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# openAmusement - take over edition
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/openamusement-take-over-edition/
- Published: 2007-06-15T11:06:16.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:36:25.000Z
- Author: Jessica Reed
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:23

**by Jessica Reed**

Today I will steal Tan's little weekly column about amusing links found on "the internets", and will maliciously list links which you really should*(nd't)* have missed on the web.

I shall be doing this, of course, with the help of the openDemocracy team.

**\- Tragically cute:** Louise Jennison painted the future of polar bears in the context of global warming (hint: the poor animals are equipped with floating devices). See her great watercolors paintings [here](http://sewgreen.blogspot.com/2007/06/world-enviroment-day.html?ref=opendemocracy.net).

**\- Tragically drunk**: Robert Cawston points us to a BBC article explaining how Russian men are risking death by drinking aftershave and cleaning agents ([this is serious](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6752515.stm?ref=opendemocracy.net)).

**\- Tragically drunk #2**: You have been living under a rock if you didn't hear about this one last week. [Nicholas Sarkozy at the g8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uxb0JHqzlA&ref=opendemocracy.net) \- drunk or just really happy to be there?

**\- Tragically obese**: the Seattle Times writes about a research taking place in Seattle which links obsesity with neighbourhoods. Hint: access to healthy and [reasonably priced food in impoverished neighbourhoods is difficut.](http://cascadiascorecard.typepad.com/blog/2005/10/geography%5Fof%5Fob.html?ref=opendemocracy.net)

**\- Tragically backwards:** "In December 2004, [The Sunshine Project](http://www.sunshine-project.org/?ref=opendemocracy.net), a watchdog group based in Austin, Tex., and Hamburg, Germany, that opposes biological weapons, uncovered a "U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting." [(via)](http://blog.washingtonpost.com/offbeat/2007/06/sunshine%5Fproject%5Funcovers%5Fus%5Fm.html?ref=opendemocracy.net)

**\- Tragically weird:** Johannes Koch informs me that "a giant silhouette of a naked pole dancer painted on a field beneath Gatwick Airport's flight path is [disturbing the British countryside](http://www.smh.com.au/news/travel/racy-ad-to-be-removed/2007/06/15/1181414504343.html?ref=opendemocracy.net)."

**\- Tragic. Period.** Ann Coulter, in all her \[glory\] painful ignorance, explains why the members of highly political band Rage Against the Machine are [just a "bunch of losers". ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CjcqLTXlmk&ref=opendemocracy.net)