{"id":8048,"date":"2009-06-22T13:39:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T20:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8048"},"modified":"2011-12-11T21:47:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T05:47:40","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-more-nerds-vs-jocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8048","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread and Link Farm: More Nerds vs Jocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Post what you like. Posting links, including self-linking, is totally cool with us.<\/p>\n

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John Hodgman, speaking in front of President Obama, takes the opportunity to discuss the nerd\/jock divide. (Via Ezra<\/a>, where you can also view the President’s fairly funny speech.)<\/p>\n

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  1. Racism’s Hidden Toll.<\/a> Does the stress of living in a white-dominated society make African Americans get sick and die younger than their white counterparts? Apparently, yes. (Focuses on the research of Arline Geronimus, who I swiped from a lot when writing this post<\/a>.) (Related thought: If discrimination and bigotry causes bad health, what does that say about the claim that fat people have health problems more often than middle-weight people?)<\/li>\n
  2. How copyright stifles progress,<\/a> and how it could be rethought to encourage progress.<\/li>\n
  3. Video: Christians exorcising the gay out of teens<\/a>. Very disturbing. Except that you can no longer view it, because the people who apparently abused a gay teen in the name of religion, have claimed that allowing the public to see the evidence violates their copyright.<\/li>\n
  4. I really wish I could be in China a month from now<\/a>, to view the full solar eclipse. Boing Boing<\/a> quotes Roberto Casati:
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    A total eclipse is by far the most impressive natural phenomenon that we terrestrials can witness. The staging doesn’t lessen its brutal effects. The temperature drops. A mysterious cold wind starts blowing. The shadow comes running up like a hurricane on the sea. The light collapses, and in just a few seconds, a metallic night falls–it comes on so fast the mind is not ready for it. On the horizon, unreachably far away, are the vestiges of daytime: an orangy twilight all around, as if a set designer made a mistake in projecting a sunset. In the midst of all this is a sun that’s no longer a furnace but just an unlucky rock: its shining fringe is like the silver mane of hair of some aged celestial divinity; and stars glitter again, caught out of place in this out-of-joint nighttime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n

  5. “The idea that the<\/a> US doesn’t ration health care is absurd. We certainly do. We just make people do it to themselves<\/span> out of economic hardship.”<\/li>\n
  6. It’s both gratifying and weird<\/a> to see Rad Geek, a libertarian who is not a right-winger or an anti-immigrant racist, completely school another libertarian who is a right-winger and a racist. Gratifying because Rad Geek rocks and the person he’s arguing against has genuinely offensive opinions, and weird because some of the particulars of the argument — like, which one of them is being more genuinely radically anti-government? — are places I’d never even think to go.<\/li>\n
  7. Under Misspelled Banner, Buchanan And White Nationalist Brimelow Argue For English-Only Initiatives<\/a>. Irony has a liberal bias.<\/li>\n
  8. Awsome colorist Steve Oliff is interviewed<\/a> about comics coloring techniques and technology in the 1980s, when a lot of innovation was taking place. What, me nerdy?<\/li>\n
  9. Dear Andrea Dworkin<\/a>, a critique of Dworkin’s views on women, sex and pornography. (Via<\/a>).<\/li>\n
  10. I Feel Pretty, I Feel Coerced Into Being Co-Opted By the Patriarchalist Beauty Myth<\/a> (Via<\/a>).<\/li>\n
  11. The assumptions made when discussing “trafficking”<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. 77 members of Congress<\/a> call on Obama to improve enforcing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, by ordering that the Army stop asking, and stop listening to snitches.<\/li>\n
  13. If you’re putting off donating to Democrats until they stop putting off gay rights, here’s an awesome FAX you can send<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  14. Katie Roiphe reviews the stripper-memoir genre<\/a> and finds it formulaic and, disappointingly, slut-shaming. Good article, except when Roiphe criticizes other writers for their trite use of feminism, I truly want someone to shove a pie into her face. (Via Amanda<\/a>‘s Facebook.)<\/li>\n
  15. A Graphical Overview of Same Sex Marriage Debate<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. No, the DOJ brief did not<\/a> say gay relationships are like incest and pedophilia. Yes, it was offensive.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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