This Dad Found a Wonderful Use for Restaurants’ Leftover Crayons

http://themighty.com/2015/09/this-dad-found-a-wonderful-use-for-restaurants-leftover-crayons/

The homeless man who turned his life around by offering book reviews instead of begging

http://www.one.org/international/blog/the-homeless-man-who-turned-his-life-arround-by-offering-book-reviews-instead-of-begging/

There Aren’t Enough Firefighters to Stop America’s West From Burning

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-wildfires-in-the-american-west/

Words Matter: What the Language We Use Tells Us About Our Current Political Landscape

http://www.alternet.org/culture/words-matter-what-language-we-use-tells-us-about-our-current-political-landscape

Pesticides in Paradise: Hawaii's Spike in Birth Defects Puts Focus on GM Crops

http://www.alternet.org/food/pesticides-paradise-hawaiis-spike-birth-defects-puts-focus-gm-crops

Google ordered to remove links to stories about Google removing links to stories

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/08/google-ordered-to-remove-links-to-stories-about-google-removing-links-to-stories/

Why Atheists Are as Moral as Any Religious Group

http://www.alternet.org/belief/why-atheists-are-so-misunderstood-and-moral-any-religious-group

Why Aren't Low Income Students Showing Up to College, Even When They've Been Accepted?

http://www.alternet.org/education/why-40-low-income-students-dont-show-colleges-they-get-accepted

We Have Autism All Wrong: The Radical New Approach We Need to Understand and Treat It

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/we-have-autism-all-wrong-radical-new-approach-we-need-understand-and-treat-it

The one who profits from cops killing people.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/psychologist-openly-admits-he-trains-police-officers-shoot-first-and-ask-questions

His conclusions are consistent: The officer acted appropriately, even when shooting an unarmed person. Even when shooting someone in the back. Even when witness testimony, forensic evidence or video footage contradicts the officer’s story.He has appeared as an expert witness in criminal trials, civil cases and disciplinary hearings, and before grand juries, where such testimony is given in secret and goes unchallenged.

...

He charges $1,000 an hour for his testimony and is, unsurprisingly, willing to testify for hours on end.

Bernie Sanders on Racism and Racial Justice

https://berniesanders.com/issues/racial-justice/

Helping the princess

http://www.portsherry.com/comics/helping-the-princess/

You Can Thank Warren Buffett For Your IUD

http://jezebel.com/you-can-thank-warren-buffett-for-your-iud-1721044115

How the NYPD Uses Facebook to Surveil, Entrap and Arrest Teenagers

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/how-nypd-uses-facebook-surveil-entrap-and-arrest-teenagers

New Yorkers Aren't Rude. You Are.

www.huffingtonpost.com/john-skylar/new-yorkers-rude_b_3870699.html

Why Special Effects Peaked in the 90's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRh1SC7SV2o

On Falling In and Out of Love With My Dad

http://jezebel.com/on-falling-in-and-out-of-love-with-my-dad-1686108276

http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/3adoqd/wp_im_sorry_i_just_dont_understand_how_you/csbqhu8

Sweden is pretty awesome

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/398yr1/til_sweden_has_instituted_a_countrywide_program/cs1ltnu

The insanely wealthy

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2s9u0s/what_do_insanely_wealthy_people_buy_that_ordinary/cnnmca8

On the Possibility of Not Killing Oneself

http://lithub.com/the-therapist-who-saved-my-life/

"Is This You?" - lifelogging, privacy and scandal by Tom Scott at Electromagnetic Field 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcPhMqLPuvQ

Masculinity Is Killing Men: The Roots of Men and Trauma

http://www.alternet.org/gender/masculinity-killing-men-roots-men-and-trauma

The Pencilsword: On a plate

http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate

Thought patterns

There seem to be three basic patterns of thought that people follow: Right/Wrong, Gain/Loss, and problem solving.

Right/Wrong: The basic premise, is that actions and choices can be categorized as Right or Wrong, and that Right should always produce good outcomes, while Wrong should always produce bad outcomes. Right and Wrong are taught through reward and punishment, because of this, people who follow the Right/Wrong thought pattern will have a strong belief that Wrong actions SHOULD be punished in order to teach people that such actions are wrong. They cannot separate teaching and punishment because of this. They also have a hard time separating morality and religion from anything because dividing everything into Right and Wrong makes all questions into moral/religious questions. In this thought pattern, Good people do Right things, and Evil people do Wrong things.

Gain/Loss: This style of thought focuses on what is Gained or Lost as a result of an action or choice. The most easily identified form is the selfish question: What's in it for me? Good and Evil tend to be defined by how many people the person cares about. With Evil happily sacrificing others for their own Gain, while Good focus upon maximizing Gain for everyone and minimizing Loss for everyone. People who instinctively follow the Gain/Loss thought pattern tend to be confused by actions that appear to offer no gain, and often consider people who do things that offer only loss, to be fools.

Problem solving: This is something most people are taught at some point (usually in school) but rarely employ outside of the situations they've been taught to use it in. People who instinctively use it all the time, tend to think everyone else is an idiot and/or fool (which can often upset people who feel they are being looked down upon). Problem solving is simply focused on finding effective solutions to problems. Problem solving doesn't really include a system of morality. Instead a Problem solver's morality is defined by what they consider a problem in the first place, and what they are willing to accept as a solution. It's fairly common for Problem solvers to find solutions that are not Right or Wrong, and offer no significant Gain or Loss, leaving people of both those thought patterns confused and sometimes amazed because they would never think of it (they also sometimes end up enraged because it's not the "correct" answer or solves the "wrong" problem).

http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3685

Intimacy After the “Call Girl” Years: How Sex Work Changed the Way I Have Sex

http://www.alternet.org/intimacy-after-call-girl-years-how-sex-work-changed-way-i-have-sex

From graduation to garbage job (literally): One twentysomething’s struggle

http://fusion.net/story/130880/from-graduation-to-garbage-job-literally-one-twentysomethings-struggle/

Fear the Dark Art of Yoga! Why Conservative Christians Are Freaking Out After Yoga “Miracle”

http://www.alternet.org/belief/fear-dark-art-yoga-why-conservative-christians-are-freaking-out-after-yoga-miracle

http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/3622tv/wp_a_thief_steals_a_car_only_to_find_a_dead_body/cr9zwke

Inside an artificial brain

https://vimeo.com/132700334

Widow Says Southwest Didn’t Let Her Call Suicidal Husband

https://www.yahoo.com/travel/widow-says-southwest-didnt-let-her-call-suicidal-118933913942.html

How The "Godfather of Anime" Screwed Up Modern Anime

http://kotaku.com/how-the-godfather-of-anime-screwed-up-modern-anime-1704419450

White America's Greatest Delusion: "They Do Not Know It and They Do Not Want to Know It"

http://www.alternet.org/white-americas-greatest-delusion-they-do-not-know-it-and-they-do-not-want-know-it

'The Moment Gratitude Changed My Perspective in the Classroom'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/owen-griffith/the-moment-gratitude-chan_b_7215872.html?

The Air Force's Rationale For Retiring The A-10 Warthog Is Bullshit

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-usafs-rationale-for-retiring-the-a-10-warthog-is-bu-1562789528

Man Learns Amazing Lesson In Irony After Mocking Caitlyn Jenner’s ‘Bravery’ In Viral Facebook Post

http://www.alternet.org/man-learns-amazing-lesson-irony-after-mocking-caitlyn-jenners-bravery-viral-facebook-post

Humans Need Not Apply

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

To become lost in knowledge

Expanding knowledge.
The more I understand,
the more I am confused.
All I have really learned,
is how much I do not understand.

I gain knowledge,
yet remain confused.

Why?

I am too different.
I am unable to understand.

I don't have an anchor.
I fear I will become lost once again.
Floating in the breeze,
lost among the clouds,
unable to see
the world beneath.

Judge: Feds owe trucking company nothing over DEA informant murder (update)

http://blog.chron.com/narcoconfidential/2015/04/judge-feds-owe-trucking-company-nothing-over-dea-informant-murder/#17365101=0

Gender Abolition as Colonisation

http://boldlygo.co/gender-abolition-as-colonisation/

The Day Social Media Schooled Wall Street

http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/etrade-social-stocks/the-day-social-media-schooled-wall-street/327/?aXFk&sr_source=lift_stumbleupon&aQZk

David Simon: 'My Country Is a Horror Show'

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/david-simon-my-country-horror-show

A CEO Spends $8 Million on a Team of Engineers to Solve a Problem That Only a Factory Worker Knew How to Fix

http://capitalismisfreedom.com/funny-engineering-story/

What Happened When My Boyfriend Became My Girlfriend

http://www.alternet.org/gender/what-happened-when-my-boyfriend-became-my-girlfriend

Policing Gone Bonkers: There Are 26 Open Warrants Per Citizen in Tiny Missouri Town

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/policing-gone-bonkers-there-are-26-open-warrants-citizen-tiny-missouri-town

Why You Should Never Talk To Police (US)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au4_EdPwTkE

All About Alignment

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/tabletop/checkfortraps/8386-All-About-Alignment

How Growers Gamed California’s Drought

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/30/how-growers-gamed-california-s-drought.html

American Doctors Are Killing Themselves and No One Is Talking About It

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/23/american-doctors-are-killing-themselves-and-no-one-is-talking-about-it.html

5 Women Cut from Pop Culture History for Being Too Important

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-women-who-invented-modern-pop-culture-and-got-no-credit/

A New Kind of Mental Disturbance? Drone Pilots Are Quitting in Droves

http://www.alternet.org/world/new-kind-mental-disturbance-drone-pilots-are-quitting-droves

Honduras Is Sold as a Libertarian Paradise -- I Went, and Discovered a Capitalist Nightmare

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/honduras-sold-libertarian-paradise-i-went-and-discovered-capitalist-nightmare

The Behavioral Sink

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/42/wiles.php

Police seized more than $24 million in assets from Michiganders in 2013

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/02/22/civil-asset-forfeiture-michigan-seizures-aclu-heritage-foundation-institute-justice/23737663/

OSHA Whistleblower Investigator Blows Whistle on Own Agency

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/OSHA-Whistleblower-Investigator-Blows-Whistle-on-Own-Agency--293711041.html

In Fairfax, Va., a different, no-less-scary police shooting

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/in-fairfax-va-a-different-no-less-scary-police-shooting-1.2960995

Aggressive police questioning may boost false accusations, study finds

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2015/02/15/aggressive-police-questioning-may-boost-false-accusations-study-finds.html

How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html?_r=0

How the Mindfulness Movement Went Mainstream -- And the Backlash That Came With It

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/how-mindfulness-movement-went-mainstream-and-backlash-came-it

The Happiest Prisoners

https://legionmagazine.com/en/2012/03/the-happiest-prisoners/

An amusingly creepy bit of fiction

http://thoughtcatalog.com/phil-zona/2015/01/the-strangest-security-tape-ive-ever-seen/

“Sponsored” by my husband: Why it’s a problem that writers never talk about where their money comes from

http://www.salon.com/2015/01/25/sponsored_by_my_husband_why_its_a_problem_that_writers_never_talk_about_where_their_money_comes_from/

This Black Man Was Shot to Death by the Cops After Calling Police for Help

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/kevin-davis-called-cops-help-out-friend-trouble-and-was-shot-death-police-his

Inside the Largest Virtual Psychology Lab in the World

https://medium.com/backchannel/inside-the-largest-virtual-psychology-lab-in-the-world-7c0d2c43cda5

http://phys.org/news176978473.html

Why It Took Final Fantasy VI to Show Me Life Was Worth Living

http://tay.kotaku.com/why-it-took-final-fantasy-vi-to-show-me-life-was-worth-1680517626

Mother Told Me...

http://www.smithmag.net/mylifesofar/story.php?did=27873

Norway's Astounding Fiscal Reserve

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-heck/we-are-all-millionaires-n_b_4906237.html

3 Key Phases to Finding Your True Identity

http://www.havingtime.com/3-key-phases-to-finding-your-true-identity/

Politics

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3505

The Power of Context

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-99th-monkey/200907/the-power-context

‘Food Is a Death Sentence to These Kids’

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/magazine/food-is-a-death-sentence-to-these-kids.html?

To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This

http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/to-fall-in-love-with-anyone-do-this/

About that "War on Cops"...

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=34200

The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/likely-cause-addiction-has-been-discovered-and-it-not-what-you-think

The Teddy Bear Theory

http://www.geocities.ws/smerp4u/Theories/teddybear.html

Meet Mason Wartman

http://imgur.com/gallery/6pAfQ

What Happens When a Civilian Kills a Cop in Self Defense?

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/what-happens-when-civilian-kills-cop-self-defense

5 Reasons We Will Always Blame the Victim

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-we-will-always-blame-victim/

The Real Reason Police Unions Enable the Worst Cop Abuses

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/real-reason-police-unions-enable-worst-cop-abuses

Noam Chomsky Slams West's Charlie Hebdo Outrage: 'Many Journalists Were Killed by Israel in Gaza Too'

http://www.alternet.org/media/noam-chomsky-slams-wests-charlie-hebdo-outrage-many-journalists-were-killed-israel-gaza-too

Biotech Companies Are Peddling Dangerous Propaganda About the Risks of GM Potatoes

http://www.alternet.org/food/biotech-companies-are-peddling-dangerous-propaganda-about-risks-gm-potatoes

How Having a Baby Can Land a Woman in Jail

http://www.alternet.org/gender/why-giving-birth-child-landing-poor-moms-jail

How guilt can hold back good employees

http://www.futurity.org/guilt-coworkers-employees-825452/

Why Psychiatry Holds Enormous Power in Society Despite Losing Scientific Credibility

http://www.alternet.org/why-psychiatry-holds-enormous-power-society-despite-losing-scientific-credibility

Kale and hearty: The salad bowl of America turns toxic

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/12/25/kale-and-hearty-thesaladbowlofamericaturnstoxic.html

Ancient Egyptian technology may be our first line of defense from hospital infections

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/17/1352496/-Ancient-Egyptian-technology-may-be-our-first-line-of-defense-from-hospital-infections?

Uh, oh. Out of stuff.

Erm... I ran out of stuff to link...

Currently playing King's Bounty games (on steam), because I enjoy them despite their flaws. Don't really want to make a post on them though.

*sigh* Sorry.

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)

http://www.trueactivist.com/your-lifestyle-has-already-been-designed-the-real-reason-for-the-forty-hour-workweek

6 Things That Annoy You Every Day (Explained by Science)

http://www.cracked.com/article_19004_6-things-that-annoy-you-every-day-explained-by-science.html

Comcast sued for turning home Wi-Fi routers into public hotspots

http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Comcast-sued-for-turning-home-Wi-Fi-routers-into-5943750.php

Propaganda Has Triumphed over Journalism, and the Consequences Are Enormous

http://www.alternet.org/propaganda-has-triumphed-over-journalism-and-consequences-are-enormous?

Chris Rock on Racism in America: White People Aren't as Crazy as They Used to Be

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/chris-rock-racism-white-people-were-crazy-now-theyre-not-crazy

I Don't Play Video Games Anymore. I Wait For Them.

http://kotaku.com/i-dont-play-video-games-anymore-i-wait-for-them-1665496091

This is why my PS3 doesn't have internet access. It can't make me wait for updates to download if it doesn't know there are any.

Walking While Black

http://mic.com/articles/105398/michigan-cop-stops-black-man-for-walking-with-hands-in-his-pockets-in-freezing-weather

Why I don't feel loved.

It's really quite simple: My flaws are a deep part of who I am, and everyone wants to fix me.

I didn't really understand it when I was younger, but I do now: Everything people have all praised me for, exists because of everything people condemn me for. My flaws aren't just a part of the whole package. They are largely responsible for why I am who I am. I wouldn't be me without them.

My high perception? My ability to notice and remember details most don't? That's because I'm very sensitive to stimuli, and it's why I hate taking showers or baths and have crappy hygiene.

My high intelligence and knowledge? That's largely because I can't focus on anything I'm not interested in. I can't make myself do work, and when I try, my mind just wanders. So what I do manage to accomplish, is I end up thinking about, and contemplating everything that ever happens to me. Everything I see or read, or hear gets thought about over and over and over. I end up thinking about everything far more deeply than anyone I know. The whole reason I am smart, is just because I never stop thinking. It is also why I can't work. I can't set myself a goal and expect to accomplish it.

People will say they love me, and in the same breath wish that my flaws would be fixed. Which just sounds like all they really love is their idea of me. Some perfect construct that doesn't exist, and never will. What they want is my potential. Not my reality. They don't want me, just what they think I could be.

My name is Regina

http://www.womenforwomen.org/what-we-do/stories/my-name-regina

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/

Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/fatal-distraction-forgetting-a-child-in-thebackseat-of-a-car-is-a-horrifying-mistake-is-it-a-crime/2014/06/16/8ae0fe3a-f580-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html