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Morning reading
Check out Steve Chapman on terrorism and Arnold Kling on McMedicine.
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Quick link roundup
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Recommended Friday viewing
Check out this speech by Michael Sheurer.
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Somethign work reading
From LifeHacker – 7 Stupid Thinking Errors You Probably Make
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Tuesday round up
- France is seeming warlike
- Personal Batwings!
- There’s a site for everything it seems. Including celebrity heights. Fred Thompson is six foot six.
- More on the Atlanta BeltLine Scam. There is no definite plan, no construction yet, and taxes are already rising.
the proposed 22-mile loop of park and trails ringing downtown will create a circle of wealth and an outer ring of concentrated poverty, warns the Georgia Tech professor who conducted the analysis.
Atlanta is an unconscious conspiracy of real estate developers.
- From LifeHacker – 7 Thinking Errors
- Jane Fonda caused Global Warming! A massive overstatement, but it’s sobering to think where we would be in terms of carbon emissions if we had continued our nuclear power pace from the 70s. Given cheaper electricity, we would probably be farther along with electric cars too.
- Zen Pundit on al Quaidastan
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Friday round up
Sorry for the light blogging, work and the house hunting process have been quite draining on me.
Anyway, Here is your recommended reading for today
- The Economist has a great read Iraqi Kurdistan, or as it will soon be known, Kurdistan.
- The absolute minimum you should know about Character sets and Unicode
- Russia Tests “Dad of All Bombs“. It’s good they’re keeping themselves busy. Money Quote: ” Unlike a nuclear weapon, the bomb doesn’t hurt the environment”
- Megan McArdle on why we haven’t been attacked since 9/11. Personally I think it’s a lack of talent/money/motivation on their part, plus a host of supporting factors
- The view from the top of the world
- I’m surprised this hasn’t come back to life among the many Bush conspiracies.
- There’s this from Craigs List
Sushi Model: Willing to act as display showcase as sushi is displayed placed on body for patrons to eat off of.
• Model preferable of Asian ethnicity
• Height requirement: 5’6” to 5’11”
• Slim built; clean and body shaven
• Will wear bottom with pasty/string bikini top or topless
• Compensation: $200/3 hours - Don’t you just love it when support for Microsoft Products is done using commands only they know? Check this out (which did work for me)
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Quick links while uploading
An assortment of things I’ve read while I’ve been uploading things today
- The golden age of Chicago prostitution – The Everleigh sisters are respoinsible for the term “get laid”. An interesting read – the more things change…
- Rifle Robots!
- John Allen Paulos has a new book out soon, I think it’s going to a more civil (and knowing Paulos well written and interesting) version of the recent Richard Dawkins screed. My favorite blurb from the Amazon page “A Lifelong Unbeliever Finds No Reason to Change His Mind”
- How to build your business without quitting your day job
- Firefox tune-ups
- Conan O’Brian hates my homeland – favorites
Brazil
Home to more than 800 species of unregulated breast implants.Burkina Faso
In the traditional tribal language, that’s Burkina for “land of” and Faso for “people who want to get the hell out of Burkina Faso.”Colombia
You’ll come for the enticing beauty of the Caribbean Sea. You’ll stay because you’ve been kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a Dodge Dart.East Timor
It takes a lot to admit you live on the bad side of Timor.
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Quick link round up
- Long range acoustic devices
- The Agitator has a list of questions that should be asked of all presidential candidates, well worth reading
- Ward Churchill has been fired.
- Black straw lighting from the Strobist and Lighting Mods.
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Sunday rapid fire
- The wealthiest Americans in history
- Lead exposure and crime – interesting if not convincing
- A preachy CNN.com article on vacations – and why some people don’t like them. Evidently any deviation from the middle class norm is unhealthy
- The Battle of Omdurman by the War Nerd