Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Scalia, Empathy, and Crayons [1] – Well put: what someone with no empathy, no ability to see things from other perspectives, looks like.
- Pawlenty: The ‘appropriate response’ to Obama winning the Nobel is to say ‘congratulations.’ [2] – Well, a little bit of class. And, yes, if I were meeting or calling the president, I certainly would say congratulations.
- Congress Moves to Require Taped Detainee Sessions – NYTimes.com [3] – Onerous? Yes. But justified by the abuse. And, honestly, there are some advantages to this, too.
- Coburn Wants To Dump Political Science Funding Since Americans Can Just ‘Turn To CNN, Fox News, MSNBC’ [4] – “Theories on political behavior are best left to CNN, pollsters, pundits, historians, candidates, political parties, and the voters, rather than being funded out of taxpayers’ wallets.” Ah, yes. I’m sure the Founding Fathers woul be proud.
- Not Much Has Changed [5] – Nice.
- Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize! Rightwingers not happy [6] – Excellent: we have the “See, he’s really the Anti-Christ” crowd, the “See, yet another anti-Israel, anti-America” crowd, and the folks who don’t realize the irony of complaining that he’s not had time to do anything yet EXCEPT “destroy the greatest nation on Earth.”
- President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize [7] – Heck, even the Nobel Committee can’t come up with actual accomplishments, just sort of, “Hey, he’s not beating the war drums obsessively.” Which, yes, is a very good thing, but let’s get real.
- ALERT: Vulnerability Discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader [8] – Big surprise — add a programming language into a display program and you get programs to exploit it. Why Adobe Acrobat actually needs Javascript is beyond me.
- More women than men dismissed from military for being gay – CNN.com [9] – It’s actually more women proportionately … but it does still seem to call into question the whole “guys can’t stand serving with guys who are gay” argument some make.
- Scary [10] – Whoa. (Ditto the hover comments.)
- Unbelievable: “123456” Most Common Hotmail Password [11] – Unbelievable that Hotmail users are that clueless? Really?
- President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize [12] – “… And for best exemplifying what the US can be when Bush and Cheney aren’t running things …” Yeah, I agree it’s premature, and feels a scosh political (not that the Nobel Peace Prizes haven’t been in the past). And I have no doubt that his enemies will seize on this as yet more of a sign that Obama is a “peace-loving wuss.” On the other hand — OMG, can you imagine if someone, three years ago, said that the sitting US president would win the Nobel Peace Prize, how unlikely that would have seemed?
- Google Fixes Usenet Archive; Old Geeks Rejoice [13] – Good to hear. Though the comment “Just one bug wrecking search results for archives spanning 700 million posts and more than 20 years of data? Seems hardly likely.” sounds like itself comes more from ignorance than anything else. Having debugged code that someone else put together, I can attest that just that sort of thing (well, maybe on a smaller scale) can happen.
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