Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Jim Hill : “The Art of How to Train Your Dragon” reveals the film that DreamWorks Animation almost made – Fascinating look at the creative changes that went into the movie (which is excellent).
- A Miracle! – SMBC May 04, 2010 – And thus the course of religion and mythology were changed forever …
- The True Facts about Bottled Water that Science doesn’t want you to know | – Is it evil of me that I want to see this widely distributed?
- The Impact and Consequence of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell | Gay Rights | Change.org – The idea that our own troops are less disciplined, less flexible, and less willing to stand by their comrades in arms than the Israelis or the Brits should be offensive to anyone who supports the US military.
- How Capt. Kirk Changed the World – NASA Science – I’d feel better if the quote used as a photo caption weren’t from the World’s Worst Star Trek Episode Ever.
- Police barred from penis enlargement | Reuters – For that, you have to hire private dicks …
- Disparate Trends in Permissiveness: Homosexuality and Prostitution: lisa
- Around The Interwebs – Pop-O-Matic Kitteh!!!!
- Terry Pratchett: Doctor Who isn’t science fiction – Classic Doctor Who was, at best, space opera of the sophistication, physics, and often special effects of the old Buck Rogers serials. Current Doctor Who is, honestly, fantasy with (usually) SF trappings (space ships, time travel, robots). That’s not necessarily a bad thing — in fact, it’s damned entertaining. It’s not SF in terms of “speculative fiction” — the Doctor demonstrates that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Matt Gertz: Fox hammers White House for not insulting Jewish Americans – Fox continues to totter on the verge of self-parody. What a bunch of maroons.
- ‘Teabaggers’ discover political correctness – Ha!
- CWA Pre-Emptively Declares They Cannot Support Obama’s SCOTUS Nomination – Money graf: “So CWA urged President Bush to ignore any requests that he consult with anyone before making any nomination, because they were just going to oppose the nominee anyway and the president has the constitutional power to name any candidate he chooses … and now CWA is writing to President Obama, demanding that he listen to them and put forth a nominee that they can support, threatening that if he doesn’t, they will be left with no option but to oppose his choice?”
- FRC Founding Board Member Discovered Traveling With “Rent Boy” – Reading about the virulently anti-gay pol or religious leader (or both) who turns out to be gay (and covertly and actively so) is almost becoming cliche. If I weren’t so angry about their hateful and harmful hypocrisy, I’d feel very sorry for their clear self-loathing and fear.
- Health Supplement Guru Nearly Dies After Ingesting Own Product – HA!
- Color Survey Results – This is really interesting stuff, looking at how people (including some gender differences) refer to colors.
- Could a Mini Horse Be Bred Small Enough to Fit in Your Palm? – I have an uncomfortable feeling about breeding animals to such extremes (yes, I feel the same about, say, dogs), but … it is cute.
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