[BRIEF NOTE] Elsewhere on Livejournal

[rfmcdonald]

• pompe has two excellent posts up, the first examining Titan and asking for a new paradigm of space colonization, the second examining human history in terms of migration waves.


• jhubert examines Weimar Germany, breaking down the stereotypes and telling us why it fell.


• vaneramos writes about being a birder.


• kalev points out that Stephen Harper is crazy.


• charlemagne77 finds fault with Chomsky's take on 9/11 and Chile.


• orlandobr quotes Terry Pratchett's Death, at length.


• zibblsnrt takes on the slashdotters about their claimed moral superiority to Gates: He might donate $US 750M for vaccinations in the Third World, but they promote open-source software. Remind me to mention Century Rain's Slashers in a month's time, eh?