Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Unmanned K-MAX helicopter achieves airdrop milestones – Very cool — and interesting rotor design, too.
- No Rule of Law for the Powerful : Dispatches from the Culture Wars – “In other words, our political officials are Too Important, and engaged in far Too Weighty Matters in Keeping Us Safe, to subject them to the annoyance of the rule of law. It’s much more important to allow them to Fight The Terrorists without restraints than to bother them with claims that they broke the law and violated the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.” Sad. Infuriating. Frightening. (And, of course, you’d think that this is just the sort of thing that, say, the Tea Partiers would be all over — but they’re too busy thinking of ways to sue over “Obamacare” and the like.)
- Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators – Yeah … sounds pretty scummy to me. And I expect all the perps will continue to go on to bigger and brighter military careers.
- How to Make Oatmeal . . . Wrong – NYTimes.com – “The bottom-line question is, ‘Why?’ Why would McDonald’s, which appears every now and then to try to persuade us that it is adding ‘healthier’ foods to its menu, take a venerable ingredient like oatmeal and turn it into expensive junk food? Why create a hideous concoction of 21 ingredients, many of them chemical and/or unnecessary? Why not try, for once, to keep it honest?”
- The art of bullets – Gorgeous.
- Witnesses: Republican Laughed When Asked ‘Who’s Gonna Shoot Obama?’ | TPMMuckraker – Disgusting.
- The Economist: Rock-Bottom U.S. Gas Tax Makes Gas Cheaper Than Water – Raising taxes? Inconceivable!
- Mailbox – DORK TOWER, Friday, February 25, 2011 – Man, I wish I had this problem. Ton of recycle fodder every day, with the occasional thing that, yes, I have to read.
- Facebook douche of the day – The Oatmeal – Ah, the joys of fandom (esp. in the Age of the Internet).
- Zits for 2/24/2011 – Heh. We do this to Katherine, too.
- The health care debate, the uninformed electorate, and the media – “‘As far as you know, which comes closest to describing the current status of the health reform law that was passed last year?’ A narrow majority, 52%, said the law is still on the books, while 22% said the law has been repealed, and 26% weren’t sure either way.” Crikey.
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