[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Introducing Partisan Propensity Index [FiveThirtyEight - Nate Silver] Relative to how they do for the Presidency, Democrats are somewhat more likely to win races for Congress in poorer districts, and somewhat more likely to lose them [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Google Earth Shows Real-Time Weather [ReadWriteWeb - Miek Melanson] Every major particle physics experiment that will happen between now and 2033 [io9 - Annalee Newitz] Want to travel into the future of particle physics, but don't [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Housing-Lock Threatening Job Mobility [Firedoglake - David Dayen] Inflationistas And Deflationistas [Paul Krugman] A followup on the question of deflation risks: it’s worth bearing in mind that the last year and a half has been a [...]
Is this thing on? Those two broken posts from earlier today have been fixed. I blame the Mingle plugin, which evidently does not play well with LiveJournal Cross-Poster. If I can get through the rest of today without the problem recurring, then that was that. Tweet
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Brooklyn Has the Most Bedbugs, and Other Findings From the Mayor’s Bed Bug Advisory Board (Q&A) Start a Hobby Week: Understanding Color Theory [About.com Painting] Strengthen Social Security Coalition Puts Both Parties On Notice [Campaign for [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Buried beneath 1.6 miles of solid ice, Greenland’s bedrock reveals our planetary future [io9 - Alasdair Wilkins] After five years of drilling through 1.6 miles of solid ice, scientists finally hit Greenland’s bedrock last week. The [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Democratic Senators Lie. There. I’ve Said it. [Firedoglake - Jon Walker] [Walker says that because the Dems won't vote to change the filibuster rules, they don't really support the stuff that they say they do. I [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Greetings, Scaleless Imbecile! [Cute Overload - Prongs] [Cute snake in a hoodie. -L] Real scandals vs. non-scandals [Pandagon - Amanda Marcotte] It’s interesting to me that the Daily Caller has chosen right now to hump the “OMG [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] What Part of “Not a Priority” Does the DEA Not Understand? [Firedoglake - Michael Whitney] Earlier this month the DEA conducted several coordinated raids of California medical marijuana dispensaries and collectives. The federal agents raided a [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Nearly 1,400 space shuttle workers laid off in Florida and Texas [io9 - Annalee Newitz] Preparing for the imminent demise of the Space Shuttle program, Texas-based United Space Alliance laid off 1,394 workers this week, most [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] The Democratic Tax Plan Versus The Republican Tax Plan [Alas, a blog - Ampersand] Things are still in flux, but it seems likely that Republicans are going to coalesce around extending the Bush tax plan… Democrats [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Always [I Can Has Cheezburger] Quantum mechanics creates location-based cryptography [io9 - Alasdair Wilkins] Imagine a form of encrypted communication so secure that it's physically impossible to access it unless you're actually at the location where [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] IRS Continues to Use 'Tax Protester' Label Despite Congressional Prohibition [TaxProf Blog] Make Your Identity Interactive With Video Avatars for Facebook, Twitter, and WordPress [Pressography - Sarah Gooding] An exciting new service called Vanityvid is adding [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] How to Create a Web Content Strategy For Your Company [ReadWriteWeb - John Paul Titlow] These days, it’s no longer enough to have an inviting storefront and amazing products on your shelves, whether physical or digital. [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] G. The Level Playing Field? [Echidne of the Snakes] Nothing stops women from excelling if they wished to do so, nothing! Discriminatory laws have been abolished, discriminatory institutions have changed (except for, er, many religious institutions [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Dell Drops Ubuntu PCs From Its Website [Slashdot: Linux] Barence writes "Dell has stopped selling consumer PCs preloaded with Ubuntu from its website, and doesn't know when they're coming back. A search for Ubuntu on the [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Hunting for a Ming Dynasty wreck in Kenya [A Blog About History - Sevaan Franks] Chinese archaeologists are searching for a 15th century shipwreck that will provide evidence of commerce between China and Kenya. Chester Zoo's [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Remains of enormous extinct rat discovered in cave [A Blog About History] The remains of a rat the size of a small dog have been found in a cave in East Timor. Hayward Apparently Out as [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] #WarLogs: the beginning of the end for nation-state secrecy? [Futurismic - Paul Raven] Well, now I understand why I was seeing Julian Assange and Wikileaks everywhere last week. Unless you’ve been under our oft-referred-to yet hypothetical [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Field guide to typographic moustaches [FlowingData] From Tor Weeks: a series of moustaches styled by their typographic counterpart, aka typestaches. Our Netroots panel on the Tea Parties gets the attention of the movement’s defenders [Crooks and [...]