Category: Links Dump

What will be your Edward Gorey death? – Quiz | Get More Quizzes at Quizilla "We are all going to die. Why not die in an Edwary Gorey way. Find out how which Gashlycrumb Tinies child you will die like." (tags: silly literature books internet) Cocktail Party Physics: when satellites collide, it’s really a drag… Continue reading links for 2009-02-23

Cocktail Party Physics: science, politics, and getting it wrong "One surefire way to panic the heck out of people is to mention nuclear bombs and radical Islam in the same sentence. I dunno about you, but I kinda had a mini-freakout when I read about the amount of enriched uranium the United Nations says that… Continue reading links for 2009-02-22

mmcirvin: Some children’s music "We listen to a LOT of children’s music these days. Maybe a little too much sometimes. On the other hand, we’re fortunate to live in an age of relatively listenable children’s music with some adult appeal. Here’s some stuff Jorie’s been hearing lately:" (tags: blogs music kid-stuff) Acephalous: Batman as a… Continue reading links for 2009-02-21

Abstruse Goose » How Stuff Works "Science killed my unicorns." (tags: science comics silly abstruse-goose) Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Hugo Nominations Including a few links to recommended-reading lists. (tags: movies SF literature books hugos) Physics and Physicists: What Did Galileo Actually Do? Most People Don’t Know "The name "Galileo"… Continue reading links for 2009-02-20

slacktivist: Why I’m peeved "House-of-cards fundamentalism allows for no distinctions between babies and bathwater, between the central tenets of the faith and the adiaphora and error. So once one part of this belief system begins to collapse — as it inevitably will since young-earth creationism is disprovable — then it all has to go." (tags:… Continue reading links for 2009-02-19

US LHC Blog » Higgs Hunting News "Depending on what the mass of the Higgs boson is, it will decay into other particles that are easier or harder for an experiment to detect. So for example if the mass turns out to be about 170 GeV, the Tevatron experiments say their chances are almost 100… Continue reading links for 2009-02-18

immlass: You have no privacy. Get over it. "Facebook may be sleazy and selling more of your information than you like to advertisers, but the idea it wants to steal your IP and do something with it seems vanishingly unlikely. I suspect the change in TOS has something to do with protecting their asses against… Continue reading links for 2009-02-17

Notes on sociopathy "Sometimes, a day of interacting with the rest of the human race on the roads and streets leaves you convinced that the world would be a much nicer place if most newborn humans were tossed in a burlap sack with some stones and then deposited in the nearest pond. But here’s the… Continue reading links for 2009-02-14

Different Cliffs, Different Bottoms, Different Parachutes « Easily Distracted "If one of the goals of stimulus is to get American consumers shopping again, then I think it’s going to take some substantial changes to the entire retail landscape for that to be more than a momentary upward blip in a relentlessly downward spiral. And at… Continue reading links for 2009-02-12

Fish Food « Easily Distracted "Let me add to the “Stanley Fish is just kind of pathetic” dogpile a bit here. In many ways, Fish’s latest column kind of reveals just how naked the emperor has become when it comes to hack complaints about the leftist intolerant academic-freedom abusing groupthink academy. " (tags: stupid academia… Continue reading links for 2009-02-11