Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Buzz Lightyear Back From 468 Days In Spaaace [Space] – Nice. A modern update of “Flat Stanley.”
- Music Industry Wants Royalties From iTunes 30 Second Samples [Bad Ideas] – These guys are … reality challenged. Unfortunately, we’re the ones who end up paying for it.
- Save Wonder Woman’s Reputation With A Postcard – Hate renumberings. Vote for #600.
- Religious activists, left and right: IT
- Boehner and Cantor ‘wary of the possible damage inflicted on the party’s reputation’ by Bachmann. – Too late.
- Insurance company ordered to pay $10 million for revoking policy of teen with HIV.: Zaid Jilani
- Health Insurers Consider A Caesarean-Section Pregnancy A Pre-Existing Condition – Gee — think the “Pro-Family” forces of the Right will rally to this cause?
- O’Reilly endorses the public option, which he previously called ‘socialism.’ – WHERE IS BILL O’REILLY AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH HIM?!
- Limbaugh says we need to return to ‘segregated buses.’ – Wow. I really IS all about race in Rush’s world. Jeez.
- Forgetting the “Judeo” Part of their “Juedo-Christian” Values: Kyle
- The Dirty Little Secret About the “Wisdom of the Crowds” – There is No Crowd: Sarah Perez
- CableDrop helps keep things neat and tidy – Ooh … I could use some of these …
- How to Unlock the Amazing Secret of Unlimited Productivity – NO! NOT THAT! ANYTHING BUT THAT!
- Why Won’t The Media Address the Real Issue? ‘ACORN’ Is Wingnut Code for The ‘N’ Word. – The more this gets dug into, the more paltry the “indictment” of ACORN, and the more nutty (and/or hateful) the claims of its detractors.
- We is America – Harsh — but, yes, the idea that we’ve lavishing this much time and attention on a small but shrill portion of the populace is both disheartening and stupid.
- Google Plans Private Government Cloud — InformationWeek – Not sure I approve, conceptually, of Google running a “secure” government cloud — with concerns for both Google and the government here.
- Samurai swords for home defense – Yeah — close quarters for these weapons is dodgy (so to speak) at best.
- Colbert Goes There – The Only Media Figure In America To Call Out Corporate Control Of Government – It is, indeed, very sad.
- NASA faces ‘Kennedy or Nixon’ moment, former chief says – space – 16 September 2009 – New Scientist – NASA’s biggest problem is that it is a long-lead-time agency that is funded on an annual basis by short-lead-time politicians. Which is a good reason to push for further privatization of the space effort; companies may have to focus on a quarterly or annual financial prospectus, but they also know how to invest for the long term, too.
- Too much radiation for astronauts to make it to Mars – space – 16 September 2009 – New Scientist – Hrm. Well, that’s a problem.
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