Monday links.
* Vernor Vinge guarantees the Singularity by 2030. Take it to the bank. Via Boing Boing.
* They'll get the stone wall around East Campus when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.
* Today's most useful single-serving site: http://shouldibeworriedaboutswineflu.com/.
* The judgment against Eichmann speaks to Bybee: Far from absolving him of guilt, his remoteness from the actual torturers—his thoughtlessness—increases the degree of his responsibility. His is a special kind of evil—the evil of nonchalance where there should be outrage.
* Geoengineering and the New Climate Denialism.
* Meanwhile, Krugman seeks to tell the future by looking at programs Republicans have most recently tried to cut funding for.
Monday, April 27, 2009
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