Also from Phil Carter (original), we have a blog dedicated to the DC sniper trial (original). It’s sponsored by the Virginian-Pilot. A little bit gawkerish, perhaps, but it’s news and there’s something to be said for opening up the courts. In any case, it’s important for what it represents. Journalists have better access than the rest of us; it’s always nice to see them using blogs and the rapid update paradigm to bring us that news.
The MacArthur Foundation announced its 2003 MacArthur Fellows today. It’s such a great concept: $100,000 a year for five years so that you don’t have to worry about anything but your work. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Heartworm is a funny one-panel Web comic. And I mean it’s both funny and well-drawn; we’re not talking the usual Web comic fodder. (And by “the usual Web comic fodder,” I explicitly don’t mean Joey Manley’s sites, but let’s face it — Sturgeon’s Law applies to Keenspace. In spades.) Six comics, go read ‘em, it won’t take but a moment.
rebelcoyote has pictures of a kitten on a tank. I dunno, there’s probably some big political significance to this, but all I can say is “awwwwww.”
This is the Isabel picture I’d been looking for; saw it once, couldn’t find it again, now I have. Amazing. randomWalks has more picture links (original). Snopes is tracking that tanker picture. I think it’s Photoshopped; the sea is too calm.
Edward Tufte posted some links to rather striking GIF animations of air traffic patterns over the United States. You can see the waves of FedEx planes taking off from Memphis, for example. He also has a link to an animation of air traffic patterns on 9/11/2001, which is striking in a different way. It being Tufte’s site, someone’s noted (accurately) the problems with the data presentation.
In the fine tradition of Deb’s big list of historical links, here’s another quick link to another fairly comprehensive link collection. It’s everything you wanted to know about underground tunnels (original), more or less. There’s even a Mormon Church subcategory. Thanks to Chris T. for the heads up. Today is a very special day, by the by, for reasons which will become apparent tomorrow.
The clever and studious Brant has discovered and shared with us Deb’s Historical Research Page (original), which is simply brilliant. As Brant says, “Generally I don’t trust sites whose title involves the name ‘Deb,’ but I’ve made an exception in this case.” Awesome collection of links.
Every now and then someone writes a really good document on interacting with non-techies for techies. Here’s one about giving status reports. As I changed from a techie into a manager with delusions of techieness, I could feel myself beginning to want the strange things Richard Threadgill talks about therein.
The Pentagon needs blood donors (original). If you have a DoD affiliation (the Armed Services Blood Program only accepts blood from people with a DoD affiliation), it’s a good time to give. If not, the Red Cross always needs blood.