Linkdump 25-06-2012

• Do you remember the final leadership debate?
  Oh the irony. Go on, try and tell me Gordon Brown got a single word of this wrong.
  (tags: politics )
• How to get under Aaron Sorkin’s skin (and also, how to high-five properly)
  Never noticed the masculinity of Sorkin's characters before; to be fair, it's his women too. Looks like The Newsroom might have it's moments---but is it The West Wing?
  (tags: sorkin tv )
• Find out why NASA engineers call the upcoming Mars landing "Seven Minutes of Terror"
  Oh you crazy, crazy rocket engineers.
  (tags: cool stuff science space )
• 5 Tips for the War of 1812 Bicentennial Party You’re Probably Planning
  Today is the anniversary of 1812. People did different things then, such as marching to Russia on the whim of a mad shortarse. We should totally have a Battle of Borodino party: I'll bring the Tchaikovsky, tef can bring the graphs.
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• Famous Novelists on Symbolism in Their Work - Mental Floss
  God bless America! It's 1963 and you're sick of looking for imaginary symbology in literature. So you do what any proper American would do: write to the authors and ask them. (Try doing this in England and see if you get an answer from Shakespeare. Go on, I dare you.) Some fascinating responses from some of the greats. Ayn Rand was a dick about it, of course.
  (tags: writing literature )
• Olympic park workers 'blacklisted over political views'
  If the Olympics gets any more deeply regressive and creepy, we're going to end up refusing to give medals to Jesse Owens.
  (tags: politics news )