The Crikey team’s pick of the web:
Soldiers learn to fight in flame wars. The US Air Force have created a “counter blogging” flow chart, instructing their officers in how to deal with, God forbid, criticism of the Air Force on the Internet! What really bothers me is that someone probably got paid a lot of money to create this chart to show fully grown adults — adults who are responsible for millions of dollars of technology, handle deadly weapons and could probably kill us all — how to identify an opinion and write a basic response.
A wee problem. Male infertility, like everything else, is all women’s fault, according to the Vatican. First it was Eve and her apple, and now women and their damn urine. Women who take the pill, they say, are releasing “tonnes” of hormones into the environment via their wee, which is affecting men’s fertility. Of course.
Godless transport. The atheist buses are going global. Next stop: Spain.
Change you can participate in. People around the world are collaborating to write an inaugural address for Obama. In the end, there should be some everyone’s-a-winner version, which will be published by Slate.
