Link25 (179) – Where Did The Like Button Go Edition
For those of you who don’t know, every weekend we come to you with 25 of the week’s best links, articles, images, and videos from all over t...
For those of you who don’t know, every weekend we come to you with 25 of the week’s best links, articles, images, and videos from all over the web. The last week has certainly not been a disappointment with everything from firing a gun under water (and standing on the bullet’s path) to Facebook’s decision to blow up the “Like” button. So get ready to kick off the weekend because this is Link25 (179) – Where Did The Like Button Go Edition.
It's FRIDAY! Time to bring you 25 great links, images, articles, and videos from across the web,
Spanking, or, as it’s formally known, “corporal punishment,” has been much in the news of late.
Out on the presidential campaign trail there was Senator Ted Cruz’s revelation that
If my daughter Catherine, the five-year-old, says something she knows to be false, she gets a spanking.
And recently, in Canada, following a call by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to prohibit spanking, the Liberal government has promised to abolish a parent’s right to physically discipline children. Along similar legal lines, in June 2015, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that (click on the title to read the full article).
Fans have been eagerly awaiting the return of Batman to the big screen after Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy ended. Bruce Wayne’s involvement in the story is a big part of why Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is so eagerly anticipated, and Christian Bale’s portrayal has clearly influenced Ben Affleck’s.
This has lead many people to compare the two film series, but as Zack Snyder reveals, this was never meant to be a (click on the title to read the full article)
This winter, this greyhound has the right idea.
“Little pig, little pig, let me come in,” says the big, bad wolf. “No, no, not by the hair on my chinny chin chin,” say the three little pigs. This scene is deeply unrealistic and not just because of the pigs’ architectural competence, the wolf’s implausible lung capacity, and everyone’s ability to talk.
The thing is: Pigs don’t have chins. Nor do any animals, except for us.
The lower jaw of a chimpanzee or gorilla slopes backwards from the front teeth. So did the jaw of other hominids like Homo erectus. Even Neanderthal jaws ended in a flat vertical plane. Only in modern humans does (Click the title to read the full article).
The most drastic change to Facebook in years was born a year ago during an off-site at the Four Seasons Silicon Valley, a 10-minute drive from headquarters. Chris Cox, the social network’s chief product officer, led the discussion, asking each of the six executives around the conference room to list the top three projects they were most eager to tackle in 2015. When it was Cox’s turn, he dropped a bomb: (Click on the title to read the full article)
Jump rope fun
Laurier Station. Image Source: Chris Forsyth
Public transportation systems don’t get a whole lot of respect for style — think New York City’s notoriously dangerous and graffiti-ridden subway cars of the 1980s. But 20-year-old Canadian photographer Christopher Forsyth went out to show that subway stations — specifically the Montreal Metro — can be more than just crowded and dirty. Indeed, as Forsyth’s photos below show, they can be (click on the title to see the incredible pictures)
For decades, LGBT rights activists have viewed digital media as a boon to the movement for equality.
Back in 2012, the Atlantic’s Nancy Scola credited the rise of social networks like Facebook and Twitter as an engine for same-sex marriage victories in Washington, Maryland, Minnesota, and in Maine where just three years earlier, voters rejected a bill that would have allowed marriage equality statewide through a “people’s veto.” The about-face was a startling reversal of fortune. The difference was (Click the title to read the full article).
Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the BBC is gave the world a chance to see the ruins of the concentration camp where 1.1 million people died as no one’s seen it before.
A drone equipped with a camera was launched over the site located in southern Poland, and the images that resulted were (click on the title to see the full article)
TechBuilder has given me the blueprint to a dream I’ll never achieve. I now have absolutely no excuse as to why I don’t have a BB-8 following me around my house, and I face the reality that I’m just too lazy to achieve this. For that reason, I’m sharing the knowledge with you in hopes you might (Click to read the full article)
Source: TheList25