[links] Link salad awakens with slow reluctance
In case you missed it over the weekend, my new cancer tattoo: [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ] - Yes, on the back of my skull.
Christopher Walken reads Where The Wild Things Are
Antarctica - Fantastical World without Borders - An Antarctica travelog, relevant to one of my future projects. (Via bravado111.)
Avería: The Average Font - Interpolative typography. Huh. Fascinating. (Thanks to kshandra.)
Washington Park: 1907 - Detroit's "moon towers", as depicted here, later were sold to the City of Austin, where most of them still survive.
One’s A Crowd - The trend toward living alone?
garyomaha on working lunches, or not
Neurocinematic comparison of monkeys and humans - Spaghetti western reveals differences between human and monkey brain. Mmm, neurocinematic. I loved this bit: Like most other films, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a complex multisensory stimulus, filled with rich, operatic imagery and, of course, Ennio Morricone's unforgettable score. It is, however, fairly safe to assume that humans and monkeys will interpret the film quite differently. (Via danjite.)
Path Is Found for the Spread of Alzheimer’s - The headline is slightly misleading, as the story refers to Alzheimer's progression within an individual rather than to transmission between individuals. Interesting stuff.
The Komen Controversy: Planned Parenthood Claims a New Kind of Victory in the Culture War - I am baffled by the conservative charge that Planned Parenthood "bullied" Komen. What is the Right's treatment of Planned Parenthood but bullying, if you want to frame it in those terms? More to the point, for decades the entire forced pregnancy movement is about bullying desperate, vulnerable young women and their medical providers. What else is a clinic blockade or a doctor target list but sheer, awful bullying in the name of what? The god of love? Decency? Conservative bigotry and "morals"? Can you imagine the reaction if liberal-progressives blockaded churches and targeted pastors? Project much, guys? The Right can dish it out, but they can't take it.
A Puritan's 'war against religion' - Roger Williams, the Puritan who founded Rhode Island, insisted on the state refraining from intervening in the relationship between humans and God. Freedom of religion absolutely means freedom from religion. That is the best protection any church has against persecution. Despite the modern GOP interpretation, freedom of religion doesn't mean the freedom to exercise oppressive bigotry, narrow-minded judgmenentalism, or tear down educational and cultural standards in favor of silly mythmaking.
ericjamesstone points out that I am wrong in characterizing Romney as saying he won't have a Muslim in his cabinet - This in connection to my comment that I thought making an issue of Romney' religion was a red herring, until he made an issue of Islam as a religion. Speaking as an atheist, there is nothing more or less at issue with Romney's LDS membership than there is with Newt's Catholicism or Clinton's Southern Baptist faith. To me, the religion of the candidates would only be an issue if there were a straightforward atheist running on a major party ticket. Which won't likely happen in my lifetime...
Senate GOP: Activist Federal Judges Wanted - The hypocrisy of a group of Republicans who are supporting the lawsuit against Obama's recess appointments. Republicans being hypocritical? That's as inconceivable as the idea of Newt Gingrich cheating on his wife.
The true conservative alternative: Ron Paul? - It's sad that conservatism has become a race to the bottom to display the most ignorance, bigotry and sheer foolishness.
?otd: Dream much??
2/6/2012
Writing time yesterday: 5.5 hours (Sunspin revisions)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 7.5 (solid)
Weight: 229.4
Currently reading: The Man in the Moone, and Other Lunar Fantasies ed. Faith Pizor
Christopher Walken reads Where The Wild Things Are
Antarctica - Fantastical World without Borders - An Antarctica travelog, relevant to one of my future projects. (Via bravado111.)
Avería: The Average Font - Interpolative typography. Huh. Fascinating. (Thanks to kshandra.)
Washington Park: 1907 - Detroit's "moon towers", as depicted here, later were sold to the City of Austin, where most of them still survive.
One’s A Crowd - The trend toward living alone?
garyomaha on working lunches, or not
Neurocinematic comparison of monkeys and humans - Spaghetti western reveals differences between human and monkey brain. Mmm, neurocinematic. I loved this bit: Like most other films, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a complex multisensory stimulus, filled with rich, operatic imagery and, of course, Ennio Morricone's unforgettable score. It is, however, fairly safe to assume that humans and monkeys will interpret the film quite differently. (Via danjite.)
Path Is Found for the Spread of Alzheimer’s - The headline is slightly misleading, as the story refers to Alzheimer's progression within an individual rather than to transmission between individuals. Interesting stuff.
The Komen Controversy: Planned Parenthood Claims a New Kind of Victory in the Culture War - I am baffled by the conservative charge that Planned Parenthood "bullied" Komen. What is the Right's treatment of Planned Parenthood but bullying, if you want to frame it in those terms? More to the point, for decades the entire forced pregnancy movement is about bullying desperate, vulnerable young women and their medical providers. What else is a clinic blockade or a doctor target list but sheer, awful bullying in the name of what? The god of love? Decency? Conservative bigotry and "morals"? Can you imagine the reaction if liberal-progressives blockaded churches and targeted pastors? Project much, guys? The Right can dish it out, but they can't take it.
A Puritan's 'war against religion' - Roger Williams, the Puritan who founded Rhode Island, insisted on the state refraining from intervening in the relationship between humans and God. Freedom of religion absolutely means freedom from religion. That is the best protection any church has against persecution. Despite the modern GOP interpretation, freedom of religion doesn't mean the freedom to exercise oppressive bigotry, narrow-minded judgmenentalism, or tear down educational and cultural standards in favor of silly mythmaking.
ericjamesstone points out that I am wrong in characterizing Romney as saying he won't have a Muslim in his cabinet - This in connection to my comment that I thought making an issue of Romney' religion was a red herring, until he made an issue of Islam as a religion. Speaking as an atheist, there is nothing more or less at issue with Romney's LDS membership than there is with Newt's Catholicism or Clinton's Southern Baptist faith. To me, the religion of the candidates would only be an issue if there were a straightforward atheist running on a major party ticket. Which won't likely happen in my lifetime...
Senate GOP: Activist Federal Judges Wanted - The hypocrisy of a group of Republicans who are supporting the lawsuit against Obama's recess appointments. Republicans being hypocritical? That's as inconceivable as the idea of Newt Gingrich cheating on his wife.
The true conservative alternative: Ron Paul? - It's sad that conservatism has become a race to the bottom to display the most ignorance, bigotry and sheer foolishness.
?otd: Dream much??
2/6/2012
Writing time yesterday: 5.5 hours (Sunspin revisions)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 7.5 (solid)
Weight: 229.4
Currently reading: The Man in the Moone, and Other Lunar Fantasies ed. Faith Pizor