Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- FDA: McNeil Plant That Made Recalled Tylenol Is A Dirty Stinkpot With No Quality Control – Remember this next time some pharmaceutical company insists that name brand is so much better than generic.
- Ridley Scott: two Alien prequels, both in 3D – (1) Why Alien prequels? (2) Mad props to Scott for declining to turn “Robin Hood” 3D.
- State reservoirs expected to be in good shape – The Denver Post – So, low snowpack, but enough still in the reservoirs to avoid drought conditions this year. Huzzah!
- Marc Bekoff: Using Hamsters to Save Ferrets: The Need for Compassionate Conservation – As someone who had a job one summer breeding mice specifically to feed raptors being rehabilitated, I don’t have any ethical problems with such activities.
- IKEA groundbreaking: Store’s pros far outweigh cons, says Centennial – Denver News – The Latest Word – Woot! We noticed the construction equipment and site clearing going on last week, but knowing that ground is officially broken now is great.
- The Greatest Peter David Stories Ever Told! – Some great PAD comics here. Dunno if I could make them my “favorites” because there are so many others, both in the titles here and others. PAD is one of those writers whom I will buy pretty much anything from, sight unseen.
- Why Aren’t There More Terrorist Attacks? – These all make sense — though I don’t completely buy that “small” attacks in the US wouldn’t still have a spectacular effect. The biggest take-away, though, is the reminder that Al-Qaeda is not SPECTRE, with hordes of well-equipped, tightly-integrated cells of agents in every city.
- BBC to project real-time election results on Big Ben’s tower – Okay, that’s darned cool.
- Fast Food Franchises Complain Health Care Law Will Increase Their Costs – Egads! $55K per year = $150/day. Burger King has 11K stores serving 11 million customers/day. That’s, say, 1,000 daily customers per store. I’ll betcha you could come up with a way to adjust prices to charge each of those customers an average of 15 cents per meal.
- 5,113 Nuclear Weapons — No Downside To Disclosing – Given that we can turn any country we want into a glass parking lot, I really don’t see why this has conservatives’ panties in a bunch.
- New Study Proves Preventive Task Force Right In Not Recommending Mammograms For Women Under 40 – I found it wildly ironic that the GOP pointed to the earlier TF findings, condemning them as rationing (when they were advisory, not restrictive), given the number of women who have no insurance coverage for mammograms at all. (I don’t think you can go to the Emergency Room and ask for one …)
- Lieberman’s tenuous understanding of due process – “But zey vere all BAD …”
- Banks Push Corker To Eliminate Risk Retention In Financial Reform Bill (UPDATED) – It will be interesting to see what shape the FinReg bill ends up in by the time all is said and done. A lot of the ideas in it seem like common sense, which appears to be why it’s being so fiercely fought by the financial industry.
- Six Things You Need to Know About Facebook Connections – It’s a world-wide WEB.
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