[LINK] Sighted on the web

[rfmcdonald]

• Via dsgood, the perhaps unsurprising news that humpback whales are language-using creatures: "Researchers have now mathematically confirmed that whales have their own syntax that uses sound units to build phrases that can be combined to form songs that last for hours. Until now, only humans have demonstrated the ability to use such a hierarchical structure of communication."


• Crooked Timber covers the bad reaction at Harry's Place to Johann Hari's apology for supporting the Iraq War. Traitors are never popular, it seems.


• Elsewhere on LJ, tullysatre takes on a homophobic senator in Virginia, and wins the argument.


• Kylie Minogue's live performance in 2003 of the mashup "Can't Get You Out of My Head" is available here for download in mp3 format. It's catchy.