Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Rodney Atkins, Cleaning This Gun (Come on in Boy) Lyrics – For some reason, Mary thought I’d find this amusing … ;-)
- Add Read It Later to Google Reader’s Send To Dropdown – Updated – I’d never heard of Read It Later. Right now I star a lot of GReader posts to go back to at a later time, but that doesn’t necessarily help with stuff that I browse directly to. Hmmmm.
- Who Causes Cyclists’ Deaths? – Freakonomics Blog – NYTimes.com – No, it’s not surprising. Bicycles (and motorcycles) are not what car drivers expect to have to deal with, so they pay no attention to them — with usually tragic results.
- Republicans Are “Concerned” About Reaction To Kennedy’s Passing: Steve Singiser
- Mike Elk: Stop the Teabaggers, Give Them Green Jobs: Lessons From the Coalfields of West Virginia: Mike Elk
- Five Features We Want to See in Firefox [Lifehacker Wishlist] – Good list. And I say that as a confirmed FF fan.
- Wanted: Interrogation that works and isn’t torture – science-in-society – 28 August 2009 – New Scientist – “And remember, this is for posterity, so be honest — how do you feel?”
- Teetotallers more likely to be depressed – Short Sharp Science – New Scientist – Cheers! It’s not just a toast any more.
- Breaking: British Newspapers Are Just Allowed to Make Shit Up
- Idaho Republican gubernatorial candidate jokes about hunting President Obama. – Wow. That’s appalling.
- In Brief: London Calling (all Designers) – Well, so long as they don’t mess with the Underground branding, I’m cool with it. Esp. if it washes the taste of that awful Olympics mess from my brain.
- En Tequila Es Verdad: Your Daily Dose of Health Care Reform Stupidity – Because, of course, for the GOP, health care reform is “getting rid of Medicare and providing hand-outs to private insurance.”
- SHUSH! DON’T TELL ANYBODY! – Turning the other cheek doesn’t mean abandoning your principles until everyone else agrees to them.
- Ingersoll, Robert Green — “The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child” (1877): Dave
- Hot air and paper towels in the public bathroom : Effect Measure – I’ve never much cared for hot air dryers — but I’d never thought of the airborne contamination issue before now. Plus, of course, I suspect they are a lot more carbon-inefficient (farm trees + paper manufacture is probably less of an impact than metallurgy and ongoing electrical costs).
- Episcopal church’s last rites in Englewood fueled by gay divide – The Denver Post – Sad. It sounds like the merger with Holy Spirit was ill-considered and desperate, at best.
- Winners wear red: How colour twists your mind – life – 28 August 2009 – New Scientist – Wow. That’s pretty remarkable stuff.
- Microscopes zoom in on molecules at last – tech – 28 August 2009 – New Scientist – Ooooooh …
- ‘Tenther’ Activists Add The Federal Highway System To List Of Programs To Kill – Um … doesn’t the mail actually get transported down federal highways? And residential streets, for that matter?
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