Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Archie Comics Introduces First Gay Character – TIME NewsFeed – Well, the first OPENLY gay character, at least … Um, whatever.
- CultureLab: Nicholas Carr: Surfing our way to stupid – I haven’t actually found my Internet surfing interfering with my ability or interest in sitting down and reading a long book. My time, perhaps, but not my ability or interest.
- Oxford English Dictionary ‘will not be printed again’ – Telegraph – That’s … sad.
- This Means Warts – Yeah, been in a number of conversations like this (on all sides).
- Karl Frisch: Ambinder gets it right on “outing” closeted, anti-gay public figures – Part of the “squeamishness” about outing outwardly anti-gay pols comes from the long history of using outing to persecute gays. That said, disclosing hypocrisy in all other forms is not only acceptable journalism but useful; the same is arguably true for outing.
- 10 bailed-out banks spent $16.3M lobbying – Glad the economy’s booming again!
- Alan Simpson Says Veterans Who Are Agent Orange Victims Are ‘Not Helping Us Save The Country’ – Well, we’re always asking details of what specifically GOP types would cut. I’m not sure that cutting benefits to Agent Orange Vets is what most people think about as a worthwhile or righteous cost saving measure.
- Another Reason Global Warming Is Creepy: Thawing Ice Reveals Body After 21 years – No doubt some will spin this as a “benefit,” along the lines of “Carbon dioxide makes plants grow!”
- BBC News – Would more holiday be good for America? – In an economy run by cheap-labor conservatives, there’s no chance that we would ever get the government to mandate minimum vacation time. Heck, it’s nearly impossible to mandate a minimum wage and minimum health care benefits.
- BBC News – Charles Darwin’s evolution experiment on Ascension isle – Ooooh … terraforming …
- The Island and Lake Combination – “Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island” = cool.
- Minimalist movie posters – less is more – This is really very cool. I wouldn’t want to see all, or even most, movie posters take this approach (and, honestly, sometimes the images used here are what the movie has come to be known for after the fact), but there are a lot of ugly movie posters out there that could use some more creative, minimalist thought.
- Just Nod and Smile – Heh.
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