The Linkage for Nov. 26th
Here’s a quick look at what I was reading online from Nov. 23rd to Nov. 26th:
Actor robots take Japanese stage
Tags: japan technology
It's good to see that the Japanese haven't lost their obsession with sticking robots everywhere possible. And they can't be any worse at acting than Matt LeBlanc or Vin Diesel.
Drunk driver runs over himself
Tags: crime new_mexico
Better him than someone who didn't do anything wrong.
CS yanking felon’s name off arts center
Tags: texas crime college_station
Another sterling example of why things shouldn't be named after people while they're still young enough to get themselves in trouble. And the best part – it'll cost the city more money to remove the convicted felon's name than he actually stole in the first place. Nice work all around guys.
Greenland votes for more autonomy
Tags: denmark greenland
Greenlanders voted overwhelmingly to weaken their ties with mother country Denmark, opting to take control of their police and court system, as well as replacing Danish with Kalaallisut as the official language. Could a Greenlandic revolution be far behind?
Sochi evicting residents to make way for Olympics
Tags: olympics russia
The host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics is going to force local residents out of their homes to build an Olympic Village – if they can ever get their act together and actually start construction.
Lame duck senators closing up shop early
Tags: government congress republicans
Some of the U.S. senators who were booted by their electorate have decided to give their constituents the big ig for the remainder of the session – closing offices and refusing to take correspondence.
UTMB layoffs adding to area ER shortages
Tags: texas galveston
It amazes me that our country can give hundreds of billions of dollars to companies that failed to adapt to the changing economy, but our state can't invest any money in making sure that people keep their jobs and Galveston maintains a resource that it desperately needs.
The Pittsburgh Pirates aren’t even trying any more
Tags: baseball pirates india stupid
The Pittsburgh Pirates, baseball's lousiest franchise over the past 15 years, have signed a pair of contestants from an Indian reality show as pitching prospects. Neither one of them was able to throw over 85 mph on the show, but the Pirates are still giving them contracts. So that explains the giant sucking sound you hear coming out of Pittsburgh.
Tiger Woods gets his pink slip from GM
Tags: business golf economics
After nine years of plastering his mug on every Buick in sight, GM has decided to "let" Tiger Woods out of the final year of his endorsement deal. I knew the economy was bad, but I didn't know it was so bad that even Tiger was going to get laid off.
T-sips put together a lot of monitors
Tags: technology computer tu
I hesitate to ever give the cows any sort of credit, but this giant display created by tu's Advanced Computing Center is pretty sweet.
James T. Kirk watches the new Star Trek trailer
Tags: video star_trek funny movies
"I'm Captain Kirk!" Most excellent. Should be spoiler-free, unless you never realized that Kirk was once a child.
Small town works together to save grocery store
Tags: colorado business
A small rural town in Colorado has pulled together to save their only grocery store – and quite possibly their own town at the same time.
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