[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- The Web Braces for Biggest Wikileaks Dump to Date
- In what is rumored to be "the biggest leak of military intelligence that has ever occurred," the whistleblower site WikiLeaks is preparing to reveal hundreds of thousands of documents pertaining to the Iraq War…
- The Gospel of the Church of the Savvy — Halperin: "they aren’t handling themselves well"
- [Hullabaloo - digby]
This was the most confused bunch of nonsensical crapola I've ever seen, from Halperin's bizarre Cold War comments to Fineman apparently believing that being a Christian equates with being against the building of the Islamic Center. But essentially it comes down to the fact that the Republicans are making political hay and it's Obama's fault for not being omnipotent and able to stop them…
- The Mystery of Filtering by Sorting :: UXmatters
- [I read this whole article, and my takeaway is this single clause, which I think is awesome. -L]
…sorting and filtering tools are just different ways of parsing search results…
- The line between book and Internet will disappear
- [O'Reilly Radar - by Hugh McGuire]
[Longish, but an easy read, and kind of mind-blowing. -L]
…what is a book, after all, but a …website that happens to be written on paper…?
…we define ebooks by a laundry list of things one cannot do with them…
You cannot do any of these things, because we still consider that books…live outside of the Internet, even if they are of the e-flavor. You might be able to buy them on the Internet, but the stuff contained within them is not hooked in. Ebooks are an attempt to make it easier for people to buy and read books …without letting ebooks become part of the Internet.
Many people don't want books to become part of the Internet, because we just don't know what business would look like if they were.
…everything exists within the EPUB spec already to make the next obvious — but frightening — step…
- Top Stories More Important than Quran-Burning Nut Job
- Terry Jones is deploying the tactics of terrorism without actually harming anyone, a sort of psy-ops terrorism. He is attempting to coerce people by threatening symbolic violence. [That's] why anyone is paying attention to him, including the Secretary of Defense. He has them over the barrel because he is prepared to shout “fire!” in a crowded theater. Everyone knows that his book-burning would have been filmed, and the video would have been played over and over again by Muslim radicals.
…Fred Phelps, says he may take up Jones’s slack. Phelps’s group, which is lower than toilet sludge, has ruined military funerals for slain GIs by picketing them.
…Here are [five] stories of infinitely more consequence that cable news mostly did not cover much or even wholly ignored on Thursday:
[Go. Read. Some of it is even a bit uplifting. -L]
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