Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Twitter Ad Platform ‘Imminent’ (Laurie Sullivan/MediaPost) – It will be interesting to see (a) how obstrusively awful these are, (b) what it does to affect Twitter subscriptions (Google’s timing with Buzz may be perfect), and (c) how Twitter clients figure out ways to (without getting banned) filter the ads out.
- Design flaws in humans (OneNewsNow.com) – So there are myriad imperfections in human (and animal, and plant) biology — but that doesn’t disprove “intelligent design,” but is the fault of “the Fall.” Got it.
- 20 Beautiful Nature Wallpapers – Wow – some gorgeous ones here.
- Why computers suck – SMBC February 23, 2010 – Saving this one for our security folks …
- Lord of the Rings Theatrical-Edition Blu-Ray Angers Fans – Needless to say, even if I had a Blu-Ray player (which I don’t, yet), I wouldn’t be buying this first offering.
- Street Vendor Loses Permit For NOT Urinating In Bottle – I understand the intent of the law, but it has a “let them piss cake” (so to speak) feel about it.
- Balancing The Stone – Money graf (from the final footnotes): “This is one of those explicit divergences between tabletop play and the fiction it models. All that conflict and tension that makes for great stories has to ground out through your players. If they’re not synced up with you, then you can expect to smell a lot of ozone and burnt plastic.” Words to GM by.
- 10 Reasons to Avoid Talking on the Phone – Phone – Gizmodo – Look good to me!
- New Credit Card Laws: What You Need To Know About Rates And Fees – These all seem very reasonable. If the credit card companies cannot make a (sizeable) profit while adhering to these rule now in effect, they should fire their management.
- Gay Soldiers Don’t Cause Disruption, Study Says – NYTimes.com – Why does the Right think so little of the professionalism of our armed forces?
- Limbaugh, health care, and ‘reparations’ – It’s hard to see Limbaugh’s comments as anything other than trying to stir up racist fears and hatred. What an ass. And yet this is the guy that the whole GOP quivers in fear toward.
- The ‘beginning of a new day’? – Money graf: “It’s either a rare and encouraging breakthrough, or a relief that comes from the soft bigotry of low expectations.”
- Pam’s House Blend:: Stopping marriage equality lands at the bottom of CPAC attendees’ agenda – CPAC is more traditional/fiscal conservative in many ways, though there was plenty of gaybashing from the podium. Of more note than the very low showing of gay marriage as the most critical issue, is that they evidently have no concerns over high health care costs. Must be nice.
- Virginia State Delegate: ‘I Don’t Believe That Disabled Kids Are God’s Punishments, Period’ | TPM LiveWire – Commence the furious backpedaling!
- Stupidly worded poll – People like to pooh-pooh technology, but much of how we live our lives is dependent on it, even discounting the blingy gadgets we wave around. (And one person’s superfluous gadget — cell phone, PDA, GPS — is another person’s critical business need and another person’s bright idea for some way to make everyone’s life more convenient).
- Does Wal-Mart Make You Skinny? – Page 1 – The Daily Beast – Interesting. I suppose, lacking alternatives, that’s a good thing.
- 4 Effective Tips To Ask a Girl Out On Facebook – Yeah, this is all pretty goofy. Then I think of the courtship routines that I went through back in high school, and …
- Rep. King Justifies Suicide Attack On IRS: Sympathizes With Hatred Of IRS, Hopes For Its Destruction – Recall the (appropriate) outrage when Ward Churchill justified the murderous terror attacks on 9/11 as targeting “Little Eichmanns”? Apparently when the target is the IRS (or whomever happens to be in the building at the time), Rep. King (R-IA) thinks it’s pretty justified, too (if “sad”). The lunatics really have taken over the asylum in the GOP.
- Woman With Breast Cancer Turns To Pasta Fundraisers To Finance Chemo After Insurers Deny Her Coverage – But remember — it’s the Best Medical Care System in the World(TM)!
- While AU Asks IRS to Investigate LU, LU Presses For Its Own Polling Place – It’s nice to own the (ecclesiastical) company store. Jerry Falwell, Jr, seems a right chip off the old block.
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