More random linkosity

A few years old, but here's some information on Girl Scout cookies and palm oil and two girl scouts who want to change it.

Wikipedia's article on palm oil.

On Sneaky Cards, which sounds like fun but which - despite the elaborate color coding - only has three cards to show.

Republican Governor Deliberately Spent Wisconsin Surplus To Pick Fight With Unions

While the rolling revolution(s) in the Middle East are just fascinating to me, China is a little concerned about them and worried they might get one of their own. This is perfectly sensible. They've invested a lot in the way things are now.

Here's an article on libraries doing away with the Dewey Decimal system.

Some critics, however, say the new system isn't as elegant as it sounds because it can bedevil readers looking for books that don't fit cleanly into a particular category.

Fair enough (I guess) but it's not like the Dewey Decimal system doesn't ever have that problem. ANY system is eventually going to have that problem, unless it's so specific that it's effectively useless.

MIT is apparently where you go if you want to make the most amazingly complex origami known to humanity.

Here are some scary graphs on incarceration.

Oh, and whales are back in NYC! I can't find the article I originally read this in, so I had to google for another.