Weekend link dump for May 24

I’m a white guy, but even if you count the ones I was required to read in school I’ve only ever owned eleven of these 79 books. Many of them I have zero interest in reading, and some of them I’d sooner undergo root canal than read. I am ashamed to admit I’ve never owned a copy of Godel, Escher, Bach, however.

This may help illustrate why passions were so inflamed over the Ashby Highrise.

The NHL has its own concussions and lawsuits problem.

Remembering the eruption of Mount St. Helens, 35 years later. My uncle was chief of staff for the Mayor of Portland in 1980. He was in his car driving to a political engagement of some kind when he saw the smoke billowing from the apparently not dormant volcano. He immediately turned the car around and headed straight to City Hall, where he knew there was going to be a lot of work to do.

“The outrage over Lena is less about the intrinsic properties of the image itself, but rather about the image’s provenance. Maddie argued that by using the Lena image, women are turned away from computer science.”

The annotated version of Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” music video.

Your favorite parking lot could be targeted by hackers.

Don’t like spiders? Be glad you don’t live in Australia.

An interview with Merrill Markoe, the original head writer for Late Night with David Letterman.

“And the Very Serious People enabled all this, much as they enabled the Iraq lies.”

“Exercise — no matter how many gym memberships you buy or how often you wear your Fitbit — won’t make you lose weight.”

What young feminists think about Hillary Clinton.

“What’s the moral to this story? Two morals: One, the Internet is awesome because, sometimes, if you ask, you will get pictures of squirrels playing polo on the backs of Pomeranians.”

“For those lawmakers who actually voted against the war, and those journalists who reported skeptically before the attack, this is misleading at best and self-serving at worst. Watching the revisionist story take hold 13 years after they opposed the invasion is reviving the frustration and marginalization they felt back then.”

“The tech community is stepping up its pressure on the White House to oppose any requirement that could force companies to compromise security to guarantee government investigators access to data.”

Is “The Left” obsessed with “The Sex”, as Ted Cruz believes? I’m afraid only Norbizness can answer that authoritatively.

How two healthcare reporters changed their behaviors in response to things they learned by reporting on healthcare.

David Letterman’s final Top Ten list, in case you somehow managed to miss it.

“All the yokels—Carly Fiorina, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, etc.—will go on first. They’ll be sort of the warm-up act. Then they’ll get shuffled off the stage and the big guns will have prime time all to themselves. This is pretty humiliating for the also-rans, but presumably if they play by the rules they’ll have a chance to move up, just like in English Premier League soccer. Perhaps Rick Perry will stumble and get relegated to the minor leagues for the next debate, while Jindal will knock everyone’s socks off and get promoted to the show.”

“Now we’ve reached the bottom 40 percent of Americans, but guess what? We’ve run out of stuff. Sorry guys, you get nothing.”

“Most pro-life women oppose abortion with four exceptions: rape, incest, the life of the mother, and me.”

The Duggars are no ordinary spokespeople for the religious right; they are super-spokespeople. For years, they have been held up as exemplars of biblical living, of devotion to Christ, and of, especially, homespun honest living and sexual purity. It’s long been obvious to many that this is a product of marketing and packaging, not reality. But now no one can pretend anymore.”

In the meantime, let’s revel in the many times Josh Duggar has lectured us about “family values”. We could have been binge-watching the show while doing so. I for one am still waiting for anyone in that hellish family to express even the smallest amount of concern and empathy for the girls that Josh Duggar molested.

RIP, Marques Haynes, legendary member of the Harlem Globetrotters.

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