Interesting Links for 14-07-2012

• I love state politics - Brendan Nyhan
  Short version? Vetoing individual words in bills = craaaazy. Long version: Okay, if you want to have individuals elected to be in charge of large areas, and invest them with a lot of power, then letting them veto bills somewhat follows from that. But turning 700 words into 20, and a page or so worth of sentences to "Move this from here to there" is... flabbergasting.
  (tags: america politics fail posttofacebook Xandar; our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed; summon the meteors. wtf )
• Writer's block
  'It is the largest solid block of Acrylic in the world. It was originally made in 1968 for Stanley Kubrick’s film “2001 – A Space Odyssey”, but was rejected by the director in favour of the now famous black basalt monolith.' And now it's a bit of art for/about the queen/monarchy
  (tags: art monarchy UK interesting )
• Massachusetts Town Swears Off Swearing - ABC News
  (tags: culture freedom posttofacebook america censorship politics interesting )