Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Warren Ellis » You Will Build This For Me Now – I’d be willing to chip in for the construction.
- Apple’s Lala team will soon put iTunes into the Cloud? – The cloud is cool — and as long as I can keep possession of my own stuff on my own hardware, I’d love to take advantage of it.
- SCOTUS To Hear R-71 Petition Names Disclosure Case – “OMG! We might be harassed! And hassled! For harassing and hassling gays! Protect us!”
- In the event of a water landing – “Do it again! Do it again!”
- O’Reilly laments that you can’t make fun of Arabs anymore: ‘What has changed in America?’: Alex Seitz-Wald
- Texas Social Studies Curriculum: Out With Civil Rights Leaders, In With Phyllis Schlafly And Joseph McCarthy – Can’t wait to see what they decide about geography …
- Despite Layoffs, Focus Spending Millions of Super Bowl Ad – Because they’re all about taking care of families … just not of laid-off employees.
- Liberty Counsel: Still Silent On Lisa Miller: Kyle
- Mass photo-shoot in Trafalgar Square this Saturday: Cory Doctorow
- Ares 1 is ‘safest choice’ to replace shuttle – space – 19 January 2010 – New Scientist – I tend to agree (though I’m obliged to note my company has work related to the Ares).
- Microsoft Office, Version Bland.0 – When you think you own the market, you don’t have to be attractive. At least, that seems to be the thinking.
- Saab JA37 Viggens, Farnborough, 1974 (photo by John Hamlin) – Always thought, growing up, that the Viggens were really, really cool. A lot of the jets I drew as a kid looked like them.
- Media Matters staff: Fox chyron: “What can Brown do for you? — A boost in your 401K may be in the cards” – Fox “News” – the media arm of the GOP.
- Will The Justice Department Investigate A Possible Cover-Up Of Homicides At Guantánamo Bay?: Zaid Jilani
- Tea Party divide: Some complain of being ‘ignored’ by RNC, while others warn of being ‘hijacked by GOP.’: Faiz Shakir
- Real Life Comics – strip for January / 14 / 2010 – This is why I don’t try brewing as a hobby. Because I would do some thing horrific like this.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Clouds of Witness (mini-series): Set 1 Release Contains the First 2 U.K. Mini-Series – Ooooh … more Peter Wimsey … a scosh pricey, but …
- NBC to Pay $40 Million to Show Conan O’Brien the Door – WSJ.com – Well, I sure hope NBC is happy. I’m sure Conan is laughing his way to the bank.
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The first thing I thought of during the week of Real Life Comics Beer brewing was the tale of the brew sack. =P
“…the rights of citizens who support a traditional definition of marriage to speak freely and without fear…”
Make that “…secretly and without fear.”
Some folks enjoy portraying themselves as martyrs.