{"id":5644,"date":"2011-06-05T08:03:58","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T08:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/05\/links-for-2011-06-05\/"},"modified":"2011-06-05T08:03:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T08:03:58","slug":"links-for-2011-06-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/05\/links-for-2011-06-05\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-06-05"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/05\/magazine\/bulb-in-bulb-out.html?_r=2&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">Bulb In, Bulb Out &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Over the past few years, in conditions of strict secrecy, a multinational team of scientists has been making a mighty effort to change the light bulb. The prototype they&#8217;ve developed is four inches tall, with a familiar tapered shape, and unlighted, it resembles a neon yellow mushroom. Screw it in and switch it on, though, and it blazes with a voluptuous radiance. It represents what people within the lighting industry often call their holy grail, an invention that reproduces the soft luminance of the incandescent bulb &#8212; Thomas Edison&#8217;s century-old technology &#8212; but conforms to much higher standards of energy efficiency and durability. The prototype is supposed to last for more than 22 years, maybe as long as you own your house, so you won&#8217;t need to stock up at the supermarket. And that&#8217;s fortunate, because one day very soon, traditional incandescent bulbs won&#8217;t be available in stores anymore. They&#8217;re about to be effectively outlawed.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/environment\">environment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/energy\">energy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/optics\">optics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/nytimes\">nytimes<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/asteroid-blues,56907\/?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=feeds&amp;utm_source=avclub_rss_daily\">&#8220;Asteroid Blues&#8221; | Cowboy Bebop | TV Club | TV | The A.V. Club<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;I initially dismissed Cowboy Bebop just because I idiotically objected to the show&#8217;s slickness. &#8220;Style over substance,&#8221; I huffed to myself at the time. I kept watching the show when it screened at my middle school&#8217;s Science Fiction Club (yeah, right, I&#8217;m so old, man). But I don&#8217;t really think that I got into it until I saw Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.&nbsp;It seems strange to me now, but at the time, it made sense.<br \/>\nNow as I rewatch Cowboy Bebop one week at a time, I don&#8217;t remember how many of the show&#8217;s 26 episodes I&#8217;ve actually seen and how many just seem familiar. I certainly wouldn&#8217;t dream of dismissing it as a superficial show today though. Now, I see just how innovative the show is and the way that its style is largely a function of its characters. &#8220;Asteroid Blues&#8221; is a great reminder that the show&#8217;s greatest asset is its ability to look cool and be smart in ways that other anime only strive for.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/sf\">sf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/cartoons\">cartoons<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/television\">television<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/avclub\">avclub<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/review\">review<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/slacktivist\/2011\/06\/04\/its-time-to-panic\/\">It&#8217;s time to panic | slacktivist<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got an employment crisis. We&#8217;ve got 13.9 million Americans who can&#8217;t find work and our economy only added a measly 54,000 jobs in May.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to panic. It&#8217;s probably even time to PANIC!!!<\/p>\n<p>The following aren&#8217;t my best ideas for job creation. Those would be things like repairing our roads and bridges, upgrading our energy infrastructure, attending to our national deferred maintenance and front-loading our preparations for the future.<\/p>\n<p>But these seven ideas would also work. Probably. Maybe. They would put people to work.<\/p>\n<p>They may sound goofy, and they probably are goofy. But none of them is as goofy as the status quo. None of them is as goofy as the current situation in which 13.9 million Americans can&#8217;t find work and our political leaders are more concerned with deficits than with the unemployment inflating those deficits. In the midst of an employment crisis, politicians are arguing about budget cutting.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s cruelly absurd. My ideas here are merely eccentric.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/slacktivist\">slacktivist<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/us\">us<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/class-war\">class-war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulb In, Bulb Out &#8211; NYTimes.com &#8220;Over the past few years, in conditions of strict secrecy, a multinational team of scientists has been making a mighty effort to change the light bulb. The prototype they&#8217;ve developed is four inches tall, with a familiar tapered shape, and unlighted, it resembles a neon yellow mushroom. 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