Sunday Linkblast - July 20

• Chavez donates heating oil to low income Americans
  Republicans rage.
  
  
• Benefit for Survival Research Laboratories artist
  I bought one of the videos of their robot mayhem performance art shows. I got to pay Canadian Customs for the privilege of opening and watching it. Now one of their artists has suffered a traumatic brain injury putting on one of their indescribable shows and could use some help.
  
  
• Warren Ellis does a rundown of old Brit SF TV
  Warren realizes a lot of his audience probably has no idea how spectacularly odd Brit TV SF has been over the years.
  
  
• Mining companies seek permission to foul Canadian water
  11 bodies of fresh water they want to dump thousands of tons of mine tailings into.
  
  
• Oil companies claim high oil prices are caused by legislation protecting the environment
  But they've been hollowing out their refining capabilities for years to help their short term bottom line.
  
  
• Michael Savage, douche bag
  'There's no such thing as autism and autistic kids are just brats.'
  
  
• Action comics
  No not the one with Superman, the 70's British version that changed the face of comics by inspiring everything from 2000 AD and Judge Dredd to the British invasion of comic writers like Garth Ennis and Grant Morrison.