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.
- 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).
- 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 - 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.
- Tragically backwards: "In December 2004, The Sunshine Project, 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)
- 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."
- 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".
