Category: Links Dump

blarg? » Can I Get A Witness “Look, if you want to save journalism, if you want to be a journalist, you need to actually perform the act of journalism. The kind of writing that we desperately need, that we may be well-informed and responsible citizens, not these bullshit celebrity-noise puff pieces. Leave that crap… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-22

Thorium-fuelled exports coming from India “The original design is fuelled by a mix of uranium-233 and plutonium bred from thorium using fast neutron power reactors earlier in a thorium fuel cycle. The LEU variant is suitable for export because it does away with the plutonium, replacing it with uranium enriched to 19.75% uranium-235. Producing 300… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-21

Friday, September 18, 2009 « Medium Large Canadian Province and Territory Mottoes: Ontario: So Clean; So Quiet; So Polite, You Just Know That We’re a Serial Killer. (tags: comics silly world Canada) Is String Theory an Unphysical Pile of Garbage? : Starts With A Bang Ethan’s not what you would call “subtle”… (tags: physics science… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-20

Views: In Loco Parentis, Post-Juicy Campus – Inside Higher Ed “With the digital age in full swing, colleges must reconceptualize what it means to act in loco parentis, and how, to the extent they can do anything, they can best serve their students. The answer is not to read into OCR investigations a new era… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-19

slacktivist: Our trespasses “But then there’s this other phrase which, when we listen to ourselves saying it, is the scariest part of any given Sunday. “Forgive us our trespasses,” we pray, “as we forgive those who trespass against us.”** That’s disturbingly conditional. It’s almost contractual. The conditions laid out there are crystal clear and explicit,… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-18

KFC’s Double Down Sandwich | Update | A.V. Club “God clearly did not mean for humans to eat chicken, bacon, and low-quality, gelatinous cheese at the same time. I was suddenly struck with a strange urge to keep kosher. Each bite became a grueling endurance test, as the cheese and grease began to override the… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-17

Infinite Summer » Blog Archive » Sincerely Yours, David Foster Wallace “[F]rom where I now stand-9/10ths of the way through and surveying the path I have trod thus far-it now seems obvious to me what the book is “about”. Infinite Jest is a novel about sincerity.107 The question now becomes: why does it take so… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-16

Fafblog! the whole world’s only source for Fafblog. “”Giblets is detached,” says Giblets. “Where is the warmth of the heart of the fiery fires of the human experience? Giblets demands more feeling!” “And though their love was deep and fierce and right and true it was doomed from the start,” says me, “for she was… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-15

They Should Have Called It “Darwin: The Revengination” « Whatever “Maybe if Charles Darwin were played by Will Smith, was a gun-toting robot sent back from the future to learn how to love, and to kill the crap out of the alien baby eaters cleverly disguised as Galapagos tortoises, and then some way were contrived… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-14

A Smoove Evening | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source “The plan to seduce Michelle Obama in both body and soul has also not moved forward during the last few months. She and her people have stopped returning Smoove’s phone calls, and his letters, and the elaborately arranged fruit sculptures he has assembled from… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-13