- Bigwords App Launched for Android, Treat for College Students | AndroidGuys • by Asad Rafi
- …for college students looking to buy or rent new and used paper books and electronic books…
- Iceland Unveils Crowdsourced Constitution | Mashable! • by Todd Wasserman
- A group of 25 citizens presented a draft of the constitution to Iceland’s parliament. The group, which is made up of ordinary residents, compiled the document online with the help of hundreds of others. The constitution council posted the first draft in April on its website and then let citizens comment via a Facebook Page. The council members are also active on Twitter, post videos of themselves on YouTube and put pictures on Flickr.
- Iceland’s original constitution was created in 1944 when the country gained independence from Denmark. The country’s economic collapse in 2008 prompted calls for a rewrite with checks and balances to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis. The draft was due before the end of July. It may be put to a referendum without the input of parliament.
- Google Update Makes Managing Circles Easier | Mashable! • by Jennifer Van Grove
- In the Circles tab, simply drag-and-drop your Circles to reorder them. Your Circles will now appear elsewhere in the social network in the order you’ve determined.
- And that’s not all. “When in the circles tab, you can drag a circle up into the space where all your people are to view all the people for that circle,” van Zuiden adds. “For those in-the-know, it’s called ‘Circle in Tab.’”
- HTC Releases The Source Code For Several Devices, Proving That The World Is Coming To Its End | Android Police • by Cameron Summerson
- [Amusing headline amuses. -L]
- FOX News’ Dr. Ablow Wants Male Veto Over Reproductive Rights
- He does not bother to exclude cases of incest or rape, so apparently all that matters is that the man can claim he fertilized the egg. What Dr. Ablow is arguing for is a form of sexual slavery.
- …Ablow has suggested that President Barack Obama’s appearances on “YouTube and the daytime talk shows” may have contributed to an increase in suicide rates.
- > misogyny extremism
- Huntsman: “I’m Not Ashamed To Be a Conservationist” | Mother Jones
- Jon Huntsman may be emerging as the only GOP presidential candidate willing to whole-heartedly endorse climate science. As I noted a few weeks ago, he has been the most straightforward in his assertion that politicians should defer to the scientific community on the question of whether the planet is warming. Yesterday, he went a step further, suggesting that future generations will judge the GOP on the issue of environmental stewardship.
- Right wing culture warriors march into Wisconsin recall battle | The Plum Line • by Greg Sargent
- Guess what: The Wisconsin recall battles aren’t just about budget cuts, collective bargaining and union rights. They’re now about the culture wars, too.
- In a development that raises the stakes in the Wiconsin recall fight, a number of religious conservative groups — anti-abortion, anti-gay rights, and pro-intelligent design organizations — have quietly joined the fray in Wisconsin, blanketing the state with flyers and TV ads …
- > wisconsin
- Technology Is The New Smoking | TechCrunch
- But for the moment Googling the name of a movie you can’t remember is hands down a lot healthier than smoking an actual cigarette, at least physically.
- PlusFeed – Unofficial Google User Feeds
- Simply add a Google user number to the end of this site’s URL to get an Atom feed of public posts.
- Some of the Strictest Anti-Woman Laws in the US are Put Into Effect in NC | RH Reality Check
- July 29, 2011
- As NC passes one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, NC citizens and representatives question why state government will now require state documentation in medical records as to whether a woman “averted her eyes” from a new state-required ultrasound she is now required to pay for…
- > reproductive_justice misogyny why_we_can’t_have_nice_things north_carolina asshattery
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