- 13 Tips To Help You Stop Procrastinating: Heh. I found these remarkably ineffective.
- Professor in Dalian: I didn’t realize that Robert Garmong was blogging his stories from China! I love reading them!
- 7 Rules for Recording Police: This is really useful advice for any potential citizen journalist!
- Awake really is the best show you’re not watching: Paul and I have been enjoying Awake: it’s a clever premise done well. And, I must add, Jason Isaacs is ridiculouslysuperhot. (Lucius Malfoy?!? Yes! 50 points to Slytherin!)
- The Firm: Paul and I agree that The Firm is the best new show we’re watching this season — by far. It’s a compelling story, with thought-provoking single-episode legal cases and a very dramatic overarching conspiracy-mystery. The characters are compelling, even heroic. And the show’s themes are weighty. Due to the show’s overarching story arc, you can’t jump in mid-stream, you must watch it from the beginning.
- If Facebook Were Invented In the 90s, It Would Have Worked Like This: I love the use of the BLINK tag.
Apr 132012
Link-O-Rama
Apr 062012
- The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men: An easy and reversible vasectomy that lasts ten years? That would be awesome birth control!
- Worst Album Covers of All Time: The handless organist just killed me. “Truly a miracle of God!”
- 86-year-old performs parallel bars routine: WOW. Aspire to be this awesome now… and when you’re 86 years old!
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NBC Deceptively Edits George Zimmerman’s Words On 911 Tape: I strongly agree with Doug Mataconis’ view that the editing by The Today Show (NBC) was dishonest. I also agree with his conclusion:
What NBC did is egregious, and one would hope that the persons responsible will be disciplined appropriately, but in the end it’s not any different from what the rest of the media is doing in this case. As I’ve said before, … it’s time for everyone to step back, stop rushing to judgment about either George Zimmerman or Trayvon Martin, and let the criminal justice system handle this case. The alternative is to hand this over to the Al Sharpton’s of the world, who have already tried and convicted Zimmerman and appear ready to carry out sentence on their own if given the chance.
- How Valid Are T.V. Weather Forecasts?: Freakonomics explains just how much television weather reports suck.
Link-O-Rama
Mar 302012
- The More the Merrier: Why cutting labor costs in retail stores might be very bad for your bottom line.
- Do College Professors Work Enough?: James Joyner takes apart a monstrously ignorant (or, more likely, flatly dishonest) Washington Post op-ed on the workloads of college professors.
- A List of Don’ts for Women on Bicycles Circa 1895: Undoubtedly, Americans have been freer in past eras, but I’d never wish to live in those eras. As much as I like to make my own butter, the cultural restraints on me as a woman would be utterly unendurable.
- Behind the Scenes in a Trojan Condom Factory: The manufacturing and testing process for condoms is pretty freaking awesome. If you use condoms, thank industry for your next fear-free orgasm!
- Famous Photos Made Filthy With Needless Censorship: Some of these are so damn good!
- 11 Bizarrely Wrong Beliefs Americans Have About Themselves: 20% of Americans think that the sun revolves around the earth?!? That explains a lot… like Rick Santorum.
Link-O-Rama
Mar 232012
- NFL hammers Saints for bounties: Head coach Sean Payton is suspended for a year… and more. It’s harsh, but justified and necessary, I think.
- Families Waste Up to $2K Per Year on Uneaten Food: The average family of four wastes $500 to $2000 on food. I hate wasting food, and by a modest amount of planning on my part, waste is a rarity in our kitchen. We probably wasted about $20 worth of food last year.
- Best Friends Forever: Pilot: My friend Luka is starring in a new NBC comedy! It premieres on April 4th, but you can watch the whole pilot online now.
- The Objective Standard: The new issue is now available to subscribers!
- Japan World Cup 3: WUT?!?
Link-O-Rama
Mar 162012
- How Do You Ship A Horse To The London Olympics? Carefully, And Via FedEx: Yes, horses can fly.
- Photo Gallery: East Germany’s Transformation: When you start with communism, even a mixed economy can work wonders.
- The Incident Report. Or, The Time I Broke It: Men need to be careful with their penipodes… they’re delicate!
- A Treasury of the World’s Worst Online Dating Stories: For example: “He wore a pink polo shirt (collar popped) and worked in finance. He talked with prime rib in his mouth and told me he could use some ‘BJ action’. That was that.” Heh.
Link-O-Rama
Mar 092012
- A 1-second ad to raise awareness about OCD: It’s wildly brilliant, and I totally fell for it!
- An Image from My Facebook Feed: I was struck by the juxtaposition of these two status updates in my Facebook feed. Apple makes life so much better for people; Apple investigated by the DOJ. Alas, these facts are not unrelated, thanks to antitrust law.
- $1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog — How Anyone Can Get Anything Past The Scanners: Wow, this technique is super-simple… and seems to be a major security hole.
- SC County GOP: If You’ve Had Pre-Marital Sex, You Can’t Be A Republican [Candidate]: No more porn, either. This kind of nuttiness is still relatively rare, but it’s definitely on the rise, and Santorum’s success in the primary legitimates and encourages it. At this point, I fear that the worst outcome in the 2012 presidential election might be Mitt Romney winning the GOP nomination, then losing in the general election. We’d have the hell of four more years of Obama, and the GOP’s theocrats would be inspired to work even harder for a “pure” candidate like Rick Santorum in 2016.
- Road rage – not just for humans: Do you think that your drive to work today was hard? At least your car didn’t get overturned by an elephant!
Link-O-Rama
Mar 022012
- Jane Austen Fight Club: The heroines of Jane Austen start a fight club. Awesome ensues.
- Atheist Proselytizers: I want a free copy of the Principia!
- Black Dog Syndrome: People looking to adopt a dog have a subtle bias against black dogs, which often means that awesome black dogs languish in shelters. That saddens me… and makes me extra-happy that we adopted our problem doggie Mae! (Happily, Prozac has done Mae a world of good with her fear-aggression.)
- THIS is the Reality of Late Term Abortion: Katie Granju blogs about a woman, eager to welcome her third child into the world, who was forced to abort at 23 weeks because the pregnancy was killing her, literally. The full story is here.
- Does doodling make you smarter?: Answer: Yes.
Link-O-Rama
Feb 172012
- The Hunger Blogs: A Secret World Of Teenage ‘Thinspiration’ : I’ve known that these pro-anorexia sites exist, but to hear what these girls say in defense of their own self-destruction… it’s just sad.
- The Most Vile and Inhumane Immigration Story You Will Read This Week: America’s restrictive immigration law destroy lives and families. Why? Because “we” don’t want to contaminate “our” culture and economy with honest people willing and able to better their lives by honest labor. Thank you, conservatives … and liberals too.
- 1989 Radio Shack Cellular Phone Commercial: Oh look, 1989 cell phone! How quaint! And likely… how cheap and awesome at the time!
- Workaholism: Maybe not such a bad thing: Forget “engaged workaholics” — let’s call them “engaged producers” instead!
- Lessons of a very sexy pirate costume: I never waitressed in a place as interesting as a pirate bar (!!) but I always found remarkably smart and interesting young gals in the restaurants where I worked in college.
Link-O-Rama
Feb 102012
- Foxhunting Via Helmet Cam: In high school, I foxhunted with my mother on my fabulous horse Paint, and I loved it! (The usual disclaimer: The fox is chased, not killed. A single fox is far, far smarter than a pack of 50 hounds!) Here’s a view of a small hunt from a helmet camera.
- Kelly Sildaru: Wanted: If Marxism were true, I’d be perfectly able to do all these awesome tricks if only I had Kelly’s skis for a season or two! (The outtakes shown during the credits are painful!)
- Helicopter Parents Hover In The Workplace: Really? Really?!? Sweet Jesus, my brain just exploded reading that story.
- Repulsive progressive hypocrisy: I disagree with the politics of the author, but he’s right to say that most “progressives” and “conservatives” today are not loyal to any principles, but only to their party and its leaders. That’s a dangerous trend, and part of why I’m not enthused about the prospect of a Republican ousting Obama from the White House.
- Santorum’s Greatest Hits: Why Rick Santorum is “more collectivist and authoritarian than many on the Left.”
Link-O-Rama
Feb 032012
- Allergy Death at School: When Do Morals Override Policy?: To be rule-bound is bad enough, but to be rule-bound to the point of allowing a child to die when you could easily prevent it… WOW.
- Politician’s potentially incriminating conversation is live-tweeted by a reporter on a train: Newsflash: If you talk loudly on your cell in a public place, you’re not having a private conversation!
- No Pet For You: Many rescue groups are making it nearly impossible for good people to adopt pets. All of my cats and dogs have been rescued, and I find that infuriating. Even a mediocre pet owner is better than living (or dying) in a shelter.
- Why Go to College At All?: If you want to learn, college is the last place you should go. A lot of learning isn’t happening on college campuses.” Too true. For more, see my webcast discussions of the value of a college degree and the value of a PhD.
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