Tick tock.

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Some memes should stay.

Now we know for sure that Oprah is evil.  I love hip/ironic animated gifs.

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January links.

Miscellanium

• Ani – ghost city of 1001 abandoned churches
• How Mao killed Chinese humor … and how the Internet is slowly bringing it back again
• Who pays for big government? [NYT]
• Locavores moving the markets – [Freakonomics]

Environment

• How much CO2 is created by….. (many many things)
• In Kenya, huts far off the grid flow with renewable power [NYT]

Science

• Sewage contains more usable energy than scientists previously thought [Scientific  American]
• Moon water is different than Earth water [Scientific American podcast]
• China to spend $30 billion on water conservation in 2011 [Scientific American]
• What makes an honest smile honest? [Scientific American podcast]

Wye Oak.

Now this is a song.  Well really the first two minutes are really two minutes.  Wye Oak is from Baltimore Maryland and is opening for The Decemberists on their North American tour.

E minor G major D minor C major.  A heartfelt, longing, slightly atypical female vocal.  A Hammond B3 with that Leslie sheen.  That’s all you need guys.  Because I like putting bands into boxes (bad habit), I hear Blonde Redhead and Beach House.

Wye Oak – Civilian

Bad Science.

Ben Goldacre wrote a great book called Bad Science, I’m just starting it so I really don’t know it’s great.  If I said it was great it would be bad science, and it would also be a lie.  Here’s a great talk about his work.  Bad science is everywhere babies.