Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Schoolkids Guess the Ancient Gadgets and Get It All Adorably Wrong – Yeah … well I wonder what things they are all so familiar with in their youth will be crazy antiquities thirty years from now?
- Isaac Asimov on the Greenhouse Effect: 1989 – Not sure which is more remarkable, hearing the greenhouse effect and global warming described over two decades ago, or finding out that that is what Isaac Asimov sounded like.
- The Reason Why You Never Get Your UPS Packages On Time [Video] – Yeah, it sure seems this way sometimes.
- Republicans scramble for credit on the economy – If things continue to improve, I expect this to be a major (crazy) talking point in 2012.
- AP Exclusive: Insurers profit on Medicare float – The Denver Post – Ch-ching!
- Thank you Jon Stewart – Don’t you think she looks tired?
- Stephen Colbert on “Palin Fatigue.” – “Brutal, funny, and so true it hurts to laugh about it.”
- Sony v. Hotz: Sony Sends A Dangerous Message to Researchers — and Its Customers – “The real point, it appears, is to send a message to security researchers around the world: publish the details of our security flaws and we’ll come after you with both barrels blazing.”
- The ADL Slams Bentley: It’s ‘Quite Clear’ Christians Are His Family ‘And The Rest Of Us Are Not’ – An even sadder note to this exclusionist rhetoric is that it flies directly in the face of Jesus’ message as to the “neighbor” one should love.
- Lost Republican Wisdom – Ike, sadly, couldn’t get elected as a Republican to state legislature today, let along President. Hell, some Democrats in DC would consider him a dangerous radical.
- Tricks of hotel marketing photos – Just in time for us to be booking reservations in Italy! Woot!
- Street Prophets: Is Bishop Rene Gracida Going for Another Coughie? – People who inject religion into politics are welcoming the injection of politics into religion. Is that what Jesus would really do?
- The 5 Most Mind-Blowing Coincidences of All Time | Cracked.com – Funny world, ennit?
- 8 Racist Words You Use Every Day | Cracked.com – Words are fun!
- 6 Badass Movie Scenes With Horrifying Unseen Consequences | Cracked.com – Wow. Um … yup. Pretty damned horrifying.
- Science! – SMBC January 19, 2011
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1. Ack. My lifetime is already archeology!
;_;
2. You knew the good doctor had a Brooklyn accent, right? He mentions it in his autobiography. I had already heard him reading five of his stories on this audiobook.
3. The UPS guys just leave deliveries on the doorstep to be stolen. If i didn’t work nights…
13. While reading this, I found this story on real-world events “predicted” by comic books.
14. Who uses any of those words every day? “Hooligan”? Hnh. Bit hyperbolic, that title.