Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- GOP Lawmaker Behind The Anti-‘Happy Holidays’ Resolution Sent A ‘Happy Holidays’ Greeting Last Year – I would say that hypocrisy is a greater opponent to Christmas than politeness.
- Conservatives Attack Health Bill Passage As A ‘Gift That Keeps On Taking,’ Threaten To Take Down X-Mas Tree – Um … if passage of the Health Care Reform bill in the Senate (such as it is) is really ruining Christmas for you, you might want to recall that the Christmas story starts with a census being held for purpose of taxation …
- Right wing bullies Build-A-Bear into removing videos about manmade climate change. – Disgusting. BaB didn’t “politicize the topic of global climate change” — the folks who had an ideological hissy-fit over it did so.
- Playing with Half a Deck – I’m sure the GOP response is that Democrats / Liberals are governed by convenience and whimsy, rather than principle. That, of course, is the problem.
- Just Wars and Detainees – The connection between modern “illegal combatants” and US Civil War POWs is fascinating, telling, and shaming.
- Bachmann on Government Welfare! [Dispatches from the Culture Wars] – BWAH-HA-HA!
- When religion and games intersect — and how it often goes badly – Two major factors at work here: oversensitivity of believers to anything that doesn’t reverence their particular vision of the divine, and the inability of the gaming industry to figure out to meaningfully intersect even TV-show-level religious discourse with a first person shooter.
- The 10 Things You Must Do First with Every New Netbook – Prolly not getting a Netbook this year (writing? what writing?), but some good advice here to sift through.
- Balloon boy’s parents sent to jail – Please let this story fade away with a new year …
- 15 Hacks Every Dropbox User Should Know – I suspect I underutilize this utility something awesome, but for what I use it — sharing files beetween computers without having to keep track of a thumb drive or kludge things through email — it works great.
- Incredible Underground Residence in Switzerland – “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit” … if Bilbo were building Bag End today, this looks fairly comfortable.
- Top 10 coffee-drinking countries – I’ll note that we probably hit the bottom reaches of this in our household, going through a couple of pounds per month.
- Now That’s a Tree! – Nice!
- Microsoft Security Essentials Ranks as Best-Performing Free Antivirus [Antivirus] – I’ve tried it out on at least one of our home machines, and it seems to do a good job. Not wholesale shifting all my supported tech base, but I will certainly plan on using it in the future.
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