Link Rodeo 1/23

Sunday, January 23. 2005

Posted by Nate Johnston in Link Aggregator at 12:20 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Tomorrow is the worst day of the year, mathematically proven by a Welshman.
Costco is selling Picassos now.
Remember that comic book guide to immigrants? The Mexican government is reprinting it, despite complaints from the US. Further commentary here.
"Conservatives in the Mist" - a WaPo adventure on Mars, that part of the US that voted for Bush. (hat tip: RedState, and Jonah Goldberg for the phrase)
People are talking about this guy as a conservative answer to Michael Moore. Michael Moore had just the right reaction to the guy, which I have to respect. I hate what he has done to political discourse, but he didn't create the soul of the Democratic Party, just gave it voice. Quoth Mr. Moore:

He calmly told Mr. Maloney that documentary filmmaking "should be open to all people of all political persuasions." "It should not just be people who are liberal, or left-of-center, or whatever," the Oscar-winner said. "Make your movies, and then the people will respond or not respond to them."
No, the Volkswagen suicide boomber ad is not real. (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin)
I wonder, given how widespread use of this hand-sign is in heavy metal, why Norway is being singled out as having misinterpreted the President's U of Texas hand-sign?

On the technology front:

Bill Gates posing for teen beat photos... the pictures are real!
Also from Microsoft, watch out when using MapPoint to get places in Norway
Paul Graham, dot-com millionaire, wrote down things he wishes people had told him when he was in High School.
Cringley writes on the real plan behind the Mac Mini
BusinessWeek has an article on Linux and it's evolution.
A guy lost 18 years of work when someone forgot to turn an experiment on on the Huygens space probe.
How do we escape the end of our own universe?
Some guy has isolated the seven things he believes cause humans to die of old age, and thinks that they are all solvable.
Google, MSN, and Yahoo have teamed up to prevent comment spam, thich is where spammers go to sites where people can add content (like article comments on this one) and insert ads, to drive up where they land on search results.
The music business has abdicated choosing artists to a computer program.

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