links for 2008-06-24

• Oklahoma’s painful car culture
• A pig survives quake and a happy ending is promised — china.org.cn
  hero pig
• Coco Wang Earthquake Comics

links for 2008-06-10

• Son of GOP nominee throws hat into ring for Staten Island’s seat
• Plants Found to Show Preferences for Their Relatives – NYTimes.com

links for 2008-06-08

• Hillary: Time To “Write The Next Chapter In America’s Story”
  a good speech

links for 2008-06-04

• POUPEES VIANDES – a set on Flickr
  aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
• a sports parable
  funny

links for 2008-06-03

• garfield minus garfield
  This comic makes me laugh out loud more than any other.
• YouTube – Simple building. Stonehenge Reloaded by only one white man!!
  this is pretty cool
• After Years of Effort, Dark Energy Still Puzzles Scientists – NYTimes.com
  We want to live like we know a lot about the universe we’re in. We don’t.

links for 2008-06-02

• Fafblog! the whole world’s only source for Fafblog.
  Oh, Fafblog! What did we ever do without you?
• the nonist: Oscar and the Alma Doll

links for 2008-06-01

• What Does Not Change | The New America Foundation
  Quote of the day: “The presidential primary process, over the years since Eugene McCarthy “won” New Hampshire by losing it in 1968, has evolved into such an elaborate analysis of expectations and sequence that, this year, it has finally imploded on itself
• The Rebellion Within: An Al Qaeda mastermind questions terrorism
  a fascinating intellectual history of Al Qaeda
• It Really Looks Like Ice on Mars | Universe Today

links for 2008-05-31

• Stonehenge Used as Cemetery From the Beginning – NYTimes.com
• Scientists move a step closer to mind-reading | Science | guardian.co.uk
• Pictures of the Week – Pictures of the Week – TIME
  A Communist Party boss in Sichuan province pleads with angry parents whose children were killed in the earthquake to stop their protest march. This is a powerful photo that shows empathy for both sides.
• Phoenix Lander ‘Talks’ to Twitterers – NYTimes.com
  hee hee

links for 2008-05-30

• Can Identity Politics Save the Right? | The American Prospect
  Mark Schmitt is consistently the most insightful writer on American politics today, and this article is no exception.

truth beats fiction

From an article on the real-life Indiana Jones:

One day in 1933 he received a mysterious telegram offering him 1,000 reichsmarks a month to write the sequel to Crusade Against the Grail. The telegram was unsigned, but he was instructed to go to an address in Berlin – 7 Prinz Albrechtstrasse.

When he arrived, he was understandably surprised to be greeted by the grinning figure of Heinrich Himmler, the head of Hitler’s SS. Not only had Himmler read Crusade Against the Grail; he’d virtually committed the thing to memory. For the first time in his life Rahn met someone even more obsessed with finding the Grail than he was. Indeed, so confident was Himmler of finding the Grail that he’d already prepared a castle – Wewelsburg in Westphalia – for its arrival. In the basement, surrounded by busts of prominent Nazis, was an empty plinth where the Grail would go.