Blog Heap of Links for the day 27 May 2012

Several media outlets have again pulled or edited already-published articles about the activities of President Barack Obama’s daughter, even though the stories appeared to pose no active security risk… flanked by Secret Service agents who attempted unsuccessfully to blend in with the crowd of mostly pre-teen girls.

50,000+ have been killed from this conflict .... and they have now decided to wage all-out war. This is going to be bad.

House lawmakers will consider an international proposal next week to give the United Nations more control over the Internet. The proposal is backed by China, Russia, Brazil, India and other UN members, and would give the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) more control over the governance of the Internet. [Um... no. FYNQ.]

Thirty officials of the North Korean regime who were involved in talks with South Korea have been executed or died in "staged traffic accidents," according to a human rights report. … a further 200 were rounded up in January… some were apparently executed and the remainder were sent to political prison camps…

If it weren't for Eugene J. Polley, flipping TV channels would be an exhausting and tedious undertaking…. introduced in 1955, "used a flashlight-like device to activate photo cells on the television set to change channels."