Sunday Linkblast - Aug 5

• CN Rail faces charges over Chekamus derailment as new derailment in Prince George blazes
  It's time to accept that deregulating rail safety in 1999 to 'industry managed safety' is a failed experiment. When given a choice between protecting the safety of the public and the environment or marginal improvements to their fiscal bottom line, CN has consistently made the wrong choice. We're seeing the results with sickening regularity now.
  
  
• US Media misleading American public on Climate Change
  The gatekeepers are keeping the information from the public that could create the urgency necessary to deal with the crisis. Meanwhile the well funded denial machine continues at full throttle.
  
  
• Online Aspergers test
  Needless to say this shouldn't replace real medical judgment, but worth checking to find out if you might be autistic or just a self absorbed jerk.
  
  
• Science explains hockey fans
  Kidding. Evidence grows for interbreeding between Neanderthals and early humans.
  
  
• O'Connor to be turfed
  Oda too. Surprising no one.
  
  
• Spot the undercover reporter game at hackers conference
  She was offered press credentials, but turned them down hoping to catch hackers admitting crimes on her purse cam. Hard to feel sympathy as she's chased out of the convention.
  
  
• Clinton enters the lion's den
  She holds her own in a room full of hostile bloggers. Of course it doesn't really hurt her with the public at large that the loudest and most left leaning segment of the Democratic Party doesn't trust her.
  
  
• The Sunday Hangover with Warren Ellis
  The single most profane and funny Lindsey Lohan rant ever. You have been warned.