Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate – NYTimes.com – I’m shocked, shocked to discover that the fossil fuels gang pulled a “tobacco industry” on scientific finding from their own people that global warming was real and human-caused. Why-ever would they do that?
- Happy Hour Discurso – GOP/Fox shenanigans a-plenty.
- It’s all on Obama now – Fair enough — and good enough. And actually kind of ironic, because it’s the Democrats that have been holding onto Bush-Cheney a lot longer than most of the Republicans have.
- 4E Skill Challenges made easy – This is taking some of the lessons of skill challenge analogs from other systems and apply thtme to D&D 4E. And well, too. Recommended reading. (via Doyce)
- Apparently, Chuck has been renewed for a 3rd season. – Seriously behind on Chuck-watching, but all the cool kids say this is a Good Thing.
- Solving the Mystery of Mercury [Starts With A Bang] – It was assumed for a long, long time that Mercury was locked to the sun (see pretty much every SF story mentioning Mercury until the 70s or so). It was amazing to discover otherwise, and very cool to hear (it appears) why.
- The LHC, Black Holes and You [Starts With A Bang] – Science can be fun!
- Bachmann + Teh Stoopid = Spinning Wheels [Greg Laden’s Blog] – Mwah-ha-ha!
- Corporate Welfare In Perspective [The Corpus Callosum] – Unfortunately ideologues and demagogues only see things (or proclaim things) in black and white. The muddle of grays in reality is either offensive or too troublesome to deal with.
- Ironic Quote of the Day [Dispatches from the Culture Wars] – To riff off of True Lies: “Did you ever torture anyone?” “Yeah, but they were all bad.”
- Matthew Yglesias » Corporate Nationality – Part of why transnational companies are still associated with a given country is just historic inertia. Another big part is which country’s laws they do business under (and which country’s government they go to for bail-outs). But, yes, to a large degree, focusing on the nation of ownership of the goods you buy misses the point.
- Google Accidentally Offends Japanese Sensibilities – FOXNews.com – Um … not that the US has a great track record regarding racial/ethnic matters, but this is, ah, remarkable: providing historical maps that show (among other things) were lowest-caste Japanese once lived is considered, de facto, prejudicial because people might make use of that info to discriminate. Crikey — yeah, much better to simply pretend the problem doesn’t exist by protesting the information than confront it and deal with it. Sheesh.
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Chuck renewed? Excellent! I hope they keep the whole cast, including the latest addition, who won’t be a regular, of course (and of whom I think you would heartily approve, Dave).