Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Lieberman Criticizes Administration For Publicly Clashing With Israel: ‘Sometimes Silence Is Really Golden’ – “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.” That can be politeness, or it can be being an enabler.
- “The most demonic, Satanic movie of all time!” – The Exorcist? American Psycho? Life of Brian? Last Temptation of Christ? Harry Potter? Mere pikers …
- VIDEO: Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli Worried about the Government Tracking His Son – Told Crowd He Might Not Get Social Security # – Virginia is, apparently, for lunatics, not lovers.
- The Only Thing “Very Extreme” In This Scenario is MassResistance – Protection from “intent to maliciously promote hatred” for me, but not for thee.
- The ‘Life of Brian’ Debate (1979) – I remember the controversy over this (I even remember devoting a radio segment I did at college about it). I think that what the Pythons did here was ridicule everyone but Jesus — primarily people who are willing to toss out the brains God gave ’em in favor of blind adherence to a cause (whether religious or revolutionary).
- Nerd Burlesque Is Getting Weird – To paraphrase Vader, “I find your interest in these pictures disturbing …”
- Dell to sue 5 major LCD manufacturers for price fixing – Very interesting. Assuming Dell has a case, this could mean some major shakeups in LCD monitor pricing.
- How To Take Care Of Your Dishwasher, Washing Machine, And Oven – Some pretty good advice here.
- How To Play The Game – Nice intro to how the D&D thing (mechancially) more or less works.
- The Great Pacific Garbage Patch : Greg Laden’s Blog – The point here is important, overwhelmingly important: purveyors of science and folks who raise environmental concerns must be as strictly honest and clear as possible, both because truth and science should be synonymous, and because there are a thousand deniers and folks with a stake in denial who are ready to leap upon and discredit anything that might be said, even without exaggeration and misstatement to give them leverage. And one scientist or environmentalist discredited discredits everyone. With potentially tragic results.
- Test Your Broadband Speeds For The FCC – Ran this a couple of times; the two different test sites gave fairly different answers, but the main on indicated about 8500kbs down, 5400kbs up, 30ms latency, 3ms jitter.
- Could Porn Be Good For Society? – “But we disapprove of it, therefore it must be evil.”
- Evidence for life on Mars may be staring us in the face – space – 15 March 2010 – New Scientist – And, no, it’s not the Face on Mars.
- Every time you make a PowerPoint … « Mark Goetz – HA!
- Conservative Blogger: “Isn’t It Time To Euthanize Reid’s Wife?” – As someone else once said, “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”
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