{"id":3877,"date":"2009-07-16T05:01:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T05:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/16\/links-for-2009-07-16\/"},"modified":"2009-07-16T05:01:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T05:01:04","slug":"links-for-2009-07-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/16\/links-for-2009-07-16\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-07-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/bad-boys,30383\/?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=feeds&amp;utm_source=avclub_rss_daily\">Bad Boys | Film | A.V. Club<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;From this rich central dynamic, all manner of hilarity springs. Smith is fastidious about the upkeep of his expensive sports car. Lawrence is a slob who gets his messy hamburger all over its glistening interior! How will they ever be able to work together? My curiosity was piqued! Incidentally, since I\u00e2\u0080\u0099m writing about Michael Bay, I feel it is only appropriate to use as many exclamation points as possible, in a futile attempt to convey the mind-bogglingly extreme and in-your-face nature of Bay\u00e2\u0080\u0099s work. Whose face is Bay in? Mine. Yours. Society\u00e2\u0080\u0099s.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/review\">review<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/avclub\">avclub<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/stupid\">stupid<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/builtonfacts\/2009\/07\/harry_potter_and_the_tremendou.php\">Harry Potter and the Tremendous F***-up. : Built on Facts<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;There&#8217;s a lot of villains in the Harry Potter series. They are young and old, male and female, human and otherwise, magical and muggle. They range from indolent and reformable pests to soul-sucking embodiments of death personified. Not all of them set out to be bad. Some are good people who made bad choices; some are power-mad petty bureaucrats. But if you want to pick out the single person who caused the most damage, it&#8217;s an easy task.<\/p>\n<p>He is, of course, Albus Dumbledore.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/SF\">SF<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/kid-stuff\">kid-stuff<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/built-on-facts\">built-on-facts<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/suburbdad.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/american-graduation-initiative-first.html\">Confessions of a Community College Dean: The American Graduation Initiative: First Reactions<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Obama&#8217;s speech yesterday at Macomb Community College in Michigan was, by far, the most intelligent Presidential discussion of higher education I&#8217;ve ever seen. He connected the dots between state budget shortfalls and declining investment in higher education, a dose of reality that I, for one, found utterly refreshing.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the devil is always in the details.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/dean-dad\">dean-dad<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com\/2009\/07\/usa-usa-usa.html\">Physics Buzz: USA! USA! USA!<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Hey there sports fans there&#8217;s an international showdown going on that you might not even know about! Right now some of the brightest high school physics minds in the United States are down in Mexico matching wits against some of the brightest high school physics minds of the rest of the world. It\u00e2\u0080\u0099s the annual International Physics Olympiad! 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The items featured here are so old, obsolete, awful or just plain stupid that we are horrified that people might be actually checking these items out and depending on the information.<\/p>\n<p>This blog contains actual library holdings. No specific libraries or librarians are named to protect the guilty. Check your shelves, it could be you.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/acephalous.typepad.com\/acephalous\/2009\/07\/brief-translation-of-todays-sotomayor-hearing-for-those-of-you-without-access-to-cspan-71.html\">Acephalous: Brief translation of today\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Sotomayor hearing for those of you without access to C-SPAN 71.<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;JEFFERSON BEAUREGARD SESSIONS, III (R): Aren\u00e2\u0080\u0099t you saying there that you expect your background and\u00e2\u0080\u0094and heritage to influence your decision-making?<\/p>\n<p>    [White people have history; minorities have ethnicity. 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Lawrence is a slob who gets his messy hamburger all over its glistening interior! How will they ever be able to work together? 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