Links With Your Coffee - Saturday

- Michael Moore Dares to Ask: What's So Heroic About Being Shot Down While Bombing Innocent Civilians? | War on Iraq | AlterNet
- The Satirical Political Report - An Offbeat Look at the Hot-Button Issues of the Day » Steve Martin’s ‘Tribute’ to McCain: King Glut
- Toronto Journal - In a Cyclist-Friendly City, a Black Hole for Bikes - NYTimes.com
- blog.talkingphilosophy.com » Green thoughts in the US
There’s some good news from America concerning action on climate change. It turns out that two-thirds of adults in the USA think that their country should do something serious about climate change, regardless of what other countries do, according to a poll by TNS, ABC News, Standford University and Planet Green. It’s good news, because the thought that America should refuse to act until developing countries like China and India take action has been at the centre of US policy for some time. The Bush administration’s spoken reason for refusing to sign up to Kyoto is that the treaty fails to make demands on the developing world. Thrasymachus could not have put it better.
- t r u t h o u t | Ohio Voting Machines Contained Programming Error That Dropped Votes
- Fish Tale Has DNA Hook - Students Find Bad Labels - NYTimes.com
- Good Math, Bad Math : Astrology and the Olympics
- Uncertain Principles: Science Outreach Through Fiction
- New Algorithm Significantly Boosts Routing Efficiency Of Networks
- Language Log » “Grammar vigilantes” brought to justice
- Language Log » Give me an F…
- The Language Guy: "Retard"
- James Fallows (August 21, 2008) - How to avoid becoming a Kindle nerd-bore (Kindle)


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