Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Michelle Malkin Mocks the Idea of Broadening the GOP for Diversity’s Sake – Go, Michelle, go! Marginalize the GOP even further! Woot!
- A Good Offense Is The Best Defense: publius
- I’d Rather be Famous than Righteous or Holy – What? You mean you can actually govern through some other mechanism that fear? Wow — who’da thunk?
- Prioritizing Religious Resources: Jim and Brenda Johnson
- Out on a limb: Arm-swinging riddle is answered – I had no idea it was a riddle …
- Things I Learn From My Patients – Words to live by. Really. I mean, please, please, please don’t try these at home.
- Windows 7 Ultimate RTM Cracked, Fully Validated (Already?) – PC World – Heh.
- But other than that, how was the service? pt. II – Wow, it’s like a Consumerist story from the 19th Century …
- Light – When you have lemons …
- Gloves?! Pikachu Doesn’t Wear Gloves! [Screengrab] – “… I choose YOU!”
- Songsmith – Flagged for playing around with at home …
- Shocking Video! Manhattan Bridge Twisting And Turning [Infrastructure] – Hey, can we add a “Practical Engineering” course to the curriculum at school? I mean, people should know about this kind of thing.
- Reading Matter: What Tor.com posters recommended for a 13-yo girl – Some cool ideas here.
- My First Comic-Con – Looking forward to attending next year. (I love the mass Doctor picture; wish there was a blow-up shot.)
- Atheist Charity: Food for Banned Books – Hmmm. I might drop by!
- We pray together. And that’s enough – “Our struggles are not a ‘bug’ – they’re a ‘feature'” – This is a huge reason I love the Episcopal Church: because for all we loudly debate over theology, at our best we realize that’s a side conversation. We’re less concerned with creedal orthodoxy than with relationship and community around the communion table. Which is why pressures from some to abandon the latter in favor of the former are, paradoxically, tearing us apart.
- Are Pet Stores seeing a 101 Dalmatian Effect after G-Force? – It’s disheartening to think that people are so shallow, unconsidering, and flighty that they’d just give in to a kid’s request for a pet because the movie was so much fun, like buying a plush toy. Alas, almost certainly likely to be a problem. I doubt there will be a lot of returns, though; GPs are fragile enough (and disposable enough) that the outcomes will be hidden.
- 2009-07-29: Sinfest: by me
- The Future of Book Banning? – That’s a really good point. Works that exist only electronically (with DRM) are far too easy to simply be lost, through malice, censorship, mistake, or disinterest. Just as a lot of personal correspondence is lost over time in electronic mail, so a lot of books in the “paperless future” will be lost.
- Kyl: Health insurance companies ‘don’t need to be kept honest.’ – Yes. Yes they do. Because otherwise they won’t be.
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On the future of book banning: I’d point out that while electronic books could be more easily banned from specific corners of the Web, and being lost in the tidal surge of data is a real fear, that the web also gives works many more places to hide and thrive away from the hostile view of those who would ban it.