Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Official Google Blog: RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my! [1] – Twitter results showing up in Google? Interesting.
- Kill a Kid? Take the Day Off : Dispatches from the Culture Wars [2] – Nice work if you can get it.
- State Rep: In Oklahoma, There’s A ‘Feeling That Women Aren’t Capable Of Making Reproductive Decisions’ [3] – I should certainly think there’s a court challenge to this new law, on privacy grounds if nothing else. As noted (and as we’ve seen elsewhere), it’s very difficult to truly anonymize data. I’d argue further that unless the state has a compelling reason to collect such data and is showing it’s using it toward a legitimate end, it’s an infringement of doctor-client privilege.
- Goldman Sachs Analyst: Income ‘Inequality’ Will Lead To ‘Prosperity And Opportunity For All’: Pat G. [4]
- Standing Up For Fairness [5] – “While it’s important to condemn elected leaders who exploit bigotry for political gain, it’s important to applaud those who stand up to it.”
- Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Uighur Detainees’ case [6] – “You break ’em, you bought ’em.” Or, in this case, “You brought ’em unwillingly to US territory, you just approved their immigration.”
- Color Photography from Russian in the Early 1900’s [7] – It’s always remarkable seeing these experimental early color photos, esp. of people — it’s like the past was real.
- How To Choose Between 32-bit & 64-bit Windows 7 Operating Systems [8] – Already on 64-bit Vista, so this will be a no-brainer on my part.
- It Takes All Kinds [9] – “How do you deal with the fact that there are so many books out there that you think are BAD?” Being a finicky eater, I’ve long since reconciled the difference between my taste and that of others, and try not to mistake my aesthetic for some sort of univeral (let alone moral) dictum. So if I run across a book I don’t care for, I just go on to another book I do. (Well, and I mock it a bit. Amongst friends. And blog readers.)
- PRELUDIUM: The Archbishop of Canterbury writes his bishops, and the Primates [10] – A good review of the “Personal Ordinariates” provision for Anglicans yearning to be sorta-Catholics. An interesting twist — while deacons and priests who cross over can be married, bishops cannot. That might influence some decisions. Meanwhile, this distracts (as noted) from what’s going on in Uganda, where both Christian (esp. Anglican) and Muslim leaders are evidently gung-ho over a new law that changes the penalty for “aggressive” homosexuality from life imprisonment to death.
- ReBoot Gets, Uh… You Know [11] – Either really good news or really bad news, not necessarily depending on how you felt about the original
- FRC: We’d Rather Lose The Seat Then See a Liberal Republican Win [12] – Ah, rabid adherence at all costs to ideological purity — that rarely ends well.
- A Nation Of Peaceniks? Public Wary Of Military Solutions In Afghanistan And Iran [13] – I wouldn’t say “Public Wary” but “Public Weary” — the actions of the Bush Adminstration in Afghanistan (getting us in but trying it on the cheap while we were engaged in Iraq) and Iraq (plowing increasing dollars and lives for nebulous if not phony premises to begin with then for no solidly accepted reason to continue) not only destroyed our international credibility but have made the US populace tired of extending the conflicts, regardless of the merits of doing so.
- Get Your “Part E” On [14] – Clever.
- Focus on the Family Pumps Neary $100 K into Maine [15] – Feed the poor, clothe the naked, support the ballot proposition, care for the sick … yup, all basic tenets of what Jesus told us to do.
- Something Blue, Something Borrowed, Something Windmillish: Armin [16]
- Clive Thompson on Why Idling Mind Is Mother of Invention | Magazine [17] – Like most things, I think neglecting paying attention and focusing AND day-dreaming and idle cogitation is likely to reduce your productivity AND your happiness.
- 42 Essential 3rd Act Twists [18] – Wow — you could do worse (or less entertainingly) in NaNoWriMo than figure out how to string 30 of these together …
- George H. W. Bush on civility in politics : Thoughts from Kansas [19] – I would expect the Elder Bush to be sensitive to criticisms of his son. That said, I think he is both absolutely correct in calling for civility in the political rhetoric of this country (while still remaining honest as to the facts and one’s interpretation of them), and dead wrong that the rhetoric of the Left during W’s presidency was as bad as the rhetoric from the Right during the current Administration. Neither “side” is blameless here, but it seems the Right has escalated matters a bloody order of magnitude since losing power.
- Apple Unveils the Magic Mouse [20] – Oooooh …
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3 Comments To "Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 21 October 2009"
#1 Comment By BD On Wed 21-Oct-09 8:08pm @ 8:08pm
Well, remember Dave, to conservatives Woman are just really tall children and need to be treated like they are 12 years old.
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Oh, nice find on the 32 v 64 bit thing.
#2 Comment By Mary On Thu 22-Oct-09 3:44pm @ 3:44pm
The intense color of those photos from Russia make them seem otherworldly, especially the blues and greens. The amazing clarity of those early photo processes are something we gave up as photography was made more instantaneous.
#3 Comment By ***Dave On Thu 22-Oct-09 5:52pm @ 5:52pm
I’m not sure the colors are as otherworldly as they defy expectations — as if the old world should be black-and-white, sepia-toned (or coffee-toned), or at least faded.