headline, that more male remains with weapons do significantly outnumber women, that a distinction should be drawn between Vikings settlers vs Vikings warriors, but that nevertheless, traditional assumptions that weapons always = male is wrong.

[barkley]

Lots of stuff I didn't know about DuckDuckGo including how they are in my former backyard. Huh.