Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Prevaricating Pastors: Mendacious Ministers Prove It’s Still Legal To Be Bigots | The Wall of Separation – Money graf: “They proved that pastors can spout all of the anti-gay stuff they want and not get arrested. That’s what I’ve been saying all along, and I appreciate them proving my point.”
- Mr. And Mr. Name Hyphen Name – Another note for all of you “there’s no harm in not letting them Officially Federally Marry” folks.
- Christian Right Holds Massively Ignored Hate Rally At Department Of Justice: Joe
- Liars Tell More Lying Lies – Now, now, now, it’s always okay to lie if you’re doing it for GOD.
- Georgia Teacher Arrested For Putting Hit On Student He Accused Of Being Gay: Joe
- O’Reilly Upset Over 9/11 Trials: ‘I Don’t Care About The Constitution!’ – Bill O’Reilly doesn’t care about the Constitution? Yeah, not a big surprise there. That’s one of those “technicalities” the Right is always railing against.
- A retraction, and an apology to Mark Shields. – Consider this my own retraction, as I redirected the TP story. I pass the amused glare over at Mr Krauthammer.
- An Iconic Lion for an Iconic Institution – But … which of the Lions is it? Patience or Fortitude?
- Texas man grabs for cellphone, drives $1M Bugatti Veyron into salt marsh – In case you still don’t believe that cell phones in the car can be a costly distraction. No blood and guts here, but plenty of tears. (Bonus: someone was actually taking a video of the car when it happened.)
- Sarah Palin Lies To Oprah – It’s interesting that electronic “paper” trails are providing such increasing fact checks on politicians’ later (though in this case not that much later) tales.
- Google Search Box Suggestions Allow Us to Peer into the Internet’s Dark, Disturbing Id – I confess that sometimes odd questions come to my mind — but I don’t usually ask Google about them.
- The Joy of Giving Up / CYHMN? 8 – The question becomes, what is the most useful level of engagement. Walking away from everyone who disagrees with you arguably makes problems worse. Doing a rhetorical cost-benefit analysis (and giving the benefit side a bit of the benefit of the doubt) is probably a useful approach.
- Video: Bomb-Proof Wallpaper vs Wrecking Ball [Home Decor] – Interesting. And, makes sense how it would work.
- Some “interesting” sites you visit, here.: Cheezburger Network
- Admzaa, Rapture Forums – For context, FSTDT clip particularly noteworthy (for their laugh/goggle factor) bits from fundamentalist forums. In this case, the number of fundamental (so to speak) misapprehensions in just the first few paragraphs is so staggering that it’s depressingly difficult to imagine how this person could be brought back in alignment with reality.
- Facebook Bet Fail – Natural selection at work …
- American Airlines Fires Web Designer For Helping Customer [American Airlines] – While I sympathize with Mr X (and generally despise American Airlines), his reaching out to the someone and telling apologetic tales out of school about how his company’s web site design process is maddening and disjointed, while on his company’s email system, was extremely ill-advised (esp. if he’s actually signed an NDA). I hope he finds a good job elsewhere, for a better company, but has also learned something in the process.
- Confessions of a Community College Dean: Speaking – Being able to communicate is invaluable. It will get you in the door, it will make your work relationships better, it will make your customer relationships better … it’s all win.
- Computational cameras perfect your photos for you – tech – 17 November 2009 – New Scientist – Some very cool innovations here — but, yes, they need to be simple to use (and simple to override), otherwise, they’ll just be a waste of money for most people.
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