Ahoy, ahoy, dear readers! It’s another load of links to articles I didn’t have time to write about this week! Enjoy!<\/p>\n
A zero-carbon resort<\/a>? Life’s too short to be carbon-neutral<\/a>!<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Words made flesh<\/a>?<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Dan Drezner reviews his reasons for supporting the invasion of Iraq<\/a>, and why he’d say, “HELL, NO!” if he could take a mulligan.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Not everyone at the Golden Globes dressed terribly<\/a>. Here are some of the good ones<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Evidently, you can’t be anti-social in the UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Part of my press-event yesterday focused on a company’s move into supplying high-tech electronics and materials, with a discussion on how to move up the value chain and away from the raw materials part of the business. Here’s a story (with slide show<\/a>) on why gadgets are so darned cheap nowadays<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n “I’ve got it! Talledega Nights on ice-skates<\/a>!”<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n George Will gets into my territory, rambling about the aerospace industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n And I leave you with my wife’s version of Sporting with Amaryllis<\/a>. (With an in-bloom followup<\/a>!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ahoy, ahoy, dear readers! It’s another load of links to articles I didn’t have time to write about this week! 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