links
- FAQ: The punishment of the damned
- St. Thomas answers all your questions.
- Turf War
- “A lawn may be pleasing to look at, or provide the children with a place to play, or offer the dog room to relieve himself, but it has no productive value. The only work it does is cultural.”
- Leopard killing a crocodile
- !!! [via]
- America’s beer
- It’s PBR if you don’t mind outsourcing; Sam Adams, otherwise.
- Julian Cope’s album of the month
- Senate Roll Call: FISA Amendments Act of 2008
- Space shuttle gets its final assignments
- “The future of manned space flight looks a lot like the past.” Which is good.
- Save Arecibo: Write to Congress
- A senator/representative letter generator to save funding for the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico.
- I have pubic lice in my mailbox
- [via]
- G.K. Chesterton: The Back of the World (abstract)
- “The trouble for those of us who love Chesterton’s writing is that the anti-Semitism is not incidental: it rises from the logic of his poetic position.”
- Great Ideas, Volume III
- Penguin has lately been making amends for their crimes against book design during the 80s and 90s. [via]
- Barack Obama’s FISA shame
- The audacity of capitulation
- Judith Warner Is in My Head
- Now I am an axolotl
- White Noise Lounge
- Ambient podcasts.
- Computing the volume of a cat
- But everyone knows that placing a cat into a box throws it into an indeterminate state. [via]
These links are also cross-posted to del.icio.us, along with a number of nerdy links not of general interest.