Linkfest II

• Yahoo! asked to explain alleged perjury
• Giant space monster continues its approach
• Yahoos in suits choose cash flow over human rights
• Junior high textbook publishers act like junior high students
• Giant space monster is watching us
• Murdoch conspiracy uncovered
• Web site induces massive loss in worker productivity
• Reading public fail to surprise.
• Super-smart objectified.
• Porn averaged.

topics covered:

Here are some more fun sites. Let this entry also serve as a reminder to you that there's a news feed on the left, and a page of links. All that should keep you unproductive for hours.

The Oil We Eat: I had fun arguing with this article. Some of the facts are verifiably wrong, none have citations, and he never proposes a viable solution to the question, `how do we go about sustainably feeding six billion people?' But I still recommend it as a great read. It's the first argument I've seen that makes me want to buy organic veggies.

Generally, I (heart) Harper's RSS feed. It puts something out about once a week, but every single item that comes through is interesting. Much of it is from Harper's magazine in the 1880s. For a more current example, here is the marine's guide to Iraqi ettiquete.

The Black Table: If you haven't seen it yet, it frequently has fun.

The Polluted Internet: Most of the traffic on the Net today is worms, viruses, spam, and generally gunk. It even shows up on my web logs: this evil, bad (don't click this!) web site advertises by pinging my site, thus appearing in my logs as a referrer. They hit me every day, and I'm one obscure little site; think how much bandwidth they're taking up to plug themselves like this.

But on the positive side, Mr. PH of Seattle, Washington points out that in some ways, the Net is becoming more useful. I'd add more here, but Mr. PH has really covered all I'd have to say on the subject.

On realtors: I agree with this guy that the real estate industry is a cartel which needs to be broken up, so of course I'm gonna link to him.

Things my girlfriend and I argue about. Yeah, that's the title of the page. It's brilliant in any of a number of ways. Bought the book for the ex-girlfriend who originally recommended the site to me, with whom I argue all the time; she didn't like the book.

Mr. AZ of Albuquerque, New Mexico, wrote a long (80 pages) article on the low-hanging fruit of energy conservation---the easy stuff that wastes most of your energy. It is exactly the sort of article I like: it begins with discussions of the theory and general principles, and then comes down to specific policy recommendations about saving the world. He ran out of bandwidth, so you should get a copy from my favorite file-hosting service, gmail.com, username: some.files , password: caring .

Patent of the Week: Really, half the fun of studying patents is the silly and absurd patents.

I can't tell if this site is a joke or not.

The invisible library. A catalog of nonexistent books.

A wine rating guide for the rest of us.

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