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links for 2007-08-18

Post author:HFM
Post published:August 18, 2007
Post category:Recently Read

Faith Central: 50 religious insights from George Bush

Dear God, please save us from our retarded president. Amen.

(tags: funny politics religion bush)
Now airports screening for bad intentions

A civil liberties lawsuit just waiting to happen. Nice. I’m so going to be busted at the airport for being disgruntled about the security theater.

(tags: airports law rights)
Birthdays Without Pressure

Good idea.

(tags: birthdays parties)
KLF ONLINE

how to write a number one single, according to KLF. I’ll be my friend Douglas could do this easily.

(tags: funny music popculture theory)
Lost but not forgotten

(tags: abandoned underground buildings photography)
The age of endarkenment | Science | Guardian Unlimited

Why is no one questioning the rise of new-age nonsense in the name of science

(tags: science religion culture)
The facts of evolution: fighting the Endarkenment — Weissmann 19 (12): 1581 — The FASEB Journal

much of society at large is beating a hasty retreat to the dark ages: the wars of religion are back, superstition threatens our schools and Bible-thumpers preach that Darwin got it wrong.

(tags: science religion culture)
Science, logic, and infidelity

So how is it that we’re so ready to believe research which says men have more sex partners than women? How could the scientists who did the research not notice that little flaw in their project?

(tags: sexuality sexism research science)
Filmstalker: Is Katie Holmes to be Wonder Woman?

Please, fucking no. Don’t ruin all my beloved childhood icons. I swear to god.

(tags: movies)
Homosexual Blog Joe.My.God. Should Be Deleted and the Author Arrested « Baptists For Brownback 2008

Right wing freaks want to arrest popular gay blogger Joe for, um, being gay, apparently. I’m not sure if the site is real, or a really subtle parody.

(tags: conservatives religion idiots homophobia)

links for 2007-08-17

Post author:HFM
Post published:August 17, 2007
Post category:Recently Read

1873 Monocycle Replica

Wow. That should have had some bids.

(tags: bicycle Steampunk)
Patient Information — HOUSE DUST (DUST MITE) ALLERGIES

(tags: health)
Open Left:: Fox News Caught Editing Al Franken’s Wikipedia Entry

There’s a new tool out there that lets you search the destination IP addresses for people editing wikipedia entries. Arthur Bergman found that folks at Fox News’s IP address were editing Al Franken’s entry.

(tags: fraud wikipedia conservatives media)
Fox News Edits on Wikipedia – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Check out some of the fraudulent changes that Fox News made to various pages on Wikipedia.

(tags: fraud conservatives wikipedia media)
National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization | Home

The NSGCD has some free fact sheets to provide information about Chronic Disorganization. These fact sheets may be used for educational purposes.

(tags: lifehacks)
Amazon.com: Different Daughters

A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement: Books: Marcia M. Gallo

(tags: lgbt history feminism women)
Daughters of Bilitis – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), considered to be the first lesbian rights organization, was formed in San Francisco, California in 1955. The group was conceived as a social alternative to lesbian bars, which were considered illegal and thus subject to rai

(tags: wikipedia lgbt history women rights equality)
The Organized Home

Lots of good tips here.

(tags: lifehacks)

links for 2007-08-14

Post author:HFM
Post published:August 14, 2007
Post category:Recently Read

2008 Presidential Election Candidates on the Issues

Very nicely design chart

(tags: visualization tools interesting politics election 2008)
Welcome to BabyNamer

A great baby names site, and one that includes the “drawbacks” to any name you look up. Definitely handy.

(tags: names baby reference humor)
LOLPresidents.com – Theodore Roosevelt

The best presidential LOLs of all

(tags: lolcat funny)
Infrastructure Report Card 2005

The New Orleans levees, the Minnesota bridge, the NY city steam tunnels – how republicans have been letting your infrastructure erode since they took office.

(tags: republicans politics infrastructure statistics)

links for 2007-08-13

Post author:HFM
Post published:August 13, 2007
Post category:Recently Read

The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness

Dozens of those interviewed witnessed Iraqi civilians, including children, dying from American firepower. Some participated in such killings; others treated or investigated civilian casualties after the fact. Many also heard such stories, in detail, from

(tags: iraq war torture morality politics)
Italian Politician Calls For Ethnic Cleansing Of Gays

(Rome) A call by the deputy mayor of Treviso for the ethnic cleansing of gays from the region, in the north of Italy, has sparked a mass demonstration.

(tags: lgbt safety rights equality)
Roto-Spheres & Their Relations

Roto-Sphere signs are perhaps the biggest and most dramatic neon signs ever mass-produced. They were created and manufactured by Warren Milks from 1960-1969. Nicknamed “Sputniks”, they were promoted as sign add-ons and were distributed across the country,

(tags: route66 signs design retro)

links for 2007-08-12

Post author:HFM
Post published:August 12, 2007
Post category:Recently Read

Government report: Al Qaeda strongest since September 11, 2001 – CNN.com

(tags: 9/11 terrorism war security)
Pandagon :: Dumbed down Jane Austen

A discussion about how they fictionalized the recent biopic to make Jane more stupid than she was in real life. I was worried about that from just the previews. Pass on seeing then.

(tags: movies review)

links for 2007-08-11

Post author:HFM
Post published:August 11, 2007
Post category:Recently Read

Anil Dash: How To Visit New York: The Basics

(tags: tourism travel NewYork)
Anil Dash: How to Visit New York: The Must-Sees

(tags: newyork travel tourism)
Anil Dash: How to Visit New York: What You Can Skip

(tags: travel newyork tourism)
Anil Dash: How To Visit New York: Outside Opinions

(tags: travel newyork tourism)
mezzoblue § Icon Design: Anti-Aliasing

(tags: icon design tutorial howto illustration)
GayAmericaHeroes.Com

To honor and remember LGBT victims of hate crimes. To engage and inform the public about hate crimes against LGBT persons.To inspire compassion and greater appreciation and acceptance of diversity.

(tags: lgbt issues equality history)
Stu Bykofsky | To save America, we need another 9/11

Conservative columnist suggests places terrorists should bomb. I suggest the offices of the Philly Daily News.

(tags: hypocrisy evil terrorism politics conservatives)
Why are men never told they need to balance home and career?

Women in IT jobs treated differently than men when it comes to home and kids.

(tags: feminism IT work)
Black and Missing but not Forgotten

A blog calling attention to black women and girls who are missing – one of the largest groups of missing persons, but rarely mentioned either in local or national media.

(tags: women media crime safety)

links for 2007-08-10

Post author:HFM
Post published:August 10, 2007
Post category:Recently Read

Flickr: 2Decide.com Election ’08 Chart of Where the Candidates Stand

(tags: 2008 politics Election reference visualization)
THE GREAT IVY LEAGUE NUDE POSTURE PHOTO SCANDAL – New York Times

From the 1940s through the 1960’s – Ivy League schools took nude “posture” photos of their freshmen class – hundreds of now famous people. Not it’s coming to light that it was part of a eugenics program.

(tags: eugenics scandal strange culture history)
Metonymy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(tags: language words wikipedia)
Glittering generality – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(tags: language words rhetoric wikipedia)
How to Control Dust Mites – Allergy Care Guide – DrGreene.com

(tags: allergies health)
How to Create a Dust-Free Bedroom, NIAID Fact Sheet

(tags: allergies health)
House Dust Allergy

(tags: allergies health)

links for 2007-08-09

Post author:HFM
Post published:August 9, 2007
Post category:Recently Read

Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): That Double Standard Regarding Anger

A new report reveals what women already know: Men get rewarded for getting angry at work, while women who do the same thing are penalized and regarded as incompetent and “out of control.”

(tags: women equality rights office work)
Flickr: I’m So Bershon

You are bershon as a teenager. It is not a facial expression; it’s an attitude. It’s about being really pissed that you are trapped in whatever station in life you are currently trapped and then some asshole has the gall to make you pose for a photograph.

(tags: photography flickr funny)
iconlet.com – icon search engine – free icons, images for your project

Search engine for icons

(tags: icons design search resources)
Iconfinder – The best search engine for icons

Another search engine for icons

(tags: search resources icons design)
A Reporter at Large: The Black Sites: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

A former member of a C.I.A. transport team has described the “takeout” of prisoners as a carefully choreographed twenty-minute routine, during which a suspect was hog-tied, stripped naked, photographed, hooded, sedated with anal suppositories, placed

(tags: torture crime Iraq politics cia)

links for 2007-08-08

Post author:HFM
Post published:August 8, 2007
Post category:Recently Read

Dulce de Leche

(tags: recipes)
The Eachday Blog — Die Speech Bubble Logo, Die.

yep, the ubiquitous speech bubble logo.

(tags: logos branding funny design)
The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 302

Repub governor of Minnesota buys a new stadium and lets a bridge fall down, and of course, the latest Republican sex scandals.

(tags: republicans idiots conservatives politics)
Stuff

In fact these free or nearly free things weren’t bargains, because they were worth even less than they cost. Most of the stuff I accumulated was worthless, because I didn’t need it.

(tags: productivity lifehacks organization philosophy)

links for 2007-08-06

Post author:HFM
Post published:August 6, 2007
Post category:Recently Read

Free Online Face and Picture Morphing – MorphThing

Select pictures of famous people and morph them together, or upload your own photos. Great for figuring out what lesbian couple’s kids might look like.

(tags: graphics fun morphing face photos)
Visible Vote 08

Logo online and HRC interview all the Democratic Candidates about LGBT issues, with lots of guest interviewers and commentors. Really impressive netroots political work from the LGBT community.

(tags: Politics lgbt rights marriage equality)