Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Orbiter [1]
- BBC News – Fidel Castro takes blame for persecution of Cuban gays [2] – Um … very nice … so, what are you changing?
- mental_floss Blog » The Nautical Roots of 9 Common Phrases [3] – This one’s for Mary.
- Reading, Writing, and RFID Chips: A Scary Back-to-School Future in California [4] – Big Mother/Father Is Watching You(r Child)!
- M-m-m-my Sharia [5] – “If [American] mosques forced Islamic law upon their congregants, most Muslims would probably leave — just as most Christians might walk out of the pews if preachers gave sermons exclusively on Saint Augustine, canon law and Greek grammar.” What — you mean they’re HUMAN? Inconceivable!
- Ohio Tea Party Survey To Candidates: Reject Gay Rights, Let God Deal With Climate Change [6] – Wow. There’s eleventy kinds of crazy in those questions. (I vote “U”. With a dagger. And a frowny-face.) And what the heck does ” I advocated moving our currency to a debt-free supply-side labour-based currency” mean?
- Victorian “rather sinister” artificial arm and hand [7] – Wow. That’s some steampunky lovely. Now all we need is a ghost haunting it …
- Maes backs off claim of ‘undercover’ work in Kansas – The Denver Post [8] – Nothing to see here! Move along!
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