{"id":10032,"date":"2010-04-30T01:53:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T08:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=10032"},"modified":"2010-04-30T01:53:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T08:53:42","slug":"open-thread-cigarettes-are-going-the-way-of-paper-cones-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=10032","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread: Cigarettes Are Going The Way Of Paper Cones Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. Mystery Man<\/a> mourns the soon-to-come end of cigarette magic, and links to videos of some masters of cigarette manipulation. This isn’t the first time a large, well-developed field of magic has been made obsolete by the changing times; paper cone tricks (using the paper cones that stores put your purchases in, before paper bags replaced them) were once a major staple of magic acts. But once paper cones stopped being a common daily object, the tricks looked like — well, they looked like tricks. So magicians moved on.<\/li>\n
  2. Why boycotting Arizona makes sense<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. What “Alas” would have looked like on Geocities<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  4. Dieting can cause heart disease, cancer<\/a>. In other words, stress is bad for health.<\/li>\n
  5. The usual right-wing nonsense about DDT seems to be going around again. Inoculate yourself by reading Bug-Girl: DDT, Junk Science, Malaria, and the attack on Rachel Carson<\/a>, then Malaria and insecticide resistance<\/a>, and if you want more see her collection of links<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  6. Arizona’s legislature prepares to attack free speech<\/a> — basically, in order to protect white people from criticism.<\/li>\n
  7. “Boys’ poorer reading levels in a recent study are feeding a troubling tendency to lower literacy expectations for boys, say Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett<\/a>. It’s just as destructive as the old myth about girls’ math inferiority.”<\/li>\n
  8. Roman Vishniac: The Photographer\u2019s Lies<\/a>. Vishniac’s famous photos of Jewish life in Europe before WW2 have had a huge influence on what we imagine that Jewish life to be like. They were also extremely deceptive. Fascinating.<\/li>\n
  9. Facebook’s Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. “Downfall” Hitler videos being yanked<\/a> from Youtube due to copyright claim.<\/li>\n
  11. The Silence of Our Friends<\/a> is back!<\/li>\n
  12. Rabbi Brant and an Israeli friend debate <\/a>the origins of the Israel\/Palestine conflict. It’s rare to see this subject debated intelligently and respectfully; I hope this becomes a series.<\/li>\n
  13. This Is Alabama\u2014We Speak English.<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Funny how the Tea Partiers<\/a>, who are soooo against government intrusion, don’t seem to be objecting to Arizona’s new law.<\/li>\n
  15. NEW DATA: 97% Of Transgender Individuals Report Being Mistreated Or Harassed At Work<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. Bullying and the Wall of Silence<\/a>. How schools claim that bullying never, ever happens here.<\/li>\n
  17. Why do we bother<\/a> putting so much effort into fighting counterfeit cash?<\/li>\n
  18. Wall Street’s amazing, hard-to-defend, profits<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. Rebecca Allen reviews The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  20. A collection of comics<\/a>, demonstrating that virtually all comics are funnier if the original punchline is replaced with “Christ, what an asshole.”\"\"<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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