links for 2008-11-07 through 11-12
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Makes me want to go abroad next summer, simply so I can take no-cost flights
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Interesting, sensible (and foreboding) post by Nick Denton on how media firms like his should weather the ad slowdown. Also noted: his site has a new Gawker-esque design that pulls his posts from across his web properties. Reminds me that I need to get my Action Streams up and running
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Obama is actually a sci-fi nerd. Somewhere a million D&D fans are smiling
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Noted
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Part of me thinks, quelle horror! Double secret authority for military action! But part of me also thinks, well, there's been next to no anti-US terrorism in all this time, so maybe that's not such a bad thing
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Apparently DST increases, not decreases, energy consumption. C'mon, Congress, scale it back! Please!
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The broadcast debut of Marc Meyers' festival-prizewinning film. And to think I get to say I gave him his start as a writer! Marc, I'm proud and excited--publicly wishing you continued success
(Compiled from several previous auto-feed posts.)