Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Quran-Burning Church Vows To Proceed Without Fire Permit – As Glen Greenwald commented, imagine the uproar if this was a mosque burning Bibles without a permit …
- A desert city that didn’t fan out – latimes.com – “When we think of ruins, we typically think of European castles and churches,” Manaugh said. “But the U.S. also has ruins. It’s just that they’re made of different stuff. In this case, it’s the ground itself and what was done to it.”
- Topless Robot – 10 Cartoons You Shouldn’t Be Nostalgic About – Now that I have been reminded of the Brady Kids, I must go and kill myself. Painfully. (The comments, which offer a large number of alternative Truly Dreadful Cartoons, are also well worth reading.)
- Epic Mickey Is an Epic Asshole – Allow me to note how cool it is that, even in CG, Mickey’s ears still do that thing.
- I Think This Girl Likes Ray Bradbury – I’m not nearly so great a fan. But this certainly qualifies for a serious most-geeky-music-video of the year. (Seriously NSFW)
- Topless Robot – The 10 Most Screwed-Over Children of Superheroes in Comics – Page 1 – Some fabulous examples here of some of the worst excesses of overly complex and overly long continuity in comics (Cable, in particular, comes to mind).
- Dead Person Is Actually Only Slightly Dead – The All-Seeing Eye of Google … Sees All!
- Google CEO Believes That in the Future, We May Be Automatically Allowed to Change Our Names to Escape Online Past – An interesting, but unworkable idea. What may happen, though, is a societal “cutoff” where we formally become an adult again (perhaps with a new name) to signal that we’re no longer drunken frat boys/girls.
- Obama as Muslim and the new rules of spin | Michael Tomasky – It used to be that you never answered obvious lies because that gave them attention. The problem is, we now have media that echo them, either for partisan reasons or to “cover the controversy.” So they have to be ansered — which suddenly turns obvious lies into he-said-she-said arguments of equal credence. It’s zany. And sad.
- Talk To Action | U.S. Soldiers Punished For Not Attending Christian Concert – Some military commanders still seem to think that their “command” rights extend to military proselytization. Disgusting.
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