Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Miss Cellania's Links

The real story behind The Magna Carta.

Ontario has legalized brothels in order to keep prostitution off the streets. The court's decision is expected to provide safer conditions for sex workers.

When screencaps go wild: Funny Television Confessions.

The Conservative Teen magazine did not get enough subscriptions to print their first issue, so they put it online free. That link was pulled, but not before Buzzfeed got some screenshots. (via Metafilter)

Not surprisingly, financial confidence has taken a big hit in the last few years. Recovery from economic shell-shock may take longer than the overall economic recovery.

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio brings us a visualization of the earth's water currents called Perpetual Ocean. It looks like Van Gogh's Starry Night!

What Makes a Bestseller? A comparison of Gone With The Wind and The Hunger Games.

This low tech piece of equipment is a newly-designed injured personnel carrier. It's so simple, why didn't we do this before?

The 40 Most Disastrous Facebook Spelling Mistakes Ever.

3 reasons Americans want out of Afghanistan. That is, new reasons that just cropped up, in addition to the regular reasons we want a war ended.

 5 TV Shows that Predicted the Future. Or in at least some of the cases, television provided inspiration for later developments.

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