Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- A Priority Inbox update: time savings, new features, and your feedback – Now I wish they would add the same sort of learning behavior to labeling/tagging.
- Online Seller Who Scared Customers Is Arrested – NYTimes.com – Perhaps there IS such a thing as too much bad publicity. Heh.
- Krampus Comes This Weekend! Beware Sinister Saint Nick Sidekicks | The Awl – I’m just picturing all those “There’s a War on Christmas going on!” types and how they’d feel about a Krampus revival …
- Sarah Palin the TV Star Exposes Sarah Palin the Fake Hunter | The Awl
- FBI alert over Barbie Video Girl causes child porn panic – [Facepalm] Yes, “Barbie Video Girl” could be used by child pornographers. So could regular cameras. So could regular dolls. So could cereal boxes. So could cute kittens. So could rocks. LET’S GET THE FBI TO SCARE US ABOUT ALL OF THEM!!!!!!!
- National Review’s Kate O’Beirne Thinks Kids Who Need School Lunches Are Victims Of Child Abuse – “Let them eat cake!”
- Middle-Man strikes back! – This Modern World – Salon.com – SIGH
- Such blithe liars [Pharyngula] – Wow … that is … just breathtaking in its craziness. Though it begs the question from the title: are they really liars, or just blithering idiots? (The two are not, of course, exclusive.)
- ‘I Just Need a Programmer’ – It’s like the writers who tell of people approaching them with “an idea — you just have to write it, and we’ll split the money” kind of stuff.
- Should White Men Feel Guilty? – “Guilt is what you feel for what you’ve done. Responsibility is what you take because of the kind of person you are, right? And so if I see a set of social conditions that have been handed to you, and which not only did wrong by othrs but elevated me and give me advantage that I did not earn, it’s not about beating myself up, I’m not responsible for that having happened, I’m not to blame for it, so guilt is totally unproductive. But in order to live an ethical life, to live ethically and responsibly, I have to take some responsibility for the unearned advantage, which means working to change the society that bestows that advantage. It’s not guilt, but it is responsiblity.” A very good summary.
- Blocking Access to Wikileaks May Harm CRS, Analysts Say – Whether you agree with the release of the information or not, to turn away from the information or pretend it doesn’t exist is just stupid.
- Gmail Priority Inbox Now Learns Much Faster – I’m using this pretty extensively these days. It’s mostly important for letting me know which mail I can ignore.
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