links for 2007-05-08

• Dial A Human!
  (tags: reference business usa)
• Sometimes a Beer Can Make Reading Easier
  (tags: stuff design)
• The Element of Fire by Martha Wells
  full text online
  (tags: books writing)
• Angel Station: Dippy
  (tags: music culture)
• Not a journal. (Except, now it is.)
  International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day
  (tags: writing short_stories)
• NIYAZ – World music for the 21st Century
  (tags: music)
• CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership – Ideas for Attracting Young People to IT Careers
  Five experts in IT education and training suggest ways to get more students into computer science and IT careers.
  (tags: computing society culture)
• Gays, horses, bimbos, and bestiality. – By William Saletan – Slate Magazine
  But the confusion, it turns out, is between homosexuality and bestiality. The zoophiles in the movie—men who have sex with horses—don’t think like gay men. They think more like Rush Limbaugh.
  (tags: amusements sex culture)
• A Chat with Aaron Swartz
• Top 17 Search Innovations Outside Of Google
  (tags: search)
• The Vanishing: The New Yorker
  In “Collapse,” Jared Diamond shows how societies destroy themselves. by Malcolm Gladwell
  (tags: books society)