Week out...
Best of the week that was? Let's keep it positive. Here goes, 1, 2, 3, 4:
Ginger Baker getting to 70.
The rise of the feminist hawk. "Consider the feminist-hawk position — the one that advocates the use of force to liberate Muslim women from persecution and burkas. This position has become an integral part of the ideological Web. Feminist-hawk arguments may even be considered an artifact of the Web, just the way the revolutionary arguments of 18th-century America can be seen as an artifact of pamphlets."
Finnish summer pastimes.
The new LA Times website design. Simple horizontal navigation bar. Black and white is easier on the eyes. Overall, a major improvement on the fiendishly complicated structure of the old site.