Month: March 2007
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Water speakers
By golly, these [speakers made of water](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/modal-water-speaker-sure-is-purdy-233358.php) look so very pretty… Also expensive, I suspect.
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Groundhogs and Global Warming
[Should groundhogs be taken into account when predicting global warming?](http://www.reason.com/blog/show/118451.html).
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21/3
Weight: 110.9kg
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I do not understand animal rights
[According to animal rights activists in Germany](http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/kill-this-cub-you-must-be-knuts/2007/03/21/1174153106086.html), it *is* a violation of a polar cubs’ rights to painstakingly care for it and raise it by hand after being rejected by its mother, but it *is not* a violation of its rights to let it die.
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Free Trade?
Dean Baker makes an [excellent point about a lot of rhetoric in free trade discussions](http://www.prospect.org/deanbaker/2007/01/what_is_wrong_with_trade_in_do.html): > It is positively bizarre how discussions of trade liberalization always ignore the possibility of liberalizing trade in highly paid professional services. I agree with this strongly – but the problem in this area is so severe that even thinking…
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Graphic Novels to Read
[Wil Wheaton reviews some of the great graphic novels](http://www.suicidegirls.com/news/geek/20135). (I personally love Transmetropolitan dearly, 60 issues doesn’t seem anything like enough). (Warning: link is safe for work, but the overall website is decidedly not. Click at your own risk).
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Explaining Star Wars
A [detailed explanation](http://www.morningstar.nildram.co.uk/A_New_Sith.html) filling in all the plot holes in Star Wars episodes I-III. ([Via](http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/01/monday_links.html))
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The greatest thing ever
[From TV Squad](http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/28/the-good-book-shatner-style/): > On a video interview on his Web site ShatnerVision, Shatner mentioned he was trying to sell a recording of himself narrating the Book of Exodus backed by a full symphony and three-hundred and fifty singers.
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The lessons of Apollo 1
[Some thoughts from space historian Jim Olberg](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16830696/). ([Via](http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/01/28/apollo-1-redux-the-inevitablility-of-disaster/))
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Self-parking cars
[A review by Manhattan’s self proclaimed expert](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/opinion/26trillin.html?ex=1327467600&en=cafa1e7e0885d38b&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss) (and publisher of *Beautiful Spot*, a magazine about parking). ([Via](http://www.kottke.org/remainder/07/01/12678.html))