History of military censorship in World War I: Parody form letter home from the front.
http://www.slate.com/...censorship_in_world_war_i_parody_form_letter_home_from.html?wpisrc=obnetwork

ugh, huh... nebát se a nekrást, lhát se může :-)
Češi na Versailleské konferenci tvrdili, že Němců je v Čechách jen "800 000", ve skutečnosti jich byly 3 miliony
http://blisty.cz/art/75345.html

FRONEMA: tak jistě... ale zní to pateticky, zatímco ten japonský slogan mě rozesmál, což se taky počítá :-)

I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.

During Prohibition, the U.S. government poisoned alcohol, killing as many as 10,000 people.
a skutečně:
The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2010/02/the_chemists_war.html

Martin Heidegger Talks Philosophy with a Buddhist Monk on German Television (1963) | Open Culture
http://www.openculture.com/2014/05/martin-heidegger-talks-philosophy-with-a-buddhist-monk.html

A French Inventor Once Proposed a Giant Mirror to Burn a Message on Mars
http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/a-french-inventor-proposed-a-giant-mirror-to-burn-a-mes-1647075915
(You gotta wonder how many of these were developed after one too many hours at the neighborhood absinthe bar.)

(William Gibson retweeted)
When Science Fiction Grew Up
http://conceptualfiction.com/whenscifigrewup.html
In the summer of 1957,
just a few weeks before the launch of the first Sputnik
space satellite, some 23 science fiction magazines
were operating in the United States. By the end of 1960,
only six remained. During a period of just 28 months,
fifteen sci-fi magazines disappeared from the magazine
racks.

American Forces Found 5,000 Chemical Weapons In Iraq—Just Not the Ones the Bush Administration Claimed Were There - Hit & Run : Reason.com
http://reason.com/blog/2014/10/15/american-forces-found-5000-chemical-weap

http://i100.independent.co.uk/...s-back-uncut-480-star-wars-fans-make-shotforshot-remake--xyegUsJxLx

http://i100.independent.co.uk/...when-you-take-your-nobel-prize-through-airport-security--xkdyAOPgLe

What's in a kiss? The effect of romantic kissin... [Evol Psychol. 2014] - PubMed - NCBI
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25299759?dopt=Abstract

Paralelní Polis: Anarchokapitalismus podle Ztohoven v praxi | Společnost
http://www.rozhlas.cz/..._zprava/paralelni-polis-anarchokapitalismus-podle-ztohoven-v-praxi--1405734
obligatory xkcd:

(aneb "býval jsem mladistvým anarchokapitalistou" :-)

The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy - IEEE Spectrum
http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/the-great-lightbulb-conspiracy

20 years of blogging
http://scripting.com/2014/10/07/20YearsOfBlogging.html
It's hard to accept, when you're expecting accolades, to find that the accolades come in the form of rotten tomatoes, hurled at maximum velocity, at your virtual body parts. But there it is.
...
Blogging makes you unemployable. I haven't had a real job since I started blogging. I would love to create a publishing platform for millions of people.

Nick Bostrom on artificial intelligence | OUPblog
http://blog.oup.com/2014/09/interview-nick-bostrom-superintelligence/