It's Friday. Here are some links. Science:
Why you CAN have your $1000 genome - so long as you learn what to do with it
A Physicist Solves the City
Algorithms Take Control of Wall Street (Got Transaction Tax?)
How does bleach work?
Other:
"Don't politicize this tragedy!"
Let's Get This Straight
Metaphors for the weak and frightened
Weimar Politics in AZ
Drawing The Line
The right wing isn't going to stop violent rhetoric
The Progressive Case Against Obama's New Team
It's the lies more than anything
More like this
Kevin Drum (formerly CalPundit) of the Washington Monthly, is usually a pretty reliable source, but in this post I think he misses the point almost entirely.
Apparently there is a meme going around the blogosphere in which people dig into their personal libraries on a search for the oldest book they have - originals, that is, not reprints or printouts.
Regular readers of this blog may remember that I'm a bit of a music critic wannabe.
James Wolcott has another post on Dinesh D'Souza's appalling argument that we should become more like the Taliban in order to make them hate us less.