Friday Links!

It's Friday!

Again!

I mean, wow, where did the week go?

Here's a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:

Why Classic Rock Isn’t What It Used To Be. Five-thirty-eight dot com looks at the statistics of radio play. (Thanks to MintRainbow1 for the link)

BBC staff ordered to stop airing "debates" featuring members of the anti-science fringe. (Thanks to Wildrider51 for the link)

Five Legitimate Scientific Controversies. None of them are probably what you're thinking they are.

Physicists spot potential source of 'Oh-My-God' particles. This has nothing to do with the Higgs Boson.

New Species Found in an Everyday, Store-Bought Mushroom Packet.

World's biggest-ever flying bird discovered: Twice as big as the royal albatross.

New Horizons Enters ‘Pluto-Space!’ To Celebrate, Here Are Pictures Of The Dwarf Planet.

Listen to the Oldest Song in the World: A Sumerian Hymn Written 3,400 Years Ago.

Should the LGBT Rights Movement Forgive and Forget?

Supernova Reveals Origins of Universe's Dust.

Guy Finds FBI Tracking Device On Car, Posts Pics Online... FBI Shows Up Demanding It Back.

Gay Marriage Ban Overturned in Colorado, But Utah Just Made Things Really Interesting.

Astronomers Discover Milky Way Galaxy's Most Distant Stars.

Claiborne Richardson Wants Pictures of a Kid's Cock. Richardson is an Assistant Attorney General in Manassas, Virginia, who is trying to prosecute a teen-age boy on the charge of "creating child porn" not because the teen-ager created porn, but because the teen-ager sent a picture of himself naked to his teen-age girlfriend. Claiborne has ordered police to take pictures of the kid naked, and then got a warrant from a judge ordering the kid to be taken to a hospital, pumped full of drugs to make him have an erection, and take pictures of him like that in order to prove that the pictures the kid sent his girlfriend are him. This is insane. If a kid taking a picture of himself naked with his cellphone is producing child porn, isn't all this picture taking by the police also producing child porn?

Adam Lambert channels the hell out of Freddy Mercury. Wow (and awesome to see Brian and Roger still rocking!):



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Freaks Like Me by Todrick Hall:



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Jessie Ware - Tough Love:



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My secret boyfriend, Mika, sings a wonderfully bouncy tune in French while rocking a Fist Full of Dollars/Lawrence of Arabia/James Bond/Maltese Falcon/is there a classic movie they didn't hit homage!:



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