Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad’s résumé is terrifyingly mundane: “PowerPoint, email tools, internet experience” – “The Banality of Evil,” 2010 Edition
- The Humble Indie Bundle: Pay-What-You-Want for Games and Help EFF! – A cool deal for anyone, I’d say.
- Mosquito repellent no longer repels mosquitoes – No big surprise here, alas.
- Jacobs: May Day 2010 Saved Times Square – And, remarkably enough, God did it through a Muslim street vendor. Hmmmm …
- Translate the real world with Google Goggles – This is really so cool. Plus another great reason to get an Android phone …
- Presidential Proclamation–National Day of Prayer | The White House – Can’t fool me — he’s clearly a crypto-Muslim atheist communist radical Christian-hating Kenyan Islamo-secularist!
- Twitter is the New CNN | Lance Ulanoff | PCMag.com – “It’s about information not socialization.” Well, actually, it’s about both, but the point is well taken. Twitter is headlines into life — and that can be trivial, it can be important, it can be social, or it can be breaking news and links to more information. That’s what so cool about it.
- For National Prayer Day
- George Alan Rekers goes on a trip – (1) I like how the story has now become how Rekers was busy counseling his rent boy about his homosexuality and the importance of becoming Christian. That’s awfully noble of you, George. (2) I like how he’s become an un-person to the FRC. How supportive and Christian of them.
- Struggling to explain the Senate – This is actually pretty sad and shameful, from a national standpoint — both voter ignorance over what’s going on and the fact that it’s going on in the first place.
- Franklin Graham Continues to Play the Victim – Because he believes that the “historic Christian majority” (with himself and folks who believe in his flavor of Christianity in charge) should still be in control of the game — and if they’re not, then they’re “losing” and thus “victims.”
- What Are Erik Prince and Blackwater Doing In Pakistan? Maybe Someone Should Ask. – There are probably places where one could argue for limited and tightly controlled use of private security (mercenary) forces rather than military troops. But Blackwater / Xe have never been limited or tightly controlled in their deployment or mission execution (or, if they have, there are far too many cases where they clearly weren’t). If they are operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan and being paid by the Federal government, we should know the what and why and how.
- Google Search Gets a Major Overhaul [PICS] – The left-hand navigation has been showing up for me for a while. I find it helpful.
- An Inconvenient Drop Shadow – I noticed the other day that the Google logo was looking more colorful (or, as demonstrated here, less shadowy).
- Major University Dumps Gmail Over Security Concerns – Gmail is no less secure than any other hosted mail system, and arguably no less so than any site-hosted system that allows external access. There’s something else going on here (my guess would be politics within the UC IT organizations).
- Six Things You Need to Know About Facebook Connections – This seems trivial, even voyeuristic — but consider the technology involved in it, and what it means that you and I (in comparison to our parents, let along older generations) can see around the world, in an instant, in the comfort of our own home. Clarke’s Third Law lives …
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