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http://www.metacritic.com/film/awards/2004/toptens.shtml#summary 10:43

http://slate.com/id/2112701/ Scalia might not be too bad as Chief Justice … if liberals can get a moderate in his place. (Well, der.) 09:31

http://www.nytimes.com/gst/mostemailed.html NY Times has a new, busier, most-emailed page. (And, damn, the “email this article” link doesn’t email the full text no more either … though the old email this article link works with new pages.) 10:22

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/wdc/55354359.html “Thanks a lot, hot guy.” 07:15

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/chi/53956630.html Peculiar place for a thoughtful post about what it’s like to be a homicide detective. 22:42

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/20/chair_sells_you_a_li.html Commercially unsuccessful user-pays chair re-released as performance art piece to demonstrate that … this is what life will be like in the future? … even though no-one would buy it? Huh? What? 21:33

http://slate.com/id/2112570/ William Saletan on the Larry Summers women-in-science flap. 11:38

http://gladwell.com/2005/2005_01_15_a_collapse.html Malcolm Gladwell reviews Jared Diamond’s “Collapse.” Apparently, the Norse colonies in Greenland died out because they’d chopped down all the trees, over-farmed the land—and wouldn’t eat fish. (I’ve heard that well-intentioned aid agencies in South-East Asia have had a similar problem: they’ve tried to feed people “broken rice” but even starving people won’t eat it because broken rice is what animals are fed.) 01:20

http://www.google.co.ck/ Is there any good reason for Google to have an outpost in, uh, the Cook Islands? (Doesn’t seem to be any “big,” “enormous,” or “i.love,” entity doing business in the Cook Islands either.) 07:12

http://slate.com/id/2112390/ On inaugural addresses. 21:01

http://www.worldpoll.com/screens.phtml?id=chartrelease7-
large.gif Graph shows that some American brands are perceived as more “American” than others; only slight correlation between Americanness intention to avoid the brand (discussion). 01:11

http://www.snopes.com/autos/accident/seatbelt.asp Anti-seat-belt-law campaigner involved in car accident; is “ejected from car” and dies… 06:12

http://www.essence.com/essence/themix/takebackthemusic/whatsreallygoingon.html “… today we stand at the forefront of popular culture: independent, talented and comfortable with the skin we’re in. We are really feeling ourselves. Perhaps that’s why we’re so alarmed at the imbalance in the depiction of our sexuality and character in music. In videos we are bikini-clad sisters gyrating around fully clothed grinning brothers like Vegas strippers on meth. When we search for ourselves in music lyrics, mixtapes and DVDs and on the pages of hip-hop magazines, we only seem to find our bare breasts and butts. And when we finally get our five minutes at the mic, too many of us waste it on hypersexual braggadocio and profane one-upmanship. … This cannot continue.” 20:43

http://movies.plsthx.com/media/rodney_mullen.wmv Fab skating video! 20:27

http://slate.com/id/2111910/ “The international press comments as tsunami relief grows competitive.” (e.g. Australians have been hailed the most generous people on earth after pledging more than $15 million for victims of the Boxing Day tsunami during a star-studded fundraising concert tonight.) At least in the first few days, the media seemed to be taking a perverse delight in figuring out exactly how many people had died. I remember hearing a radio interview with an official from Indonesia who happened to have flown over parts of Aceh; all the reporter seemed to want to know was how many people were thought to have died. 20:35

http://edge.org/q2005/q05_easyprint.html ”What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?” (Richard Dawkins—boy is that man predictable—says that he can’t prove that God doesn’t exist … well, the other way round.) Simon Baron-Cohen begins his answer by saying that he is “not interested in ideas that cannot in principle be proven or disproven,” which is what I might say too—what really matters is what people believe to be true, not what is true of false. 02:58

http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_
id=3518580 The Economist attempts to “elucidate” what it was that Einstein did. 01:57

http://www.snopes.com/photos/gruesome/interrogate.asp Wow: man gets left alone in interrogation room, pulls out a gun from his pants and shoots himself in the head. 01:53

http://www.petracolor.de/mouse/radioforweb.mov A radio without buttons! Rocked forward/backward is on/off; “scrolling” left/right changes the volume, up/down changes the frequency (pictures/text). 01:47