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[cellio]

The bookshop that has all the books in the world -- except one is a lovely 8-page graphic short story (link from shewhomust).

Joel on Software and Coding Horror (I hadn't heard of the latter before but looks interesting) have launched Stack Overflow, which looks like it could be a good resource for answering technical questions. (I hope that by logging in with my LJ OpenID from home and saying "always accept", I'll be able to answer questions with that ID from work where LJ is blocked.)

Programmers as carpenters (short).

Harold Feld's analysis of the Palin camp's attack on Oprah (part one). This story fizzled soon after hitting CNN on Monday; I hope that's the last we hear of it, but it seems plausible that it could come back on a slower news day. Sheesh. Usually it's folks from the left who assert that freedom of the press means you're entitled to someone else's press.

A few on the economy, some serious and some light (because sometimes you have to laugh to avoid crying too hard):

• We've all seen that ABC graph comparing the Obama and McCain tax plans (sorted by bracket). Here's a version that's closer to scale (link from anastasiav).
• Scott Adams surveyed economists to try to find out what the experts think about the candidates. A surprising (to me) number said it doesn't matter which candidate wins (on this set of issues).
• An article on the current troubles by one of the Nobel laureates in economics. Interesting on first reading; I haven't dug deeper yet. And, as demonstrated most recently in the previous bullet, economists don't tend to agree on much.
• This picture turned out to be sadly ironic.
• Didn't anyone consider this angle on the looming economic disaster? (Onion video from rjlippincott).

Comments

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

As a former editor, you probably have a bigger sample pool than I do to draw on, but I've noticed this kind of behavior from both the right and the left; a trivial but telling example was a letter to the editor I saw once in Ebony magazine, chiding them for not writing about Larry Bird. *eyeroll* I felt a little sorry for Mr. Bird for having such a clueless fan. Not that he's necessarily a right-wing icon in any way, but it was interesting to see that someone would expect a magazine about and for the African-American community to necessarily highlight him, when there were probably an order of magnitude more sports magazines than magazines like Ebony.

I've seen other examples like that, from fights in LJ to letters in newspapers, I just remember that one particularly concretely.

[cellio]

Oh, I wasn't trying to claim that it only comes from one side. All generalizations are wrong (so to speak). :-)

Now that I think about it, there is probably a significant sample bias in my case: I live in an area where Democrats outnumber Republicans five to one, so a random person expressing opinion is more likely to be the former than the latter. The paper I edited was a college paper, too, so the effect was probably even stronger there.

Thanks for prompting me to think about this more.