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http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/firstamissues

Barack Obama’s Principles For Stronger Tribal Communities

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugil_sticks

Pugil sticks! (I loved pugil fighting in basic training)

(Also Pugil.com)

http://nsrc.sfsu.edu/MagArticle.cfm?&Article=759

Article on women in their twenties being denied voluntary sterilization.

Direct offshoots from this article:
Childfree By Choice
Childfree.net

http://demo.themetation.com/?wptheme=blue

“Blue Blog” Wordpress theme demo by LoonDesign. Has a nice graphic feel to it.

http://kailoon.com/

Looks interesting at a glance. I’ll dig more into it soon.

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/alttext/2008/05/alttext_051408

Amusing article, via a comment by Neil on Matt’s blog entry.

http://artoftheempath.livejournal.com/

Lovely art, via a comment by MCA Hogarth, on Elizabeth Barrett’s LiveJournal “Pimp-A-Friend” meme.

http://consumerist.com/consumer/complaints/consumers-speak-delta-loses-bag-153433.php

Also from The Consumerist, another horror story from Delta

http://consumerist.com/consumer/complaints/man-tracks-down-and-gets-prosecuted-baggage-handler-who-stole-his-camera-delta-still-wont-refund-234548.php

Also today: An interesting article via a blog entry by Matt Mullenweg concerning the theft of valuables from checked luggage on Delta Airlines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuroko

Kabuki > Kuroko (which reminds me of the name of a character from Unico…don’t be surprised if you see links along these lines in the near future)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuki

Bunraku > Kabuki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunraku

Uncanny Valley > Bunraku (Wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neotony

Also in MCA Hogarth’s Livejournal entry is a commenter who brings up the neotony as a possible cause for the appearance of anime-style animation.

Direct offshoots form the Neotony article that I haven’t had a chance to get into yet:
[Female] Physical Attractiveness
Averageness

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

It’s been a while since I’ve really posted much of anything, but today’s trail of breadcrumbs has lead me through a number of interesting Wikipedia articles that I’d like to keep track of for more in-depth reading (and more breadcrumbing :) ) later.

Today’s trail started at MCA Hogarth’s LiveJournal entry here, wherein she mentions the term “uncanny valley.” And from there to Wikipedia.

Direct offshoots from the Uncanny Valley article that I haven’t had a chance to get into yet:
The Uncanny
The Polar Express
Humanoid Robot

http://pmog.com/

The Passively Multiplayer Online Game

Linked through a friend on LiveJournal. Looks like it has potential to be entertaining. I’ll give it a go for a bit and see how things go.

http://www.yuni.com/library/latin.html

Latin Quotes and Phrases

(Yeah, been a while, I know :p)

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/166173

A thread from the Wordpress support forums concerning the new gallery feature in 2.5 (specifically a plugin for pulling images from other posts via the gallery shortcode).

This could come in handy later on my main website.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/04/scientists-prov.html

Headline: “Scientists Create First Memristor: Missing Fourth Electronic Circuit Element”

Found through Elizabeth Barrette on LiveJournal (who is a veritable font of interesting found-things on the web). Expect to see her in the Frequently Visited Links section once it’s up and running.

http://www.nic.me/

“Follow.me” is, unfortunately, reserved, and there’s no telling when it’ll be released for registration (and may likely cost an arm and a leg once it is). Sad.