linkspam needs comfort food
George McGovern is dying. Charlie Pierce has an appreciation.
Vintage Space talks about Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking skydive.
OK, I have to admit, this is pretty awesome. Click here for the details on Romney's tax plan.
This is the only review of the new Rowling novel that makes me inclined to read it.
Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
I continue to find the perpetuation of fraudulent lives and deaths online fascinating. Here's the story of a Twitter fraud: turns out "David Rose" wasn't a 24-year old profoundly deaf quadriplegic. And Here's the post by the person who unmasked him, and pretty simply, too. Google Images: it's not exactly rocket science.
Via the Slacktivist: to some conservative Christians, successful women are just too threatening, even when the women themselves are evangelical Christians.
Remember Kathy Sierra? I do. She's got something to say about the ongoing discussion about women in the tech field, especially experiences at conferences.
Outside digs into the full story about Lance Armstrong and the culture of doping.
Yet another Javascript-based interactive thingie that doesn't work on my office computer. Sheesh.
This is a marvelously-written old-school travel essay. The next morning we drove again. Hairpins from Kangding to the pass of Zheduo, at nearly 16,500 feet. A chorten, and prayer flags lashing in the wind. Porcelain snow. Beyond us to the west was a wide river valley, dry and lunar, through which ran a river of white ice and blue water. Long hours through bare brown land. Snow lying in lines in fields, thawed from the summits of the plough-lines but holding white in the trenches.
Let's close out with a series of photos of the Faroe Islands. Warning: there's some photos of a whale hunt, which are a bit disturbing, but the rest of the photos are quite marvelous.
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OK, I lied. I have to close out with this fantastic photo from the presidential debate tonight. Heh.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
Vintage Space talks about Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking skydive.
OK, I have to admit, this is pretty awesome. Click here for the details on Romney's tax plan.
This is the only review of the new Rowling novel that makes me inclined to read it.
Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
I continue to find the perpetuation of fraudulent lives and deaths online fascinating. Here's the story of a Twitter fraud: turns out "David Rose" wasn't a 24-year old profoundly deaf quadriplegic. And Here's the post by the person who unmasked him, and pretty simply, too. Google Images: it's not exactly rocket science.
Via the Slacktivist: to some conservative Christians, successful women are just too threatening, even when the women themselves are evangelical Christians.
Remember Kathy Sierra? I do. She's got something to say about the ongoing discussion about women in the tech field, especially experiences at conferences.
Outside digs into the full story about Lance Armstrong and the culture of doping.
Yet another Javascript-based interactive thingie that doesn't work on my office computer. Sheesh.
This is a marvelously-written old-school travel essay. The next morning we drove again. Hairpins from Kangding to the pass of Zheduo, at nearly 16,500 feet. A chorten, and prayer flags lashing in the wind. Porcelain snow. Beyond us to the west was a wide river valley, dry and lunar, through which ran a river of white ice and blue water. Long hours through bare brown land. Snow lying in lines in fields, thawed from the summits of the plough-lines but holding white in the trenches.
Let's close out with a series of photos of the Faroe Islands. Warning: there's some photos of a whale hunt, which are a bit disturbing, but the rest of the photos are quite marvelous.
*
OK, I lied. I have to close out with this fantastic photo from the presidential debate tonight. Heh.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.