linkblargh

I have mostly switched to posting my links on Twitter. If you're interested in what I'm reading or thinking about these days, follow me there (same username as here).

Anyways, I have a lot of links I want to post, so here they are:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24722.html - Woah, the Democrat half of the House Intelligence Committee just accused the CIA of lying to them.

http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=8677 - humorous commentary on the proposed Google OS.

Article on how to convince a conservative to support public transportation.

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/07/03/how-driving-a-car-into-manhattan-costs-160/ - brilliant analysis on money, traffic, and time.

Just in general, Infrastructurist is totally my new favorite blog. Urban planning, awesome!

http://www.stopthewaronfun.org/ - local morality cops have been persecuting owners of SF nightclubs, and it fucking sucks. Stop the war on fun!

http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/1293020.html - Ecstasy pills showing up as cartoon characters, mostly full of anti-worm medication BZP instead of MDMA

Inverse zombies, anesthesia awareness, and the hard problem of unconsciousness.

http://pugetsoundoff.org/how-to - great collection of digital media how-tos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/sets/72157606226772243/ - autochromes on Flickr

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2009/06/qa-the-lyme-disease-controversy.html - interesting notes on Lyme Disease, and the complex of interrelated diseases that includes Chronic Fatigue, Alzheimer's, ALS, Fibromyalgia, MS, etc.

http://www.slate.com/id/2221397/ http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/06/iranian-traffic-engineering/ http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/06/a-deeper-look-at-the-iranian-firewall/ - three articles on the Iranian internet surveillance system; much more complex and scary than China's, by a lot.

That's good for now. There will probably be more soon.