Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Your plan for the (probably not) coming apocalypse – Yeah, I am going to have to do one of these posts. Though I suspect I will not be nearly as survivable as Doyce & Co. Maybe we can tag along. We'll bring the canned goods (and can opener).
- Nekkid – A classic tale in our social circle. Though evidently not everyone had heard it yet. That’s amusing.
- Browser-Based Multiplayer Sierra Adventures – Ah. Very cool. I need to check some of these blasts from the past out.
- Swine Flu Map – Cool! Scary, but cool!
- My Location now in Google Toolbar – I’d like to see this better integrated with other Google tools, not just with the Google Toolbar (which I don’t use, and don’t need, in FF).
- PowerPoint and TIFF file viewing – Small but cool QoL additions to GMail.
- WTC Logo Preservation Project – An interesting commercial art preservation effort.
- Specter’s play for political survival: kos
- Swine Flu, Cultural Sensitivity, and a slight lack thereof: [The Questionable Authority] – I’m sorry — I’m really trying to figure out how the whole dietary restriction thing makes a bit of difference in how we name the disease. Are people going to feel more sick if they think it’s from an unclean animal? Will doctors refuse to treat them? Yeesh.
- Santorum: Reconciliation ‘Has Never Been Done Before’ — Except For When I Used It: Ali Frick
- Bush Flashback: “War Crimes Will Be Prosecuted…It Will Be No Defense To Say, ‘I Was Just Following Orders’” – Well, that’;s because the Order Givers were evil, scum-sucking war criminals themselves, not virtuous upholders of democracy and goodness and puppies, right?
- Kilmeade: McCain ‘Should Not Be Allowed To Talk On Torture’ Because ‘He Was Tortured’ – What. A. Jerk.
- Rachel Maddow on what we know now about Bush’s torture program. – Yeah, it keeps looking uglier and uglier — not in what was done (which was already ugly), but in its timing and direction.
- The OLC “Torture Memos”: Thoughts from a dissenter By Philip Zelikow | Shadow Government – Money graf: ‘We live in a policy world too inclined to turn lawyers into surrogate priests granting a form of absolution. “The lawyers say it’s OK.” Well, not really. They say it might be legal. They don’t know about OK.’
- Reagan’s Convention Against Torture – Dispatches from the Culture Wars – Of course, that was in the Old Days, when we were focused on the Godless Commies torturing folks.
- Recriminations after lower Manhattan jet flyover sets off panic, memories of 9/11 — chicagotribune.com – Wow. This was pretty darned ‘tone-deaf.’
- Neuroscience of junk-food cravings, researched in a Chili’s dumpster – Interesting.
- Michael Jackson’s weirdest detritus, a photoset – Wow. Just … freaky.
- Home Office official offered advice and “comfort” to Phorm spyware vendor: Cory Doctorow
- Harvard’s Islamic chaplain: “great wisdom” in death penalty for apostates – Metamagician and the Hellfire Club: – Wow. This isn’t some yokel in Iran or terrorist in Gaza. This is the Islamic chaplain at Harvard. Who does indeed tout the subject line, despite disagreement from “hegemonic modern human rights discourse.” Yeesh.
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