[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Open Thread: Celebrating great geeky shirts for women
- Many geeky women are pretty excited about the two “heroine” T’s that Thinkgeek is offering: Ada Lovelace and Marie Curie are currently featured. I’m a big fan of these because I love seeing more pretty, wear-anywhere designs on geeky shirts. The Open Solaris shirt I got at Grace Hopper is similarly pretty and as a result is among my most-used pieces of conference swag!
Someone pointed out to me that regular mortals can now buy the excellent Yahoo Code like a girl t-shirts. [...]
We often complain about the lack of options in geeky women’s shirts, and I know that’s a problem but it’s one we’ve discussed relatively recently, so let’s try to think positively: what shirts have you seen that are awesome and you’d like to own? Links to pictures encouraged!
- Crude Violations: Oil, Human Rights, and Environmental Devastation in Nigeria
- …putting the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in perspective. While this oil disaster is attracting a great deal of attention in the United States right now thanks to BP’s foot-dragging and prevarications, there isn’t much coverage in the United States on the situation in Nigeria, and there hasn’t been, and there isn’t likely to be. Nigeria holds an estimated three percent of global oil reserves, in the form of highly desirable light sweet crude. As a result, it’s been heavily exploited. Nigeria’s oil infrastructure is not keeping pace with the rate of drilling, however, and as a result, the equivalent of an Exxon-Valdez is spilled every year in Nigeria.
- Internet Use and Happiness
- Remember that study about Internet use and depression that we discussed recently?
Well, as it turns out, there’s another study out (yay science!) that says basically the exact opposite: information technology, including access to the Internet, has been linked with happiness. Does this mean that science is hopelessly contradictory and we should just ignore the results of scientific studies? No, it means that science is a constantly evolving and changing organism that is often poorly reported-on, and that when reporters make sweeping and categorical statements based on individual studies, studies that contradict those studies show up a few weeks later and reporters don’t know what to do with them. [...]
The thing about most studies that get reported on in the media is that they don’t draw firm conclusions. Often, the conclusion is ‘hey, this looks interesting, we should study it more.’ However, this is not the sort of thing that attracts readers, so reporters have to push the envelope rather a lot when it comes to science reporting. This is sometimes encouraged by scientists who know that money for future research will not be forthcoming with newspaper headlines like ‘Study of Limited Group of Subjects Reveals Potentially Interesting Information and the Need for Further Study’ or ‘Study Shows That Studying This More Would Probably Be a Good Idea.’
- The Torture Chronicles — America's long tradition and current shame
- Anyone who is following the "torture issue" (still hard for me to believe it's an issue at all) must set a google alert for Jeffrey Kaye's reports on the latest revelations, many of which are shocking even though the mainstream media doesn't seem to notice or care. (I guess torture is so 2005.)
This one today, following the trail of evidence implicating the psychology profession and homing in on one in particular who is operating even today in the Obama administration is like something out of a dimestore novel…
- Tristero — on the tea party
- Chip Berlet, one of the country's foremost experts on rightwing populism and extremism, has an extremely important article in The Progressive. While I am far from an expert on this subject, I certainly am not ignorant about the rightwing in America. Yet I am having problems accepting many of his conclusions which I don't believe follow from the data he presents. I would be curious to get your own thoughts on this. Here are my criticisms…
- Can the US government assassinate US citizens? Yes it can!
- Evidently, it all depends on whether you call it "targeted killing" vs "assassination." And under international law, the criteria for "targeted killing" are irrespective of nationality. They are incredibly difficult targeting decisions, though, so that's reassuring.
As for killing Americans on American soil <s>-</s> well, it's legal too, although it would cause the government to jump through some legal hoops…
[Re an interview with a law professor on The Nation. -L]
Listen to the whole thing. It's short.
- Hamster On A Piano video | Break.com
- [I HAS A POPKORM. -L]
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