Secular Sunday Geek-It-Up Links – March 15, 2009

From my RSS feed: technology, skepticism, science education & geek culture (this will be an occasional feature)

• Two, TWO Carnivals, HA HA HA.

March 15, 2009 – two carnivals full of links contained in this one link here – recursive or aggregative?

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March 15, 2009 – various links about writers, including writers who blog and their problems with some fans

• Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable

March 15, 2009 – Quotes: “It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem…Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism. For a century, the imperatives to strengthen journalism and to strengthen newspapers have been so tightly wound as to be indistinguishable. That’s been a fine accident to have, but when that accident stops, as it is stopping before our eyes, we’re going to need lots of other ways to strengthen journalism instead.” (h/t Phil Gomes on FB)

Lotss more links below:

• Thoughts on breaking news and Twitter

March 15, 2009 – How much should one tweet on breaking news? Are you going to inform people or annoy people with the extra updates?

• Friday the 13th Strikes Again — Two Months in a Row

March 15, 2009 – The peculiarities of calendar rhythms – why do people get het up over them?

• 10 things we didn't know last week

March 15, 2009 – How is it that I’ve only just discovered this column?

• Salt may be bad for us – but does it make us happier?

March 15, 2009 – Salt is apparently a natural antidepressant

• Monkey mums bow to pestering

March 15, 2009 – Peer pressure in primates

• Not all Canadians are reality-based

March 15, 2009 – show me the evidence!

• Can't we all get along?

March 15, 2009 – Another entry in the Bemusing The Phelps Gang Dept.

• PHOTOS: Seven Gadgets to Save the Planet — And Lives

March 15, 2009

• Spread the joy of astronomy with a Galileoscope

March 15, 2009 – awesome idea

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