- The fair has changed over the years. Machinery Hill is pretty much a thing of the past if you were looking to see the huge tractors that I remember seeing as a child. Now there are lawnmowers and SUVs. The Grandstand seems to have moved more things down to ground level, which makes it even less worthwhile to wander upstairs there. I did discover that going relatively early on a Sunday is a pretty good idea. And there's Karl's State Fair Page if you want more links. Just one more week of fair for the year.
- The Second Amendment Solution has a good discussion of the right to keep and bear arms, including legal precedents that suggest a lot of current gun laws are unconstitutional. When you hear that Jefferson, Madison, et al could not have intended for citizens to own machine guns because such things didn't exist in their time, ask the speaker if his thinking also applies to the banning of radio and television from protection under the First Amendment for like reasons.
- SAVE is running billboards in my area telling me that the #1 cause of suicide is untreated depression. I wonder why they don't point out that the #2 cause is treated depression.
- Technology Review brings us Lying With Pixels. It's not really news. It's just finally bugged me to the point that I felt a need to point it out. And there was a good article handy at the time. This sort of thing brings out the Luddite in me. An ironic sociological consequence might emerge: a return to heavier reliance on unmediated face-to-face communication.
- In somewhat related news, Hoax press release stuns Wall Street. Apparently people just don't check facts anymore. The world moves too quickly for that. More coverage at Yahoo's Emulex Corp Company News or at Emulex News (Page 2/2).