links for 2010-01-12

His classy resignation protest letter to NBC shows why I’ve always stood up for Conan.

I love this blog and not just because I’m a (poser) nerd. Professor Lipton really makes mathematical and computational topics accessible.

Michael Homan’s and Abdulrahman Zeitoun’s accounts of their ordeals during the Flood hit really close to home. Their stories come closest to what my father went through during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. People are awful. People are amazing. Such is humanity.

“In 1998, aged just 14, aspiring young cartoonist Amir Avni decided to get in touch with the creator of Ren & Stimpy, John Kricfalusi. Being a hardcore fan of Kricfalusi’s work, Amir sent him an introductory letter along with a few cartoons he’d drawn, some of which contained relatively unknown characters of John’s. To call Kricfalusi’s response ‘generous’ would be an understatement.”