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On orgasms — Roger Ebert with an interesting essay.
Tweephone — An analog Twitter client. (Snurched from Curiosity Counts.)
“Sham Paris”: An Entire City’s Stunt Double
Can Project Orion Be Re-Born? — Centauri Dreams on some crazy Big Science.
Mammoth mobile launch mount moves to pad today — Mmm. Spaceflight.
Researchers Create a Pituitary Gland from Scratch — The results could be an initial step toward generating viable, transplantable human organs.
A Different Kind of Secret Code — Researchers have invented a new form of secret messaging using bacteria that make glowing proteins only under certain conditions. (Via ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=1){kind=small}
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Occupy Wall St. spreads across the United States — And this without the kind of big money and big media support the Tea Party got started with. That’s the difference between grassroots and astroturf.
Parsing the Data and Ideology of the We Are 99% Tumblr — (Thanks to Mr. Tact.)
Police Crackdowns on OWS Coordinated among Mayors, FBI, DHS — I don’t even know what to say to this. My snark fails me.
What the Cops Did for Obama, What the Cops Did to OWS, What the People Who Sent in the Cops Get Away with Next — Conservatives with guns at a political rally? No problem, sir, enjoy your Second Amendment rights. Moderates sleeping in a park? Pepper spray time! First Amendment? What First Amendment?
Romney reaches for the absurd in quest to prove he’s Republican enough — Also, this just in: sun rises in east.
?otD: What would you occupy?
11/16/2011
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo fatigue)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 8.75 (very fitful)
Weight: 215.6
Currently (re)reading: A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
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Your ebert link is borked, alas.
And it is now unborked (I think). Thank you.
It is, and the link is most educational. I shall never look at a Bunuel movie in the same way again.
“Conservatives with guns at a political rally? No problem, sir, enjoy your Second Amendment rights. Moderates sleeping in a park? Pepper spray time!”
Well, I guess that means next time they should bring guns. Or something like that. What could go wrong?
This is the one thing I really don’t get. Even if you accept that everybody has the right to own guns for self-defense – which I don’t – owning a gun still doesn’t give them the right to carry it to a public place or a gathering of lots of people, because the risks of someone flipping out (not even the gun owner, someone could just grab it) are too big. It’s also stunning that no one arrested the people who brought guns to a public gathering at which the president was present, but that the mostly harmless Occupy folks were pepper-sprayed and beaten into submission.