Grumpy cat's death marks the end of the joyful internet wired.com #

Grumpy Cat RIP - A look back at the life of famous cat bbc.co.uk #

Rocket scientist explains how we could move our planet theconversation.com #

How Twitter Became Ubiquitous in Japan bloomberg.com #

Archaeological Mystery Deepens as More ‘Jars of the Dead’ Uncovered in Laos - A couple of thoughts on this - burial pratices in the olden days were so much cooler than today, also the computer programmer in me is intrigued by the fact that they made miniatures of the grave jars that they burried with the larger real grave jars, it's quite recursive / fractal like, I wonder what it would have symbolized back then gizmodo.com #

Your internet data is rotting - I just checked the internet archive, it's still not making backups of my linkblog, is there some magic html I need to add to my site? I can't find any info on this theconversation.com #

Trump takes war on abortion worldwide as policy cuts off funds - "US money is being switched from the big family planning providers to faith groups that have a specifically anti-abortion stance" theguardian.com #

UK-based Poles call for revolt against having to apply for settled status - I didn't realise that applicants have to declare any criminal convictions, presumably then these could cause people that have lived in the UK for many many years to get kicked out of the country, and perhaps for something relatively minor like a drug offense and one that may have happend 10 years previously theguardian.com #

How can spies from democracies compete with spies from autocracies? - A topic that I've vaguely been thinking about recently boingboing.net #