Blog Headline of the Week
Blog Line of the Week
Interesting (but lengthy) Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- Sid/Ovie (“Watching them means having another consciousness ask you, Can you see what I see?”) (via)
- Anthrax Redux: Did the Feds Nab the Wrong Guy? (“Anthrax isn’t a typical bacteria. It’s almost immortal.”)
Bookish Linkage
- Gateways to Geekery: Kurt Vonnegut
- Confessions of a book hoarder (via)
- The 2011 Best Translated Book Award Finalists were announced. They come from six different languages. I am surprised I’ve read none of the 10.
- The value of a public library (via)
Nonbookish Linkage
- The International Space Station shot high-def video to recreate the path of Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight and it will premiere on YouTube (!?!?) next month for the 50th anniversary of that flight. (via)
- When I lived in Rapid City 30 years ago, one of our neighbors was an Air Force nuclear silo officer. Popular Mechanics reminds us that underground nuclear control launch sites still exist. (via)
- Does the Universe Need God? (via)
- Speaking of God, it appears He was married — she just got lost somewhere in the editing process.
- Study indicates religion may become extinct in nine countries: Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland. (via)
- An amazing look at the Northern Lights. (via)
Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true?
Bruce Springsteen, Title Track, The River
Re libraries: out here in California for the first time it is being discussed that people may have to pay for their library card.
Hard not to see this as a victory for the giant corporations, which always benefit when public education hits a new low.
The “God’s wife” article has some fascinating comments ..about 600 of them.
Using religion to prove religion is a lot like watching a dog chase his tail.
Humans have powers of observation. It seems that the blinders of religion make humans less than human.