[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Dispatch from torture nation — Tasering people with Downs Syndrome
- [Hullabaloo - Digby]
BTW: tasers are very, very dangerous to anyone with an underlying heart condition. Unfortunately, not everyone knows that they have any underlying heart condition so they might think it's safe to exercise their constitutional rights. Probably best to just not do that.
- Disaster in Pakistan — oh, who cares about *that* place.
- [Hullabaloo - Digby]
"Make no mistake: this is the worst natural disaster in recent history. [...] [I]t is worth noting that as of 1 pm EST there is not a single, solitary mention of the biggest humanitarian disaster in recent history on the homepages of the Washington Post or New York Times."
I honestly don't know why nobody gives a damn about this one. But we probably should, for more reasons than just the humanitarian tragedy, which is enough. But considering that this country is the focus of our foreign policy, the key to the Afghanistan war effort, the nexus of Islamic fanaticism and an unstable nuclear power…
- Employers: We Just Can't Fill Our Underpaid Job Openings!
- [Crooks and Liars - Susie Madrak]
This appeared in the Wall Street Journal, so the article's very sympathetic to employers who say they can't fill job openings. First, let me wipe the tears from my eyes, and then let me suggest a couple of free-market solutions.
As one company mentioned in the article did, employers should set up their own job-training programs. Hire some good people, and teach them. I know you're used to us paying to train ourselves, but hey, that's the way the cookie crumbles these days.
The other free market solution? You're pissing and moaning that you can't fill jobs, but you're obviously not offering enough money for people to live on. In other words, you don't want to pay what the market will bear. Right? …
- See What Google Knows About Your "Social Circle"
- [Lifehacker - Kevin Purdy]
Google started including "your social circle" in its search results earlier this year. Ever wonder how Google knows who you know? Wonder no more…
- How to create a sonic boom at home
- [io9 - Esther Inglis-Arkell]
Find out what a sonic boom is, and how you can create it in the privacy of your own household.
[AWESOME. -L]
- Nanomesh breakthrough brings us one step closer to a cloaking device
- [io9 - Tim Barribeau]
"Invisibility cloaks" have been in development for years, but keep hitting a major roadblock — the materials used absorb too much light. New research may have found the trick to get around that…
- 425 million year old blob creature recreated for the first time ever with 3D imaging
- [io9 - Alasdair Wilkins]
Drakozoon was a blob-like creature that lived in the oceans during the Silurian Period, some 425 million years ago. It was known from only a single fossil – until researchers sliced and diced their specimen to create this 3D model…
- Linking post published dates to their archives
- [Justin Tadlock]
On this blog and many others, we have a thing called a byline or dateline, which is usually located before or after the post title. Traditionally, the date the post was written is shown. But, it doesn’t do much. It just sits there. Yes, it provides valuable information to the user but not anything more than that.
What we’re going to do is link the various parts of the date to archive pages. We’re going to give the post date more purpose…
[Hasn't LJ had this forever? -L]
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