Link25 (206) – The Wakesurfing With Dolphins Edition
We know you’ve been waiting all week. The anticipation has been building. Well, finally the moment is here. It’s 25 of the week’s best links...
We know you’ve been waiting all week. The anticipation has been building. Well, finally the moment is here. It’s 25 of the week’s best links, articles, images, and videos from all over the web conveniently stacked in one post so you can waste your time more efficiently! This week’s Link25 features everything from the first Pokemon master to wakesurfing with dolphins. So get ready because this is Link25 (206) – Wakesurfing With Dolphins Edition.
At the end of July, a now-famous Brooklyn man named Nick Johnson beat everyone in the United States to the Poke-punch, and caught all 142 of the cute little monsters available in the country. If you’re like me, you’re extremely proud of yourself for getting to 40 in the first month that the app’s been available. But Nick? No (click on the title to see the full article).
On Wednesday, Huachuca City Mayor Ken Taylor declined an invitation to meet with the U.S.-Mexico Border Mayors Association because it was written in both English and Spanish — not to mention a third language Taylor believes to exist: “Mexican.”
According to the El Paso Times, Taylor expressed his outrage in an email to the association’s executive director, John Cook.
“I will NOT attend a function that is sent to me in Spanish/Mexican,” the mayor wrote. “One nation means one language and I am insulted by the (click on the title to see the full article)
They say there is no ‘Snoke’ without fire, and this is a doozy of a fan theory. Admittedly there are more tin-foil hat conspiracies floating around the Lucasverse than in your average episode of Game of Thrones, but some gain a lot of traction. From Supreme Leader Snoke being Darth Vader, to Luke’s evil motives (click on the title to see the article)
Scientists at the Oxford University revealed in a recent study that women with larger behinds are less likely to develop chronic diseases and are smarter than women with average or smaller behinds, interesting right? They revealed that these women have lower cholesterol levels thanks to (click on the title to see the full article).
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Boing Boing Oh no....
The internet went into a collective uproar on Thursday over the publication of Daily Beast London editor Nico Hines’ homophobic and life-threatening article about using Grindr at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.
While the internet had no problem calling out Hines, very few athletes — gay or straight — have made any statements (clic on the title to read the full article).
Source: TheList25