Monthly Archives: April 2007

links for 2007-04-30

Richardson confuses justice’s abortion view
Ouch. Man, I like Richardson but this is a seriously bad gaff.
(tags: politics)

links for 2007-04-29

Nine Inch Nails gives birth to a new culture
(tags: music politics net)

The Art of News Feeds
(tags: rss)

God listens to Slayer

(Via).

links for 2007-04-28

Democratic Presidential Candidates Gone Wild
(tags: politics)

Al Jazeera English You Tube channel
(tags: global media)

links for 2007-04-27

Is The Bedouin Worker Killing The Third Place?
My opinion: yes. So is the ipod.
(tags: coffee culture urban work)

New Amigas On the Way, Company Says
(tags: tech)

It’s Friday

(Via)

links for 2007-04-25

It’s the Workforce, Stupid!: Financial Page: The New Yorker
(tags: economics business work)

Batelle: The Data Bill of Rights
(tags: web2.0 tech)

links for 2007-04-24

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
first chapter
(tags: books politics global)

links for 2007-04-23

What were the causes of 9/11?
(tags: politics global religion valueswar)

Mass Murderers and Women: What We’re Still Not Getting About Virginia Tech
(tags: gender culture)

Study: Pay gap between men and women begins 1 year after college, then grows wider
(tags: gender politics)

NYT on the relationship between income and obesity
(tags: economics health class)

Rolling Stone interview with Stewart Brand
(tags: tech […]

links for 2007-04-22

Frontline SMS
Software package for SMS applications in the developing world
(tags: activism mobiletech global)

Porn tax bill unconstitutional in a way smoke taxes aren’t
(tags: politics porn sex)

Best Indie Games 2007
(tags: games gamedesign)

links for 2007-04-21

Zack Denfeld: Blue puddles
(tags: streetart urban locationawareness mobile)

Zack Denfeld’s blog
(tags: art streetart locationawareness mobile urban)

links for 2007-04-20

Sen. Clinton to propose federal streamlining
(tags: politics radicaltransparency)

links for 2007-04-19

The history at the end of history
Fukayama says that the EU is closer to the “end of history” than the US
(tags: politics global)

Campaign against alleged voter fraud fuels political tempest
(tags: politics)

NYer article on commutes
(tags: work urban suburban transit)

Public favors giving illegal immigrants a break

I’m glad the public isn’t buying anti-immigrant propaganda.

While Congress and the White House remain divided over what to do with the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants living in the USA, a new poll shows the American public appears to have reached a consensus on the question.
A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken last weekend found that 78% […]

links for 2007-04-18

Atrios on increasing campus security
(tags: politics guns policestate)

Jesse Walker on gun laws after the Virginia Tech massacre
(I wouldn’t have carried a gun to class in college, even if I’d had a permit)
(tags: politics guns policestate)

Gun Control No Closer Despite Shootings
(tags: politics guns policestate)

Chasing the Duclod Man
(tags: queer net)

EthanZ on sites that profit from user generated […]

links for 2007-04-17

Obama’s statements on the Virginia Tech massacre
Ugh. Just as I was starting to throw some support behind the guy…
(tags: politics, obama)

The World According to America

Happy Monday:

(Via).

News Virus 2008

The esteemed Nicholas J. Pell has launched a blog covering the 2008 election from his non-Euclidean political perspective:

Giuliani was on the offensive, repeating what will likely be his mantra for the upcoming election, that social issues don’t matter. The Big G still leads in key states in all early polling, and I still maintain that […]

Who says advertising is dead?


links for 2007-04-13

Ethiopian bloggers turn undercover court reporters
(tags: blogs global)