Friday, August 08, 2008

Friday Links



The virus that gets sick.

A tyranny of true believers.

14 million year old tropical plants—in Antarctica.

The Orwell olympics.

Red ink in the anti-business states.

When Google throws the switch.

What's the matter with Pakistan?

The ability to stand apart.

Here comes the eyeball camera.

Can colossal carbon tubes best nanotubes?

Vague but sinister.

2 comments:

Knucklehead said...

Re: Vague but sinister, I plan to get out this weekend and pick up Robert Kagan's The Return of History and the End of Dreams, of which one can read a review here in City Journal. (ht: Arts & Letters Daily)

Anonymous said...

City Journal is the best one out there. And I saw the review, which is one of the things that makes the magazine what it is. Though it, like this blog and others, is making the storage of new books here at Castell Skookumchuk increasingly problematic.