Link lists, round-ups, recaps, Delicious.com dumps, and other sometimes somewhat salacious sundry sediments and sentiments.
Designs Beyond Human Abilities via kapowee Dept. of Disputation: Red Sex, Blue Sex: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker At The New Yorker: In Regnerus’s survey, the teen-agers who espouse this new morality are tolerant of premarital sex (and of contraception and abortion) but are themselves cautious about pursuing it. Regnerus writes, “They are interested […]
What Sarah Palin Is Saying By Anil Dash: Read this; it is important. Dash does a great job of unpacking Palin's speech patterns, phrasing, and signifiers and using it to illustrate what is clearly a dangerous sub-text that now dominates large portions of the Republican establishment and its discourse. If Election ’08 Were a Science […]
How the financial collapse killed libertarianism. By Jacob Weisberg at Slate Magazine: The worst thing you can say about libertarians is that they are intellectually immature, frozen in the worldview many of them absorbed from reading Ayn Rand novels in high school. Cake Wrecks …as a follow-up to Mike’s Amazing Cakes: the other end of […]
Charlie’s Diary: On finishing Free O’Reilly tech books and Safari contest at B²: cool Now is the Time Sen. Bernie Sanders: Let me be specific about what a "Rebuild America" program should include… 10 Very Good Reasons Why You Should Grow a Giant Beard I'm a particular fan of #s 1-4 + 9. Shouts & […]
The Things He Carried at The Atlantic (November 2008): Schneier and I walked to the security checkpoint. “Counter terrorism in the airport is a show designed to make people feel better,” he said. “Only two things have made flying safer: the reinforcement of cockpit doors, and the fact that passengers know now to resist hijackers.” […]
Penny Arcade! – The Breaking Point LOL! She was probably giving away those fruit LEGO® things anyway… An Easy Way To Get the Contents of a Custom Field by Nathan Rice: eventually I will need to learn what these Custom Fields are and what to do with them… 10 Easy Steps to Great Website Optimization. […]
Aquamacs Emacs for Mac OS X Annals of Culture: Late Bloomers at The New Yorker: reminds me of the essay in Wired a while back (2 years ago?) where they discussed the slowly-blossoming genius (e.g., Robert Frost) vs. the explosive young genius (e.g., Orson Welles, ) Woot : Travels With Woot: The Champlain Valley Fair […]
Continuation: 32 (26-32 last batch) Fool-Proof Federal Income-Tax-Saving Strategies at Fix My Personal Finance 10 Smart State Income-Tax Saving Strategies at Fix My Personal Finance WordPress 2.7 Comments Enhancements McCain Denounces Pitchfork-Wavers Seriously? What does this say about McCain's base, eh? The real ugliness isn't in the electioneering. Reason for Removal – Swivel But, in […]
New Work: Dream Captcha at Gus23 (via B²): this is so clearly awesome that…. well, it's just awesome. 13 Lessons to Teach Your Child About Digital Photography Bone Appetite 2008 Wine-tasting, Seated dinner, and Amazing Silent Auction. ¶ Saturday, October 25th at Union Station, One Main St. Burlington. Could be fun… How to Financially Educate […]
Seven habits for writing secure PHP applications XHTML – myths and realities The sentences of Sarah Palin, diagrammed. By Kitty Burns Florey at Slate Magazine: The sentences [Gov. Palin] uttered in interviews […] seem to twitter all over the place like mourning doves frightened at the feeder. To my Granddad: I'd wager Ohio's electoral votes […]