Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Calvin and Hobbes for December 29, 2010 – Life around our house …
- Direct Import from Delicious – I don’t know enough about Delicious to know if this would be a horrible step down, but if you’re still pessimistic about the service’s future, Xmarks is pretty darned keen.
- Drying – Zits for 12/28/2010 – I don’t know a single guy who hasn’t work on this assumption at some time or another.
- WordPress 3.0.4 released: Important Security Update – Rrg. I’ll get to this as soon as I can (or at least once I’m sure they’re not rolling out 3.0.5 to make up for problems with 3.0.4) …
- Half Of 26-Year-Old’s Memories Nintendo-Related | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source – Heh.
- Looks Like Conservatives Are Just Big Scaredy Cats! – Interesting, though I would hesitate to (as I’m sure most commentators would) place a value judgment on such things. After all, what is the “normal” size here? Are conservatives easier to frighten, or liberals easier to lull into danger? Are conservatives excessively pessimistic, or liberals excessively optimistic? Which way is the correlation (do conservatives have bigger amydgalas because they watch Fox News)? For that matter, how does this play into a more realistic multi-dimensional ideological axes (economic vs personal freedoms, etc.)? Regardless, I expect folks will play armchair shrink with this info, from both sides, for years to come.
- NYC Mayor: City Should Pay For Vehicle Crunched By Tow Truck – I should say so — but it seems so obvious that Bloomberg gets fairly small credit for admitting it.
- Henry Kissinger’s Lame Apology Not Satisfactory – Okay, but let’s just be honest: Kissinger was (and is) a proponent of realpolitik, which has many pragmatic advantages but is certainly not what we’d consider a morally laudable system. These statements at the time and in context are perfectly understandable in that context; that they are morally abominable didn’t enter into the equation, and should be no surprise.
- Feds Said To Have Opened Criminal Probe Of Christine O’Donnell – Cue Right-wing claims of political persecution by the Obamanation in 5 … 4 … 3 … 2 …
- BBC News – Denmark holds ‘Muhammad cartoon plotters’ – I have no problem with not holding the vast majority of Muslims not responsible for this. I also have no problem with the Danes throwing these lunatics into a deep, dark prison for life (if found guilty).
- FDNY Reinstates Hunky Calendar Because It Can’t Afford New Hoses [Video] – But, of course, perish forbid that someone actually discuss TAXES so that the FDNY can pay for its costs. That’s un-American!
- Number Of Health Care Uninsured Rises To Over 50 Million – “Maybe the real purpose of ‘Obamacare’ is to show how inadequate employer-based private health insurance is, and that it is a system beyond repair. Perhaps the cost and lack of coverage problems become so severe that there will eventually be the political will for a universal single-payer system here in the United States, something similar to what every other industrialized country in the world has.” Yeah, it would be nice to think so, but …
- 2000 Vs. 2010: How the world has changed
- National Zoo has two new cheetahs – TEH CUTE!!!
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