Lunchtime Links

From sebatical: The American Assembler - States with Higher IQ Vote Democrat. They admit it's not as statistically solid as it first appears, but still.. heh. :)

Reminded by xviragox, in what I won't say is unrelated to the above, Happy National Day of Reason!

From skamille:

When One Man's Video Art Is Another's Copyright Crime

What is the distance between "normal" and "monster"? Can anyone become a torturer? ('71 Standford prison experiment related to current events.)

The Bionic Shoe. You want a microprocessor with that?

Link, check, errands, Friends, link

*snrk*
From chite,
http://www.JohnKerryIsADouchebagButImVotingForHimAnyway.com/

Huzzah, VA income tax refund check!

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[time passes]

Unfortunately, for the first time I've ever experienced this, the SunTrust ATM was out of deposit envelopes, so that bit of the trip was fruitless. I then rode up to Springfield Mall, dropped by Lenscrafters--who'd left me a message saying my trial contacts were in and additionally to schedule an appointment--to learn that the two should really be concurrent, so I did nothing there, either. However, I did successfully get a copy of a particular computer gaming magazine--$10!--for Nathan before returning home, so the trip wasn't a total waste. (On the other hand, I was riding, so it wasn't a waste anyway. :)

I got home just in time to watch the Friends retrospective, followed by the final episode, both of which were as good as the show has always been, and a beautiful ending. (Still.. shame it came to an end.)

"I got off the plane."

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Bike: 1, Idiots: 0.