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danjiteCan’t Get You Out of My Head — The history of advertising jingles, a truly American art form.
Firewatch 76 leading the Martin Mars — I have an utterly unreasonable love of flying boats.
How Jupiter might save Earth from devastating asteroid strikes
Weak measurements show quantum uncertainty is inherent — Result clarifies role of measurement in the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
Portland votes to add fluoride to its drinking water as opponents vow to stop the effort — This is the last major American city with unfluoridated water.
My GPS tries to kill me and the unexpected difficulties of international weddings — Cora Buhlert with a possibly unintentionally fascinating glimpse into international culture.
Univocal heteroglossia — Language Log is hilarious about the recent Baltimore Ravens/gay marriage kerfuffle, thanks to another moronic conservative politician.
Barney Frank Won’t Walk Back ‘Very Harsh’ Language On Gay Republicans
Romney Unaware Gay People Have Families, Feelings — Well, duh. He's a conservative. Severely conservative, or so I've been told. If conservatives could see gay and lesbian Americans as real human beings, they wouldn't be so rabidly and hatefully discriminatory.
A statement and a "film" — Roger Ebert on the statement from the US Embassy in Cairo that has so outraged Romney and the GOP due to the chronologically retroactive nature of conservative causality. Must be nice not to have to live in the reality-based community, because then you can be righteously angry about reversing cause and effect. (See here for a detailed description of the events, including Romney's shamelessly knowing lies about it. Long but worth the read if you have any interest in this issue.)
?otD: Yesterday or tomorrow?
9/13/2012
Writing time yesterday: 1.75 hours (WRPA)
Body movement: 60 minute suburban walk
Hours slept: 5.5 (interrupted)
Weight: 235.0
Currently reading: Heartland by Mark Teppo