Category: The Web and Technology

Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-08-20

Finally, some unexpectedly interesting music from Justin Bieber…sort of… http://bit.ly/c6mnQD #
Ranked list of the world's most influential cities with great photos of many. http://bit.ly/ae8TP0 #
FoxNews poll shows American people support the right of Cordoba House to build the so-called 'Ground Zero mosque." http://bit.ly/aVJbND #

McSweeney's: Our Daughter Isn't a Selfish Brat; Your Son Just Hasn't Read Atlas Shrugged. http://bit.ly/ahcLDF #
Graph of job losses before and after Obama's policies began to be enacted. http://bit.ly/b6WOnl #
Public Support For Gay Marriage Accelerating! http://bit.ly/dvqoA5 #
Muslims take over Room 1E438 in the very building "they" attacked! Where is the outrage! http://bit.ly/9HlY6K (link corrected) #
Muslims take over Room 1E438 in the very building "they" attacked! Where is the outrage! http://bit.ly/b8riVm #

The Prop. 8 decision was written for a court of one: Justice Anthony Kennedy. http://bit.ly/bPJP1c #
Mayor Bloomberg fights back against disgraceful Repub efforts to exploit & foment restrictions on religious liberty. http://bit.ly/8XXXP3 #
If He Could, Bin Laden Would Bomb the Cordoba Initiative! http://bit.ly/8ZI8gj #
Rep. Weiner goes ballistic as Republicans & specifically Rep. Pete King kill bill helping poisoned 9/11 responders. http://huff.to/bCPcbo #
My friend, a comedian, writes: “you guys, i’m getting into viral videos. let me know what you think!” I think: “WTF..” http://bit.ly/9adDip #

A WTF moment for a reporter (caught on video) http://bit.ly/aHQc8V #
A comic of Basic Instructions on How to Argue Like a Reasonable Adult! http://bit.ly/aUAjli #
NASA was faced with a problem: How to get life insurance to the Apollo astronauts. http://bit.ly/9fwQEB #
The campaign against this mosque treats all Muslims as perpetrators..a terrible mistake, for moral & strategic reasons. http://bit.ly/9l74ns #
If you're capable of distinguishing b/t moderate & extremist Islam, a mosque 2 blocks f/Ground Zero is uncontroversial. http://bit.ly/aDJqNo #

The opening scene of Star Wars performed on a Manhattan subway car by an improv group. http://bit.ly/aPGbW0 #
A literary critique of World War II. Spot on… http://bit.ly/bsuxGG #

I couldn't hold in my laughing so I literally LOLed… http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html #
@EarlPdxPearl FYI: Levi didn't say 'untrue' statements as you quote him. Rather things that 'were not completely true' http://bit.ly/aAbomb in reply to EarlPdxPearl #
It frustrates me how few people seem to acknowledge the contours of the deficit/stimulus debate. http://bit.ly/9tg1JC #

But we do have this incredibly dehumanizing discourse around people who’ve violated the immigration laws. http://bit.ly/cwDeR4 #
We don’t have the rhetoric of “illegals” to refer to people who drive illegally fast, or to jaywalkers…http://bit.ly/cwDeR4 #

If Obama Kills Bin Laden The Terrorists Win. http://bit.ly/aWRmVY #
What porn and Disney movies have in common (safe for work):http://bit.ly/aW7Bnu #
Your move, America: http://i.imgur.com/ipxop.gif #
The Victimhood Complex of the Right Wing. http://2parse.com//?p=5193 #

Can anyone tell me what type of bird this is? http://www.flickr.com/photos/joewcampbell/4685861264/sizes/l/ #
2 images of the same view of Shanghai — 20 years ago and today. http://bit.ly/cNL6ut #