links not about space

[mindstalk]

Murdoch tabloid hacks voice mails, gets covered up by Scotland Yard
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/magazine/05hacking-t.html
Andy Hayman, complicit investigator, now working for The Times of london
Andy Coulson, hacking chief, then top communications post for PM Cameron

the real Whorf hypothesis -- languages differ in what they oblige us to
attend to. geographic languages, like Guugu Yimithirr, evidentiary
language Matses
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html

An idle brain may be the self's workshop
default mode network
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-he-brain-20100830,0,5126565,full.story
diagnosing disorders
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-brain-side-20100830,0,5044867.story

student loans gateway to wage slavery; lack of rights; big profits
http://consumerist.com/2010/09/student-loans-gateway-drug-to-debt-slavery.html

Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic -- people who are
WEIRD
Westerners don't generalize well to human psychology
ultimatum game
http://www.nationalpost.com/Westerners+World+weird+ones/3427126/story.html
non-Westerners don't all see the same optical illusions we do
is even WEIRD focus cultural?
http://mindhacks.com/2010/07/10/is-it-weird-in-here-or-is-it-just-me/

how marijuana legalization failed in the 1970s
http://reason.com/archives/1993/06/01/selling-pot/singlepage

There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of
donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. Ezekiel 23:20.

what mosques and imams do against terrorism
http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=12843326&postcount=41

totally corrupt California town Vernon
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0919-fortress-vernon-20100918,0,1955820,full.story

Paper to Readers: Sorry for Portraying Muslims as Human
http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2010/09/14/paper-to-readers-sorry-for-portraying-muslims-as-human/

aerobic fitness boosts smarts
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/phys-ed-can-exercise-make-kids-smarter/
Phys Ed: Can Exercise Make Kids Smarter?

Barrayar fake Komarran novel review
http://whswhs.livejournal.com/99444.html

selling the Democrats on facts
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2010%2F09%2F11%2FINH31F68GB.DTL

GOP banning homosexuality
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/09/18/us_gays_in_montana
http://blackchristiannews.com/news/2010/06/texas-republicans-want-to-ban-homosexuality-and-want-to-make-same-sex-marriage-a-felony-crime---hall.html

Oregon sex literature laws struck down
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-oregon-pornography-20100921,0,550769.story

GOP plans to sabotage universal health care
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/health/policy/21repeal.html

Why is the city of Montgomery condemning the property of
African-Americans along a civil rights trail?
http://www.slate.com/id/2267743/

abortion and lack of death penalty
http://www.slate.com/id/2267933/

2006; pear farmers couldn't get pickers
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E6DE1E31F931A1575AC0A9609C8B63

http://techflash.com/seattle/2010/09/ballmer_bezos_fund_effort_to_defeat_state_income_tax.html
Slashdot had an interesting story. Bill Gates is behind a Washington
ballot initiative to raise taxes on wages over $100k.
Ballmer, his former COO and partner, and Jeff Bezos, are up in arms over
it.

swastikas by culture or religion
http://bazzalisk.org/images/Swastikas.png


Oy. Wifi died right before I posted this. Router hiccup? Computer's back to not wanting to connect; I dug out my ethernet cable. Mouse froze, as it did after the earlier connection, which I didn't mention; switching to a text prompt and back helped last time. This time... did that, did that again, minimized all the windows, logged in at the text prompt, finally it unfroze. :(