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[links] Link salad looks down across the river
Scrivener’s Error is sensible on protecting your ideas — A lot of paranoia occasionally erupts on this topic. Worth the read.
Housing, Superbugs, and Mosquitoes — MG Ellington on low-end, critical futurism, at Science In My Fiction.
Brown Dwarf Planets and Habitability — Centauri Dreams with more on one of my favorite astronomy topics, especially as this relates closely to Sunspin. I especially like the note about temperature and intelligence.
Inferior Blood — If it’s OK to reject blood from gay men, what about blacks? (Thanks to
The Argument over Aging — Can a drug extend good health and postpone the effects of aging? Anagathics don’t help me much if cancer doesn’t let me live to be old.
Islands of Four Mountains from Above — APOD with an eerie, alien-like image of four Alaskan volcanoes.
The Speedway: 1905 — New York City, with the least amount of traffic you will ever see. (Via Shorpy, of course.)
Staying Off The Bandwagon — Conservative commentator Daniel Larison on rhetoric, among other things. …outrage is no substitute for good judgment and critical thinking and that the impulse to score quick, emotionally satisfying victories at expense of unsympathetic, relatively weaker parties frequently leads to terrible abuses and errors.
ACLU chief ‘disgusted’ with Obama — Yep. We wanted better, not more of the same. If I preferred abusive security policies, runaway deficits, extraconstitutionalism, uncontrolled power and a unitary executive, I’d be a Republican. That’s what we got the last time they were in power, that’s what we tried to get rid of.
?otD: How many mountains have you climbed?
6/22/2010
Writing time yesterday: n/a
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 8.0 (fiftful)
This morning’s weigh-in: 227.2
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 7/10 (post-infusion)
Currently (re)reading: Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
Posted: 5:47 am Tue June 22 2010 |
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Matt
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:11 pmfound almost the same view of the 1905 Speedway in NYC – you can see a bit of the zigzag stone walls and the railing for the walkway in front of the “Speedway Inn” (the largest house on the left). They also built another bridge in front of the Washington Bridge.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=harlem+river+&sll=40.857902,-73.934555&sspn=0.029634,0.065703&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Harlem,+New+York&ll=40.842925,-73.930816&spn=0.003721,0.008213&t=k&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.843095,-73.930743&panoid=Yw84o0KbTosxWe4JMAmDhg&cbp=12,354.18,,0,5
Jay
June 23rd, 2010 at 5:09 amI love seeing old bits of cities embedded in the modern bits…
Matt
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:24 pmAlmost under the bridge looking down the river:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=harlem+river+&sll=40.857902,-73.934555&sspn=0.029634,0.065703&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Harlem,+New+York&t=k&layer=c&cbll=40.846625,-73.928779&panoid=IIubzs5Ygvt0mw0JhM1u6Q&cbp=12,39.18,,0,5&ll=40.846541,-73.928837&spn=0.003705,0.008213&z=18