links for 2008-02-12

• Easily Distracted » One-A-Day: Oona Strathern, A Brief History of the Future
  on the woeful whiggishness of bad intellectual history, or What Not To Do (via cshalizi)
  (tags: historyofideas future bookreviews)
• Keunwoo Lee : Fractal Wrongness
  “It is as impossible to convince a fractally wrong person of anything as it is to walk around the edge of the Mandelbrot set in finite time.”
  (tags: geek funny genius alternatedefinitions)
• Southeast Asia Visions Collection | Cornell University Library
  this is a historical-travel-literature haven. I have just lost c. 4 hours in this.
  (tags: primarysource travel history southeastasia orientalism colonialism)
• List of Banned Books in Malaysia
  Banned book #4: 101 Nights of Grrreat Sex (yes, three R’s–count ’em). #118: Sexual Relations between Brother and Sister. #120: 30 year old Stepmothers who are Sexy. Inevitably, #148: Jesus and Muhammad: Profound Differences and Surprising Similarities.
  (tags: malaysia booktomb censorship islam)