Links that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …
- Jim Henson Co. selling 10th anniversary Farscape t-shirts today only: Wire Staff [1]
- Protectionism at Work in China’s WoW Lich King Refusal?: gamepolitics [2]
- Sentencing commission ponders extra jail time for proxy users: julian.sanchez@arstechnica.com (Julian Sanchez) [3]
- New Shakespeare plays?: jason@kottke.org [4]
- Christal Smith: Halls of Shame: How China Invaded California and Took Over Our Legislature: Christal Smith [5]
- AIDS in Africa solution: Mike Peters [6]
- Neil Gaiman’s Journal: The Religion of Dolphins… [7] – Neil makes an excellent point.
- BBspot – Twitter Unveils New Premium Accounts [8] – This is a joke. Um … it is a joke, right? Ah, BBspot, must be a joke. Please tell me it’s a joke. (Yes, I realize it is … probably, almost certainly … a joke.)
- Multi-level educational trick [9] – Brilliant!
- Rice: ‘No One Was Arguing That Saddam Hussein Somehow Had Something To Do With 9/11′ [10] – They can’t decide which way they want to revise history.
- Growing Up Games: When Will Mature, Mature? [Feature] [11] – Excellent article on video games and when “mature” will be allowed to mean “sophisticated” vs. “blood and boobs.”
- Blog from space: Phil Plait [12]
- Barney Frank Tells It Like It Is [13] – Frank is more than occasionally annoying, but he’s in excellent form here.
- Yes, you did buy this couch [14] – Yeah, that looks familiar. Also, chair, bed, keyboard …
- Sony adds half a million public domain books to Reader library [15] – Bravo, Sony … but, yes, Kindle’s convenience (in downloading) unfortunately trumps your open content.
- How Religion Ruins Relationships [16] – If your religious faith causes you to objectify people, or ignore their present needs in favor of “fixing” their metaphysical ones, then I don’t think you’ve got Christ’s message quite right. He spoke not just of the Good News, but also of feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, comforting the afflicted, dealing with the here-and-now, not just the then. This is a huge reason why I don’t evangelize in this fashion.
- She couldn’t march in her city’s parade on St. Patrick’s Day, but Chris Quinn did talk to the President and Ireland’s leaders at the White House: Joe Sudbay (DC) [17]
- Wash. Post: “Pope Benedict XVI is wrong.” [18] – Yuppers. And it’s not “just” a theological point. Lives are at risk.
- Cuomo: I’ll Release Names Of AIG Bonus Recipients [19] – It’s a dicey situation, given some of the threats that Liddy read aloud in Congress toward those employees and AIG execs in general. And given the sorts of things I’ve heard, it’s a real concern.
- Google: the majority of takedown notices are bogus [20] – Nicely noted, Google.
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2 Comments To "Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 19 March 2009"
#1 Comment By BD On Thu 19-Mar-09 7:32pm @ 7:32pm
The education thing sounds like it is straight out of Hippie school. 🙂
As to WoW….what will the Gold Farmers do?
Allow me to be Shocked…SHOCKED that Pope Prada is wrong about something… ~rolls eyes~
Cool on the Farscape tees.
#2 Comment By ***Dave On Fri 20-Mar-09 7:12am @ 7:12am
I confess I ordered one of the Farscape tees. I seriously need to watch the (borrowed) discs of that series again. Number 935 on my List of Things to Do.