Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- William Shatner Captain Kirk: Celebrities: GQ – A very, compellingly strange man.
- Bill Donohue Says Predatory Priests Are Not Pedophiles Because Most Victims Are Post Pubescent – Oh, well, as long as the victims were 12-13 years old, that makes it all okay and no need to investigate it. Is that really what you’re saying, Bill?
- Teabonics: David Pescovitz
- Initial reactions to the President’s new offshore oil drilling proposal – I don’t cavil so much as the easing the restrictions per se (we’re not all changing to sail cars overnight, and it’s not nearly the give-away the oil industry would like), but that it seems to be being done without any concessions from the GOP in energy policy planning. Either Obama is repeating poor strategy from HCR (give the GOP something for free and surely they’ll cooperate down the road, right?), or there’s more going on behind the scenes than we yet know. I hope it’s the latter.
- Microsoft: Google Chrome doesn’t respect your privacy – Not surprisingly, Microsoft isn’t the most reliable or disinterested party to be passing judgments on Google. Everything they say has a big “true, BUT …” associated with it.
- Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot DVD news: Announcement for Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot – The Complete Series | TVShowsOnDVD.com – I’ve always loved the camp whimsy of “Voyage into Space,” which was a (clumsy) compilation of several TV episodes into a single movie.
- Speed Racer: misunderstood art film? – Actually … I kinda liked this film, too, for just these reasons. And because it stayed true to the heart of the material without being a boring retread.
- Extraordinary details of the Queen’s finances revealed – Home News, UK – The Independent – Things are really tough all over, I guess.
- Les 50 meilleures infographics et data visualization | Le Blog de Bango – A metric tonne of great infographics.
- Hmm, Why Has Bachmann Stopped Bashing The Census? | TPMDC – Irony can be terribly, terribly amusing sometimes.
- Just When You Thought Free-Range Kids Was Catching On… – Certainly there are parents who take the job way too casually. But that doesn’t mean the only alternative is being permanently shackled to the tot until they are Age 18.
- Palin Can Now Add “Fake Interviewer” to Her Growing Resume. – Wow. This is (including the last update) almost pathetic enough to make me feel sorry for her.
- The most popular social sharing options on the top blogs – I don’t make use of any of these when I’m browsing (I do have a “Note in Reader” and “bit.ly” button on my browser to flag things for Google Reader and Twitter). I currently use ShareThis on my blog (with dedicated Twitter and FB buttons), but am considering taking it off because it’s not clear that anyone uses it (and the reporting feature at ShareThis doesn’t seem to be working for me).
- Clash Of The Titans review – Disappointing that the movie sounds so charmless, but the review’s worth reading for what’s being echoed everywhere else: SEE IT IN 2-D, NOT 3-D.
- Some Good Airbending News and Some Bad Airbending News – Cool new trailer (from Japan). Bad MNS insight …
- M16: Pillars of Creation – Too cool.
- ‘Walking Dead’ gets six-episode order – Woot! This comic is amazingly good, and just screams (so to speak) for a well-done TV series.
- The breast-implant-bomber telephone game, starring Fox News and WorldNetDaily | Media Matters for America
- Brian Frederick: Zombie attacks — Mattera goes after Stewart, Colbert – At least Stewart is clear (and usually funny) in his ad hominem attacks that he is, in fact, an entertainer, not a journalist. Mattera is not (on either account).
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