Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- How to Disable Facebook Places – Facebook excels at rolling out new privacy-destroying features and forcing people to opt out of them. If people want all their FB friends to know where they are, great. But make it opt-in, rather than opt-out.
- Parasitic fungus controls ants – THEM! And … IT!
- It’s not just the zombie lie that’s the problem – I don’t know if it’s more disturbing that so many people (and growing) still think Obama is a “secret Muslim,” or the idea that it’s simply a code for “we don’t like him.”
- Rove plays voters for suckers (again) – “Maybe Rove knows this, and is just counting on voters being dumb. Maybe Rove doesn’t know this, and he’s just a mindless hack.” I know where my bet is.
- Fischer: US Failed to Make Iraq a Christian Nation, So Our Soldiers Died For Nothing – Fischer is slipping from doltishness into cloud-cuckoo land …
- Did Hannity Withdraw From CPAC Over GOProud? – Glad to see that Coulter is as gracious to her critics on the Right as on the Left.
- Cognitive dissonance in Alaska: Steve Benen
- Two taste treats … – Real Life Comics – August / 19 / 2010 – Um … probably not. Then again …
- Keyport Slide review — Engadget – Clever, if (a) your body of keys is that small, (b) it is unchanging, (c) the keys don’t require embedded chips (like so many cars do).
- 22 Incredible Photos of Faraway Places – Gorgeous work by Steve McCurry.
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