Links With Your Coffee - Wednesday
- Lights Off! - New York Times
Q. Does it really use more energy to turn a fluorescent bulb off and on than to keep it burning?
- Measured Against Reality: Man cuts off his penis ‘to stop him sinning’
- Opinions You Should Have Had: The Summer In Review
RNC To Remove Men's Stalls From Republican Convention Center
- Think Progress » U.S. Military Censors ThinkProgress
Not surprisingly, both the National Review and Fox News are still accessible.
- Comment is free: Cleaning up the high street
Last December Tesco, Asda and Primark were named and shamed by War on Want for exploiting garment workers in their quest for ever cheaper clothes to sell to bargain-hungry British shoppers. The Guardian followed up with further evidence six months later. Asda acknowledged privately that there was a widespread problem in their supplier factories. Through gritted teeth Tesco agreed that terms and conditions often fell far short of what was fair.
- Informed Comment: On How al-Anbar isn't that Safe
and on How its "Calm" is Artificially ProducedNow the 'good news' appears (I swear to God) to be that you can "walk" in Iraq. That's the good news. The 8 billion people in the world walk every day, in most of the world's locales. Now it is an achievement to walk. That's good news of the highest order. Only, if you are American in Fallujah you might need a company of Marines with you so that you can . . . walk.
- MONDAY MUSING: PINKER'S THINKERS A review of The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, by Steven Pinker
- Mom's Genes or Dad's? Map Can Tell. - washingtonpost.com
Scientists have for the first time determined the order of virtually every letter of DNA code in an individual, offering an unprecedented readout of the separate genetic contributions made by that person's mother and father.
Comments
Hemingway wrote a really great short story about a kid who went to a pair of doctors and asked them to make him a eunuch because his penis would make him sin. They declined for various reasons, but being a religious boy and not a man of science, he didn't understand what "making himself a eunuch" really was and so he cut off his own penis.
He was brought into the emergency room where the same doctors who turned him away had to deal with it.
It's crazy how life imitates art, intentional or otherwise.
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