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Amazon Kindle doomed to repeat Big Brother moment — Legal angle on Amazon's recent Orwell flap. DRM FTW!
Criggo is on a roll with the classic sexist advertising here and here — Wow. Mid-century kink. Who knew?
Bathing in the Casino: 1889 — Shorpy with a photo of how the other half used to live. Wow.
Galactic Life in Context — Centauri Dreams with some very mind-expanding stuff on treating the evolution of life as a galactic phenomenon rather than a planetary phenomenon. All you hard SF types, word up.
A Supernova Blossoms In A Neighboring Galaxy, And The Shockwave Is Aimed At Earth — As
Science Is in the Details — Religion at the NIH. (Snurched from Pharyngula, who explains this much better than I can.)
More stone cold bastard GOP moralizing hypocrites — Remember kids, character counts. That's why we always vote Republican. [And because some of my conservative readers seem to consistently misunderstand my point, I'm not twitting the sex. I know all about Clinton, Edwards, Kennedy, etc. I'm twitting the hypocrisy of building a political career on publicly condemning the immorality and sexuality of others, while privately being just as fallible.]
?otD: Where did Lefty get the bread to go?
7/28/2009
Body movement: 10 minutes of meditation and stretching, 40 minute suburban walk
This morning's weigh-in: 224.4
Currently reading: Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold
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