Links that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …
- Teenager’s 60-Foot Roof Wang Backfires, Rich Parents Dole Out “Punishment” [Pranks]: Sean Fallon
- US Immigration Law Used To Censor Foreign Scholars: ACLU: The Huffington Post News Team
- Senate Guru: David Vitter, Successful Scofflaw: Senate Guru
- Ian Welsh: The $50 billion price tag for America’s irrational fears: Ian Welsh
- If you recently bought organic brown eggs … [Eggs] – Shoppers take note!
- People Skydiving to See Space Shuttle Launch [Space] – Wow. This sounds very cool.
- Faked Infanticide? – Let me get this straight — in order to support their ostensibly Christian missionary work, these yahoos filmed a fake documentary about how Brazilian native tribes bury babies alive? What part of “going straight to Hell” do they not understand?
- SCI FI tested Beyond and SFC along with Syfy – Actually, it’s only partly that “Syfy” is just too goofy for words (“SFC” would have been just too generic, and “Beyond” would have been interesting, but …). The real issue is that the channel felt the need to run away from their current name in the first place.
- What not to do in an emergency – God lands those who land themselves.
- Sci Fi Channel Co-Founder Hates the Name Change, Too! – And the hits just keep on hitting. The story linked to is pretty darned interesting, too.
- Fox News VP: Fox is ‘the voice of opposition’ to the Obama administration. – I have no problem with Fox openly being “the voice of the opposition.” But that’s very different from being, ostensibly, “fair and balanced.” They need to make up their mind which they want to tout being.
- QOTD – I’m very glad I made that decision the direction I did.
- The “Monster Difference” Is Easy To See When You Compare HDMI To Crappy Composite Cables [Monster Cable] – Crikey. Very disappointing about Fry’s. Monster Cable, on the other hand, has always been shameless.
- Warner opens vault, dusts off oldies for DVD, digital sale – Oooh, some very cool old films here.
- “Science first and leave politics at the door” – What a novel concept!
- DRM ‘A Waste of Time,’ Says World of Goo Dev – Lays it out very clearly. “You just end up giving the DRM provider money. Anything that is of interest gets cracked, and the cracked version ends up having a better user experience than the legit version because you don’t have to input in some 32-character serial number.”
- SNS – short novel service – This is very fun.
- Michele Bachmann Wants A Revolution – Needs Bigger Army – I am trying, seriously, to figure out if folks like this are sincere (and thus merely seriously, near-hopelessly, but only misguided) or simply provocateurs (in which case, damn their eyes).
- Barbie Tattoos: Countdown to LDS Outrage – I will confess that I will discourage Katherine for any number of practical reasons not to get tatooed. But if she does, it’s not a sin. Just a grave lapse in long-term aesthetic judgment. At least in the eyes of her fuddy-duddy daddy.
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