The General's Ghost from Futility Closet
A FEW OF THE MILLIONS of worthy and amazing things you missed on the Web this week. [Sources: AD Shared Items, Kaching!, and Vdelicious.]
ectoplasmosis: No-Goodniks Amputate "Godman's" Holy Leg... and then steal it.
Morgan Freeberg's battle report from Madison Avenue's War on Men
Simply Thrifty's 45 Things You Can Learn Online for Free!
Anecdotal Evidence wades into 'The Shallows Where the Suckers Moon' "We bloggers swim in the literary shallows, an ecosystem we ought to cherish."
The Restraints of Civilized People @ Sake White: "Sheepdogs can kill as easily as wolves. To the flock of sheep, this makes sheepdogs no better than wolves. They're killing other people's children, after all, right. Just like wolves would kill our lambs, right."
Gray Matters: Just Say None "Seattle has gained a reputation as a particularly godless corner of the None Zone."
John Battelle's Searchblog: Techno Predictions for 2008: He's got a very good track record, as track records go.
Lifehacker's Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks
The Big Picture 2007 Movie Theater Attendance = Flat Especially when you adjust for inflated ticket prices.
Cool Tool: Motion Mountain is not your father's physics textbook. It is the self-published 1,500-page (!!), still-unfinished physics textbook written and designed by your polymath genius uncle who dwells on a mountain with the spirits of departed philosophers (whom he quotes, in German). [Free to download]
ParisLemon: "Is It Time For Starbucks To Cut the Price Of Coffee?" Hey, it was time in 1970.
Sawse: 20 More Photographs Taken at the Exact Right Angle
Schneier on Security: Is Sears Engaging in Criminal Hacking Behavior? Looks to be the case.
Videobloggers, look at the camera. Cueprompter is a free teleprompter/autocue service. Your browser works like a teleprompter -no extra software needed.
Newsbusters: It's Official; Anthropogenic Global Warming May Cause Headaches
Neatorama; Confessions of a Trader Joe's Junkie How the chain does what it does so well.
Mark Steyn states "Here's what offends this writer" in Macleans: "Why should free-born Canadians require the permission of the state to read my columns?"
Linden's Web 2.0 doomsday prediction
100 Items to Disappear First in a disaster. Stock up.
New Site of the Week: Tom Parker's new Rules of Thumb site is asking for contributions. Examples -- "If your cat sits at the door and cries but it's snowing out, just open the door and show him. That will satisfy him, for awhile." and "People are willing to walk for seven minutes to get to a McDonald's. That's why you'll find McDonald's restaurants a 14 minute walk apart in downtown areas." Fascinating -- and it's deep too.
Quote of the Week:
"When evil comes, it won't be easily identifiable, with a hunched back and a crazed glint in its eye; it will be nicely dressed, sound reasonable, and have a great team of policy wonks and spin doctors to explain exactly why you need to climb into the cattle car, please." --View From The Porch: The Evil That Men Don't.
Article of the week: Michael J. Totten: A Plan to Kill Everyone
Still, he repeated the question. "If I give you my pistol, will you take it?""If it gets bad enough out here that either I shoot it or die, then yes," I said. "I'd rather be thrown of Iraq then be killed. But that is not going to happen, so I can't take your pistol."
Weather Report of the Week via: Tim Blair
California said on Wednesday it was suing the US government for blocking the implementation of the state's tough new standards on greenhouse gases emitted by automobiles ... In his statement, [California's Attorney General Jerry] Brown said ... "Global warming threatens California's Sierra mountain snow pack, which provides the state with one-third of its drinking water."California, Friday: Forecasters said the Pacific storms could dump more than 10 feet of snow on California mountains by Sunday."
Picture of the week: Neurophilosophy : Google Earth image of Moses parting the Red Sea * Related: Moses: Evidence for the ten plagues and the Exodus
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