[links] Link salad with a low key day
'Portlandia': Straight outta Portland
Why Men Need To Cheat - Interestingly, this entire article on men and sex is really making a strong case for polyamory without ever using the word or explaining the concept. Ah, the magic power of embedded assumptions.
Top tips on women for Stephen Hawking
Rare Gorilla Encounter - American wildlife photographer sits in awe and disbelief as a troop of wild Ugandan mountain gorillas coddle and groom him.
Tomorrow’s office, imagined in 1969
If them neutrinos are faster than light, physicists have a lot of work to do
Why can’t we use lasers as ray guns? - Mmm, laser-cooked bacon.
This Girl Snuck Into a Russian Military Rocket Factory - Some bad ass photos here. (Via mlerules.)
Iran welcomes 'humanitarian' rescue from pirates
Why Tornadoes Take the Weekends Off in Summer - Not just anthropogenic climate change, but anthropogenic weather change.
Priscilla Of Boston Spray-Paints Unsold Wedding Gowns To Keep Them From Grubby Poor People - Classy, very classy.
Report: Federal workers 'pressured' to approve citizenship papers - Anecdotally speaking, everyone I've ever known to go through the citizenship process (including the_child, as a 1-2 year old) has had pretty much the opposite experience: endless and seemingly pointless delays and weird make-work bureaucratic impediments.
Food Stamp President - Ta-Nehisi Coates on Gingrich and Santorum's recent racist idiocy.
Frothing at Santorum - Bill Shunn rants, very much along my line of thinking.
Bain, Barack and Jobs - Mr. Romney and those like him didn’t destroy jobs, but they did enrich themselves while helping to destroy the American middle class. And that reality is, of course, what all the blather and misdirection about job-creating businessmen and job-destroying Democrats is meant to obscure.
Self-Styled Conservatives Run the GOP, Except When They Don’t - Conservative commentator Daniel Larison with a fascinating discussion of the GOP nominating process from a far right point of view. I always find him interesting, though sometimes he's way off base, like his recurring contention that Bush was not a conservative. So far as I can tell, that's the "No true Scotsman" fallacy in action, as Bush was a self-identified conservative elected by conservatives who governed from conservative principles in the most disastrous presidential administration in modern history. He sure as heck was no liberal, progressive or moderate. To claim now he wasn't a conservative is a cowardly effort to wriggle out of responsibility for horrendous failures of conservatism under Bush.
?otd: Caper much?
1/7/2012
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo fatigue)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 9.5 (fitful)
Weight: 215.2
Currently reading: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Why Men Need To Cheat - Interestingly, this entire article on men and sex is really making a strong case for polyamory without ever using the word or explaining the concept. Ah, the magic power of embedded assumptions.
Top tips on women for Stephen Hawking
Rare Gorilla Encounter - American wildlife photographer sits in awe and disbelief as a troop of wild Ugandan mountain gorillas coddle and groom him.
Tomorrow’s office, imagined in 1969
If them neutrinos are faster than light, physicists have a lot of work to do
Why can’t we use lasers as ray guns? - Mmm, laser-cooked bacon.
This Girl Snuck Into a Russian Military Rocket Factory - Some bad ass photos here. (Via mlerules.)
Iran welcomes 'humanitarian' rescue from pirates
Why Tornadoes Take the Weekends Off in Summer - Not just anthropogenic climate change, but anthropogenic weather change.
Priscilla Of Boston Spray-Paints Unsold Wedding Gowns To Keep Them From Grubby Poor People - Classy, very classy.
Report: Federal workers 'pressured' to approve citizenship papers - Anecdotally speaking, everyone I've ever known to go through the citizenship process (including the_child, as a 1-2 year old) has had pretty much the opposite experience: endless and seemingly pointless delays and weird make-work bureaucratic impediments.
Food Stamp President - Ta-Nehisi Coates on Gingrich and Santorum's recent racist idiocy.
Frothing at Santorum - Bill Shunn rants, very much along my line of thinking.
Bain, Barack and Jobs - Mr. Romney and those like him didn’t destroy jobs, but they did enrich themselves while helping to destroy the American middle class. And that reality is, of course, what all the blather and misdirection about job-creating businessmen and job-destroying Democrats is meant to obscure.
Self-Styled Conservatives Run the GOP, Except When They Don’t - Conservative commentator Daniel Larison with a fascinating discussion of the GOP nominating process from a far right point of view. I always find him interesting, though sometimes he's way off base, like his recurring contention that Bush was not a conservative. So far as I can tell, that's the "No true Scotsman" fallacy in action, as Bush was a self-identified conservative elected by conservatives who governed from conservative principles in the most disastrous presidential administration in modern history. He sure as heck was no liberal, progressive or moderate. To claim now he wasn't a conservative is a cowardly effort to wriggle out of responsibility for horrendous failures of conservatism under Bush.
?otd: Caper much?
1/7/2012
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo fatigue)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 9.5 (fitful)
Weight: 215.2
Currently reading: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness