[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Strata of common and not so common colors
- [FlowingData]
In another look at the data from xkcd's color experiment, Stephen Von Worley looks at the common and not so common colors of the rainbow… [very colorful chart porn]
- CA Voters Nix Baby Step on Public Financing, Pass Game-Changing Primary System
- [Firedoglake]
The lack of movement toward public financing of elections is even more disappointing because elections are likely to get more expensive in California, thanks to the passage of Prop. 14. The primary voters yesterday voted to make this the last “primary” as we know it. The so-called top-two primary ballot measure passed by a wide margin. This means all candidates will run in the same “primary” and the top two vote getters, regardless of party, will advance to the general. In effect, this moves the general election to June, with a runoff election months later in November. This eliminates the ability of parties to select their nominee for the general election and makes it unlikely any third-party candidates will be on the November ballot. The official description of Prop. 14 was very misleading. Voters in several districts may not realize what they signed up for when they face a choice between just two Democrats or two Republicans in general elections.
- Release Teh Tadpoles!
- [I Can Has Cheezburger]
- Some facts that people with an opinion on Israel need to have.
- [Alas A Blog]
What we need to talk about when we talk about Palestine is the ethnic cleansing that started with the first actions of political Zionists and Christian Restorationists and continues as I type this sentence. Sweeping, ignorant, and offensive proclamations that Jews should go back where they came from (an idea that, by the way, helped catalyze the Zionist movement in the first place) will not secure freedom for a single Palestinian.
- Daring to Discuss Women and…*Yawn*
- [Shakesville]
[Roundup of links refuting John Tierney's New York Times regurgitation of pseudo-scientific conjecture about female inferiority.]
- Windows Reboot
- [Matt Mullenweg]
Dear Microsoft, every time you reboot my computer overnight without me having any interaction I lose unsaved documents and messages. It completely breaks my trust in a way that’s irreparable. It’s been six years since I first wrote about this. At the time Robert Scoble saw my entry and apologized on his blog in a really heartfelt way. This meant more to me than you will ever know; it was the day I went from being a childish Slashdot-reading Micro$oft-hater to having great respect for a large company made up of individuals who made mistakes but had changed the world. Six years later, though, the bug is still there.
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