Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Official Google Reader Blog: Readers: Get your Buzz on – I will be curious to see how the information ecosystem between the two platforms works.
- Another Day, Another Anti-Gay Post From Bryan Fischer: Kyle
- Obama Rebukes Boehner In Testy Exchange, Charges GOP Wants To Kill All His Initiatives – “Boehner made the case that long-term concern over Dem policies — health care, cap and trade — was leading to uncertainty in the private sector, damaging job creation efforts.” By “long-term concern” read “endless obstruction by the GOP to keep anything of substance from actually being passed.”
- Kristol Calls GOP’s Preconditions On Health Care Meeting ‘Silly’ – “We have been engaged in substantive debate in health care, we Republicans, for a year, and we are perfectly happy to continue that debate” … as long as you start over and begin with our minority position as the groundwork of anything that gets done.
- Insurer Denies Life-Prolonging Treatment To Five-Year-Old Boy With Cancer – Money graf: “The United States is the only industrialized nation without cradle-to-the-grave, universal health care. In no other developed country would a child with cancer have to go without care because an insurance company decided it was not profitable enough to cover him.”
- How Google Buzz is Disruptive: Open Data Standards – Some interesting perspective here. And, if I read this right, Google all of a sudden becomes a relatively seamless social aggregator and relay (via RSS), which has lots of interoperability possibilities. That consideration make me think much better of it.
- Introducing Google Buzz – We’ll see. For some reason, I just don’t see this taking off (if for no other reason that it means you have to be in Gmail or with a registered Google user).
- LOTRO Defragger – Interesting. I guess it would depend on how they manage their internal files of objects and possessions and locations and so forth. I can imagine a game set up to do this automatically and cleverly, but I suspect it’s not high on the list of things developers focus on.
- Invade a Hospital
- Caplin Rous: World’s Largest Pet Rodent: Alex
- L.A. Ferrari Owner Builds Dream Garage, Whiny Neighbors Wake Him Up [Garage Mahal] – I think there would probably be grounds for a law suit against the city, at least. That might make them change their minds (again).
- Complex smells make food more filling – life – 09 February 2010 – New Scientist – But, interestingly, doesn’t seem to reduce consumption.
- Even dumber than we thought – And yet, this is the woman SO MANY REPUBLICAN LOOOOOVE! She’d be the second coming of George W. Bush. Wait, I guess that explains it.
- EFF Asks Court to Suppress Evidence Illegally Gathered From Password-Protected Phone – I guess the conceptual question is: is your cell phone like your pockets (which the police can search pursuant to an arrest) or like your home office (which they can’t without getting a warrant). I’d argue the latter.
- EFF Fights for Cell Phone Users’ Privacy in Thursday Hearing – That cell phones can be tracked is a pretty cool thing. Do you want the government (or individuals within it) to able to use that ability on a whim, or for no compelling reason other than curiosity? Neither do I.
- Inhofe’s Grandchildren Build Igloo To Mock Killer Snow Storm: ‘Al Gore’s New Home’ – Y’know, the old “blizzards vs global warming” is a funny-ha-ha irony, along the lines of “well, I lost my job but I found this $10 bill on the way home, so I guess we’re okay” lines. That the denialists are seriously using it as “proof” to the public that it means that global warming is false is wretched science at best, and intentional deception at worst.
- Rep. Blackburn touts Social Security privatization. – Not that Social Security is trouble-free, but did any of these folks actually pay attention to what happened to the stock market these past few years, or what happened to people and institutions that relied upon investment income for survival?
- Shelby releases most of his blanket hold, but continues to block three military nominees. – And, of course, it’s not about the qualifications of the candidates, or the safety of the nation, but, really, about pork in his back yard.
- Three Times Makes a Trend – Sadly, not surprising, but worthwhile remembering: a lot of the people most vocal about limiting your freedom are also most likely to criminalize your “aberrant” behavior.
- New study warns that herbal supplements and medicines don’t always mix well. – Actually, what concerns me more here is that if I get heart disease it might mean I have to wean off of garlic, ginger, and grapefruit juice. Yikes!
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