If you follow me on Twitter, you may have already seen these.  Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader or via twitter (please consider following some of the tweeters). What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

Jean-Luc Picard in the ready room, playing Angry Tribbles!
(image credit McBeefy on Cracked.com)
[image description: two panels arranged vertically – #1. Picard sits at a table with a tablet-style data interface #2. the screen has been photoshopped to show a game called Angry Tribbles]

• How Ayn Rand became the new right’s version of Marx | George Monbiot gu.com/p/36xxq/tw via @guardian
• 6 Mar RT Mr Denmore ? @MrDenmore – A new study from MIT & Harvard finds wealthy nations fail when ‘inclusive’ institutions become ‘extractive’ ones. tiny.cc/kSFe2b
• from @shakesville – Being Progressive: You’re Doing it Wrong bit.ly/wUjiPx
• Gratuitous Objectification in GQ’s Comedy Issue bit.ly/yfjhRI
• Report people starved to death after being stranded in the evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant last year www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/…
• Comedy podcast, Tim Minchin, Bill Bailey, Victoria Wood, Bernard Cribbins and many more spreaker.com/page#!/user/ch…
• 6 Mar  aimee whitcroft ? @teh_aimee – stop this absurd war on the colour pink! bit.ly/xWfNGq #awesome #weheartpink #PINKEXISTS (cc @miss_phloss)
• Fascinating and infuriating – Mixed Messages in Girl & Boy Scout Badges bit.ly/wdmFVB
• from Tiger Beatdown by @sesmithwrites | Guess What? Shaming People For Being Fat Doesn’t Magically Make Them Thin! bit.ly/zPu63J
• via Annie Murphy Paul ? @anniemurphypaul -  BRILLIANT: What if students had to study music for 12 years before playing an instrument? That’s how we treat science: bit.ly/wJhBtH
• Reel Girl | Scandinavian girls have more fun http://margotmagowan.wordpress.com/2012…
• Paid work on open source projects as 3 mth intern || My goal: inform women’s colleges about Google Summer of Code http://geekfeminism.org/2012… (also Gnome Women Outreach Progam 2012 https://t.co/V0hkLkR4)
• Today in What Were They Thinking? – Sociological Images: The First Black Disney Princess Loves Watermelon http://thesocietypages.org/socimag…
• Boo, hulu still not available outside USA. MT @JenLucPiquant: SNL’s Real Housewives of Disney – @io9 http://io9.com/5890322…
• RT @courteneyh: RT @mykebartlett: CERES responds to some pretty damning (and apparently inaccurate) accusations in the Age yesterday http://www.ceres.org.au/content…

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