Welcome to the fifth (almost) weekly installment of ShrinkWrapped's Top 10. Out of hundreds of posts, these caught my attention and deserve your perusal.
1) Esther thinks some people just don't get a good joke. She discusses this at Islam in Europe, in her post, Joking and Islam.
2) Did you know that the recently passed third anniversary of our invasion of Iraq was also the third anniversary of another notable day? Unfortunately, the MSM and most of the blogosphere missed it, but GM Roper, despite his own personal travails, has noticed. Check out GM's Corner and read Gulag Nation - Black Spring.
3) EU Referendum is an excellent blog that maintains their good humor and rationality in the face of all the provocation that the EU can throw at them. In this post, Yet another fine mess, (reference to Laurel and Hardy intentional?) they describe a particularly brilliant piece of bureaucratic foolishness, prompted by the best of intentions. It is a small annoyance, I suppose, but after a while, the weight of all the stupidity that bureaucrats can create can cause a society to collapse into very well ordered stagnation.
4) If you did not realize that there has been a Medal of Honor awarded to a soldier in Iraq, you are not alone. AT Liberty Just In Case, Mark talks about Medals.
5) I imagine you think the Balkans has been quiet and peaceful ever since Clinton bombed the place (without UN authority) and NATO moved in to restore order. Julia Gorin has a bit of a contrarian view; read An Independent Kosovo will explode — here now so no one can say, "I told you so."
6) Freelance Radical describes the connection between some of our illegal immigrants (who have been prominently on display in the last week and are clearly not representative of all, or even most, immigrants, illegal or otherwise) and the Palestinians, in ILLEGAL ALIEN NATION.
7) Dinocrat suggest a new cause for the international community to rally round, in Criminalizing unbelief (”apostasy”) ought itself to be a crime against humanity; don't hold your breath waiting for the UN to act.
8) Even if you have no idea of what the Riemann-Zeta Function is, and have never heard of the Riemann Hypothesis, and think Prime numbers are a waste of time, read Tuesday Tech Digest, courtesy of MeaninglessHotAir at YARGB. Then follow the link to Prime Numbers Get Hitched; you do not have to know any math to understand that there is something spookily deep going on that will make you think about deep structure in new ways. Math and physics constants that show up in different, seemingly unconnected, places are hard to imagine as mere coincidences. Read these posts and amaze your friends.
9) Everyone deserves to be able to see clearly. This seems like a noble cause.
10) Finally, whether you like video games or not, this video of Spore is a must-see. It is long, but if the execution of the game is as impressive as the video (not the technical aspects of the video, but the "game" the video describes), this game will immediately make every other video game obsolete.
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