Maggie's Farm (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
I have to be down in NYC early tomorrow, so I will leave you dear readers with these excellent links: The Bush 41 grocery scanner myth Is time an illusion? And what's an illusion anyway? Parody no longer acceptable in academia . It's all so stupid, from supposedly bright people. TigerHawk wants to see this happen. Me too. I hate it when this happens: Cougar comes into house, kills family dog . Can't...
Stephen Bodio's Querencia (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
In Oakland you can have an actual farm, pigs and all. But in Chicago, the banningest city in the US (pigeons, foie gras, handguns), HSUS wants to compel you to cut off your dogs' gonads . Of course they say it is a good thing. The Sportsman's and Animal Owners Voting Alliance thinks differently: "The distorted reasoning for this ordinance, as stated by Ald. Burke, is that the ordinance will increase...
Talking Squid (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
For those of you who don’t know (and shame on you if you don’t), David Hilbert was one of the giants of 19th-20th century mathematics. Despite his very English-looking name, he was German by birth and by upbringing and lived almost his entire life in Königsberg and later Göttingen. Although Hilbert wrote instrumental papers in [...]
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
The nominees for the 2008 Endeavour Award, honoring distinguished science fiction and fantasy written by a Pacific Northwest author, have been announced and include The Book of Joby by Mark J. Ferrari, Bright of the Sky: Book One of the Entire and the Rose by Kay Kenyon, Not Flesh Nor Feathers by Cherie Priest, Powers by Ursula K. LeGuin, and The Silver Ship and the Sea by Brenda Cooper. Baen's Universe...
Sigmund, Carl and Alfred (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Students respond more profoundly to cultural imperatives than to market forces. In the United States, students are insulated from the commercial market’s demand for their knowledge and skills. That market lies a long way off — often too far to see. But they are not insulated one bit from the worldview promoted by their teachers, textbooks, [...]
