links for 2007-07-17

• Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: The Progressive Apocalypse and Other Futurismic Delights
  There’s a lovely neologism to describe these visions: “futurismic.” Futurismic media is that which depicts futurism, not the future. It is often self-serving — think of the antigrav Nikes in Back to the Future III — and it generally doesn’t hold up we
  (tags: scifi futurism essay culture literature toread sf psychology article books science singularity doctorow futurama future memory mind progressive)
• Baseball: Phillies reach 10,000th loss – International Herald Tribune
  Never known as lovable losers, accursed or even bums, the Phillies have long held a more pitiable title: The losingest team in U.S. sports.

  From the Baker Bowl to the Vet and Citizens Bank Park, futility has tailed them like the sound of boos that echo

  (tags: baseball MLB losers Phillies 10000)
• Internet Anonymity Very Scary, Newspaper Finds | Threat Level – Wired Blogs
  Insert “Hollywood movies,” “banned political speech” or “whistleblower documents” instead of “child porn” and see what Kevin Hall’s story tells you. You won’t learn much new. Much more interesting than this scare piece are concerns from Drew Oosterbaan,
  (tags: pornography internet fear police anonymity)
• Bush Leans On Petraeus as War Dissent Deepens – washingtonpost.com
  Some of Petraeus’s military comrades worry that the general is being set up by the Bush administration as a scapegoat if conditions in Iraq fail to improve. “The danger is that Petraeus will now be painted as failing to live up to expectations and become
  (tags: Bush Petraeus scapegoat Iraq war incompetence stupidity)

~ by SAP on 17 July 2007.