To steal a term from Elizabeth Bear: Link Salad.

Charlie Stross on Biometrics: Stross goes into assorted horrific implications of this insidious new tech i.e. ways in which criminals could use it against mere mortals like myself (and presumably you).

Hmph. And you thought your future was scary.

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Carnivores vs. the extreme end of the herbivore curve: This. Is. AWESOME!

Don't worry if you can't read Russian. I sure as hell don't.

It would appear this is a bumper month for bizarrely cool animal news.

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Black magic may have driven a Cambodian couple to bite off their daughter’s thumb nails and suck her blood, officials said Sunday: Oh, this is so going into a Warren Ellis comic soon.

- Both via Warren Ellis

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