This Week in WTF
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Alderman, Liz. “Put One Foot Wrong in This Town and You’ve Left the Country.” The New York Times, August 8, 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/world/what-in-the-world/put-one-foot-wrong-in-this-town-and-youve-left-the-country.html.
Althouse, Ann. “Can I Get Some Better Math Analysis than ‘Trump Has Strong Fundraising Month, but Doesn’t Catch up to Clinton’?” Althouse, August 21, 2016. http://althouse.blogspot.com/2016/08/can-i-get-some-better-math-analysis.html.
———. “Martin O’Malley Is Outraged By ‘racist Mimes.’” Althouse, August 21, 2016. http://althouse.blogspot.com/2016/08/martin-omalley-is-outraged-by-racist.html.
———. “We Can Be Assured That a TBN (Trump Breitbart News) Network Wouldn’t Shy Away from the Conservative, or Even the ‘Alt-Conservative,’ Label.” Althouse, August 19, 2016. http://althouse.blogspot.com/2016/08/we-can-be-assured-that-tbn-trump.html.
Aratani, Lori. “Fed up with High D.C. Housing Costs? $1 Million Will Buy You an Entire West Virginia ‘town.’” Washington Post, May 21, 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/fed-up-with-high-dc-housing-costs-1m-will-buy-you-an-entire-w-virginia-town/2016/05/21/dfd4241e-16ce-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html.
Arment, Marco. “Why Don’t Podcasts Use VBR MP3s? Because iOS and macOS Don’t Accurately Seek Them – Marco.org.” Marco.org, August 15, 2016. https://marco.org/2016/08/15/vbr-mp3-plea.
Bolongaro, Kait. “Saving Canada’s Only Desert.” DW.COM, August 12, 2016. http://www.dw.com/en/saving-canadas-onlydesert/a-19470246.
Brown, Lynn. “The Struggle for Hawaii.” JSTOR Daily, August 21, 2016. http://daily.jstor.org/the-struggle-for-hawaii/.
conservative, neo. “Halls of Macadamia: Remember... Justin Trudeau...” Accessed August 20, 2016. http://hallsofmacadamia.blogspot.com/2016/08/remember-justin-trudeau.html.
Goldberg, Jonah. “‘New Nationalism’ Amounts to Generic White-Identity Politics.” National Review, August 17, 2016. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/439048/trumps-nationalism-white-identity-politics-brand-name.
Hicks, William. “Comedian Fined $42,000 by Human Rights Tribunal for Telling a Joke.” Heat Street, August 18, 2016. http://heatst.com/culture-wars/comedian-fined-42000-for-telling-a-joke/.
Klavan, Andrew. “The #NeverTrump Generation Gap.” Klavan On The Culture, August 21, 2016. https://pjmedia.com/andrewklavan/2016/08/21/the-nevertrump-generation-gap/.
McFate, Sean. “America’s Addiction to Mercenaries.” The Atlantic, August 12, 2016. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/08/iraq-afghanistan-contractor-pentagon-obama/495731/?single_page=true.
Moon, Mariella. “NASA Plans to Hand over the ISS to a Private Corporation.” Engadget, August 19, 2016. https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/19/nasa-to-hand-over-iss-to-private-companies/.
Sathiaseelan, Arjuna, Adisorn Lertsinsrubtavee, Adarsh Jagan S, Prakash Baskaran, and Jon Crowcroft. “Cloudrone: Micro Clouds in the Sky.” arXiv:1604.08243 [Cs], April 27, 2016. http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.08243.
“Serial Playground Pooper Targeting Arlington, VA Park.” Cleveland 19 News, August 21, 2016. http://www.cleveland19.com/story/32806952/serial-playground-pooper-targeting-arlington-va-park.
Sicard, Sarah. “10 Real Military Call Signs That Are So Bad, They’re Great.” Task & Purpose, June 24, 2016. http://taskandpurpose.com/10-real-military-call-signs-bad-theyre-great.
Sisk, Richard. “The Army Surgeon General Won’t Endorse Marijuana Use For PTSD Treatment.” Task & Purpose, August 20, 2016. http://taskandpurpose.com/army-surgeon-general-wont-endorse-marijuana-use-ptsd-treatment.
Solon, Olivia. “Roomba Creator Responds to Reports of ‘poopocalypse’: ‘We See This a Lot.’” The Guardian, August 15, 2016, sec. Technology. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/15/roomba-robot-vacuum-poopocalypse-facebook-post.
Steer, Jen. “New Info Released on Deadly Deputy-Involved Shooting in Ashtabula County.” fox8.com, August 17, 2016. http://fox8.com/2016/08/17/new-info-released-on-deadly-deputy-involved-shooting-in-ashtabula-county/.
Tiwari, Sanjib, Michael Lane, and Khorshed Alam. “Does Broadband Connectivity and Social Networking Sites Build and Maintain Social Capital in Rural Communities?” arXiv:1606.03542 [Cs], June 10, 2016. http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.03542.
———. “The Challenges and Opportunities of Delivering Wireless High Speed Broadband Services in Rural and Remote Australia: A Case Study of Western Downs Region (WDR).” arXiv:1606.03513 [Cs], June 10, 2016. http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.03513.
Tramèr, Florian, Vaggelis Atlidakis, Roxana Geambasu, Daniel Hsu, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Mathias Humbert, Ari Juels, and Huang Lin. “FairTest: Discovering Unwarranted Associations in Data-Driven Applications.” arXiv:1510.02377 [Cs], October 8, 2015. http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.02377.
Trevithick, Joseph. “B-1, B-2 and B-52 Bombers All Descend on Guam in a Huge Show of Force — War Is Boring.” War Is Boring, August 13, 2016. https://warisboring.com/b-1-b-2-and-b-52-bombers-all-descend-on-guam-in-a-huge-show-of-force-9f17fca08bcb#.18kmsiq6q.
Vanden Brook, Tom, and Ray Locker. “Report Shows That Army Took Away Gun from Dallas Cop Shooter Micah Johnson.” USA TODAY, August 18, 2016. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/08/17/report-shows-army-warned-about-dallas-cop-shooter-micah-johnson/88906532/.
Witherspoon, Thomas. “Mike Reviews The Pol Pot Conspiracy.” The SWLing Post, August 19, 2016. http://swling.com/blog/2016/08/mike-reviews-the-pol-pot-conspiracy/.
———. “New RTL-SDR Dongles Feature HF Reception.” The SWLing Post, August 16, 2016. http://swling.com/blog/2016/08/new-rtl-sdr-dongles-feature-hf-reception/.