Linkage

• Taocma union local first in nation to represent workers in the recreational cannabis industry (News Tribune) Look for the union label, when you are toking that reefer or bong………
• McMansions 101: What Makes a McMansion Bad... (McMansion Hell Tumblr) It's a nice look at balance and design in architecture.
• Ancient Roman Shipwreck Full of Coins and Bronze Statues Discovered Off Israel (Esquire) Get your history geek on. The ship was full of statues that were to be melted down.
• Twitter Can Fix Twitter With Just a Few Lines of Code (JestersCourt) He proposes twitter allowing users to ban the mention of them by banned users. Interesting concept, but too open to abuse and avoidance.
• Scientists Find Earthlike Planet Orbiting Proxima Centauri (Speigel) Relatively close by, but I am not sure how "earth like" it would be orbiting a red dwarf.
• The Hidden Costs of America's Addiction to Mercenaries (Defense One) "Since 2009, the ratio of contractors to troops in war zones has increased from 1 to 1 to about 3 to 1."  Our hollowed out military.

They got the voice wrong, but it is still brilliant:


H/t JR at the Stellar Parthenon BBS.