Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Medicare Shortfall Over Next 75 Years Is Only One-Fourth Cost Of Wars In Afghanistan And Iraq – Sigh
- More Photos From ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ – Have to admit, the photos look pretty good.
- Krugman: The GOP took decades “getting to crazy” – and pundits are responsible: Gaius Publius
- Arguments – SMBC July 15, 2011 – Look! It’s the Internet!
- Don’t Crash Your Jetpack into the Ocean on Live TV [Video] – Ha!
- Palin Film Premiers To Empty Theater In Orange County – Heh.
- Town Drops Charges Against Woman For Front-Yard Veggie Garden – Unfortunately, it looks more like the city is doing the right thing for the wrong reasons (to duck bad publicity), and instead looking to punish someone who made them look bad.
- American Express Amazes Family After Cardholder’s Death Abroad – Too many vendors focus on the immediate transaction, and the bottom line for this month or quarter. Too few remember that a memorably good turn can ensure repeat or continued business (and evangelization) for years to come … or a memorably bad experience can lead to a long-term or permanent poisoning of the well for future business.
- Buh Bye Bigoted New York Clerk : Dispatches from the Culture Wars – “Can you begin to imagine the outrage if a Muslim DMV clerk refused to process drivers licenses for women because his ‘sincerely held religious beliefs’ told him that women should not be allowed to drive? I bet McGuire would fall silent quickly in such a situation. ‘Constitutional freedoms’ apply only to Christians, you see.”
- That’s Bullshit! – I think sometimes my bullshit tolerance is lower than it should be (see: various long screeds at “dolts” typed up way too late at night).
- July 15, 2011 – Belief in Evolution Versus National Wealth – Yeah, we’re “exceptional” all right …
- SarahPAC Paid Thousands Of Dollars For “Bus Tour” That Palin Claimed Was “Family Vacation” – Hey, can I start a PAC and get people to pay for my family vacations, too?
- EXCLUSIVE: As Ralph Reed Steers ‘GOP Israel Primary,’ Documents Reveal Right-Wing Israeli Group Is Paying Him – The bizarre thing about all of this is, between the neocons and the apocalyptians, the “pro-Israel” stance that the GOP (et al.) are arm-twisted into isn’t necessarily even in Israel’s best interests.
- Is Google replacing our memory? | ZDNet – When writing, then printing books, became common, people decried that memorization skills were in decline. I think that’s worked out okay.
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Oak Park just keeps shooting themselves in the foot with that woman, don’t they?
Another way of looking at #14 is to look at how much more information there is to memorise now. It’s beyond our capacity to do so. Therefore, it had become come important to know *how* to access the information at your disposal. That which needs to be memorised will still be memorised. The rest can be searched and retrieved.
Yeah. It’s hard to to judge what’s important, though, since part of knowledge (he says, whipping out his liberal arts education in front of the ladies) is not just facts, but the relationships between them. So, yes, you could look up what date X happened if you needed to know — but knowing that it was the same year that Y happened, or that it happened while Z was president, etc., might give you an understanding that simply knowing that X happened, details to be consulted as necessary, would not.
But, yes, there does seem to be more information than once there was.