Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Dan Dubno: Walter Cronkite: When He Wasn’t ‘The Most Trusted Man in America’: Dan Dubno
- Pat Buchanan, white nationalism, and the American future: David Neiwert
- Sarah Palin Has Developed Flying Twitters Enriched With Uranium – This is just as messed up and incoherent as it was when I first saw it in my Twitterfeed. I think monkeys are just as likely to fly out of her butt. These self-serving “Alaska is better off without my political baggage dragging her down” messages are just desperate little pleas for attention.
- New images of Moon landing sites
- People For the American Way: As Senate Prepares to Take Up Hate Crimes Bill, Far Right’s Inflammatory Claims Should Not Be Taken Seriously – A pretty definitive summary and takedown of the unsupportable accusations by the Far (and not-so-far) Right on this bill.
- Iowa wedding announcement creates controversy for Indiana newspaper « Iowa Independent – They not only don’t want it to exist, they don’t want anyone to know about it — certainly not in any normal, mainstream fashion. It’s hard to paint gays as creepy-weird deviants if they have engagement announcements in the local newspaper.
- Cities Like Seoul Rediscover Waterways They Paved Over – NYTimes.com – Which calls to mind the many buried rivers of London …
- Virginia GOP candidate raises specter of civil war – I remain amazed by the rhetoric (and its purveyors) that this Administration has brought crawling out of the walls.
- Keeping Abreast of Pornographic Research in Computer Science – Steve Hanov’s Programming Blog – If these detection algorithms work well enough, they might be used on a per-person filter (or search), letting people see the Web (and its content) as they individually would like to. Of course, some folks will insist that some other folks shouldn’t see stuff that they don’t want to see themselves.
- 5 Atrocious Science Clichés to Throw Down a Black Hole | Wired Science | Wired.com – Science writing has been as bad, in its own way, as sports writing when it comes to these sorts of things.
- Walter Cronkite Passes Away at 92 – I grew up with Cronkite exemplifying the news and what a newsman should be.
- Blogathon Needs You! – Don’t feel like you can manage the blogging for the Blogathon? Here’s something you can do. And what they say about the value of someone dropping in with a chat or a comment at 3 a.m.? Absolutely true.
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