Sunday Links: Non-Politics
RIP: Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III has died of heart failure after battling MS for 19 years. (IMDB profile) The Guardian looks at his life.
NYT Magazine: The 5th Annual Year in Ideas
Could pathological, extreme bias be a mental illness?
Very cool: The Mosquito: People under 20 can hear it, but almost no one under 30 can. Now being used to keep teens away from storefronts in the UK.
Listen to air traffic controllers live.
Radar locates a time capsule from Hawai’ian King Kamehameha V and pinpoints the tomb of King Edward the Confessor.
Salon.com: “Looking to “Survivor’s” Cindy and North Korea’s Kim Jong-il for lessons on how to lose big, lose early and lose often.” ”Take Cindy from “Survivor” -- stay with me, now, I know you’re tired of reality TV, but this is important. Last week, Cindy won the reward challenge, which meant she won a brand new Pontiac Torrent, which is a bubbly-looking midsize SUV. But wait, there’s a twist! Soon after winning, host Jeff Probst gave her another option: Give up the brand-new car, and the other four contestants will each get a brand-new car of his or her own!
...You give up the car, and millions of people are watching. Here’s what happens next: 1) Everyone at camp loves you, and feels a personal sense of obligation to make sure you make it into the final three at the very least, 2) everyone at home goes “Awww, that was so nice of her!” which means that 3) you’ll be sitting down with Katie Couric and Matt Lauer and God knows who else to discuss your huge, generous heart, which means that 4) you’ll demand a good sum as a public speaker for a few years and 5) you might just earn a hefty sum for appearing in a few print ads and, hey, even if you don’t want any of that stuff 6) you can spend the rest of your life with your head held high, knowing that you did the right thing.
Now let’s look at what happens when you keep the car: 1) Everyone at camp instantly dislikes you, and for a very good reason, 2) everyone at home goes “Ewww” and tries to pry your mean little face out of their minds forever, 3) you get voted off at the next tribal council, 4) not even the host of “The Early Show” on CBS really wants to speak to you, 5) your 15 minutes of fame are reduced to five minutes and 6) you spend the rest of your life known as the Selfish, Morally Bankrupt Idiot Who Sold Her Soul for a Pontiac.
“Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide. So far we have 6150 destination guides and other articles written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe.”
The Elizabeth Bear (matociquala) discussion community, moderated by the_red_shoes.
The Gilbert And Sullivan Archive
WashPost: Gratuities 101
LJ now has a myspace_deaths community. It’s a little too celebratory for my tastes.
NYT Magazine: The 5th Annual Year in Ideas
Could pathological, extreme bias be a mental illness?
Very cool: The Mosquito: People under 20 can hear it, but almost no one under 30 can. Now being used to keep teens away from storefronts in the UK.
Listen to air traffic controllers live.
Radar locates a time capsule from Hawai’ian King Kamehameha V and pinpoints the tomb of King Edward the Confessor.
Salon.com: “Looking to “Survivor’s” Cindy and North Korea’s Kim Jong-il for lessons on how to lose big, lose early and lose often.” ”Take Cindy from “Survivor” -- stay with me, now, I know you’re tired of reality TV, but this is important. Last week, Cindy won the reward challenge, which meant she won a brand new Pontiac Torrent, which is a bubbly-looking midsize SUV. But wait, there’s a twist! Soon after winning, host Jeff Probst gave her another option: Give up the brand-new car, and the other four contestants will each get a brand-new car of his or her own!
...You give up the car, and millions of people are watching. Here’s what happens next: 1) Everyone at camp loves you, and feels a personal sense of obligation to make sure you make it into the final three at the very least, 2) everyone at home goes “Awww, that was so nice of her!” which means that 3) you’ll be sitting down with Katie Couric and Matt Lauer and God knows who else to discuss your huge, generous heart, which means that 4) you’ll demand a good sum as a public speaker for a few years and 5) you might just earn a hefty sum for appearing in a few print ads and, hey, even if you don’t want any of that stuff 6) you can spend the rest of your life with your head held high, knowing that you did the right thing.
Now let’s look at what happens when you keep the car: 1) Everyone at camp instantly dislikes you, and for a very good reason, 2) everyone at home goes “Ewww” and tries to pry your mean little face out of their minds forever, 3) you get voted off at the next tribal council, 4) not even the host of “The Early Show” on CBS really wants to speak to you, 5) your 15 minutes of fame are reduced to five minutes and 6) you spend the rest of your life known as the Selfish, Morally Bankrupt Idiot Who Sold Her Soul for a Pontiac.
“Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide. So far we have 6150 destination guides and other articles written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe.”
The Elizabeth Bear (matociquala) discussion community, moderated by the_red_shoes.
The Gilbert And Sullivan Archive
WashPost: Gratuities 101
LJ now has a myspace_deaths community. It’s a little too celebratory for my tastes.