Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- The Big News – HUZZAH!!! Stan and Mary are both old friends of ours whom we are quite pleased to have played some role in getting together. Congrats, mazel tov, and hey-nonny-nonny, youse guys!
- The latest in a long line of Republican sex scandals: Steve Benen
- in which Highlights for Children is discussed at great length – WWdN: In Exile – We subscribed to HfC when I was a kid. Always loved Goofus and Gallant.
- Email Use Plummets Among Teens – I’m not at all surprised that for socializing purposes, text / IM / FB / Twitter is seen as easier and faster (and less involving) than email. I think it’s all a matter of tools, privacy, and convenience; different media will provide different advantages and will be used as a mix by people as technology matures.
- Future U.S. History Students: ‘It’s Pretty Embarrassing How Long You Guys Took To Legalize Gay Marriage’ | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source – Hell, it’s embarrassing today, let alone how folks decades from now will see it.
- 8-Year-Old Girl Racks Up $1,400 Bill Playing “Smurfs Village” iPad Game – We take a lot of pleasure in sharing with Kay how a lot of games of this sort are out to trick her out of her money. She enjoys that (but also enjoys occasionally using some of her own allowance for something she really wants … which is fine, too).
- Trying Multisite – I’ve been staying away from this for a while — probably at least a whole release level, just to let them work the kinks out. Having to update many WP installations is annoying, but there are also conveniences to it.
- Who’s the newest member of the Fantastic Four? [Comics] – Ah. And, yes, yawn. Though Hickman is a fine writer.
- Another idea I wish I’d thought of. – Kitteh do not want! Too far from pets!
- HOWTO quick-fix a stripped screw-hole – Clever.
- Is it legal to print Settlers of Catan tiles on a 3D printer? – Presumably the “game rules” notes are why you can find so many bloody -opoly games out there.
- Creepy head mask to punish “rude, clamorous” women from 1550 to 1800 – Ah, the Good Old Days, when women knew better than to be “rude and clamorous” … or they faced the consequences. Yeesh.
- AFA Blogger Rejects Fischer’s Latest Bigoted Statement – And rejects it quite nicely, too. Well said, Mr. Friedeman.
- Star Wars retold in witty, clever icons – Very fun.
- GOP continues effort to dumb down (i.e., limit) definition of rape – And these are the same yahoos terrified of “Sharia Law” coming into the US to oppress the citizenry.
- Tea Party Launching Magazine – It will be amusing to see how long it takes before people of a different TP purity bent criticize the magazine with a huff and start up their own in protest. Plus … a magazine? Really?
- Utah Legislators Want to Charge Students for Excess Credits – Yes, let’s penalize all those “freeloading” kids taking double majors and AP courses …
- High School Teacher Loses Job Because Of Facebook Picture Holding Beer And Wine – Ah, remember the old days when teaching jobs had morality clauses (including staying unmarried)? They’re back, abetted by Facebook.
- “Not everyone is a fan of Reagan” – Cults of Personality are rarely a good thing, even when the personality in question is a paragon, a genius, and a true hero. The Right’s concerted attempt to turn Reagan into an American demigod (complete with a plan to put his name on at least one public landmark in every county of the US) would be laughable if it was not being so successful.
- Saudi Oil WikiLeaks [Casaubon’s Book] – Like Les, I’m sure this will push the GOP for more US oil drilling … without taking any steps beyond that to a post-petro-peak future that is increasingly less dependent on oil.
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8. I wish it were still possible to be surprised by these things. I do hate spoilers. And why did they ugly up the FF’s costumes? Gah.
14. Excellent! I particularly like the end of panel 7.
16. How goes your first article for Tea Party Review?
8. Haven’t read the comic, so haven’t read any justification for the costume change yet. I tend to trust Hickman a fair amount, so we’ll see.
As to the spoilage — yeah, one’s lucky if one can stay unspoiled through the week the comic comes out; as it is, the death of [redacted] has been out for 2-3 weeks, I think.
16. I’ve offered up free reprints of my “Bryan Fischer is a Dolt” and “Sarah Palin is a Dolt” series, but so far no taker.