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12:14 pm January 2nd, 2014
conuly Flag More links. Funnily, I accidentally typed that oinks, which looks better. 'Internet of Things' seen as bonanza for Bay Area businesseshttp://bit.ly/190HXl1The gruesomeness of the drug trade rivals any atrocities in history.Of course, things wouldn't be this bad if there were any legal ways to sell the stuff. Not that I particularly want people selling cocaine legally, but since they already are selling it *illegally*....http://slate.me/JFefWAUS the biggest threat to world peace in 2013 – pollWell, all righty then.http://bit.ly/1kbioCBBehind the credit chip curve, U.S. playing catch-up with Canada, rest of world on card securityhttp://bit.ly/1e0e9lPScientists harness the sun to help sharkshttp://bit.ly/1cNBmcXGenetically identical bacteria can behave in radically different wayshttp://bit.ly/1hjqx5KWhy are we still fighting the drug war?http://nyr.kr/1hYKGLZClemency for Edward Snowden Would Not Set a Dangerous Precedenthttp://bit.ly/19MUpmsThe New York Times Shreds The Obama Administration As 'Pathetic' On NSA Spyinghttp://read.bi/1l7m3iLRedesigned Window Stops Sound But Not Air, Say Materials Scientistshttp://bit.ly/1luiaBYNorth Korea’s Kim Jong Un says purge of uncle was ‘correct decision’http://wapo.st/1cm5RlxAsk Culture and Guess Culturehttp://bit.ly/1kgD2kLTags: articles, asia, korea, links, nsa, science, united states

11:42 am November 30th, 2012

10:52 pm August 3rd, 2011
conuly Flag : ) Bike trailers, child safety and the media's fear agendaThe title pretty much sums it up.Here's another one. You'll love this... for a given quality of the word "love", that is. Apparently, Houston has a backlog of sexual assault kits that have never been tested. The city now wants money to deal with them. Great, right? Yeah! Except the police department wants that money not to run through the kits and test them, but to study why they have a backlog. Oh, and I've heard about this Japanese show about sending small children out on their very first solo errands, but I've never seen a clip of it. This is even slightly subtitled! Of course, the comments suck, but that's to be expected. Is it just me or is there a middle ground somewhere between sending two year olds off to do the grocery shopping and not allowing twelve year olds to stay home alone for half an hour?Tags: articles, asia, feminism, links, videosI'm feeling: calm calm

12:26 pm December 28th, 2010
conuly Flag And the last of them! Monitoring America - please read.Medical Schools in Region Fight Caribbean Flow( Read more...Collapse )Visitors See North Korea Still Stunted by Its IsolationSee this as well( Read more...Collapse )African Huts Far From the Grid Glow With Renewable Power( Read more...Collapse )Riker's Reading Program Lets Fathers Parent( Read more...Collapse )And here's one on eating your Christmas tree! I gotta say, the people in the comments clearly didn't read the same books growing up that I did, because none of them seems to have ever heard that one can do this.( Read more...Collapse ) Tags: africa, articles, asia, education, food, korea, law, medicine, nyc, prisons, recipes, usaI'm feeling: cheerful cheerful

10:08 am November 24th, 2010
conuly Flag And here we have some articles! (Quite a lot of them have to do with the TSA situation, I'll try to group them together.)Placards, kilts part of plans for scanner protestsOversecured AmericaAP Exclusive: Color-coded terror alerts may endSchneir on Security's recent update about it allAnd an LJ linkAn update from the ACLU saying the TSA isn't training its scannersWhy Cavity Bombs Would Make the TSA Irrelevant TSA chief: Resisting scanners just means delaysFor the First Time, the TSA Meets ResistanceTSA Chief: US Will Never Ease Screening PolicyYou, apparently, can't just say "Screw it, I don't need to fly today"Shirtless 8-Year-Old Boy Gets TSA Pat DownA Pat's Papers article on flying dead bodiesAnd he happens to think the TSA blog is "actually sort of fun"Whew! That's a lotBizarre squidworm discoveredBehavior change causes changes in beliefs, not vice versaOn turkeys. Hey, could I raise my own heritage turkey for the holiday next year? You *can* keep poultry in the city if they aren't noisy. And we already have wild or feral turkeys in Staten Island, among other places.On stuffing your turkey with White Castle burgers.Coyotes have been released in Chicago to help keep down the rodent population. I suppose that's not very much different than encouraging peregrine* falcons in NYC.*Peregrine means wandering, of course, and is related to the word pilgrim in the obvious way.A fluffy little article on Yiddish.And for that matter, you can check out a nifty language map to see where Yiddish is spoken in the US!It's time to sign up for SantaThing. This also makes a good gift. However, I will get you nothing in return, so bear that in mind.University Kicks Student With Down Syndrome Out Of Classroom; Other Students Protest And Are IgnoredOn tattoos to improve/monitor your healthOur Disappearing ApplesOn taxesSome graphs on race and the death penaltyObama, S. Korea leader agree to hold joint military exercise. If somebody manages to start the Korean war up again, I'll be very irked. I'm already irked, frankly, because I see the likelihood of this.Allergic Teen Seeks High School Perfume BanConservatives at odds with Vatican over condomsChildren Born 'Late Pre-Term' More Prone to Low IQMinnesota is using paperwork to deter induced laborThe use of braces for younger kids is increasingAnd one from Motortrend.com that's... just well-worth reading for the fun of it.And FINALLY (I think) one on a school which banned... wait for it... wait for it...PENCILS! Tags: articles, asia, disability, ecology, education, food, government, holidays, law, scienceI'm feeling: cheerful cheerful

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01:36 pm April 20th, 2008
conuly Flag An article about nationalist sentiment in China And how many Chinese are urging boycotts of Western companies because of the normal non-Chinese stance on Tibet.It has a video.They ask one Chinese woman why, exactly, people in the West are protesting the next Olympics, and do you know what she says? She says that we're just jealous. We wouldn't protest or boycott or anything if we weren't jealous of China's success.Boy, does that sound familiar. Y'know, I didn't really think the "they're just being mean because they're jealous" argument was very compelling when my own country used it after 9/11 - why the fuck would it convince me on anything China says?( Read more...Collapse )There is a related article about "China's Loyal Youth" here.( Read more...Collapse )Actually, if you want to read something truly interesting, go read the comments to this NYTimes blog. The entry itself is so-so, but the comments are fascinating.Tags: articles, asia, china, politics, videosI'm feeling: annoyed annoyed

12:19 am December 22nd, 2007

02:07 am September 2nd, 2007
conuly Flag Some random linkage One about the "Guide to Pirate Parenting""Cap'n Billy will help you turn your boring, lazy, disrespectful, disobedientchild into an exciting, disrespectful, disobedient plunderer of the high seas or suburbs!"Then there's one on the pudding hat. Apparently, being scared of every bump and fall your kid might ever make is not a new phenomenon. But then, medicine was more hit-or-miss in those days, so avoiding concussions was probably a sensible safety precaution.One on alumni from Soviet Youth Camps, and their nostalgia.A heartfelt plea to put your kids to workI'll just have to copy the article's title here: "Theme park to offer adult world to Chinese kids". Go read it.An article on a village made to help foster kids( Text insideCollapse )And an article on play( Text insideCollapse ) Tags: articles, asia, books, childhood, linksI'm feeling: bouncy bouncy

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