[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] More female instrumentalists: The Hush Sound, Eisley, Bikini Kill, Yoko Kanno [Deeply Problematic] [videos] My post on female instrumentalists a couple of weeks ago got a ton of terrific responses – I’ve thoroughly enjoyed investigating your [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Washington Post-ABC Poll: 80% of Americans Want Government to Spend More to Create Jobs [Firedoglake] …The poll also finds that Obama is still more trusted than Republicans (43/26) and Democrats still lead Republicans on the economy [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Roman Polanski victim: Director is not a threat, prosecution should end [L.A.Times] [OFFS! Look, I get that she just wants this all to end and no longer cares whether Polanski gets punished for what he did [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] CSS3 Design Contest Results [Smashing Magazine] [ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -L] Supermax Prisons: Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading [ACLU Blog] [Trigger warning for discussion of self-harm and suicide. -L] This week the European Court of Human Rights temporarily halted [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] We can still blame black people, though In that Times article on millionaires not paying their mortgages, the one concrete example they cite is a rapper… Seeing the Forest: Too Old For A Job, Too Young [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Echidne On The Game Of Bipartisanship [Echidne of the Snakes] If you control the administration, the House and the Senate, aren't you pretty close to a temporary victory? Wouldn't you think (ignorant as you are of [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Strategic Default For Me But Not For Thee [Hullabaloo] There's a been a rumbling from above for some time now that people who walk away from their homes when the economics no longer makes sense are [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Nano-generators can harvest electricity from your blood [io9] We are one very big step closer to sending robots into our body for long-term, complex missions. New nano-generators can turn mechanical energy – like that of flowing [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] What Went Wrong? [Paul Krugman] It’s now obvious that the stimulus was much too small; yet there’s virtually no chance of getting additional measures out of Congress. The [Obama] administration has chosen to deal with this [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Space Photos This Week: Cosmic Dragon, "Fireworks," More [National Geographic News] A star cluster sparkles, a new map reveals ancient light, a "dragon" emerges from a nebula, and more in the week's best space pictures. Flowchart [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Blogging Pitfalls: Plugin Purgatory Going overboard with WordPress plugins can have an adverse affect on your blog in many different ways, possibly resulting in a blog that barely functions. So before you click “Install” and add [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Awesome alert: Vandy Beth Glenn wins Georgia trans discrimination suit [Deeply Problematic] A federal court handed down a potentially powerful ruling on trans rights today, when judge Richard Story ruled that the Georgia State Assembly’s firing [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Kudos to Professor Erik Luna for being cited by Lindsay Lohan in her Twitter rant about her jail sentence [Sentencing Law and Policy] I thought that I had reached a sentencing pop-culture zenith a few years [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Black hole blows huge gas bubble [BBC News] Tax Court: Nonprofit Formed to Distribute Donor's Sperm Is Not a Qualified Charity Adding a Secure Delete Option to Nautilus File Manager in Linux Bender's Delivery Service: If [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] New Docs Show Feds Vastly Underestimated Spill Effect [Talking Points Memo] Government documents reviewed by TPM show the federal government dramatically underestimated the effects of an oil spill when signing off on the BP Deepwater Horizon [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Poyozo the personal data gatherer [FlowingData] Take a moment and think off all the data you put other there on separate Web services. Email, photos, status updates, documents, location, contacts, and the list goes on. Many [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] The Root: The Return Of 'Sundown' Towns? [NPR Topics] A tough law against illegal immigrants in Nebraska could revive the whites-only-at-night towns of our Jim Crow past. Afi-Odelia Scruggs of The Root explains how race is [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Conscious Servility — the two most influential papers in the country throw in the towel [Hullabaloo - Digby] The Post's ombudsman made it clear that they are determined to cater to the conservative movement. The NY [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Nerve Center Test Gets First Post-SCOTUS Application [Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog] The Legal Intelligencer reports on a recent ruling that GlaxoSmithKline is a citizen of Pennsylvania (where it has its corporate headquarters), preventing removal [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] A Newbie’s Getting Started Guide to Linux [Ubuntu Geek] Learn the basics of the Linux operating systems. Get to know what it is all about, and familiarize yourself with the practical side. Basically, if you’re a [...]