Here are links I found interesting in September 2010:

• Sneaky Hate Spiral – Read this and say it ain’t so — I dare you. On Hyperboleandahalf.com. Thanks to @MikeTRose for sharing the link.
• Mythbusters: Where Is the Mythbusting? – “In no way does Mythbusters deserve its high reputation in the skeptic community for promoting skepticism or critical thinking. It doesn’t.” Brian Dunning got this one right. On Skepticblog.
• News Aggregation and Copyright Law | PlagiarismToday – Good advice and information for “bloggers” who build content via news aggregation. On PlagiarismToday.
• Travel Photography with Jack Hollingsworth – Great tips for travel photographers. On Jalbum.net.
• Quran Burning Story: This Is How The Media Embarrass Themselves – Probably the best thing I’ve ever read on The Huffington Post. The media in our country is so screwed up, it isn’t even funny.
• Nation Once Again Comes Under Sway Of Pink-Faced Half-Wit – The Onion tells it like it is. Again.
• Incredible Star Wars Propaganda Posters – On Prose Before Hos 2.
• 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the New Twitter.com – “Twitter today updated its web site to make it faster and more modern, bringing previously buried features and connections out in the open, in a bid to increase user consumption and engagement.” Read more on Gigaom.com.
• What if Your Kid’s Teacher Is Creationist? – “Teaching high school biology can be tricky business in America, where 66 percent say that creationism is definitely or probably true and 53 percent say evolution is definitely or probably true (no, we don’t understand the overlap either). So what if you belong to the evolution camp, and want your children to learn Darwin’s theories, but the local high school biology teacher belongs to the creationism camp?” Read more in The Atlantic Wire.
• B is for Bradbury – a great write-up about science fiction legend, Ray Bradbury.
• From Denotation to Detonation: The Secret Meanings of ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ – It’s all about the words.
• The Story Behind Twitter’s First Video Ad: 1 Million Views In One Day – I guess I’d better watch the video again; I did even notice a story line. On Forbes.
• Fraudulent Groupon Photography Deal Calls Attention To Service Drawbacks – This article at TechCrunch points out the burden of Groupon deals on the companies trying to use them for marketing. This is how I see it, too.
• Groupon Photographer Caught Pretending Others’ Photos Were Her Own… Group Pile On Fixes, Rather Than Copyright Law | Techdirt – TechDirt.com covers the Groupon photography fiasco, pointing out that group pressure is what outed the plagiarist and got buyers their money back.
• Groupon Offering Photog Causes Plagiarism Stir – This is a great story about an idiot photographer who apparently built “her” online portfolio with other people’s photos and then tried to sell photography packages on Groupon. I cannot believe the nerve of people. On Plagiarismtoday.com.
• Groupon’s Success Disaster – Another blog post about the small coffee shop that suffered losses due to participating in a Groupon deal. As usual, the comments are more insightful than the actual post. On Redfin.com. Thanks to @Jodene for sharing the link.
• The Lara Jade Coton/TVX Case: The Full Story – “If anything, this case serves as a warning. First and foremost, to anyone who would seek to use Google Images or the Web at large as a tool to find stock photos. Most of the content on the Web is copyrighted and using something without clearing all the needed rights is opening the door to a wide array of legal troubles.” Read more on Plagiarism Today.
• The Craziest Things Christine O’Donnell Has Ever Said – Just what we need: another female right wing nut job.
• Census finds record gap between rich and poor – Remind me again why we should keep giving tax breaks to the rich?
• X3 demonstrator during test flight – Test photos of a new high-speed helicopter design. On Yahoo.
• Atheists Outdo Some Believers in Survey on Religion – Americans claim to be religious but lack a basic knowledge of religion. Interesting survey results. In the NY Times.
• Tilt-Shift Van Gogh – Some great photos of Van Gogh artwork with tilt-shift perspective applied. Very cool. Thanks to @MikeTRose for sharing the link.