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08:57 am - Off-LiveJournal Blogroll and News Links

This will be growing by about two or three links per day as I get my bookmark data gradually transcribed here.


Most Recent Edit: Frey's Day, the 1st of the month of Janus ("January"), 2010 C.E., 4:10 p.m., C.S.T.


Amygdala; Animation World Magazine; Apostropher; Ariel Gore

Bad Astronomy; Bear's Battlestar Galactica Blog; Bob Mitchell in the 21st Century; Brendan Calling; By Ken Levine

Chaos Manor Musings; Chaos Manor Reviews; Classically Liberal; Consumerist; Crooks And Liars; The Crotchety Old Fan; Cult News from Rick Ross

The Daily Dish; The Daily Superman; The Daily WTF; Dandelion Salad; Darth Mojo; Disloyal Opposition

Eschaton

The Faculty Lounge; Fafblog; Felicia Day; File 770; For What It's Worth

Generation Y; Goodbye, Microsoft; Grits for Breakfast

Hero Complex; The Hill; Hullabaloo

Ideas; iFeminists.net; Instapinch

J. Neil Schulman @ RationalReview.com; Johnny Dollar's Place; JustOneMinute

L. Neil Smith At Random; Lance Mannion

Mightygodking; Mises.org Weblog; My Favorite Books

Neal Rubin's Blog; Neptunus Lex; News From Me; Notes from a Final Frontiersman; notmymayor

Oberon Zell-Ravenheart; The One Ring; Operation Yellow Elephant; Orcinus

Pangloss; Papers, Please!; PeterDavid.Net; Physorg.com; The Planetary Society blog; Pro Libertate

Que Sera Sara

Real Live Preacher

Schneier On Security; SciFi Wire, SFScope; The Sideshow; Skippy's List; Slacktivist; Soul of Star Trek; The Space Review, Space Solar Power; Spider Robinson; Starship Dimensions; Startrekdom; Sunni and the Conspirators; Susie Bright's Journal; Swingers' Chatter

Tailspin's Tales; This Modern World; Thomas Jefferson Center; Threat Level; Tom Wilson USA...Large Man, Good Blog; Toonopedia; Topless Robot; Trek Movie Report; Trek Today

An Unfortunate Set of Events; Universe Today

View from Above; Views from the Cyberhenge

Waiter Rant; We'll Know When We Get There; Wendy McElroy.com; The Wild Hunt; Wren's Nest News; WWdN: in Exile

Zoe Paleologa

Current Mood: working

11:42 am - Monday Morning Video #32: Education, That's the Ticket!

This is the Monday Morning Video, thirty-second in a series of videos intended to help you get your work week off to a better start.

I'm in an educational mood this morning, so I'll use a video by people who educated me in my own tender years, every afternoon after school, almost half a century ago.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8Pk1UYkB3I



(For those interested, the actual title of the song is "Swinging the Alphabet", from the short subject Violent is the Word for Curly.)

Current Mood: educational!

09:34 am - Trials and Tribunals

I wrote an e-mail to MS-NBC's Morning Joe program this morning after listening to a discussion of whether Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should be prosecuted in a civilian Federal Court or by a military tribunal, in which, according to his military defense attorney, he wishes to plead guilty.

I wrote:

If KSM gets a military tribunal, it means he is a soldier working for the equivalent of a legitimate State. If he appears in a civilian court (where he may still plead guilty if he wishes), he's a common criminal, and he knows this, which is why he wants the military tribunal. A military trial will contribute to his martyrdom and positive publicity for his "cause" in the Arab world; a civilian trial not nearly so much. A.G. Holder and Pres. Obama apparently correctly recognize this, and are right in refusing to give him the "legitimacy" he wants.

Current Mood: contemplative

10:45 am - Open Letter to L. Neil Smith, re.: "Can You Hear Me Now?"

Dear Neil,

Thank you for writing "Can You Hear Me Now?". I understand what you do now much better than I ever did before: your logic behind it is now clear in a way that it wasn't before I read this.

I applaud your strategy. I have always had conflicts in my heart between the pure agorism of the late SEK3 and the "practical" efforts of minarchists and partyarchs, feeling that if I followed one I was betraying the other, being a hypocrite either way.

You've shown me there is a practical "third way" to work toward a free society, and this eases my conscience and will enable me to work more effectively in the future.

I owe you one, very definitely.

Next year in Luna City,

D.

Current Mood: surprised

02:52 am - No Monday Morning Video Today

There won't be a Monday Morning Video today as I have medical issues to deal with upon awakening. Nothing serious, just time-consuming. I'll have a new video with which to start your work week next Monday.

G'night, y'all.

Current Mood: rushed

11:55 pm - Why I Can't Work in an E.R.

This weekend in the Emergency Department at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

Edited to add: This is not to what I was alluding in the immediately preceding Friend-locked entry. -- D.

Current Mood: distressed

10:27 am - A Fantasy...

A fantasy...

Elvis, Gabriel on his sweet horn, and dearly departed iamcompufrog, Bruce Dane, with his twelve-string guitar, jamming with the Heavenly Choir.

http://politicalcartoons.com/cartoon/261e0b78-a529-4f19-aab7-e51975f590b4.html

I miss my friend Bruce. At least I got to tell him how much I loved him before he moved on.

Current Mood: still mourning

12:17 am - Alcohol Substitute that Avoids Drunkenness and Hangovers in Development

British scientific team creating Star Trek: The Next Generation's Synthehol for real.

"The new substance could have the added bonus of being 'switched off' instantaneously with a pill, to allow drinkers to drive home or return to work.

"The synthetic alcohol, being developed from chemicals related to Valium, works like alcohol on nerves in the brain that provide a feeling of well-being and relaxation.

"But unlike alcohol its does not affect other parts of the brain that control mood swings and lead to addiction. It is also much easier to flush out of the body.

"Finally because it is much more focused in its effects, it can also be switched off with an antidote, leaving the drinker immediately sober."

Current Mood: sober

09:29 am - Monday Morning Video #31: An Uncle Jay Double-Feature

This is the Monday Morning Video, thirty-first in a series of videos intended to help you get your work week off to a better start.

Today we get an Uncle Jay Double-Feature, his 2009 year in review and his first news for 2010. I love Uncle Jay.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8yV2Q85lO8





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKGgRSxQ0Dg

Happy 2010, everybody, even if we don't have a combined U. S./Russian mission to Jupiter.

Current Mood: hopeful

04:48 pm - New Year Greeting

I just wanted to give all those of you out there reading this[*] a genuine, sincere wish for the best in this new year, that it may be a year of health, healing, prosperity, happiness, and joy.

So mote it be. So say we all. Amen.








[*] Even my stalkers, those poor unfortunates who in their illnesses, to use one's term, "monitor" this weblog for mentions of themselves, although in reality I have no need to mention their names. Believe it or not, my positive wishes are for you as well.

Current Mood: happy

03:05 pm - Monday Morning Video #30: "The Carol of the Old Ones"

This is the Monday Morning Video, thirtieth in a series of videos intended to help you get your work week off to a better start.

Sorry to be late, but I've been waiting on a call from my physician.

Being just past the very, very, very scary solstice, we now present the Arkham Carolers, with animation by Godfrey Temple.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUUlRc2i1Jg

Current Mood: scared

11:15 am - Monday Morning Video #29: "Hanukkah in Santa Monica"

This is the Monday Morning Video, twenty-ninth in a series of videos intended to help you get your work week off to a better start.

If I read the calendar correctly, we are right at the end of Hanukkah, so I hope the eight days have been good for all, especially the ever-wonderful Mr. Thomas Lehrer:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZUgr1zh878

And as today is the Winter Solstice, a very Merry Solstice greeting to everyone. After all, Axial Tilt is the reason for the season!

Current Mood: seasonal

10:22 am - Monday Morning Video #28: "Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful"

This is the Monday Morning Video, twenty-eighth in a series of videos intended to help you get your work week off to a better start.

Since we are in the middle of a series of year-end holiday videos, today we have the traditional hymn "Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful"...

...as interpreted by Dee Snyder.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De47fjH6RKY

Current Mood: bouncy

07:42 am - Valkyrie

turnberryknkn, writing from St. Louis Children's Hospital, at 7:15 this morning.

Current Mood: upset