Links o’ Interest

Meet Irena Sendler, who saved 2,500 Jews during the Holocaust. Tortured by the Nazis, she never said word one, and turned 97 this week.

An object lesson in “we will never ask for your username or password”. The last line is priceless.

A great cartoon
– Bush’s Justice Department, based on their testimony.

Approval ratings of Presidents since 1945. Very interesting graph, though it’s odd they cut the top one off before Bush’s plummet.

How Racist are you? Find out here. (I am low to moderate.)

Not the greatest work of my favorite online comic, but it’s just so relevant to me. Xkcd is great.

Those wacky southerners! Hilarious.

Someone finally wins Simon Cowell over. Update: He won!

What’s being poor like? “Being poor is crying when you drop the mac and cheese on the floor.” This list has stuck with me for days. Things like this is what makes me liberal.

An interesting essay on how we experience politics, from a psychological viewpoint. I took his Psych 101 course long ago. He was a great lecturer, single-handedly convincing many of my classmates to become psych majors, where we stats majors had to help them graduate. Good times.

If only they could show this on TV.