Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Ezra Klein – Budget context – It’s all a matter of perspective, innit?
- Face painting art – These are pretty remarkable.
- CONSERVATIVES STILL THINK YOU’RE ALREADY OVER-INSUREDThe Washington Monthly – Hence their continuous efforts to increase insurance company profits and decrease damage claims.
- Watch Out For The Gumblar Botnet – A note to my WordPress kinfolk …
- United States Using Less Water Than 35 Years Ago – Good Lord — that’s actually good environmental news. Yay, us!
- Rep. Jan Schakowsky: My Conversation with Goldman – These guys are going to be shocked, positively shocked, when the torches and pitchforks show up at their doorsteps.
- Facebook Chat may soon connect to iChat, GTalk, other Jabber clients – Very clever of Facebook — the question is, will you be able to receive chat from Facebook people in GTalk? Or only chat from GTalk people in Facebook. Given how FB generally has operated …
- 7 seriously wounded in shooting at Orlando high-rise – CNN.com – One wonders will the mass shooting in Orlando today lead to increased security scrutiny of ENGINEERS / ARCHITECTS? (Probably not.) Or of PEOPLE WITH HISPANIC SURNAMES? (Well, maybe if Lew Dobbs gets on the story.) Or of MEN? (Look! A pattern! Can’t trust any of ’em!)
- 1 Dead; At Least 8 Injured In Downtown Shooting – Orlando News Story – WESH Orlando – My company has an office in the building; all evacuated safely. But some former employees worked for the company in question, and may have been among the victims. Yikes.
- CBO memo on GOP health care plan: minimal actual effect by 2019. – How about the GOP just pay me a few billion dollars instead. Even more cheaper, and just as effective to reform health care.
- Developers stealing from developers: an App Store tale – Ars Technica – Caveat emptor. Don’t assume a company profile (or resume) is being truthful.
- PC Modern Warfare 2: it’s much worse than you thought – Ars Technica – Wow – that’s pretty sucktastic. Nice way to alienate a good chunk of your player base, Infinity Ward. (And I don’t even play the game.)
- Pilots’ artificial horizon lined up for a revamp – tech – 06 November 2009 – New Scientist – Very cool — and much more in keeping with, say, video game interfaces. It will be intersting to see if the aviation industry actually adopts this.
- Charlene Werner wants to go hide – This is a long clip, but it is worth it to hear about the science behind homeopathy — which is about as rich and concentrated (and sensical) as homeopathic “medicine” itself.
- Lego
- The Hollywood Studios Want To Control Your Television Set-Up – Want to be paid for product owned by you that I want to watch? No problem. Want to be able to control my home video hardware? Nuh-uh. I don’t trust Big Media as far as I can throw ’em.
- Handy marriage chart – Well, as long as it’s in a chart, then it must be right.
- Michelle Malkin » The massacre at Fort Hood and Muslim soldiers with attitude – Leave it to Michelle to turn this into part of the Great Muslim Conspiracy Against All That Is Right And Good And American And Christian. Complete with a commenter calling for internment camps. So when do we get to use the killing of George Tiller to throw the Pro-Life folks into internment camps, too? I mean, it’s only fair.
- SMBC – November 05, 2009 – MEAT!
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