Link Dump - 7/19/10

Schadenfreude for the day: Watch Teenager eat hottest pepper in the world
Teen Chat Acronym Decoder
A ugly preview of ObamaCare
The First Thing Young Women Do in the Morning
South Korean Sentinel Robots Start DMZ Duty
80 Oakland Police Laid Off – Chief Makes A List Of 44 Incidents When Not To Call Police
Those Who Dance Are Considered To Be Insane By Those Who Can’t Hear The Music
Eight Easy Ways to Misread the Classics
On Loving Mankind and Loving People in Particular
Avoiding the Tyranny of the Urgent
Hating Harry Potter, giving Gandalf a free pass.
Tips for reducing your commitment to unwanted obligations
The Incredible Bendy Bike

Something to Ponder ... Warren Buffet

"Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball."

-- Warren Buffett

Something to Ponder ... Alexis de Tocqueville

"The man who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave."

-- Alexis de Tocqueville

Something to Ponder ... George Steinbrenner

Love or hate the Yankees or him, you cannot deny the impact that George has had on the game of baseball. In remembrance here are a few quotes:

But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?

Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while.

I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?

I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be.

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful -

but I know that I have tried.

-- George Steinbrenner

How Many of You are There ???

HowManyOfMe.com

There are people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Something to Ponder ... Mike Singletary

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

-- Mike Singletary

Something to Ponder ... Bill Veeck

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

-- Bill Veeck

Something to Ponder ... Patrick Henry

"No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles."

-- Patrick Henry

Link Dump 7/12/10

Resolving Conflict...
Documentary claims Obama stole nomination from Hillary
Voyage of the Dawn Treader-- The Official Trailer
Superheroes In Wartime Photographs
Top 10 USB Thumb Drive Tricks [Lifehacker Top 10]

Something to Ponder ... George Bernard Shaw

"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."

-- George Bernard Shaw

Something to Ponder ... C.S. Lewis

About the general connection between Christianity and politics, our position is more delicate.
Certainly we do not want men to allow their Christianity to flow over into their political life, for the establishment of anything like a really just society would be a major disaster.
On the other hand, we do want, and want very much, to make men treat Christianity as a means; preferably, of course, as a means to their own advancement, but, failing that, as a means to anything—even to social justice.
The thing to do is to get a man at first to value social justice as a thing which the Enemy [=God] demands, and then work him on to the stage at which he values Christianity because it may produce social justice. For the Enemy will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of Heaven as a short cut to the nearest chemist’s shop. Fortunately it is quite easy to coax humans round this little corner. --- C.S Lewis "The Screwtape Letters"

Link Dump - 7/6/10

100 Greatest Movie Insults
To Be Happy-Stop Acting Rich
7 Counterfeits of Repentance
The "Twilight" Phenomena
Wok Skills 101: Stir-Frying Basics
My All Time Favorite Commercial
Be Careful What You Worship on July 4
How to Stay Safe on Public Wi-Fi Networks [Security]
Seven Ways to Reuse and Get Creative with Your Old iPhone [DIY]
A Note to Our British Friends: “It’s Too Late to Apologize”
Why We Celebrate the Fourth
Now THIS is skeet shooting
Freedom and Dependence on Independence Day
Obamanomics: Double Dip Recession on the Way?
Manute Bol’s Radical Christianity
Geico invents excellent, new, safe-for-work, family-friendly insult.