Crazy But Able

• A sufficiently clever person could deduce nearly every important economic law discovered in the past 200 years by reading this CNN article about teen “cruising” being curtailed by rising gas prices. My favorite quote: “‘It makes people not want to do what they want to do,’ he said.” (via fark.com)
• An Iraqi family has a photoblog with lots of pics of day to day life in Baghdad. (I’m starting to agree with Clay Shirky that cheap, ubiquitous digital cameras + using the internet for publishing pictures = a revolution on par with the printing press. (via boing boing)
• Speaking of Iraq, David Warren (a Canadian newspaper columnist) thinks that the Bush Administration is diplomatically running circles around the UN. (via Donald Sensing)
• Speaking of Canada, guess who is lagging behind the US in curbing their toxic emissions? For extra bonus points, guess which country isn’t bound by the Kyoto accords.
• I like some of Kurt Vonnegut’s stuff. Other stuff I can’t stand. While there are parts of this essay that he wrote which I don’t like, I really liked this bit:
  

  For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course that’s Moses, not Jesus. I haven’t heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.

  “Blessed are the merciful” in a courtroom? “Blessed are the peacemakers” in the Pentagon? Give me a break!

That’s it for the links, hopefully I’ve given you all something to do with your wasted time. :)

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