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YouTube – Tom Waits 「 Heigh Ho 」 ( The Dwarfs marching song ) from Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs Creepiest. Disney song cover. EVER! (tags: music movies video youtube) Gallagher | DVD | Interview | The A.V. Club Kind of a surreal extended get-offa-my-lawn rant, only vaguely related to the questions being asked.… Continue reading Links for 2009-12-30

Why your boss is incompetent – life – 17 December 2009 – New Scientist “The “Peter principle” undoubtedly appeals to the cynic in all of us. It is also quite possibly true, if subsequent academic studies are to be believed. The longer a person stays at a particular level in an organisation, the more most… Continue reading Links for 2009-12-29

John Crowley Little and Big – Health Care Reform “At least where I live, and I bet for almost everyone with health insurance, it’s very difficult to avoid making several trips to the pharmacy to have various prescriptions filled. If you take (say) four pills a day, and will forever (or until death parts you… Continue reading Links for 2009-12-28

Trapped in the USA: You’re Just Not that into Science “It’s sad to say this but most people I work with are just not that into science. It’s not that they’re not good at it – they clearly are – it’s just that they’re interested only in their little niche, and are thoroughly satisfied with… Continue reading Links for 2009-12-23

The Mid-Majority “Sports information is like electricity or water. When the power’s on and everything’s flowing regularly, nobody notices. Everybody takes these things for granted. But whenever anything goes wrong, people act like it’s the end of the world. Sports information directors are expected to be perfect, to have the entire school record book on… Continue reading Links for 2009-12-22

Make it Sir: Star Trek’s Patrick Stewart to be knighted | SCI FI Wire Sadly, William Shatner is not British. (tags: sf silly television movies theater world awards) Are Texas’ auto safety inspections worth the hassle? | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News “Texas is one of 19 states left… Continue reading Links for 2009-12-21

Upper Mismanagement | The New Republic “Since 1965, the percentage of graduates of highly-ranked business schools who go into consulting and financial services has doubled, from about one-third to about two-thirds. And while some of these consultants and financiers end up in the manufacturing sector, in some respects that’s the problem. Harvard business professor Rakesh… Continue reading Links for 2009-12-20

The Mighty Power of Blogosaurus? | The Loom | Discover Magazine “I’ve heard this sort of story many times before, and this is where it usually ends. Blogosaurus slinks back to his office and sulks. But today the story has another ending. Wedel now reports that someone from the Discovery Channel called him up and… Continue reading Links for 2009-12-19

Creating Citizen Scientists § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM “A few days ago, sitting in my office, I contributed to peer-reviewed scientific research in biology, astronomy, and psychology. Even though I don’t hold degrees in any of these fields, my contributions will help advance science: I was doing real investigative work, not the prosaic replications of classic experiments that… Continue reading Links for 2009-12-18

slacktivist: Preferring nightmares “What I don’t get is the kind of deliberate delusion in which a person chooses to pretend the world is more horrifying and filled with more and more-monstrous monsters. Why would anyone prefer such a place to the real world? Why would anyone wish for a world filled with socialist conspiracies, secret… Continue reading Links for 2009-12-17