Why we love Jon Sung. I am a failure as a consumer. I live somewhere people would rather have a day off than shop, and even today the only shopping I did was to take some stuff in to get framed at the half price framing sale. Will points us to the Global Rich List, which helps put some things… Read more →
Category: Linkapalooza
Complete Miscellany
The best news story in the world: Camel crashes party, drinks Guinness. I like a Swiss Army knife as much as the next guy (although I greatly prefer my Leatherman), but this is a bit ridiculous. I give money to ORC. You should too (at least the Canadians amongst you should.) I know what an aglet is. I know what… Read more →
Playing catch-up
A little link-blogging of some things that have caught my attention over the past week… Benjamin Franklin explains why men should take old women as mistresses: Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the… Read more →
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
My favourite evolution-in-schools story this week: Apparently Michigan has at least some sense. The State Board of Education on Tuesday approved public school curriculum guidelines that support the teaching of evolution in science classes — but not intelligent design. … “The intent of the board needs to be very clear,” said board member John Austin, an Ann Arbor Democrat. “Evolution… Read more →
Thursday morning linkage
What was I saying about misusing the power of education? Man would I have done poorly at that school. This is a computer-generated image. I would have been fooled. Is there a Turing test equivalent for this kind of thing? The idea of Statler & Waldorf doing a Siskel and Ebert routine is pretty solid gold. Somehow they manage to… Read more →
Bookish links of the day
Rick Kleffel has really been burning it up over at The Agony Column. There’s been some really top quality stuff there over the last couple of days, including: A lengthy interview with Naomi NovikI think I wanted her to sound like Patrick O’Brian or something. (mp3), A lengthy interview with Charles Stross…who does not sound “Scottish enough” to me. I… Read more →
Saturday Link-blogging
I wish more North Americans had travelled enough to have a picture of how the world really is, outside of North America. Watching the miniature earth movie is a good way to start getting the idea, without spending years travelling. Think that the $8.3 trillion dollar national debt that Bush reports is a sign of absolute unmitigated fiscal disaster? What… Read more →
A Thursday Miscellany
Wow. Moore wasn’t kidding. LOST GIRLS is really, really, dirty. You know what really gets me about this story: people were complaining! Who seriously feels threatened on an airplane because someone is praying–regardless of what language they are doing it in? I thought this kind of madness was American-only, but I guess we’re just as bad. My home office is… Read more →
Wednesday Linkblogging
OK, let’s clear some tabs. What is up with North America’s unrealistic boob size fascination? Digital enhancements? “…magazine publishers in the US ban stars from appearing on their front covers unless they have at least a C-cup size, or are willing to be digitally enhanced to make it appear as if they have”?!??! Man, we really are all crazy. Does… Read more →
Monday Miscellany…
Yeah, work is still killing me, so I’m phoning it in. Still, it’s a bargain at the price. Today’s reason to be annoyed with Fortress AmerikaSpinrad predicted this.: U.S. Government Increasingly Blocking Entry at the Border Because of Ideology Fifty NFB films free on the web. The whole Cat Came Back thing was giving me flashbacks to my childhood, but… Read more →
Links to a cornucopia of images
Keith Loh‘s Flickr photoset of images from the World Peace Forum‘s Peace March. Keith’s captions are a lot more useful than on most Flickr photosets. A gallery of cool science-fiction landscapes conjured from TerraGen. (The site’s main page is in German. Here’s another.) If you think hookers look like this, then you’re in for a rude awakening. Another photoset, just… Read more →
Bipolar linking
Chris is Angry: “Judge Rules That U.S. Has Broad Powers to Detain Noncitizens Indefinitely“. Almost nothing in “rights” legality angers me more than divisions between the rights of humans and the rights of citizens. The judge here, and anyone who agrees with him should learn a little history. The line was “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all… Read more →
Quickies
Darwin strikes again: Kung fu fan tries to stop train. I swear I am totally going to learn how to pronounce “Xianglongshibazhang!”, and I am totally going to yell it out whenever I see someone being unutterably stupid. Ha-ha: Roy Moore Loses. Not a judge anymore, not a governor either. Apparently even in Alabama there’s some people who can’t get… Read more →
Long Weekend Miscellany
Note for non-Canadians: Monday is one of our most important holidays. Hence “long weekend”. I don’t know how much time I will have to blog this weekend, but I can certainly present a miscellaneous set of things to keep you happy all weekend just in case. This will be a tremendously long post about various, mostly unrelated, things. So, on… Read more →
A bookish Sunday Miscellany
I’m not sure why, but for some reason book reviews written by authors whose work I like tend to carry more weight with me than reviews by almost anyone else. This is why I pay special attention to things like Paul Witcover‘s reviews at Realms of Fantasy and Sci Fi Weekly, or Norman Spinrad‘s review/essays in Asimov’s, etc. I was… Read more →
