{"id":9946,"date":"2010-04-18T14:48:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T21:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9946"},"modified":"2010-04-18T14:48:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T21:48:45","slug":"taking-a-stroll-atop-concrete-pipes-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9946","title":{"rendered":"Taking a Stroll Atop Concrete Pipes (open thread)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. The Big Picture<\/a> has a great photo gallery of people at work building things.<\/li>\n
  2. Race and the Death Penalty, III: Troy Anthony Davis and the Denial of Justice<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. The Work of Making Femininity Look Effortless<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. The free downloadable toybox at Soup Toys<\/a> kept Sydney and Maddox entertained for hours today. Really fun stuff — pretty entertaining for adults, as well.<\/li>\n
  5. And after they were done with Soup Toys (for now), I put on Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre<\/a>. (The link is to Kottke.org<\/a>, which is the source of many of the links here today.)<\/li>\n
  6. Good news! Arkansas anti-gay adoption ban, passed by voters, found unconstitutional<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  7. Kevin Moore calls me “a PC loser.”<\/a> :-P<\/li>\n
  8. Killing Terrorist Leaders<\/a> is not just ineffective — it’s counterproductive.<\/li>\n
  9. Guess the song!<\/a> After Amberite has run the lyrics through Bad Translator, that is. Here’s just one example (the one I found easiest to guess): “I’m just a poor boy, you like me (who, from a poor family, who live without this monster is not only children of the poor) is mature and easy to follow, I walk in God’s name! No, we will not give up (oh!)”<\/li>\n
  10. “Of all the people in human history who ever reached the age of 65, half are alive now.” Interesting article about the aging of the human species<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  11. “Police officers fired<\/a> a 50,000-volt stun gun charge into a man who had collapsed with a major epileptic seizure.” This is the dark side of non-lethal (or, more accurately, less-frequently-lethal) weapons; the cops feel freer to use them.<\/li>\n
  12. Does this photo from 1940 show a hipster time traveler? Well, no<\/a>.\"\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. What if it were Bush?<\/a> The left would be a lot <\/em>more pissed off at targeted assassinations. Yes, on this issue, the Bush administration folks were inhuman, evil monsters<\/a> — they really do deserve <\/em>to be slowly tortured to death, except that no one should have the authority to do that, either — but Obama is only marginally better if at all. (No wonder he chose to let Dawn Johnson’s nomination die<\/a>.)<\/li>\n
  14. It’s the biggest crop circle ever<\/a>, and it’s really pretty.<\/li>\n
  15. Nancy Schwartzman on Confronting Her Rapist<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. The interesting, and disturbing, story of Brother Sharp<\/a>, a homeless man who became an internet fad.<\/li>\n
  17. Feathers and Fashion: Native American is in Style<\/a><\/li>\n
  18. Incredible Shadow Art by Kumi Yamashita<\/a>. The string art — created with a single, unbroken string — is likewise incredible. Watching the video gives a better idea of how the shadow creations work.<\/li>\n
  19. Adam Carolla Apologizes for Being a Racist Asshat<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. Pomplamoose: Making A Living On YouTube<\/a>. This model for video artists to make a living could really change everything (or at least, the music and video industries), if it catches on.<\/li>\n
  21. Civil Asset Forfeiture<\/a> continues to be an incredibly bad policy. Bad for freedom, bad for “innocent until proven guilty,” and it rewards cops for behaving badly. But if we got rid of it we might have to marginally raise taxes to make up for the shortfall. Thank goodness anti-tax fanatics are so influential!<\/li>\n
  22. The skull motif on t-shirts is overdone, but this is a clever visual pun<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  23. “In cases involving<\/a> a black defendant and white victim, having five white males on the jury doubles the chance that the death penalty will be imposed. Having just one black man on a capital jury cuts the chance of a death sentence in half.”<\/li>\n
  24. Amanda Hess’ readers discuss why art students tend to avoid drawing the penis<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  25. ICE Leads Border Raids That Obama Admin Promised to Stop<\/a><\/li>\n
  26. “…it also helps to<\/a> think of the Civil War as having three factions with three different aims…”<\/li>\n
  27. Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks.<\/a> Interesting article about Christie’s surprisingly chaotic working methods. (Contains a spoiler for Endless Night<\/em>.)<\/li>\n
  28. Shopping is labor<\/a>. And it’s mostly done by women.<\/li>\n
  29. Despite the many political problems with it (although it has good parts too<\/a>), I’m addicted to Glee. And for “Wicked” fans, they’ve had both Kristin Chenowith and Idina Menzel as guest stars. (Indina didn’t sing last week, but the character is clearly going to be returning). As I type this I’m listening to the Glee cast’s cover of my favorite Madonna song, “Like A Prayer.<\/a>“<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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