Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- NV GOP Minority Leader Suggests Placing A Two Percent Tax On Food To Close His State’s Budget Deficit – Let them eat cake! And pay taxes on it!
- The Photos – Telling Their Stories: The Lingering Legacy of the Katrina Photographs
- Eggs: An English Lesson – Nice — the power of regulation combined with the principle of free market choices. Yes, we could learn from the Brits here.
- YouTube – How ships are launched – Very cool – That’d be a hell of a ride.
- Tom the Dancing Bug: Odious in the Uterus – Boing Boing – Stop them before they gestate again!
- 20 Eye-Opening Cultural Norms in Japan – My Modern Metropolis – Gosh, they’re weird. Or, maybe, we are.
- The Accent of Evil: Your Favorite British Villains – Anglophenia – Have to say that Rickman, Irons, McDowell, and Stamp are pretty damn fine Brit-accented villains.
- LYSOL® | Disinfect To Protect | Products | Hand Soap System – Yes, insane phobia about germs in your house isn’t enough … now we need to fear OUR GERMY SOAP PUMPS!
- Rockies rally from 9-run deficit to beat the Braves 12-10 – The Denver Post – I am so not a sports guy, especially baseball, but even I know that going from a 1-10 deficit to win by 12-10 is pretty darned cool.
- Found: Soviet moon rover – Boing Boing – The linked article is quite long, but even more fascinating.
- Accutane Lawsuit Crohn’s Disease Recall Attorney Class Action Claims Lawyer – Crikey. Not that I’m big into ambulance chasers, but having been an (extensive) user of Accutane some decades ago, it’s still vaguely disturbing.
- The Long-Term Consequences of Hateful Politics | People For the American Way Blog – In the long term, it’s a counter-productive policy for the GOP. But the GOP seems much more dead-set on a short-term “win NOW” policy than worrying about the effects 5, 10, 20 years down the line.
- The Music Experience, 1990 vs 2010
- The Other 98% » MLK Glenn Beck Flow Chart – Truly, an inspirational civil rights leader for us all.
- How I’d Hack Your Weak Passwords – Good, basic advice here, to make your online experiences a lot safer.
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3. I thought this was going to be about language and eggs (however that would work).
7. Christopher Lee was the first celebrity I ever met, back at Equicon 76/Filmcon 4(I was
15). He was very nice, and shook my hand. Sadly, I lost his autograph at some point.
10. Is that a steam-powered lunar rover? 😉
15. 20% use weak passwords like “1234” or a child’s name? Amazing.