Linkage!

[conuly]

The Little Girl from the 1981 LEGO Ad is All Grown Up, and She’s Got Something to Say

http://bit.ly/1jsZt5f

Obama signs order to raise minimum wage for federal contractors

http://reut.rs/1j5tLHP

LJ Smith, the original writer of the popular Vampire Diaries books, was fired from the series in 2011 after churning out regular installments for over two decades. But now, using the Kindle Worlds platform of the company that hired her, then fired her, Smith is writing “fanfiction” of the series she created.

http://bit.ly/1bqfiHy

Photos of the Bizzard of 1888

http://bit.ly/MMnfLp

How Obama Officials Cried ‘Terrorism’ to Cover Up a Paperwork Error

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/02/no-fly-coverup/

Within three years of being released from jail, two out of every three inmates in the US wind up behind bars again -- a problem that contributes to the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. New research suggests that the degree to which inmates express guilt or shame may provide an indicator of how likely they are to re-offend.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140211103334.htm

A quick video of a goldfish driving around a room in a tank. If you accept the premise here, and don't wonder if maybe there is a secret remote control or if maybe they edited out all the scenes of the tank crashing into things or the fish swimming in circles, it's really adorable.

No word on what the fish thought of the whole thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbNmL6hSNKw

What's behind our milk-and-bread snow panic? 3 theories, plus LOL memes and video

http://bit.ly/1erCRd6

At least two killed by gunfire at Venezuela protests

http://reut.rs/1bpx2Tf

Giant leap for nuclear fusion as scientists get more energy out than fuel put in
150 picoseconds of scientific breakthrough, though "ignition" remains a distant goal.

I want to see more confirmation first.

http://bit.ly/1dJwnGJ

Kentucky must recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states, according to a ruling Wednesday by a federal judge, who struck down part of the state ban that he wrote treated “gay and lesbian persons differently in a way that demeans them.”

http://wapo.st/1dJkT63

Feds take over Alfred Wright case

http://bit.ly/1jlu6cT

Comments

[crystalpyramid]

Thanks for the fusion link! And (I'm surprised) it's the guys working with lasers. Maybe now inertial confinement fusion will be taken a little more seriously. (I grew up in a town where that was one of the big projects at the University, but the plasma guys at Princeton seem much more convincing.)

[crystalpyramid]

Also: Fish!!