Jonathan Coulton’s “Redshirt” - With a video tribute to those killed defending the Enterprise. (by trekpropguy)
On today’s Fresh Air: the physical spaces that make up the Internet. (Above: the physical spaces that make up online communities.)
(via xkcd: Online Communities)
“Attacks on President Obama’s “crony capitalism” are a major theme of Mitt Romney’s campaign. And the stimulus typically figures prominently in these attacks. As Romney and his allies tell is, the Recovery Act was full of shady, wasteful giveaways to the administration’s friends and benefactors.
This argument is probably effective. Most Americans have no problem believing government programs are a boondoggle. The argument is also untrue—as in, the very opposite of true. Federal auditors watching over the Recovery Act have documented just $7.2 million in fraud, or about .001 percent of the $800 billion the federal government has distributed through the program. That’s astonishingly low. And that’s not because the auditors haven’t been looking.”
- Jonathan Cohn, Crony Capitalism, Minus the Cronies
Photo courtesy of Dead Homer Society
The Key To Middle East Peace
I have found the key to resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: strand the negotiators in a place with really bad food. Whenever my company cafe serves falafel I have an incredible amount of common ground with my Arab coworkers.
It took some digging to find a photo of obviously bad falafel, but here it is. Not very far from what my cafe serves, right down to the Greek tadziki in place of techina. No salad in the pita, etc.
http://i-cdn.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/kitchen/2009-07-30-Falafel.jpg
I am become death: The Enola Gay on Flickr.
The Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, helping bring WWII to a conclusion.
Soldier overlooking display of American flags, Boston Memorial Day 2010 on Flickr.
While you’re having fun this Memorial Day weekend (and I hope you do!), try to take a moment to remember those who sacrificed everything for this country.
