Given that Facebook is consistently misleading users about the nature of web links that they visit and placing barriers to web sites being able to be visited through ordinary web links on their network, this seems an appropriate and necessary remedy for their behavior.

via Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it. – Anil Dash.

People don’t hate the police for fighting off aggressors or arresting law breakers. They do hate police for causing pain—be it by dog, fire house, Taser, or mace—to those who passively resist. And that’s what happened yesterday at U.C. Davis.

via The Washington Monthly – Ten Miles Square – Dumb-ass Training and the U.C. Davis Pepper Spray Incident: Thoughts From a Fromer Cop.

You may not order police to forcefully disperse student protesters peacefully protesting police brutality. You may not do so. It is not an option available to you as the Chancellor of a UC campus. That is why I am calling for your immediate resignation.

via Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi | UCDavis Bicycle Barricade.

So, in a country where fertilised eggs are people and assembling burgers is a manufacturing job, and berries are better in the form of shoe leather, why not call a sugary fruit paste sauce that comes out of a can and is poured onto dough that comes out of a box, topped with cheese that’s spelt Cheez and comes out of a Whiz, a vegetable.

via Is pizza a vegetable? Well, Congress says so | Lizz Winstead | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk.

“300″ idolizes the same arrogant contempt for citizenship that eventually ruined classical Greece and Republican Rome, and that might bring the same fate to America.

via Move over, Frank Miller: or why the Occupy Wall Street kids are better than #$%! Spartans | Contrary Brin.

via The Entrepreneurial Generation – NYTimes.com.

He is by all odds the most brilliant young physicist here, and everyone knows this. He is a man of thoroughly engaging character and personality, extremely clear, extremely normal in all respects, and an excellent teacher with a warm feeling for physics in all its aspects. He has the best possible relations both with the theoretical people of whom he is one, and with the experimental people with whom he works in very close harmony.

via Letters of Note: “He is a second Dirac, only this time human.”.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

via stdout.be | Getting it.

Beginners are fearless, they jump right in feet first and are ready to work. Seasoned individuals tend to overthink problems…

via What You Do Know Can Hurt You – Learning Software Development – The Trendline.

At Burger King, what was a large in 1965—sixteen ounces—is now a small.

via Michael Pollan Counts Down His Favorite New Rules | Michael Pollan.