Links for 2005-07-09
Posted July 9, 2005 1:17 AM.
- Fox News Live comments 'impartially' on the situation in London (48 minutes is the bit you should be looking at) "That these people are, If necessary, prepared to spill Arab blood in addition to the blood of regular -- of nonarab people living in London. "
- "The Controversy Over Foie Gras - Does a Duck Have a Soul?" The major question is where's the balance point between deriving human pleasure and inflicting pain on animals. As far as I'm concerned, there is a point at which inflicting pain for pleasure rather than necessity is sadistic and should be stopped.
- Blast from the past: "Did I miss something? Okay the bicicycle story that Barbelith, Megnut and Kottke have all blogged... what is this?" "I must have missed some inner circle of childhood memory bonding"
- Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock? The Onion's in re-run territory, but what does it matter if they're all as good as this classic from the site...
- Wage Slaves - people are being paid sweatshop wages to farm MMORPGs for corporations Webb told me about this about a year ago. Terra Nova talk about it a lot too. Fascinatingly weird, the whole thing...
- ]Ben Hammersley on the BBC's Creative Archive project "So the question is, why are the creative industries in the UK allowed to take public money, without fulfilling the obligation to deliver publicly accessible value? Why is this even an option? We have paid for it, now let us use it."
- The luffa - also spelt loofah or loofa - is a subtropical vine which can be harvested and stripped back to make a bath or kitchen sponge They do not grow underwater as you may have expected. Fool.
- TagCloud - an automated tool for deriving folksonomic classifications from RSS feeds "Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds."
Comments
Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.
That loofa exchange on last night's 8 out of 10 cats was absolutely hilarious.
I also thought they grew underwater. :(
→ Posted by: Natali at July 9, 2005 11:32 PM
i popped in to send you the tagcloud link but saw you already had it.
but then saw this foie gras link.
i too had only learned the Evils of foie gras, how inhumane it was to the poor geese and ducks.
but i've learned a lot better since moving to europe.
something not too many activists see fit to mention is that foie gras was discovered by accident, by people noticing that wild geese and ducks seasonally gorged themselves on seed, to the point of being unable to fly, and that if they were killed subsequently their livers were very different and very tasty.
that is (key point), it's a natural behaviour chosen by the birds, not some weird oddity forced upon them by evil sadists.
and something not too many activists see fit to mention is that the birds rush up to the farmer with the force-feeder. the force feeder (a funnel, basically) is just for his convenience in minimising his time/hassle -- it doesn't change the amount the birds would eat. nor does the farmer need to chase, cajole, or hurt the birds. they more than enjoy eating this food to this extent/at this pace.
yet another hysteria unrelated to reality
→ Posted by: Saltation at July 12, 2005 11:07 PM