Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- The Curtiss-Bleeker Helicopter, 1930
In the September 1930…
- When the Conspiracy Theory Becomes the Conspiracy Theory – “They’re all conspiring to make us look like crazy conspiracy theorists! Eek!”
- Doug Kendall: Al Franken and the Sotomayor Hearings: A Senate Star Is Born: Doug Kendall
- Water-Powered Jetpack Takes You Up, Up, But Not Away [Jetpacks] – I still want my jetpack, but I’ll settle for this some time.
- Down With Cellphone Companies’ Mandatory 15-Second Voicemail Intros [Fight Back] – It doesn’t sound like a lot, but multiply 15 seconds times all calls that roll to voicemail …
- The Milky Way Glows Over the Devil’s Tower [Space Porn] – I can still do the CE3K musical hand gestures, too.
- EMI Quits Selling CDs to Indie Record Stores – Two “Related News” stories in the sidebar, “Wal-Mart Wants Record Labels to Lower Prices” and “EMI Music CEO says the CD is ‘dead.'” In light of which, this story sure doesn’t make any sense to me.
- Think Progress » Baucus Could Lose Chairmanship Over Stalled Health Care Negotiations – It would be nice to think so.
- Movie/record industry rep says that you shouldn’t expect to be able to play your media for as long as you own it – Move/record industry needs to be told that they shouldn’t expect to be able to keep milking us in increasingly exploitative ways forever.
- Watch Out For Best Buy’s Extended Warranties [Empty Promises] – There are very few products worth an extended warranty. Most electronics, if they are going to fail, do so in a very short time (which means you should try to use them as soon after purchase as possible, but also that they are covered by return policies).
- Licentious pants – I really have no idea of what the right thing to do is in a case like this, except growl incoherently at the thought of something like this happening.
- Podcasting patented! VoloMedia claims major tech patent – Yeah, we’ll see how long that holds up to legal challenge.
- Should Scientists Synthesize a Hormone That Causes Fear? [Quote Of The Day] – I’m sure this has potential for abuse. But I’d rather see it worked on, and reported in public, than as some hidden government program. It will be interesting to see what sort of legal issues might arise (would use of chemically induced fear be considered torture, or coersion that might invalidate testimony, for example). Scary (so to speak), stuff.
- “You only think you’re free.” – Okay, I feel slightly less pessimistic about this.
- Food fight on House floor postpones bill passage – I’m sure it annoys or inconveniences or otherwise fractionally reduces the profit margin of some agribusiness interest somewhere.
- How Liberal Is Congress Willing To Be? – The mystical secret of course, is that — at least on the Democratic side — being a “Democrat” doesn’t necessarily mean voting like a “Democrat.”
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