Lhasa

Lovely physics limericks. From the page:

Your units are wrong! cried the teacher.
Your church weighs six joules - what a feature!
And the people inside
Are four hours wide,
And eight gauss away from the preacher!

Pretty plotter plotting pretty pecise plots in the plane. (Source code freely available for noncommercial use, the author says.)

Salman Rushdie is now allowed to be Salman Rushdie on facebook. Apparently at first facebook wouldn't believe him he was Salman Rushdie and deactivated his page, and when he provided them with a copy of his passport, they insisted on reactivating his account under "Ahmed Rushdie" - his official first name.
Tweets the author: "Victory! Facebook has buckled! I'm Salman Rushdie again. I feel SO much better. An identity crisis at my age is no fun."

Diaspora* co-founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy dies at 22.

From the page: "You want more women in finance because on average they are more rational. But many women opt out of such a career for exactly that same reason: they are too rational to sacrifice their life to work."

From the page: "The investigators, who prided themselves on their objectivity, turned out to be heavily influenced in their judgments by assumptions about the [rape] victim's demeanour: she was judged most credible when crying or showing despair. In reality, rape victims react in the immediate aftermath of the event in a variety of ways: some are visibly upset; others are subdued and undemonstrative. There is, unsurprisingly, no universal reaction to being raped. The detectives were relying on their instincts, and their instincts turned out to be constructed from inherited and unreliable notions about women in distress."