Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Mayoral Mistake: California Official Should Stay Out Of The Salvation Business | The Wall of Separation – Some people aren’t happy unless they can publicly pass moral judgment on others.
- Why there’s no sign of a climate conspiracy in hacked emails – environment – 04 December 2009 – New Scientist – Nonetheless, expect this to be flogged by global warming (and science, in general) skeptics for decades.
- Tom Tancredo Will Not Run For Colorado Governor – Awwwwww …
- Palin Sympathizes With Birthers But Hits Reporters For Pushing ‘Stupid Conspiracies’: Amanda Terkel
- Welcome To Focus On The Family’s Brave New World – Focus has a pretty scary perception of sex. No big news there.
- Trivial Pursuit and the War Between the Sexes – Okay, that’s goofy. (And, um … it’s “than whoM,” dammit!)
- Powerful Prosthetics: The Ultimate Integration of Design and Technology – This is going to be every interesting to watch over the next 30-40 years. Some real societal challenges here. What happens when prosthetics get to be really as good as, if not better than, the real thing … and people start choosing them voluntarily.
- Gigapixel Photo of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath – One Man’s Blog – Very cool.
- Is Anyone Riding the Google Wave? – I’ve been invited in, but haven’t figured out what to do with it. Esp. since, well, not everyone has an active Google account.
- 50 Revealing Portraits of Power – Platon – Fascinating pictures of the most visible political movers and shakers, world-wide — “warts and all” close-ups. Notably few women.
- No Escape From “ClimateGate” | The Intersection | Discover Magazine
- Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori concerning proposed bill in Uganda – NewsLine – “Finally, we note that much of the current climate of fear, rejection, and antagonism toward gay and lesbian persons in African nations has been stirred by members and former members of our own Church. We note further that attempts to export the culture wars of North America to another context represent the very worst of colonial behavior. We deeply lament this reality, and repent of any way in which we have participated in this sin.” Amen.
- How to Setup Google DNS on your Windows Computer or Wireless Router – Videos – anybody noticed any improvements ?
- 6 Hilarious Attempts at Brainwashing Kids With Comic Books – Wow. Just … wow. Where’s Dr. Wertham when we need him?
- Would the liberal base of the Democratic party walk next election – Will the Dem base let the GOP win? Not consciously. But voting (or thinking about voting) is one thing, and actively campaigning and fund-raising and rallying is quite another. Alienating the base (whatever your base is) is rarely a good idea; taking it for granted is a good way to lose, even if it’s not by a lot.
- Sweden cutting aid to Uganda over ‘appalling’ Anti-Homosexuality Bill. – Repeated in order to quote George on this: ”
On the one hand, we have Rick Warren, who can’t find it in himself to condemn laws that will imprison or kill gays. On the other hand, secularists who not only condemn it, but make it costly. Will someone explain to me again how there’s no morality without God?”
- Even After CBO Reports Stimulus Created Up To 1.6 Million Jobs, Conservatives Claim It ‘Failed’ – Don’t confuse me with the facts! I’m pontificating here!
- Box Turtle Bulletin » Uganda Responds To International Furor Over “Kill Gays” Bill – “It is so unfair that all those people giving us aid money are threatening to stop doing so just because we plan on executing ‘aggravating’ gays. Colonialists!”
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Good grief, man, now I will never extract myself from my computer with all these juicy articles to read!
Looks like my work here is done, Tonto … 😉
BTW: I added one of Google’s DNS servers to my set up (as primary DNS) and resolution seems about 50% slower than using Verizon’s (I have Verizon FiOS at home). YMMV.
I’m not entirely surprised. I’d definitely run that DNS speed thing I linked to in order to see what makes most sense.
DNS speed tests for me here: https://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2009/12/05/great-googley-moogley-google-dns-benchmarks.html