Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Confirmed: Google Reader is Going Real Time (Updated) – Cool. Quicker GReader response to feeds can only be a good thing. I’m using PubSubHub on my main blog, but I probably need to enable it on my others.
- Obama explains climate science to global warming deniers. – Thank you, Mr. President. Not that it will stop the professional deniers, but it might give a few citizens out in the trenches something to think about.
- The 20 Funniest Figure Skating Faces: Pics, Videos, Links, News – Funny (and only one set of them intentional), but, really — take a snapshot of any of us in the middle of physical exertion and we’d all look at silly.
- John Birch Society sponsored conservative CPAC conference – The Birchers have been the nutso fringe of the anti-commie Right since the 50s. That they are back in favor and influence is telling, damning, and worrisome.
- America’s Wind Energy Potential Triples in New Estimate – Excellent. Because it’s a relatively new field of engineering (and focus), I expect there will be even more improvements over the next decade or two.
- Across state lines – “The industry would go with the state that offered the sweetest deal — which is to say, the most lax oversight with the fewest restrictions — and before long, it would be consumers’ only choice. Why? Because every insurer would move to that state, leaving Americans — lacking a public option — with no other coverage to buy. That’s exactly what happened with the credit card industry, and it’s a model to be avoided, not followed.”
- Ashcroft strays from the GOP script – John Ashcroft – Weak on Terror?!
- CPAC audience boos former GOP Rep. Bob Barr for saying waterboarding is torture. – Ah, the high moral ground. But, again, it’s always helpful to get this sort of reaction in the open.
- How Welcome Are Gays At CPAC? – More social-vs-fiscal conservatives arguing over whose not-so-big tent it really is.
- Barber Again Demands Judge Walker’s Recusal – Our justice system demands that, short of a clearly compelling conflict of interest, we assume that judges can rise above politics, personal prejudice, personal religious belief, etc. Otherwise, nobody could judge anything.
- Olympic Sissy Men – Olympic ski jumping is “not appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view.” WTF?
- CPAC Conference Dissolves Into Right-Wing Civil War Over Gay Rights – There should actually be little natural common ground between fiscal conservatives and social conservatives. As this exchange shows, shoehorning both into the same conservative movement can lead to sparks.
- 4 Simple Principles of Getting to Completion – I need to pass this on to folks at work.
- A Sensible Response to Terrorism – Good Lord, man! Don’t you know there’s no room in this world for a Sensible Examination of How to Deal with Terrorism and Violence?
- Synthetic Reefer Madness – “It’s incredible that we’ve already got legislators in two states making moves to put people in jail over this stuff and they have no clue whether it’s even remotely dangerous.” That’s because nobody ever lots a vote for banning something that some people enjoy and other people find scary. Maybe that should change.
- Publisher: “If You Can Afford An Ebook Device, You Can Pay More For Ebooks” – Look — just the way to kill the epublishing industry. Or to provide an opportunity for someone to eat their lunch. Money graf: “So you’re right, publisher; maybe I can afford to buy an ereader device. That doesn’t mean you can jack up the price on your crappy digital copy that currently offers less usefulness than a physical copy, and then hide behind the device’s potential and cry, ‘I want to be treated like I make expensive baubles too!’ Because you don’t. You currently make poorly proofread digital files stripped of most of the qualities that make digital content awesome.”
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