Linkwad.

Another scary/depressing edition, unfortunately:

• We are the 99 Percent tumblr.
• While CEO pay rises, thanks to repeated “above-average” contracts (via Yglesias). When San Jose police and fire unions did this, city government basically went bankrupt.
• The short of this long article: forests store carbon, slowing global warming. Global warming kills forests, and could accelerate.
• What? Racism’s not a thing anymore, though!

Linkwad.

1. An interesting multipart Slate discussion of transhumanism.
2. I sort of thought Bones made up this job.
3. Brad Plumer on Solyndra and the state of solar power.
4. Netflix: crazy like a fox?
5. If this volcano blows, the 2012er morons will be even more insufferable.
6. G+ lives again.
7. Behind the scenes of Louie with Louis CK.

The clock washed midnight away.

Initially, I was just going to post something smarmy for Hurricane Isabel, comme ça:

That was before I read things like “Irene is capable of inundating portions of the coast under 10 – 15 feet of water, to the highest storm surge depths ever recorded,” and “Mass evacuations of low-lying areas along the entire coast of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia are at least 50% likely to be ordered by Saturday.”

There are plenty more terrifying scenarios in the rest of the post (although it leaves out the possibility¹ of a No Man’s Land scenario), and this map shows you which areas will be screwed, based on storm strength.

That said, my hurricane preparedness strategy currently revolves around buying prosciutto and baguettes, downloading TV shows and listening to Gil Scott-Heron. This may prove insufficient.

The eyes have it.

Weigel is right–this Michele Bachman eyes tumblr is most definitely “grade-A nightmare fuel.”

Good luck, single people.

Although it’s mostly gross, instead of life-threatening, this is hardly good news:

Scientists have found a “superbug” strain of gonorrhea in Japan that is resistant to all recommended antibiotics and say it could transform a once easily treatable infection into a global public health threat.

The new strain of the sexually transmitted disease — called H041¹ — cannot be killed by any currently recommended treatments for gonorrhea, leaving doctors with no other option than to try medicines so far untested against the disease.
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“Based on the historical data … resistance has emerged and spread internationally within 10 to 20 years,” [the bacteria's discoverer] said.

Another interesting tidbit: “Japan has historically been the place for the first emergence and subsequent global spread of different types of resistance in gonorrhea.”

Via the Hairpin.