links

SAD

Judge gives people a choice of jail or church for a year http://www2.wkrg.com/news/2011/sep/22/serve-time-jailor-church-ar-2450720/ You'll be unsurprised to learn it's Alabama.

Carbon credit land theft http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/world/africa/in-scramble-for-land-oxfam-says-ugandans-were-pushed-out.html


HAPPY

Non-violent first person shooters: http://www.popphoto.com/news/2011/09/warco-first-person-shooter-arms-you-camera-rather-gun
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_66/385-My-Hindu-Shooter

I've learned that the 'yucca' root I've eaten in restaurants is cassava, or 'yuca'. I'm horribly disappointed; as a one-time SoCal geologist, I'd seen eating yucca as revenge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassava

Funny used yoga mat ad. http://seattle.livejournal.com/6491700.html

From James, another link about the explosion of space probes and the modern golden age of space exploration. http://babelniche.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/the-robot-population-of-deep-space/

New Goya painting found via X-rays http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15018174

Friday stuff

Evening socializing of Boston Anime Meetup at Shabu-ya. I had bibimbap, it was okay. Glad I had the fried egg, it helped. Met people who'd heard of Twelve Kingdoms, or tried Crest of the Stars but not made it through the first episode, or seen or finished the real FMA. Also a Coast Guard person and a CS&biology student. SCA girl is engaged and then had nearly lost her missized ring. Some of us tried to go to a party afterwards, but it seemed like the required bus was late, and my "where's the bus?" smartphone page did not indicate any buses on either route, 83 or 91. I used the 77 as a control; it did have buses. So I went to a Grendels-circle housewarming party instead. Sampled some Bock beer, which was fairly good for beer, shared in noting how there were 8 people in a room and only one didn't have glasses, listened to PET scan and vision stories. Someone ran into a robot in an admin building at Harvad, which showed his face on its display and kept approaching. I went proto-Dalek for him: "IM-I-TATE!" A hospital apparently uses a robot to convey a lockbox of drugs via a mile of corridors. Another hospital considered pneumatic tubes to convey fast-decaying radioactive drugs from cyclotron and lab to PET scanner, but settled for using runners instead. I wonder about the cancer risk to the runners of holding a canister of indirect gamma emitters a lot.

I've run into murals recently. There's on the north side of Shaw's, that I found a few nights ago, might have mentioned it. Another on Brookline street, as I found coming back home; looked maybe political but I was speedwalking back to the train station.

Brookline street is not in Brookline, it's in Cambridge.

My userpic has nothing to do with anything, I just felt it hadn't been used much.

links: superheroes, Harry Potter, and the GOP

FUN

US only so far, and seemed like you'd have to go find the ticket yourself to buy it, but nice and fast: http://www.google.com/flights/

CEOs in comics, inheritance vs. 'earning'. http://www.juliansanchez.com/2011/09/21/ceos-in-comics-villains-earn-heroes-inherit/

Problems with so-called sexually empowered superheroines: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?594227-The-problem-with-sexually-empowered-superheroines
Also http://www.harkavagrant.com/nonsense/strongfemalessmall.gif
200 questions chemistry e-book: http://questions.sci-toys.com/

Love as anti-Horcrux in Harry Potter: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?594106-Harry-Potter-Magical-Theory-Horcruxes-and-Anti-Horcruxes


NOT FUN

Zeno's Paradox of US politics http://seawasp.livejournal.com/284468.html

Jewish professor accused of anti-Semitism for use-mention failure http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3431

GOP makes huge gains among young and poor white voters http://pewresearch.org/pubs/2067/2012-electorate-partisan-affiliations-gop-gains-white-voters

Bachmann may be anti-vaccination in general? Haven't checked. http://www.filibustercartoons.com/index.php/2011/09/15/upcoming-republican-slogans/


Make your own "Death Eater for President" jokes.