Interesting links....

[conuly]

Here's an article on a ball to teach Braille. (Braille or braille? Does it need a capital?)

A Russian spy was caught in NYC, the article is only a few days old. I'd feel nostalgic if I could actually remember the Cold War.

In other news, we also have a thief in the city... who wears a cat mask. There's a video.

There's a nifty story about some French guy who traveled all the way to Alaska to learn the extinct language Eyak.

An Alternet article on school lunches

Here's a link to an article about an honest-to-goodness flying car. With a video. Why haven't I heard of this before?

The "winner" of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest has been announced.

The ACLU has finally gotten around to suing over the no-fly list. Yay.

And in SERIOUS news (by which I actually mean *serious*)... WTF IS GOING ON IN PENNSYLVANIA?

Comments

[steorra]

In the Bulwer-Lytton contest article:

"Scott Rice, a San Jose State professor and the brainchild of the contest, which draws up to 10,000 entries a year, had this to say of the prizewinner"

Weird phrasing - surely that's the wrong way round. I doubt the contest invented him.

[leora.livejournal.com]

Braille is traditionally capitalized when written out in its full spelling. In grade two Braille, if I recall correctly, Braille would be b-r-l, and I don't think it gets capitalized. But in normal print, I think it gets the capital. It is based on a person's name, but it is kind of weird to capitalize it, so I'm not going to say it ought to be that way, just that I think it tends to be.

[darkpoole.livejournal.com]

I'm happy to see the flying car. I feel like the future I was promised as a little kid is one step closer. Now, if could just get a good space plane ...

[conuly]

I still want a jetpack.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Rachel Maddow has been enthusing about the Russian Spies for three days now. Invisible writing! Buried bags of cash! Brush-pass communication/deliveries! Morse Code!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/38029755#37988066

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/38029755#38029755

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/jun/30/russian-spies-casting-news

[conuly]

This is much cooler than the pirates, because nobody's gotten killed.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Yeah... I had to stop my habit of whistling the Sailor's Hornpipe whenever they mentioned pirates on NPR.

[kynn.livejournal.com]

I think in English, it's correct to capitalize Braille.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

The PA story won't load, I'm googling.

...huh. More signs and omens and portents, is all I'll say.