Circles: Facebook’s reality failure is Google ’s opportunity — Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard By far the most interesting and valuable feature of Google is the idea of “circles” that it’s built upon. You choose friends and organize them into different “circles,” or groups, based on any criteria you like — the obvious ones being “family,” “friends,” [...]
BBC News – IMF warns US about its ‘fragile’ economy BBC News – Security researchers discover ‘indestructible’ botnet BBC News – Los Alamos fire: More firefighters deploy in New Mexico BBC News – French journalists freed in Afghanistan after 18 months BBC News – Saudi Arabian woman challenges male guardianship laws BBC News – [...]
BBC News – Australia offers Sydney residents cash to move BBC News – China suppresses human rights lawyers, says Amnesty BBC News – China opens world’s longest sea bridge near Qingdao BBC News – Taiwan ex-President Lee Teng-hui ‘embezzled $7.8m’ BBC News – Q&A: Morocco’s referendum on reform [My bookmarks live at delicious.com/camryl. In [...]
Exposed: Wisconsin GOP Senate Candidate’s Long History of Violence Against Women | Politicususa • by Sarah Jones >none Shed a tear–UC Berkeley erases old courses | The Do It Yourself Scholar Unlike some of the open access courses on the web, the course podcasts from the University of California campuses at Berkeley, Los Angeles and [...]
Save Our Inboxes! Adopt the Email Charter! >etiquette Drunken African animals | kottke.org Watch and listen as Randall narrates some footage of animals getting drunk from the fruit of the Marula tree. You may remember Randall from the narration on this honey badger video ("Honey Badger don't care, Honey Badger don't give a shit"). >silly [...]
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Of course. | Feministe • by Jill "…a town clerk in upstate New York has stated that she refuses to sign marriage certificates for same sex couples. Barbara MacEwen of Volney, NY…" Honestly? If there were other town clerks who could sign the marriage certificate and MacEwen could just send the same-sex couples right over [...]
Respect for the Rule of Law « Anaea Lay For those of you who aren’t obsessively following Wisconsin politics just now, here’s your context: Prosser just narrowly won an election to keep his seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. There were shenanigans involved in the election, but it is highly unlikely that it was [...]
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Black Gay Celebrities: A Slide Show | The Root new book profiles some of the most talented journalists, artists, politicians and athletes in our community. There’s no better time than LGBT Pride Month to highlight a few of them. Hazing Death: Mom Sues Fraternity for $25 Million If human decency and common sense aren’t enough [...]
BBC News – North Korea issues threat to South amid joint talks BBC News – Aung San Suu Kyi ‘must end political activity’ BBC News – Heated diplomacy behind Palestinian statehood bid BBC News – Spitfire down: The WWII camp where Allies and Germans mixed 3.5 Out of 4 – NYTimes.com – Paul Krugman Among [...]
Google Announces Social Networking Project Google | Geekosystem The project is called Google and appears to be trying to introduce nuance, tact and discretion into the over-sharing, tell-everyone world of modern day social networks Student Creates Vest That Simulates Hugging Yourself | Geekosystem Hofstadter | xkcd.com [An "autobiography"] Oregon Zoo’s Caracal Kittens Turn 2 Weeks [...]
Elements of Happiness: A happy life depicted in diagrams | FlowingData • by Nathan Yau For several decades, Harvard Laboratory of Adult Development has chronicled the lives of hundreds of men from adolescence through adulthood for “an unprecedented database of life histories with which to view the dynamic character of the aging process.” Designer [...]
Is War in Southern Sudan Inevitable? | The Root Both sides have agreed to demilitarize the region, but satellite imagery shows heavily armed government forces, backed by tanks, massing along the still-undefined border between Sudan and Southern Sudan. … Five months before Sudan declared its independence from the United Kingdom and Egypt on Jan. 1, [...]
Eleven Animal Wonders of Evolution | Wired Science | Wired.com The Old Superstition – NYTimes.com – Paul Krugman What’s going on here is something different and worse: we’re seeing the desire for conventional respectability outweighing the lessons of history >economics Fresh protests hit Senegal’s capital | AJE Police fire tear gas to disperse demonstrators as [...]
Criminal Investigation Launched into Prosser’s Choking of Female Justice After news leaked that Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser had choked Supreme Court Justice Ann Bradley during talks surrounding the anti-union bill being voided by a county judge, conservatives flooded the internet with push back which mostly consisted of “if he did anything wrong, why [...]
BBC News – Shoaib Mansoor: Pakistani film-maker tackling hypocrisy and taboos BBC News – Pakistan denies deliberate rocket attacks on Afghan border BBC News – UK military trainers in Pakistan are withdrawn BBC News – West Bank barrier section at Bilin is re-routed BBC News – Syria dissidents meet in Damascus to discuss transition BBC [...]
BBC News – China at heart of California’s railway past and present BBC News – War artist draws US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan BBC News – Afghanistan drawdown risky, US joint chiefs head says BBC News – Pakistan ‘militant’ group denies Osama Bin Laden link BBC News – India and Pakistan in nuclear confidence-building [...]
Feminist Philosophy of Biology | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy * by Carla Fehr Practitioners of feminist philosophy of biology use gender as an analytic category to conduct philosophical investigations of the biological sciences. >feminism Renata Salecl: How Limitless Choice Limits Social Change | Brain Pickings Jewish bodies found in Medieval well | ABlogAboutHistory.com • by [...]
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Dear Emma B | Pharyngula Ken Ham is crowing over fooling a child. A young girl visited a moon rock display from NASA, and bravely went up to the docent and asked the standard question Ham coaches kids to ask — and she’s quite proud of herself. … I am angry at Ken Ham, [...]
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languagehat.com: WORDS OF 1916. Having posted on the first two installments of Dave Wilton’s “word of the year” series (words of 1911, words of 1912), I hadn’t been planning to continue, but his latest post, on words first attested in 1916, contains one so dear to my heart I can’t resist: proto-Indo-European… Renata Salecl: How [...]
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Dems helped GOP win the argument over the deficit and job creation – The Plum Line – The Washington Post I know you’re sick of hearing me say this. But today’s Pew poll offers some of the clearest evidence yet that Dems helped Republicans win the argument over the deficit and government spending… The key [...]
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