Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Informative Links

6 Weird Things That Influence Bad Behavior More Than Laws. The human race is seven kinds of gullible to fall for these tricks.

Dream Rangers. What do you do when your old friends die off, your health is failing, and life is getting short? Go ride motorcycles!

The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology. Screenwriter Haggis resigned from the church over its attitudes towards homosexuality, family ties, fraud, human trafficking, and many other issues. (via The Daily What)

The corner store in New Orleans is an architectural oddity that is repeated around the city. A closer look shows that the traditional style, although strange to outsiders, developed for perfectly reasonable aesthetic purposes. (via Nag on the Lake)

7 Simple Rules For How to Take A Nap. Rule #8: Don’t wake me up from one.

Tetsuro Ahiko was a World War II prisoner in Russian Kazakhstan who twice, maybe three times, lost his chance to go back to Japan due to clerical errors. Now he is the last Japanese man remaining in Kazakhstan, out of choice. (via Metafilter)

We fought a war on lies, and lies won. Part of Salon' series The Real Reagan. (via TYWKIWDBI)
Images from the Secret STASI Archives. Simon Menner explains how these pictures are only sinister if you know the stories behind them. (via Metafilter)

If I had a 32-foot long touch screen, I wouldn’t get any real work done all day. The University of Groningen in the Netherlands has the only one, and they are too busy playing with it to make more.

Behold, the most terrifying thing your roommate can invent and ask you to test: the Shaving Helmet!

The Bizarre Origins of 8 Wedding Traditions. You won’t believe what earlier tradition the garter toss replaced!

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