My del.icio.us links: 5th February to 19th February
- Ehud Barak breaks the apartheid barrier – If, and as long as between the Jordan and the sea, there is only one political entity, named Israel, it will end up being either non-Jewish or non-democratic… If the Palestinians vote in elections, it is a binational state, and if they don’t, it is an apartheid state.
- “May The Judgement Not Be Too Heavy Upon Us” – Long post on Daily Dish on Torture and the Catholic Church. A good round-up of the evidence and moral arguments against. No apologies for constant linking to the same person on this issue – Sullivan is the clearing house for information on this issue.
- Escher in Lego – Awsome Escher optical illusions in Lego.
- URL Encoding – I’ve been finding this code converter very useful. It gives you the safe URL code for common characters.
- The Abolition Of Torture – This Andrew Sullivan essay was behind a paywall for a while. It is from 2005 but still one of the best discussions of the ethics at the heart of the issue.
- Brains of vegetative patients show life – latimes.com – Checking the patient’s responses for accuracy and comparing them to the yes-no brain responses of a group of healthy volunteers, researchers discerned that Subject No. 23 was not only still “in there,” but capable of purposeful thought and communication.
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