Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Man Who Brought Assault Rifle To Obama Rally Was Part Of Radio Stunt (VIDEO): The Huffington Post News Team
- House Dems Rally Behind Public Option In Weekly Caucus Gathering: The Huffington Post News Team
- Helicopter taking off – Pretty!
- Proposed Co-Op Fails To Appease Republicans Who Insist It Is ‘Still Government-Run Health Care’ – So even “co-ops,” which were held out as a tease to get the Dems to back off from the public option aren’t, in fact, enough. The idea seems to be to keep compromising until all the Republicans and the Insurance Industry are happy. Which, honestly, doesn’t sound much like a compromise.
- Scarborough Concedes Public Option Is ‘Not A Government Takeover Of Health Care’ – Of course it’s not. But it makes for great red meat to throw to the masses.
- Two Readings of Scalia – I’m not sure I put anything past Scalia.
- Nomination: Worst Post of 2009: publius
- Cryptic Moves to Fix Beta Problems – While I’ve little doubt that folks would have been frustrated, the lack of clear, coherent communications on this during the course of the day was what drove a lot of people around the bend.
- CNN’s Don Lemon Schools Right Wing Protester About Who Is A “Real American” – Nice. Might have been nice as well to let him “define his terms” before shutting him down.
- How To: Backup And Search All Your Friends’ Tweets In Google Reader – Ooooh … this is cool, if you want to be able to find Tweets over the long haul. (The import command is in the GReader Settings.)
- Rick Perlstein — Birthers, Health Care Hecklers and the Rise of Right-Wing Rage – washingtonpost.com – Some interesting perspective on “the crazy tree” in modern American politics. The problem seems to be that the media is unwilling to judge it crazy (or manipulative) and simply not lend it the credence of an “equally valid position.”
- Photos of cake can keep you slim, say psychologists – health – 17 August 2009 – New Scientist – Looking at food is one thing … smelling it is quite another. Now I’m hungry.
- It’s true: all the taken men are best – life – 17 August 2009 – New Scientist – That no doubt explains all the women who stare at me. I’ll just keep telling myself that.
- Think Progress » Eight more companies stop advertising on Glenn Beck. – Good for them.
- Texting While Driving PSA Delivers Bloody, Bone-Crunching Message [Texting] – Wow. Just … wow. Remind me to show this to Katherine before she gets her first cell phone.
- Felicia Day risks a geeksplosion with “Do You Want To Date My Avatar” – Ha! Yeah, I can understand why so many in my reading circle posted about this. And, to boot, it’s a catchy tune.
- Why humans can’t navigate out of a paper bag – life – 18 August 2009 – New Scientist – Some very interesting studies about how we build (and lose) mental maps, and how the talent varies between individuals.
- Found: first amino acid on a comet – space – 17 August 2009 – New Scientist – Wow — that’s very cool.
- My company gave me a birthday card today.: Les
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