Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Specter Defends Empathy, Activism And Wise Latina-ism: The Huffington Post News Team
- Sessions claims Roberts and Alito answered questions more ‘crisply’ and with more ‘clarity’ than Sotomayor.: Faiz Shakir
- Paul Loeb: The Sotomayor Hearings – Branding the Neo-Confederates: Paul Loeb
- A Remembrance of CFJ Ads Past: Kyle
- Alan Colmes Talks To Wingers So You Don’t Have To – Wow. It’s … fringetastic.
- TSA officer caught stealing laptops at JFK – Disappointing but no real surprise.
- Twitter is not for teens, Morgan Stanley told by 15-year-old expert | Business | guardian.co.uk – Interestingly, a lot of this seems driven head-on by economics — going for free content vs pay content, avoiding Twitter if texting charges apply, etc.
- Sound effect: how cats exploit the human need to nurture | Science | The Guardian – I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that our cats manipulate us!
- Simon Pegg on why the undead should never be allowed to run | Film | The Guardian – Yeah, call me a zombie traditionalist, too.
- 45 Sets of Seamless Vector Patterns | Creative Nerds – Oooh … seriously bookmarking this.
- Pam’s House Blend:: Connecting the dots on the Defense Authorization Bill? – I’m with George. I hate it when folks graft bills I dislike into utter dissimilar must-pass legislation. I don’t like it any better when it’s bills I do support.
- OK… But I Could Set The Internet On Fire – There’s serious rumblings in the company about finally getting off of IE6 officially (though unofficially most folks have gone to IE7/8 … or Firefox … already).
- The Americans know this will end in schism | Tom Wright – Times Online – Wow. For an Anglican Bishop, he sure has some nassssty things to say about gays and their advocates.
- U.S. Opens Path to Asylum for Victims of Sexual Abuse – NYTimes.com – I can understand concerns about this being (if you will) abused. But I also would hate to see people turned away because of that concern.
- Burned out on the bickering among the pro-science forces? – I suppose it’s not much different from the classification problems of any sort of magazine as to what’s on topic and what’s not — only with a topic here that’s way loosey-goosey to begin with.
- Not so immoral after all: Vatican gives the latest Harry Potter absolution. But as for The Da Vinci Code . . . -Times Online – Well, I feel much better now.
- Resident Evil Shirt Feasts On The Flesh Of The Living [Comic-con] – That … is … awesome. (Hey, Mary, if you see these this year, I take a Large …)
- Cancel The F-22 – The F22 looks very spiffy. But not only is it a plane without a mission (which could be worked around), but it’s a plane that doesn’t seem to actually work very well.
- Color-Coded Terror Alert System May Be Replaced By Obama Administration – It seems to me that there must be a way to communicate to the public and local governmental agencies that’s both more informative and less “Yup, still in danger now.” I’m really tired of hearing “The alert level has been elevated to orange” at the airport — it’s basically become meaningless background noise (literally and informationally).
- Hey, why don’t we build the site in Flash! It’ll be realy cool! – Flash is an excellent example of people preferring the whiz-bang rather than the useful. There are times when it is useful, but not as a general web page presentation tool.
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