Reality Checks: Internet Fragility, Dinosaur Imaging, How the West was Gender Swapped, and Cannibalism

Elizabeth — March 2, 2017

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Amazon’s problems in one data center take down much of the web. (via Ars Technica)
What dinosaurs really looked like. (via BBC)
Re-Western is an exhibition that gender swaps iconic US Western characters.(via Felicehouse Gallery)
Cannibalism: it’s natural. or something. (via NPR)

Featured image credit: Majinbro 2002 via flickr

Elizabeth

Elizabeth is a professional belly dancer, a flaky computer scientist, and a returned Peace Corps volunteer. She lives in Georgia (the state of the U.S., not the country) but is nonetheless somehow not a combination of stereotypes from Gone with the Wind and Deliverance. Her personal blog is Coffeefied. Operafied. Fluffified. Beglittered.

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