02 May 07 links for 2007-05-02

• Cory Doctorow caves to censorship, after repeatedly ranting on BoingBoing about people who’ve done the exact same thing.
  (tags: dumbfuck corysucks copyleft hysterical hypocritical)
• Neil tells of how he rescued a big ol’ dog in his teeny tiny Mini Cooper. Kinda heartwarming.
  (tags: cool)
• “From the May 2007 Saveur comes this great tidbit: the full name of Cap’n Crunch! His proper name is Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch.”
  I’d like to know what Saveur’s credentials are … i.e., how do we know this is his “proper” official name?
  (tags: interesting weird reference)
• If you are not a “major sponsor” of the 2012 Olympics, even if your security is best practice, you can’t be used.
  “Wyatt sounded quite upbeat about the possibility of using the London ‘Oyster’ card [...] the Nokia based authentication system for mobile phones [...] neither of these companies was a ‘major sponsor’ of the Olympics their technology could not be
  (tags: whaddafuck holy_shit horrifying terrorism corporatism corrupt)
• OMFG BREAD IS DANGEROUS!
  (tags: funny)
• Get nicer looking Thunderbird labels
  (tags: thunderbird)
• If you are planning to NOT live in the United States in your retirement years, this is a good question to investigate.
  (tags: reference useful cool)
• TBIFOC: Captain’s Blog
  “JUST FINISHED HAVING SEAT BELTS PUT ON ALL THE CHAIRS ON THE BRIDGE. AND I DON’T GIVE A RAT’S ASS IF IT VIOLATES THE WARRANTY. WE PUNCHED THAT TICKET WITH THE TORPEDO MISTAKE. (I WISH THEY’D PAINT ARROWS ON THESE THINGS).”
  (tags: funny trek scifi)
• In a freeze frame from a “Leave It to Beaver” episode, the writer wrote on a prop letter, “Lew Burdette just hit a home run and Milwaukee leads seven to one in the series.”
  (tags: amusing)
• George W. Bush proclaims May 1, 2007 to be Loyalty Day. Yeah. ‘Kay, there.
  (tags: politics neocon dumbfuck)
• “[D]ogs wag their tails in an asymmetric manner to demonstrate whether they have positive (calm and happy) feelings about what they see or aggressive and negative. Left is negative, right is positive.”
  (tags: reference useful cool)
• Ask MetaFilter: What questions should a child ask their parent before the parent dies?
  (tags: reference)