Sunday in S.F.

Sunday again. Grandstanding on the tragedy in Haiti, our mayor has assured us that all the S.F. emergency plans are in place (we're doomed). As is often the case, several save the children funds have sprung up, with folding tables, horific pictures, promises with a P.O. box, etc. If you are moved to donate, people like the Red Cross already have boots and equipment on the ground. Donate effectivly. On to Sunday's linkdump of long-form articles.

• Noble Holstonia
• David Brin: Neoromantics
• Great Britan covered in Snow
• Smell-o-Vision
• More from Lanier
• Taking Tea with the Lizards

Sunday's Links

The horse, pictured above, lives in a small shop, cum exhibit, on Colombus street. (up from the house, down from City Lights) On sunny days he comes out to hold the door, and on rainy days he's like the rest of us.(got stuff to do inside) He does look as if he's enjoying his work.

• Geometric fractals with processing
• Astrophotography
• The Media Equation (you need to skip an ad, x in upper right)
• Nuke the Whales
• Thomas Friedman
• Life in Space
• Moxyland

Have a good Sunday

Sunday

Days getting shorter. There's a song in there somewhere.

• Railing against Bailouts
• Douglas Rushkoff
• Harry Smith
• Miles Blows his Last
• Ten Notable Apocalypses
• R2-D2 stars in Star Trek

Now for some coffee

Round-Up

Short one this morning. The hotel's hallway is being painted, so even at this hour you can hear the scritch of someone applying calk to the walls. May (Happy Donuts) is getting ready to see her family in Cambodia. She has an in ear phone on and is fielding calls from Aunts and cousins (Cambodian) while taking coffee and breakfast orders (Spanish and English) and tending to last minute details (officialese). She's her usual cheerful self, but I found that my expresso would be having rye with its huevos, changing planes in Tokyo - Bhat auntie - and would be taking the blueberry muffins out in 5 min, merci. For someone who grew up monolingual, it was a bravura performance.

• Five things the US can learn
• Mandlebrot in 3-D
• City sized nuclear bunker
• Competence
• Shoot the fat guys
• Dino Munching

Happy Thanksgiving