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A good move from the FDA for once
They make the morning after pill available over the counter for consenting adults, but not for minors, which is exactly what I would have done. It’s rare when the government and I agree on something. Presumably it will still be legal for not to stock it if they have moral objections.
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Quick round up
- Criminal caught due to Skype trace
- Al Gore in fact environmentally friendly, or at least environmentally correct.
- Trees that grow 90 feet in six years sound really cool
- This was the problem I had with my car
- Annoying quote of the moment, from CNN.com which has been irritating me lately, after such good coverage of the Israel-Hez conflict (absent Anderson Cooper)
In the immigration debate, I’ve tried to do three things:
One is to deplore the degree to which the debate is driven by the dark impulse of racism. What concerns many Americans about illegal immigration is the sense that it speeds up the Latinization of the United States — where Anglo-Saxon culture is replaced by Latin culture, where English gives way to Spanish, and where we Americans become strangers in our own land.
He “tries to deplore”? Even, or perhaps especially, in our secular public age need the trappings of religion and loud protestations of faith, but this is taking it to the riduculous. How is it racist to want to keep English as the dominant language, and to not want to become a “stanger in our own land”? That’s dumber than claiming Islam as a “race”.
- Women and their brains
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The funniest thing I read today
Cook County prosecutors say a 29-year-old man traveling with his mother desperately didn’t want her to know he’d packed a sexual aid for their trip to Turkey.
So he told security it was a bomb, officials said.
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Weakest statement ever
From CNN
With higher gas prices and tax incentives, some hybrid vehicles make economic sense, Edmunds.com says
Wow, some!
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Best Photoshop action ever
Check out the B&W Selective Color 3.0. The best color to black and white converter I’ve seen. The 3×3 Action (also on that page) is surprisingly handy as well.
Virtual Photographer is way cool as well.
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Freedom Parkway (again)
No really good ones from this particular evening. I was hoping to catch the city in fog, but it was quite clear.
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Tuesday round up
- External GPS camera mount – it looks kind of tricky, but cool nonetheless.
- A Meditation On the Speed Limit – large scale annoyances by UGA students are probably a sign of increasing value to the UGA degree.
- The uses of anti-semitism
- Cool noir photography from Mr Riddles on Flickr
- A blogging conference I might actually attend. Why are none of these in Atlanta?
- C# bar code generator
- An interesting article on archetypes
- The decline of Western civilization, part 938.
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Well put description of our times
From Josh Trevino
In warring with a religion, decades of secularism have left us utterly disarmed. We are trained to think of faith as either irrelevant or benign: and when it is undeniably malign, we ascribe its malignancy to fundamentalism, which is (in direct negation of the meaning of the word) somehow separable or diversionary from the fundamentals of the faith in question.
On a more practical level these days we treat one’s religion as their race (which is to say involuntary and not subject to questioning or criticism), and we’re already far too touchy about race these days.
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Quote of the yesterday
“You sure do have a lot of interesting scars”
Said by Stephanie yesterday. I realized just now that they’re all on my right side too. She was referring to the faint one of my head, the fading one on my right hand, and the large one on my right leg, which, while healing, still bears an uncanny resemblance to a hamburger.
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The heart of Saturday night
Saturday I decided to go for a quick 16 mile ride before it got dark. Somehow it turned into a 35 mile trek from Avondale to Stone Mountain to the Freedom Parkway area and back in the dark. Riding at night, in the relative cool, is soothing and pleasant. Much like the other times I’ve ridden that late, people became abstractions and it was like having the city to myself. This ride was for much longer though. I kept the darker parts mostly in neighborhoods and the path so there was a large degree of safety.I mapped it out, it’s available here. I haven’t figured out how to get the maps to display in the blog posts themselves yet. On an unrelated note, the camera on my phone is working again. The photo above is from a pedestrian bridge over Freedom Parkway.