The Linkage for Aug. 22nd
Here’s a quick look at what I was reading online from Aug. 4th to Aug. 22nd:
Argentine dog saves abandoned baby
Tags: animals argentina
An eight-year-old dog has touched the hearts of Argentines by saving the life of an abandoned baby, placing him safely alongside her own new puppies.
Intel, Yahoo bringing widgets to television
Tags: technology computer television
Too lazy to flip over to the Weather Channel to find out the current temperature? Need to hammer out an e-mail in the middle of "The People's Court"? The latest plan to fuse television and the internet into one giant all-purpose omnibox has you covered.
Chinese reject every single protest request during Olympics
Tags: china censorship olympics
After setting up three separate zones specifically for protests and the exercise of free speech, Chinese officials have quashed all 77 applications for demonstration permits so far.
Looking back at the 1908 Olympics
Tags: history olympics uk london
While the current installment of the summer games is happening in Beijing, it's interesting to look back at the games of the Fourth Olympiad held a century ago in London.
Flat-earthers refuse to give in
Tags: society space stupid
Yes, there are still people who believe that the earth is flat. And they refuse to buy in to your giant multi-national consipracy about this whole "roundness" thing, thank you very much.
National Archives releasing OSS operative records
Tags: history world_war_2 espionage united_states
The media's running with the whole Julia Child/Moe Berg angle, but this is a boon for WW2 historians.
Nebraska town wants elderly horse to hit the bricks
Tags: animals nebraska stupid
A battle is raging in Hickman, Neb. over the fate of a horse that probably doesn't have too many days left in him anyway. A classic example of city governments ignoring their own ordinances until it's going to cost them development money. They've let it slide for 20 years. It won't kill them to wait until the horse heads for the big pasture in the sky.
Dog cloner turns out to be fugitive from justice
Tags: animals weird law uk south_korea utah
Sometimes reality is so weird, it's better than anything you could make up. Like the owner of five cloned puppies being ID'd as a woman on the run from UK authorities for the past three decades on charges of making a Mormon missionary a sex slave.
Fire blackens our old stomping grounds
Tags: colorado
A grass fire broke out in the tiny swath of land between our old apartment and our old home in Colorado.
Local cops ticketed by cameras
Tags: none
Recently our tiny little town installed four red light cameras to automatically ticket folks who couldn't stop at busy intersections. And as at least two police officers are finding out, robo-justice applies to everyone.
Texas high school putting dress code violators in prison duds
Tags: none
Students at Gonzales High School who violate the dress code don't get sent home – they get to stay in school while wearing prison-like jumpsuits, actually made by prison inmates.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89
Tags: none
Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed Stalin's prison system in his novels and spent 20 years in exile, has died near Moscow at the age of 89.
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