Assorted Links 4/13/09 Archives

Assorted Links 4/13/09

Using a Square Wheel
W.T. Wallington's Forgotten Technology Official Website
Wally Wallington - Wikipedia
The Construction of the Pyramids

Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, April 22, 2009
Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
Crisis Communications Training, May 7, 2009
Understanding Congressional Budgeting and Appropriations, May 13, 2009
Working with Congress and Congressional Staff: Communicating Effectively with Capitol Hill, May 15, 2009
Public Affairs and the Internet: Advanced Techniques and Strategies, May 19, 2009
Kindle Formatting: The Complete Guide
It all depends on what the meaning of “bow” means
Video Camera Strapped To An Eagle
All the News That’s Fit to Tint - ht Cafe Hayek
CBO: TARP Bailout to Cost Taxpayers Even More Than Expected
Stalled CRE [Commercial Real Estate] Projects in D.C.
Fed Paper on Reducing Foreclosures - "This analysis suggests mortgage modifications - without principal reduction - will have limited success. The authors suggest that loan or grants to homeowners with lost income might be more effective than mortgage modifications."
America's Love Affair With Malls Ends; Toxic Drywall; Halted Projects; and Vacant Dealerships
The Cost of Global Warming: A Story in Pictures
Seek Superstar Slavery
"Teacher’s aide in Queens, N.Y., sues 11 year old, saying he was dashing for ice cream and ran into her (this happened when he was eight)"
Is your interior designer really putting your life at risk?
The Folly of Sin Taxation
The Tax Capital of the World: States are raising taxes despite the 'stimulus'; New York is No. 1.
The New Atheists’ Easter message? ‘Grow up or die’. Religulous, Bill Maher’s religion-baiting documentary, confirms what modern atheists hate most about religion: its humancentricity.
It’s time to stop this ‘miracle cure’ madness: In his speech to the Royal Society of Medicine, Dr Michael Fitzpatrick said the ‘war on autism’ is dehumanising people with the condition.
The monster inside my son: For years I thought of his autism as beautiful and mysterious. But when he turned unspeakably violent, I had to question everything I knew.
Autism - Wikipedia
YouTube Is Doomed (GOOG) - ht Marginal Revolution
The World as It Is and "simple-headed vanity"
Surviving in a post-American world
Just How Easy it [is] to Disrupt Infrastructure?
$200 Oil Is Coming While We Waste a Perfectly Good Crisis
Concerned resident aims to form armed militia to patrol Stockton, CA
No Tofu in Colorado (Or the F-Word, Either) - ILVTOFU
Time Traveling The Multiverse
Castro, Race and the Black Congressional Caucus: An Inconvenient Truth