Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Binwin Bronzebottom shirt NOW SHIPPING! – This is a thing of beauty.
- BBC NEWS | Middle East | Palestinian boy ‘hanged for collaboration’ – Sometimes I despair of understanding humanity.
- Responsible Racists Backpedaling Cautiously – See, this is what I love about the “responsible white separatist community” — they don’t condemn the attack as hateful, or evil, or murderous … they condemn it as “not helpful” or as “inefficient” or as making them “look bad.” If it had been a more efficient, better-targeted, heroic attack and murder, apparently that would have been jim-dandy fine by them.
- Tonight brings the end of Analog Television broadcasts. – Actually, I’d say that the easy addition of a digital converter box means that the old TVs are backwards-compatible … something that we may never see again, with hardwired DRM becoming more and more prevalent in video electronics.
- Good news and bad news [Pharyngula] – Attorney General Bruning, you, sir, are a jerk.
- Obama Pardons Girl for Missing School – Another video of this. Nice.
- Greg Mitchell: My Daughter’s Chilling Account of Years at Holocaust Museum – A must-read.
- Obama Writes Fourth Grader a Memorable Absence Note | 44 | washingtonpost.com – Excellent. Click through to watch the video. (The fact that he was listening to the question and ready to answer while writing the note is pretty cool, too.)
- Another museum in danger [Pharyngula] – Yeesh.
- [Cheap Gaming Accessories] A dish fit for your dice – That’s really quite clever. Not as romantic as a die bag, but probably more efficient. You could also use it to store color sets of dice.
- Poll: GOP lead by Rush, Newt and Darth – I think it’s most significant that “Nobody” is the winner in the survey, though, followed closely by Limbaugh. It’s off-cycle at the moment, but the GOP is at huge risk if they don’t come together pretty quickly. Hell, they’d be better off with a couple of factions than this sort of Balkinization.
- Five people miraculously survive after plane slams into ute near Johannesburg | World News | News.com.au – Some remarkable pictures. Money quote: “”The scary part was seeing the faces of the pilots looking straight at us.”
- Revealed: the bid to corner world’s bluefin tuna market – Nature, Environment – The Independent – Calling this despicable behavior seems too tame a phrase. We’re talking about both ecological and consumer exploitation, all for the almighty buck … er, yen.
- Steampunk has TWO syllables – I concur that “Girl Genius” isn’t steampunk (and, in fact, Foglio describes it as “Gaslamp Fantasy”).
- Passed Along with Little Comment – If a trend, there are some very bad times ahead of us, folks. And, of course, this sort of thing is never confined to a single issue. Once society (or vocal portions of it) seem to condone violence and threats thereof as a way to get a point across, it will happen all over.
- Playing A High Resistance Wind Instrument May Reduce Risk For Sleep Apnea In Musicians – This points to some interesting therapies for folks who have these sorts of problems.
- Hotel clerk lacking critical thinking skills does $50,000 in damages. – Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me multiple times into doing $50K of damage to our hotel …
- Irony Defined: Skin sanitizer recalled due to bacterial contamination. – Just too many kinds of wonderful here.
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