Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Joe Biden says Mubarak isn’t a dictator, questions legitimacy of protesters’ demands – Dear Joe: A guy can be a geopolitical stabilizer and proponent of international peace efforts … and still be a freaking dictator inside of his borders. Indeed, Mubarak demonstrates that.
- CHART OF THE DAY: Microsoft Incinerates ANOTHER $543 Million Online – But they make it up in volume!
- Why is it cheaper to buy airline tickets on Tuesdays?
- Darrell Issa Wants To Know Who Wants To Know About The Government – So Rep. Issa claims he simply wants to be able to tell if FOIA requests are being held up or delayed based on partisan reasons. Fair enough — but asking for all FOIA requests in the last four years, including requestor’s name? That sounds … dubious. I certainly don’t want Rep. Issa knowing what information I’ve requested — as legally permitted — from what government agencies.
- Reaching ‘new frontiers in partisan judging’ – Ah, the joys of judicial activism.
- A Super Bowl Wager for Art Lovers – Cool.
- Turning off ‘Instant Personalization’ — How to keep Facebook from selling your public information to ‘partner sites’: Gaius Publius
- Video Games Teach Us How To Be Better Bad Drivers [Science] – Two observations. (1) Which way does the correlation work here (assuming causality) — maybe it’s that bad drivers are more likely to get involved in fantasy driving games. (2) I wonder if you could find a similar correlation between FPS players and soldier behavior.
- Overgarnished cocktail – Generally speaking, when I want a drink, I want a drink. Maybe … MAYBE … something to add a slight bit of color, or a hint of flavor. Or an umbrella — umbrellas are always good.
- Football and Socialism: Cue the Tea Party outrage in 4…3…2…. – Heh.
- Facebook Debating 101: yer doon it rong – This, after porn, is what takes up about 90% of the bandwidth on the Internet.
- Huckabee Attends Ceremony For New Israeli Settlement – Huckabee is a dolt.
- James Bond Composer John Barry Dies at 77 [Deaths] – Barry is, without question, my favorite movie composer. Beyond Bond (and not just the “theme,” but everything else he did with them), his lush and romantic scores (violins! horns!) were just gorgeous. “Out of Africa.” “Midnight Cowboy.” “Born Free.” “Dances with Wolves.” An amazing corpus of work.
- Ten Years In, Lab-Grown Meat Still Stuck In Its Infancy [Food] – Resource costs (other crops as feed, water, and land) will inevitably make meat a lot more expensive than it is today — which is when we’ll end up with folks switching to alternative and potentially substitutes like this. I don’t look forward to it particularly, but I accept it.
- Republican Sponsors Legislation to Reaffirm Godly Motto – Thank goodness the GOP has already solved all the problems of the nation, and so can afford to pass feel-good legislation like this. Yeesh.
- Video: Experiment Shows Cord-Cutting Simply Too Difficult For Average Families To Grasp – This makes a lot of sense. While there are some improvements one can make in the boob tube experience, most of them are already available with cable: DVRs, online listing and recording controls, etc. I like what Google TV, etc., have to offer conceptually, but it’s more than I need right now, or, really, want.
- Ten beers to stop drinking at age thirty – I’m pleased to say that I’ve never been a regular with any of these (and have never tasted the majority of them). Though as someone who once visited the Olympia brewery in Washington as a kid, I’m sad to hear that it’s now a conglomerate brew out of California.
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