Sunday, December 27, 2009

End of 2009 misc, aka, I need to purge my bookmarks

Comics commissioned by the US government on various topics

Merlot, a collection of learning resources: I'm not sure what all is here, but on initial review it's a dabbler's wet dream. Led me to a course on medical ethics, called "Everyday Ethics for Nurses," which features (so far) a historical review of medical ethics practices that can only be described as deeply, intensely fucked up. Experimentation on the orphans and the mentally handicapped etc on the part of Americans during WWII, a subsequent code of ethics that apparently only applies to Nazis, and a real-life death panel who would let people die based on number of children, marital status, religious affiliation, etc, and I'm not even past 1962. A truly remarkable crash course in so many things that no one talks about that it seems like a peek into an alternative universe.

Carla and a friend A snake makes friends with a rat. Other artistic endeavors on the same site included mending spiders' webs with thread and making genealogical trees out of airplane pictures.

Garrison Keeler was an advice columnist for quite awhile

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