Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Calories Needed to Lose Weight – While there are other health issues to consider in dietary intake of various sorts, when it comes to weight: count calories.
- Birth to 10 years old in 1 minute 25 sec – I’ll just have to settle for the Wall o’ Photos in the stairwell.
- PressTV – ‘WikiLeaks documents aim to save US’ – For all the fulminating of the American Punditry over WikiLeaks, I find it amusing that Iran considers the whole thing to be a Western/Zionist plot to make the US look better.
- Types of WiFi Users at Starbucks | MakeUseOf.com – My question: how is it so many people have the time and opportunity to hang out at Starbucks, drinking overpriced coffee, and sitting online? ‘Cause I want some of that action.
- How Crayola crayons are made – Very cool, though not actually about Crayola in particular.
- Assange’s Interpol Warrant Is for Having Sex Without a Condom – Regardless of whether Assange is a jerk in his private life (unlike, of course, all the pols and pundits that are so quick to call for his assassination), the oh-so-convenient trumping up of charges against him as a way of distracting from the Wikileaks effort (and to act to silence same) is a huge indictment against quite a number of freedoms that the West professes to believe in.
- The corporate takeover of American schools | Paul Thomas | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk – It’s is attractive, on the surface, to think that CEOs are better at running organizations (leaving aside the number of CEOs who oversee failing corporations). But corporations and organizations are not necessarily the same thing, and, even excepting the ideological bent that bringing in private captains of industry to oversee public government roles, isn’t worth some discussion whether “making a profit” is mappable to “educating kids”?
- Imagine A World Where Aspergers Was The Norm | Psychology Today
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow… lies a crock of gold | From the Guardian | The Guardian – I hadn’t known of the origin of this lovely rendition (audible at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I). Cool.
- The National Science Foundation calls it “peer review” for a reason, Mr. Smith! – a leaf warbler’s gleanings – Regardless of whether one supports the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (and to what degrees), the picayune poking at the Federal Budget for waste and unnecessary spending, without considering those conflicts, is a classic mote/beam conflict.
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8. My doctor assures me that I do not have Asperger’s, but the symptoms can certainly be seen in me, if only mildly in most cases. I have always envied the Klingons their lack of social conventions such as saying, “Hello. How are you?” It seems weird to have an article in Psychology Today “justify” my outlook.
I do wish more people could at least understand such behavior, if not embrace it (most especially my boss).
If consent only existed on understanding he use a condom, and he did not use a jonny then it is rape. Before you cry foul on behalf of saint julian, failure to pay a prostitute is also rape. The fact she consented to sex relied on promise of payment. No payment=no consent.
Further info continues to come out regarding the charges, but it is still very murky (convenient timing aside). I linked yesterday to some articles that address just that, and how some folks (self included) have leapt to Assange’s defense far faster and vehemently than the known information warrants.
My problem with Wikileaks is the scope. It looks like a bunch of geeks doing stuff ‘because the can’, for their own amusement, and then crying ‘public interest’ in defence.
CIA act illegally is public interest. Releasing communications between diplomats and government not necessarily.
Assange and his supproters acting like dicks is putting my opinions on the wrong side of the fence.