Links With Your Coffee - Thursday
- MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Make a Flying Spaghetti Monster costume
Looking for a costume for Halloween? Here's one that will scare the fundamentalists. (tip to Cirano)
- 'Wordplay' gets point across, down - Los Angeles Times
During its small theatrical release last year, "Wordplay," a film about the strange fascination of the New York Times crossword puzzle and the puzzle world in general, was for a brief and shining moment the critics' darling. As it airs Thursday on KCET, television critics can add their words of praise and try to find clever ways to do it. A 12-, 10- and nine-letter word for "Wordplay": Illuminating. Delightful. Hilarious.
Where else will you find Bill Clinton, Jon Stewart, Ken Burns, Mike Mussina and the Indigo Girls rhapsodizing about a shared hobby in ways more psychically revealing than any Rorschach test?Wordplay starts the story of the New York Times crossword puzzle, and the current and historical creative forces behind it. But as it dances across the story, filling it in as one of its devotees might across the puzzles, it reveals an entire amazing world behind its practice, creation, and history, from the annual crossword convention in Stamford to the breadth of individuals who enjoy it daily.
- Greta Christina's Blog: Atheists and AngerI want to talk about atheists and anger. This has been a hard piece to write, and it may be a hard one to read. I'm not going to be as polite and good-tempered as I usually am in this blog; this piece is about anger, and for once I'm going to fucking well let myself be angry. (tip to David)
- Paul Krugman | Same Old PartyPeople claim to be shocked by Mr. Bush's general fiscal irresponsibility. But conservative intellectuals, by their own account, abandoned fiscal responsibility 30 years ago. Here's how Irving Kristol, then the editor of The Public Interest, explained his embrace of supply-side economics in the 1970s: He had a "rather cavalier attitude toward the budget deficit and other monetary or fiscal problems" because "the task, as I saw it, was to create a new majority, which evidently would mean a conservative majority, which came to mean, in turn, a Republican majority - so political effectiveness was the priority, not the accounting deficiencies of government."
Comments
I confess to being a crossword puzzle fanatic with the NYT Sunday puzzles being my favourite. I buy them in books of 200 and do them every morning while delivering my throne speech ;)
Greta Christina's blog entry is great. A quick litany of the problem of religions these days, and why we should be pissed.
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