[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Getting The Story Straight On Wikileaks
- Greg Mitchell at The Nation has been blogging the Wikileaks story for the last week and it's become the go-to place if you are looking for links or current information about it.I encourage you to at least skim all of his dispatches if you are looking for insight on what's going on…
Wikileaks is working with partners in the press to release these documents, which are being reviewed and redacted before they are uploaded on to the web and published in newspapers. Right now the only people besides Wikileaks who have access to all the cables are the newspapers they've partnered with.
I imagine that many of the people who are threatening to imprison and assassinate Assange do know this and also understand that they are threatening not just him but the publishers of newspapers all over the world who also have these documents.
Is everyone comfortable with that?
- Rep. Steve King Calls For The Return Of McCarthyism In Congress: It’s A ‘Good Process’ That He Would ‘Support’
- The interview touches a number of political topics, including King’s belief that Congress shouldn’t focus on the economy, but rather “culture,” because “if you get the culture right, you’ll get the economy right. Everything will fall into place automatically.”
[WHAT. -L]
- The United States of Autocomplete
- [FlowingData - Nathan Yau]
- Zookeepers Dress in Panda Costumes for the Sake of the Cub
- [Livescience.com]
To eliminate human influence from a young panda cub, zookeepers in China dressed in panda costumes when interacting with it.
[Won't somebody pleeease think of the cuuuuuuuubs? -L]
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[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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