Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- SDO: The Extreme Ultraviolet Sun
- YouTube – Virginia’s new iPad – When she was born, the Wrights had only recently flown; telephones were just beginning to spread (albeit with manual exchanges); there were no regularly scheduled radio broadcasts; the zipper had not yet been invented, but the first electric refrigeration units were just being crafted; there was no stainless steel, and there was no greatest invention since sliced bread (which first showed up in 1928). Which makes me wonder what wonders I have yet to see over the rest of my life, and marvel at all that’s changed in my own handful of decades …
- What if the old curmudgeon teaching economics married that cute, brainy geography teacher? « Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub – This is a pretty cool effort. Will be keeping my eye open for the stamped $1 bills.
- Full Frontal Nerdity by Aaron Williams – Teach the Controversy!
- Fowl Math For A Chicken-Based Health Care Economy | TPMDC – As DOF notes, one wonders if medical schools will let their students pay off their loans in chickens, too …
- Wonk Room » NEW STATISTIC: 13,425 Soldiers Discharged Under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell – So has spending a couple of hundred million dollars, and getting rid of 13K active duty personnel over the last 17 years actually made our country safer? Shyeah, right.
- Paramount And M. Night Shyamalan Make ‘Airbender’ Into 3D Conversion – Deadline.com – I’m utterly unconvinced that 3D conversions — any more than color conversions — actually work, except to drive up ticket prices. Feh.
- CenturyTel to buy Qwest in $10.6 billion stock swap – The Denver Post – I can see my office building from here!
- Denver may curb all-walk intersections – The Denver Post – That would be a shame. I kind of like the downtown pedestrian signals as they currently are. (Plus … four-car trains? Yikes.)
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