Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- David Sipress : “I begged you not to buy that book by Christopher Hitchens.” – Cartoonbank.com – Ran across this on my New Yorker Page-a-Day and immediately thought of several of my correspondents …
- Spider and Jeanne Robinson – Wow — very sad.
- How to Restrict Google Results to the Past Minutes or Seconds – Wow. I like Google’s minimalistic design, but I wouldn’t mind seeing these as regular options.
- Unbreakable umbrella protects against assailants, watermelons – Hmmmmm …
- Rifqa Bary and the Right Wing Holy War – Encroach! Agenda! Islam! Eek! It would be laughable, if there weren’t a young woman and her parents caught in the middle.
- Opera Mini 5 Coming Soon To A BlackBerry Near You?: Bla1ze
- School cancels controversial field trip to Bush speech.: Amanda Terkel
- Suddenly, CPAC Rejects WND Craziness – Money quote:’ “It would fill a room,” said event director Lisa De Pasquale. “But so would a two-headed monkey.”‘
- The curse of Eve [Pharyngula]: PZ Myers none@example.com
- Joe Wilson’s outburst is not about civility. It’s about racism. [Greg Laden’s Blog] – An excellent essay on the subject — and on civility. “Joe Wilson is a highly privileged individual who does not need to scream or taunt the speaker to get his voice heard. In the hands of the powerful, incivility is not a tool to alleviate repression. Rather, it is a bludgeon to keep down the repressed.”
- Eric Boehlert: For WashPost, right-wing protesters are Page One news; in 2002 liberal war protesters were not – Yeah, that old “liberal” media. Got it.
- RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social networks need to be decentralized – I concur — if these are to become the reliable, ubiquitous services that people want — then decentralization seems to be the best way to that goal. Twitter hiccuping, or Facebook changing their ToS, is tolerable only so long as my online world doesn’t depend on them.
- Positive view of Fox News among Democrats drops significantly. – I’m surprised the number is as high as it is.
- Boortz compares President Obama to a child molester. – Nothing surprises me any more. And that, in itself, is pretty sad.
- Santorum ‘thinking about’ a run for president in 2012. – Oh, pleeeeeease run, Rick.
- My Little Logo – Actually, that’s a nice revision.
- Cheese or Font? – Something to while away several minute of boredom.
- Celebrated Darwin biopic can’t find a distributor in the US, producer blames creationists – That faint, monotonous hammering sound in the distance is my head and my desk.
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