[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] BBC News – Leslie Nielsen, comic actor and Airplane! star, dies none BBC News – Black Friday sales see slight rise none [In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] BBC News – The bedbugs of New York turn up in BBC studios none BBC News – Pakistan confirms Wikileaks claim of US nuclear appeals none BBC News – Pakistan’s efforts to rebuild thwarted by natural disasters none BBC News – Second Mexico-US drug tunnel found in Tijuana war_on_inanimate_objects BBC [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Rabin’s Son Releases Proposal [Talking Points Memo - Josh Marshall] Yitzhak Rabin's son, Yuval, has released a new peace initiative dubbed the Israeli Peace Initiative, a response to the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative. You can see the details in the Haaretz column linked above. What's most remarkable about the outlines [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] World In Sport: Sportswomen of the Past – A Homage with Vintage Pictures women photography BBC News – Pterosaurs’ wings ‘key to their size’ (Former engineer) Colin Palmer had a simple idea that had not occurred to more eminent palaeontologists – to build models of pterosaur wings and put them [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Google Sky Map- now with time travel [Google Mobile Blog - effie] …the new version of Google Sky Map lets you time travel to see the sky at a specific date, past or future. After smooth travel to the desired year, you can fast forward or rewind in various speeds [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Sarah Palin: We’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies [Crooks and Liars - scarce] A slip of the tongue? Maybe, maybe not. But in John Heilemann & Mark Halperin's [book] Game Change there was this telling point which suggests otherwise. "She knew nothing. She had to be taken [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Wrong Kind of Box Fan [There, I Fixed It - Epic Kludge Photos] [Woooow. Wow. -L] funny Lands of Ice and Ire – NYTimes.com [Paul Krugman] …while the IMF is demanding that Ireland cut minimum wages and reduce unemployment benefits, its mission to Iceland praised the “focus on preserving Iceland’s [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] BBC News – Haiti cholera spreading faster than predicted, UN says none BBC News – Drug ‘can greatly reduce risk of HIV infection’ none BBC News – Irish unveil tough four-year recovery plan [edit: was "Loading page title.."] none BBC News – New Zealand mine: ‘No survivors’ after second blast [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Ailes and Murdoch: Beck is their man. To employees who are troubled: "Shut up. You’re getting a paycheck." [Hullabaloo - digby] …This is how it works in Randian hell world where the workers aren't "citizens" they are parasites who are "getting a paycheck." It's a little bit startling to see [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Big reveals for genome of tiny animal Tunicates’ scrambled gene order suggests arrangement may not matter for vertebrate body plan and hints at origins of mysterious bits of DNA science Junk touching [I have] concerns that the TSA is simply going to readjust the protocols to the standards set by [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] BBC News – Israel passes bill on withdrawal from land none BBC News – Mexico migrants told to form convoys none BBC News – Bolivia’s Morales rages against US ‘coup-plotting’ none BBC News – Serbia jails two for war crimes in eastern Bosnia none BBC News – Gambia cut ties [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Ghostly Photos of Occupied Amsterdam Mashed Up with Modern Amsterdam [GOOD - Morgan Clendaniel] Jo Teeuwisse is a historical consultant and, apparently, a Photoshop genius. Her work involves taking photos of Amsterdam during the 1940s and then superimposing them on modern photos. The results are these amazing, ghostly collisions of [...]
The magic with which I am concerned is anything you do in your mind to bring about a desired result. Prayer, visualization, analysis, practice–magic can be all of these and more. Magic is the difference between perfect accuracy and peak efficiency. We all use it; it’s indispensable. The kind of magic that involves breaking the [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] In New Book, Palin Slams “Irresponsible Debt” – Fails to Note Republicans Are Largely to Blame [Firedoglake - Blue Texan] fiscal_policy Afflicting the afflicted [Obsidian Wings - Doctor Science] Like many people, I played the New York Times' You Fix the Budget puzzle. My personal solution can be succinctly described [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] The Death Penalty, Race, and the Victim [Sociological Images - lisa] Scholars are newly looking to the way that the race of homicide victims, instead of the defendants, shape outcomes. It turns out a disproportionate number of people who are executed under the death penalty have been convicted of murdering [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] BBC News – Yale University to return Machu Picchu artefacts none BBC News – Israel starts building barrier on Egypt border wtf [In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education | Video on TED.com [This is a funny, delightful account of a series of experiments involving leaving children alone with educational technology and letting them teach themselves. Highly recommended. -L] education Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade? | Video on TED.com [Opinionated and [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Utah Conservatives Make Compact Against Arizona-Style Law [Change.org - Gabriela Garcia] The "Utah Compact" was signed on the same day, November 11, that pilgrims (ahem, undocumented immigrants) signed the Mayflower Compact in 1620, the first guidelines for governing Plymouth. It was introduced in response to Utah Rep. Stephen Sandstrom’s draft [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] NYU Law Grad Gets 6 Months in Academic ‘Kooky ID-Theft Cyberwar’ Over Dead Sea Scrolls [ABA Journal Top Stories] legal wtf Biden on Palin [Talking Points Memo - Josh Marshall] VP Biden cracks up after listening to Sarah Palin say she can beat President Obama. Then he decides he probably [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Cancer surviving flight attendant forced to remove prosthetic breast during pat-down [Cynical-C Blog - Chris] privacy security_theater Wendell Potter Admits Coordinated Smear Campaign Against Michael Moore To Discredit “Sicko” [Crooks and Liars - Nicole Belle - links to full interview of Wendell Potter] …reformed health care executive Wendell Potter admitted [...]