Sunday Links
Mike Ford: Occasional Works, Part Two and Part Three. My original post on Mike Ford.
Something inspiring from Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert. For the past year, he's been suffering from Spasmodic Dysphonia, a condition which renders a person mute. Recently, he's been able to work around the condition using logic and a bit of mental "remapping."
NYTimes from a couple of weeks ago: "Why Old Media and Tom Cruise Should Worry About Cheaper Technology" Related: YouTube removed all posted Daily Show and Colbert Report clips recently, citing copyright violation. Comedy Central has been keeping comprehensive clip archives of both shows since 2002: The Daily Show // The Colbert Report
Fried Coke
Face Blind: Examining Prosopagnosia
Plan Bee: The Honeybee Genome has been sequenced
webpetals pointed out an interview with Jasper Fforde.
Politics
"Democrats: To fix Iraq, first GOP must go". The Democrats FINALLY figure out what their message to the American public should be. If they don't plaster this everywhere for a week, they deserve to lose again.
"As the midterm elections approach, many conservatives are feeling betrayed by one of their most important allies in the war on terror: Battlestar Galactica."
This week's Time Magazine cover story: "The Lone Ranger": "How the election became a referendum on an isolated President-and how it is likely to reshape American politics"
Jon Swift on Limbaugh and Michael J. Fox. Excellent piece.
The Harvard Annual Law Review presents: Abortion Laws of the World
From caelidh: "This doesn't happen every day: An incumbent member of Congress, in the middle of a re-election battle, says that storing nuclear waste shipments from around the world in her district may be a good idea."
Something inspiring from Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert. For the past year, he's been suffering from Spasmodic Dysphonia, a condition which renders a person mute. Recently, he's been able to work around the condition using logic and a bit of mental "remapping."
NYTimes from a couple of weeks ago: "Why Old Media and Tom Cruise Should Worry About Cheaper Technology" Related: YouTube removed all posted Daily Show and Colbert Report clips recently, citing copyright violation. Comedy Central has been keeping comprehensive clip archives of both shows since 2002: The Daily Show // The Colbert Report
Fried Coke
Face Blind: Examining Prosopagnosia
Plan Bee: The Honeybee Genome has been sequenced
webpetals pointed out an interview with Jasper Fforde.
Politics
"Democrats: To fix Iraq, first GOP must go". The Democrats FINALLY figure out what their message to the American public should be. If they don't plaster this everywhere for a week, they deserve to lose again.
"As the midterm elections approach, many conservatives are feeling betrayed by one of their most important allies in the war on terror: Battlestar Galactica."
This week's Time Magazine cover story: "The Lone Ranger": "How the election became a referendum on an isolated President-and how it is likely to reshape American politics"
Jon Swift on Limbaugh and Michael J. Fox. Excellent piece.
The Harvard Annual Law Review presents: Abortion Laws of the World
From caelidh: "This doesn't happen every day: An incumbent member of Congress, in the middle of a re-election battle, says that storing nuclear waste shipments from around the world in her district may be a good idea."