Category: Oddities

Some links from DiePunyHumans

Send Back the Statue of Liberty takes the next logical step in America’s anti-French protests. God, I hope it’s a parody, but after that Two Towers site, you can’t be sure…

Exactitudes is an online exhibit of sets of photographes, of people dressed the same and in the same pose. Interesting anthropological study, which demonstrates Amotz Zahavi’s point about how dress codes are used to set the ground rules for social contests.

Also, two science stories: Hubble Pictures Too Crisp, Challenging Theories of Time and Space and Toxin threat to Inuit food: Researchers have for the first time documented “unacceptable levels” of man-made environmental toxins in the Inuit population of Greenland.. Good. Now that they’re bookmarked, I don’t have to actually read them…

The American media is filled with stories about rescued female POW Jessica Lynch. One detail jumped at me.

Her hometown is Palestine, West Virginia.

A story from Army Times describes how the US Army sabotaged the effectiveness of its own war games by scripting the responses of the Iraqi Red side. The commander of the Red team (non-US) quit in protest.

Melody M. Moore, Ph.D. researches brain-computer interfaces and evolvable software, rides horses, trains dogs, plays bass guitar in rock bands and looks a bit like Candice Bergen. Why does she strike me as a perfect heroine for a technothriller?

Matthew Rossi keeps mentioning that he’s got a book coming out. The other stuff from that publisher looks interesting as well (Jess Nevins did the online encycolpedias of Victorian and Pulp fantasy heroes, for example).

Anyway, Matt also
linked to an editorial about Superman from the weekly newspaper of the SS, which is short and funny reading.