Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- 8 Historic Symbols That Mean The Opposite of What You Think | Cracked.com – You keep invoking that man’s name. I don’t think he means what you think he means …
- Please, Never Again – Marn’s Big Adventure – And hear I complain about raccoons …
- Warren Ellis » T-Shirt Of The Month #003: THE TWEET OF TWITHULHU – WANT!
- 22 movie making techniques that always work… – Boing Boing – Brilliant translation of Wally Wood’s advice on comic book panels.
- Don’t Turn COPPA Into Age-Verification Mandate – I thought the whole idea of responsible parenting was to teach your kid how to handle situations they were going to run into, not try to protect them in a clumsy fashion from ever encountering them.
- If it’s Sunday, it’s John McCain Day
- This Week in God – “Even in religious right circles, bearing false witness will occasionally come with consequences.” Which is good to know.
- Gohmert presses his case on terrorist babies – “Given the right’s interest in this, it’s all but certain Congress will debate this in earnest in 2011 if Republicans retake the majority.” Crikey.
- ‘Injecting demand into the economy’ is a good idea – I understand the concern about deficits, but letting that trump all our policies right now is like being concern about a run-up in your water bill keep you from putting out the fire on your roof. People SPEND their unemployment checks, which means not only are those people helped, but the people they spend it on are helped, too. That’s STIMULUS, people, not just a (badly needed) safety net.
- Episcopal Bishop slams GOP attacks on Saint Thurgood Marshall. – I don’t know enough about Marshall’s personal life to judge whether he should be a “saint” (and I’d forgotten he had been listed as such by the Episcopal Church, though that’s a bit different an affair than the classic Catholic saint bit). Regardless, it’s nice to see some additional folks sticking up for him.
- Utah radio station drops Hannity from its lineup, possibly for being uncivil. – What? Someone in the conservative media calling Hannity on his incivility? Inconceivable (and about time).
- Straight Pride – A Softer World: 573 – Yup. We just don’t realize it.
- The CSI Effect – I suspect a lot of this goes right along with the “infinite zooming digital image enhancement” meme.
- Thomas Jefferson Changed “Subjects” To “Citizens” In Declaration Of Independence – Cool. One of the remarkable things about the American Revolution was the intellectual component of it — how people actually made a conscious effort to consider and revise their thinking, not just physically act to break the tyrant’s chains. Here’s one small, telling incident in that narrative by someone who, whatever his flaws (and no matter what the Texas Board of Ed says), was a key player.
- Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning – Wow. That’s very interesting (and a bit frightening). I mean, it’s a cliche that Hollywood doesn’t show things correctly, but the standard drowning imagery is so strong and persistent that all the skepticism filters have fallen away — with potentially lethal results.
- People with depression eat more chocolate, a mood food – And in other shocking news, the sky has been determined to be blue, objects are all falling to the ground when released, and bookmakers are relatively certain that, in a long shot, the sun will rise tomorrow …
- The Three Mysteries of Cup Noodles
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