links for 2010-09-12

  • Thought-provoking review of a new book about the practicality of eating meat. The book’s author argues, and the pretty strongly vegan-leaning reviewer agrees, that meat can be farmed with a minimal or beneficial impact on the environment if the global agriculture system were to be heavily reformed.
    (tags: [article](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/article) [review](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/review) [environment](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/environment) [vegetarian](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/vegetarian) [vegan](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/vegan) [agriculture](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/agriculture) [food](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/food) [meat](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/meat) [guardian](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/guardian))
  • Interesting collection of thoughts from Anil Dash on forking as a feature, and not the “nuclear option” of a f/oss community project.
    (tags: [anildash](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/anildash) [linux](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/linux) [linustorvalds](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/linustorvalds) [opensource](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/opensource) [freesoftware](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/freesoftware) [fork](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/fork) [git](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/git))
  • Absolutely amazing walkthrough of a museum of Soviet Arcade Games outside of Moscow. This is too cool. Also cool is the Flickr set he links to at the bottom of the article.
    (tags: [arcade](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/arcade) [videogame](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/videogame) [ussr](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/ussr) [russian](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/russian) [gallery](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/gallery) [museum](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/museum) [moscow](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/moscow))
  • Charming description of a trip through midtown without stepping foot on the avenues. (It’s an update on something John Updike once wrote about.) I think about this kind of thing all the time when walking in Manhattan.
    (tags: [humor](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/humor) [newyorker](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/newyorker) [manhattan](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/manhattan) [nyc](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/nyc) [midtown](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/midtown) [article](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/article))
  • Spot-on parody of the really terrible “Blam!” thing Disney’s been doing, applying that treatment to the opening montage in “Up.” Watch for “INCONCEIVABLE!”
    (tags: [cartoon](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/cartoon) [animation](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/animation) [disney](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/disney) [up](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/up) [pixar](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/pixar) [blam](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/blam) [funny](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/funny) [video](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/video) [youtube](http://delicious.com/parkerhiggins/youtube))