Links
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Link clearing blog post
- Garet Garrett – an early libertarian writer, I just added his Atlas Shrugged precursor novel to my amazon.com wish list
- This story about a black widow who has just recently been revealed
- Jeff Carstensen was spooked when he learned his grandmother planned to buy him a $100,000 life insurance policy — and name herself the beneficiary.
- “She told me that people of our stature have insurance policies on each other,” he said. “That way, if something happens to you, you take care of me, and if something happens to me, I take care of you. It was all too suspicious. So I got out of there any way I could, as soon as I could.”
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Thursday rapid fire
- Zinger of the day – Cop’s special treatment after DUI examined – it’s the usual “How did this happen” finishing with “But he said he didn’t anticipate any criminal charges against anyone involved in Stephens’ release.” Lame.
- Bike boxes
- John Templeton has passed away – he started his financial company in the 1930s! That fills me with awe for some reason, I’m not sure why.
- PublicDomain4U.com – cool stuff
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Random links
- Joel Spolsky “If something seems possible, that’s probably because someone is already doing it. When something seems that it can’t possibly work, nobody tries it. Real innovation happens when someone tries anyway, overlooking an obvious flaw, and finds a way to make an idea work.”
- Female Patriarchs in Albania – apparently they swear virginity, live as men, and take over the male role as head of the family. Very weird.
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Saturday rapid fire
- Dean Kamen’s Robot Arm – simply incredible. Why Kamen isn’t America’s most highly regarded public citizen is a mystery.
- The liberal media follows me around an takes notes – I had this conversation with some friends last week, it’s an odd coincidence. I don’t cry at movies but my the movies that come closes are The Virgin Spring and On The Beach.
- More HDR Photography
- Groupware is bad
- Russia’s Hypermortality –
Moreover, a large proportion of the Russian workforce may be too drunk to function. Almost one male death in three is alcohol-related. “The increase of alcohol consumption from 10 to 15 liters and an almost simultaneous increase in mortality suggests the central role played by alcohol to mortality, in average up to 426,000 per year in 1980-2001. Alcohol-related deaths total 29.6 percent of total mortality for men and 17.0 percent for women,” the report says.
- My next project is going to be something like this
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Links to the sound of impacting bugs
For some reasons bumblebees have been smacking into my office window for the past hour. Here’s some links for your reading while I’m uploading…
- Night Photography Tutorial
- Linq tutorial videos
- AskTheBuilder.com is a handy site
- I should probably be more outraged about this, but Planned Parenthood took a donation (later revealed to be a politically motivated prank) specifically for abortions for black women. All a part of the grand evolution I suppose
- The last doughboy – an era is ending and we’re not seeing it.
- Free bricks to anyone in Atlanta
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Friday links
- Everybody kills Hitler – quite good
- Interesting bit by David Friedman on public education
- Bob Barr might be running for the LP nomination, that would be strange
- The best cartoon I’ve seen in quite some time, everybody check this out…
- The ocean is cooling… – Global warming enthusiasts are sounding more and more like defense lawyers.
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Tuesday morning link roundup
- Berkeley wants the Marines out – not surprising given their history. We’re in the age when everyone delights in acting according to stereotype.
- More biofuel scams
- This looks cool
- I’ll be attempting somethign like this soon
- Multiple video chat
- A brilliantly simple image stabilizer
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Quick links while compiling
That’s it for now. Work has still been crazy…
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Sunday rapid fire
- Living in three centuries – amazing photography
- Public defender suspended for using n-word – while quoting someone no less! Inoffensive language has become the new way to show social piety.
- A profile of David Simon, author of two of my favorite books, and creator of one of my favorite television shows. The Wire starts tonight.
- The evolution debate is strange. Ron Paul says he doesn’t believe in some version of it, and an army of commenters jumps in to criticize. For something as trivial as the evolution-Creationism debate (trivial in the sense that being wrong does not affect the outcome) the level of vigor and venom is surprising. It would be interesting to know if belief in evolution was proportional in someway to having children.
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Recommended viewing
The stuff of thought, an interview with Steven Pinker. It’s a lovely interview with braniac Steven Pinker on the development of language. Not safe for work, surprisingly.