links for 2008-08-01

Includes a gem of the 'If you ask small children about grown up things nobody has taught them yet, they don't know" variety - "8 out of 10 young people know little about the 2012 Olympics. Some children were not even aware they were to be in London."

A link from Metafilter points out to me that due to a malformed comment tag, the whole 12 part magnum opus that was 18 months in the making wasn't rendering at all in Internet Explorer. D'oh! Call yourself an Internet expert etc, etc...