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Monthly Archives: March 2007
Women and tech conferences
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
A while ago Adam Greenfield posted something about the absence of women at tech conferences.
Today he linked to this. Maybe it’s shit like this that keeps women away from tech conferences, and the tech industry in general.
Gupta’s Libertarian Observation
Monday, March 26th, 2007
“Free people create free markets. Free markets do not necessarily create free people.”
Ampelmann
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
On lighter note:
The Ampelmann web site
Ampelmann Wikipedia article.
The Obama 1984 ad
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Update: I have since changed my opinion of Obama.
This video is pretty representative of Obama’s support. It may help get his base pumped, but does nothing to convince me that he’s actually better. His supporters love him and hate Clinton, but the reasoning is fairly unclear. Mostly, it seems, because he’s much cooler. […]
Warren Ellis’s Black Summer
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Warren Ellis is writing a comic about a super hero who kills the president.
Oh, Ellis. He’s so shocking and confrontational. How can you push super hero ethics any further? Oh I know, maybe he could make a comic where a super hero kills thousands of innocent people in order to unite the whole world against […]
Blogging where speech isn’t free
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Ethan Zuckerman:
My friend Jon Lebkowsky put together a really excellent group for our panel at SXSW. The panel focused on the challenges of blogging in countries where there’s no reasonable expectation of freedom of speech. On stage, we had Shava Nerad from Tor, Rob Faris from the Open Net Initiative, Shahed Amanullah of altmuslim.com, and […]
DC lifts gun ban
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
Appeals Court Overturns D.C. Gun Ban.
I think this is good news. Interesting Bizzaro-world info from Hit and Run:
Democratic city counsel member (and former mayor) Marion Berry proposed an end to the gun ban.
While the NRA fought the suit that brought about the gun ban.
So long, Captain America
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
You may have heard already, but Captain America is dead.
I haven’t really cared about comic book character deaths since Superman died when I was a kid, but this is a little different. Marvel killed the character off as part of a protest of the Bush administration’s policies: “Marvel says the comic story line was […]
The immigration “problem”
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
In January I pointed to an article on how poorly Colorado’s immigration crack-down was going (see here). The LA Times has more (via Trevor’s del.ico.us links).
It turns out labor shortages in Colorado have become severe and the state is turning to prison labor to fill the shortages (This solution was once proposed by California […]
Comments working again
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
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We were always at war with Persia
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
Does anyone else find the timing of the release of 300, a movie portraying Persians as inhuman monsters, ironic?
I can’t seem to find any stills of the Persians in the movie look like, but in the trailer I saw they looked like black, deformed beasts (sort of like the Orcs from the first LOTR movie).
A […]