Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Woman Receives Death Threats Days After Beck Targets Her On His Show – With patriotism as with piety, if you don’t hop to and chant the right verses with as loud a voice as anyone else, folks like Beck will start questioning whether you’re out to destroy America, and the death threats will start rolling in …
- The Myth of the Self-Made American: Why Progressives Get No Respect – “This is indeed the land of opportunity. But those opportunities exist only as long as we work together to create them; and willfully denying that is a deep insult to every other American who sacrificed to make your opportunities possible. It’s like saying your parents had nothing to do with raising you: you’d expect them to be hurt, insulted, and angry at your lack of gratitude. The rest of us should be, too.”
- Now’s A Good Time To Turn Off Your Twitter DM Text Messages, If You Don’t Want To Embarrass Yourself [Twitter] – I can see where that would be dangerous. Fortunately, I get a DM once in a blue moon.
- Flowing Data – Which is why it’s always a good idea to only buy that which fits in the latter category.
- Decode a Laptop BIOS Password Using a Simple Checksum Script – Possibly good to know some day. Of course, they say BIOS is going away soon …
- Idiocy Watch – I have to assume — otherwise my head would implode — that it’s not stupidity on Ms Palin’s part, but mendacity.
- Most troops wouldn’t oppose serving with gays – I have no doubt that the folks who said we have to listen to this survey will find ways to discount it. “At a time of war,” they will say, “we can’t afford to have even one brave soldier leave the service because he or she’s afraid of getting Gay Cooties.” (Note to Congress, btw: the military is not, never has been, and, sensibly, cannot be a democracy.)
- Name That Religious Symbol – Okay, I confess I only got a 70%. Interesting stuff.
- The challenge of overcoming ignorance – “But it’s worth realizing that uninformed voters make unwise decisions. The public has enormous responsibilities in our political system, and right now, far too many aren’t prepared to act on those responsibilities in an effective way.”
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