Linkage

A new ad funded operating system patent from Apple (shape of things to come?). I would have expected this from Microsoft given their eagerness to milk cash out of every little tidbit...

Diaries reveal that Italy's Mussolini was a rabid anti-semite who called Adolf Hitler "a big romantic".

'What If We Fail in Afghanistan'? The New Yorker explores four possible scenarios.

VQR featuring part one of a four-part series on the November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai.

Classified under "yucky signs o' the times": Bacon breath mints and teeth jewelry (gives the term brass knuckes a biting edge)

Dreamers - a photo series (via)

Bangladesh mass poisoning mystery solved. Who would have thought....

The Guardian says something we already know - Fox News is faux news...

Spiegel chronicles a new exhibition that highlights how the Nazis subtly tried to take Christ out of Christmas.

Deconstructing the photoshop of the audio world (auto-tune) with "Weird Al" Yankovic. Must see.