Emptying the Bottle: Early-October '10 Links

Here is a list of the worthwhile sites I've Bookmarked recently:

• Five worries parents should drop and five they shouldn't.
• Tea Party in the comics [cartoons].
• U.N. appoints an Extraterrestrial Ambassador so aliens can be "taken to our leader".
• Possible new designs for the dollar bill [photos].
• Not sure why this hasn't happened already, a taxpayer receipt.
• In this interactive map, the size of each country will represent the data for that subject.
• My most controversial belief, the conversation continues (earlier).
• Europe according to the United States [map].
• Time, our most scarce resource (earlier).
• Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes and have a lower unemployment rate (earlier).

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