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Sherlock Holmes, etc.

A few thoughts on the Holmes canon and the new movie.

Moyers Interviews Greenwald

Moyers Interviews Greenwald.

Science Friday

Human evolution and a giant photo of the Milky Way.

Fugitive

Polanski – I have no sympathy. Let the wheels of justice grind on.

Recent CurrentMom Posts

My recent posts over at CurrentMom:

A few thoughts on whether technology is making us ‘over-share’. I think not.
A rant about critical thinking and separating wheat from chaff in an age of too much information.
Some scribblings about Pogue’s Take Back the Beep campaign.
On succumbing to the iPhone. TheGuy and I are probably going to join [...]

A Few Links

A few links, since I can’t seem to properly blog at all anymore.

Scott Rosenberg’s book on the history of blogging, Say Everything, will be released shortly. A couple of chapters are already available online. I read the chapter on journalists vs. bloggers this morning and it was excellent. Among other things it’s one window [...]

Much Brokenness – Tasers and Village Smears

Digby has been on the case of taser abuse for months and what it says about not only the criminal justice system and law enforcement but our society as a whole. In her latest post on the subject:
It’s not that I don’t understand that police have a thankless job and are often put in dangerous [...]

Sensing Some Similarity

I have not delved very deeply into the explosion in the Rails community that apparently began with some ill-considered slides in a presentation. Mike G. is on top of it and decided there was too much nonsense and denial and obnoxiousness to continue his role with the Rails Activists.   In the little bits of conversation [...]

Digital Planet is Excellent

Since I’m commuting downtown somewhat regularly again, I’ve spent a bit of time looking for some podcasts to listen to.  One of my very favorites so far is the BBC’s Digital Planet.  Gareth Mitchell hosts this weekly half-hour podcast on all things digital.  And it truly is global in scope, ranging from SXSW in Texas [...]

Tabbity-Tab-Tab.

And still mooore tabs – this is an endless battle.

Chris Clarke is blogging again. In this entry he writes about Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Obama, sexism, racism, the environment and such-like.

But the primary tenet of feminism is that women are ethically, intellectually, and politically the equals of men. To refrain from criticizing Palin’s ecocidal [...]