[Signal boosts are awesome. ...zomg, Yahoo! is axing, er, selling Delicious.com! ...And over here on the calm planet, I am looking into my options. --L.] Georgia GOPer Pushes Bill For Taxes To Be Paid In Gold And Silver | TPMDC This idea is a long way from becoming law — it would have to pass [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome. ...zomg, Yahoo! is axing, er, selling Delicious.com! ...And over here on the calm planet, I am looking into my options. --L.] The One Word That May Haunt Henry Kissinger – NYTimes.com “Despicable,” “callous,” “revulsion,” “hypocrite,” “chilling” and “shocking” were a few of the [reactions] this week by some leaders of Jewish [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome. ...zomg, Yahoo! is axing, er, selling Delicious.com! ...And over here on the calm planet, I am looking into my options. --L.] Sounds Like Weird LJ – Why I Think Wikileaks Is Important …it is, in fact, seeing the secret documents that helped me make the choice that I no longer wished [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome. ...zomg, Yahoo! is axing, er, selling Delicious.com! ...And over here on the calm planet, I am looking into my options. --L.] VLC Player Coming to Android in “Matter of Weeks” [AndroidGuys - Scott Webster] open_source software Security Alert! Geinimi, new Android Trojan has been found [AndroidGuys - Paul Weston] security Stop, [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome. ...zomg, Yahoo! is axing, er, selling Delicious.com! ...And over here on the calm planet, I am looking into my options. --L.] "No Impact Man" Colin Beavan Invites You to Participate in No Impact Week [YES! Magazine] green_living Are we seriously still asking this question? Next up, the New York Times tackles [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome. ...zomg, Yahoo! is axing, er, selling Delicious.com! ...And over here on the calm planet, I am looking into my options. --L.] Ethics Group: Amount Of Money Could Make Or Break O’Donnell Investigation | TPMMuckraker [CREW is described in this article as a "watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington", [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome. ...zomg, Yahoo! is axing, er, selling Delicious.com! ...And over here on the calm planet, I am looking into my options. --L.] Brain Volume Linked to Social Networking [Wired: Science - Ars Technica] This is one of the first publications that demonstrates a relationship between amygdala volume and social networks in humans. [...]
What’s the most important article/video of the year, and why do you think it’s important? My nomination: About a week ago on Fugitivus, Harriet J called out Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, Susan Brownmiller, and others. Today her article was reposted on RHRealityCheck, a feminist blog. The post is long, and parts of it may feel [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome. ...zomg, Yahoo! is axing, er, selling Delicious.com! ...And over here on the calm planet, I am looking into my options. --L.] Georgia Bill Would Force State Taxpayers To Pay Only In Gold Or Silver extremism Weblog Tools Collection: Plugin Review – Dynamic Widgets Until now, my plugin of choice for accomplishing [...]
I blog the way that I do because of certain mental quirks [digression deleted] that make it hard for me to blog any other way. Still, I’m convinced I could do better, with a little help. So I fantasize about a WordPress plugin that could take care of at least some of the bits that [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome. ...zomg, Yahoo! is axing, er, selling Delicious.com! ...And over here on the calm planet, I am looking into my options. --L.] 500 Internal Server Error 500 Internal Server Error none Sarah Palin tries to lie her way out of ‘refudiate’ coinage [Crooks and Liars - David Neiwert] none [In case it [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome. ...zomg, Yahoo! is axing, er, selling Delicious.com! ...And over here on the calm planet, I am looking into my options. --L.] Rule by the Ridiculous – NYTimes.com [Paul Krugman] 1. Wall Street executives in a complete snit about Obama: he bailed them out with no strings, he’s leaving their bonuses intact, [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome. ...zomg, Yahoo! is axing, er, selling Delicious.com! ...And over here on the calm planet, I am looking into my options. --L.] Not Your Average Yard Work [YES! Magazine - Jeffrey Allen] A Madagascar villager puts nearly all of his earnings toward buying and reforesting unprotected lands—including the $10,000 prize he recently [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome. ...zomg, Yahoo! is axing, er, selling Delicious.com! ...And over here on the calm planet, I am looking into my options. --L.] BBC News – UN halts Pakistan food aid after suicide bombing none BBC News – Pakistan drone attack ‘kills 18 militants’ none BBC News – Bomb in Afghan city of [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome. ...zomg, Yahoo! is axing, er, selling Delicious.com! ...And over here on the calm planet, I am looking into my options. --L.] BBC News – Russian MPs back Start US arms treaty on first reading none BBC News – Uncertain future for Hungary sludge victims none BBC News – South Korea must [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome. ...zomg, Yahoo! is axing, er, selling Delicious.com! ...And over here on the calm planet, I am looking into my options. --L.] Guest Post: Slacktivist Uprising [Kate Harding's blog] Dismissing all internet activism out of hand requires misunderstanding of either activism or the internet. …Civil rights protesters shed blood to change laws… [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome. ...zomg, Yahoo! is axing, er, selling Delicious.com! ...And over here on the calm planet, I am looking into my options. --L.] Didn’t See That Coming [Talking Points Memo - Josh Marshall] Pat Robertson supporting the decriminalization of marijuana? war_on_inanimate_objects 111th Congress Was Most Productive Session Since ‘At Least’ The 1960s [Think [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome. ...zomg, Yahoo! is axing, er, selling Delicious.com! ...And over here on the calm planet, I am looking into my options. --L.] Second Parent Adoption Struck Down by North Carolina Supreme Court The North Carolina Supreme Court issued a ruling yesterday striking down the second parent adoption of a same sex couple… [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome. ...zomg, Yahoo! is axing, er, selling Delicious.com! ...And over here on the calm planet, I am looking into my options. --L.] CIA’s Answer to WikiLeaks: WTF …WikiLeaks Task Force… funny #mooreandme Day 7: Keith Olbermann’s got questions, I’ve got answers [Kate Harding] sexism rape_culture wikileaks Wednesday Geek Woman: Rachel Carson [Geek [...]
[Signal boosts are awesome. ...zomg, Yahoo! is axing, er, selling Delicious.com! ...And over here on the calm planet, I am looking into my options. --L.] It’s been proven: You’re either a hypocrite or delusional A recent set of experiments proves the punishment you dole out to people is always worse than what they did to [...]