Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Miss Cellania's Links

Can you name a car that starts with P? The Pee-Mobile.

The Great Gatsby Still Gets Flappers Wrong.

Recently-closed Tamms supermax prison in Illinois was known as the worst of the worst.

What It's Like To Ship 3.2 Million Bees Across State Lines. 

America's Best High Schools. Did your school make the top 2,000? My kids' school did -just barely.

Testing the limits of Chinese Internet censorship. Citizens can criticize the government -as long as they don't do anything about it.

Everything You Need To Know About The Made-Up Languages On Game Of Thrones. Linguistics scholar David Peterson explains how he constructed Dothraki and High Valyrian.

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Iron Man. Even if you've seen all three movies and The Avengers, there's still more trivia.

11 spam comments that look like drunk thesauruses. Robotic word salad can almost be poetic, when you know how it's made.

Outlaws as Folk Heroes highlights the reasons we turn criminals into legends. And here are some more of them.

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