Monthly Archives: December 2007

links for 2007-12-18

Timeline of libertarian thought (Mother Jones)
(tags: politics economics)

Reason Magazine on economics, Hillary’s baby bond proposal
(tags: economics politics 2008 hillary)

links for 2007-12-16

Handmade 2.0
Rob Walker on Etsy and selling handmade crafts online
(tags: business marketing work art)

links for 2007-12-15

Maynard Keenan James interview on AV Club
(tags: music)

links for 2007-12-14

Smeltry
free propaganda poster style fonts
(tags: fonts designengaged)

Free Fonts That Don’t Suck
(tags: fonts design)

Massachusetts prison inmates kill themselves at triple the national rate
(tags: health psychology prison)

Frontline documentary on mentally ill inmates in prisons
(tags: prison, health, psychology, policestate)

Portland braile graffiti art on Current TV

They talk to my friend Kelly at the beginning.

links for 2007-12-12

New Wonkette column on foreign political scandals
(tags: politics global)

Jim Gilchrist endorses Huckabee
worse and worse…
(tags: immigration politics huckabee 2008)

Jezebel: Michelle Obama Is Not A Lighter Shade Of “Trophy” Wife
(tags: politics 2008 obama race gender)

links for 2007-12-11

Andy Rutledge
(tags: usability design)

Quanta Plus
(tags: design ubuntu)

AJAXed WP
(tags: wordpress)

WhisperJ2ME is the Tiddlywiki mobile application
(tags: lifehacks mobiletech blackberry)

101 essential freelancing resources
(tags: business design finance lifehacks reference work)

(Mostly) Free Resources for the Web Worker Who Works on the Web
(tags: business design lifehacks reference web2.0 work)

links for 2007-12-10

The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings
(tags: art comics)

Dana Perino doesn’t know what the Cuba Missle crisis was
(tags: politics)

Is it time for impeachment yet?


Best stuff I read this week

Andrew DeMillo drudges up Huckabee’s 1992 statements about homosexuality and AIDS.
Ryan Sager critiques the notion that Ron Paul’s rise is indicative of libertarian surge in the GOP.
Six Questions for Douglas Macgregor on Iraq and the “Surge.”
Marvel Zombies as Cultural Critique.
Interview with TV Carnage’s Derrick Becklese.
Parents, porn isn’t the problem.
Gospel of Judas translation by National Geographic […]

links for 2007-12-09

64 interview answers you need to know
(tags: work)

Digital Money World
(tags: economics finance blogs)

Anarchy Unbound, or: Why Self-Governance Works Better than You Think
I’d still rather live in the US than Somalia.
(tags: economics politics theory)

Huckabee opposed federal fudning for AIDS research and said homosexuality could “pose a dangerous public health risk.”
(Nevermind, Huackabee is worse than Bush)
(tags: 2008 […]

Banksy art in Bethleham

Banksy contributed several pieces to Santa’s Ghetto an “anarchic concept gallery” in Behleham.
Times Online story.
BBC gallery of Banksy’s pieces.
Santa’s Ghetto web site.
(via Digg).

links for 2007-12-07

Archeology shows OldTestament wholly fraudulent
(tags: israel global religion)

The democratization of luxury
(tags: economics, culture)

links for 2007-12-06

Grid Focus
(tags: design templates wordpress)

Derek Punsalan - excellent web design
(tags: design wordpress)

Load OSX 10.5 Leopard on the eeePC
(tags: tech)

links for 2007-12-05

Tallying racial diversity in fashion mags
(tags: fashion race)

‘Marvel Zombies’ as culture critique
(tags: comics culture politics)

Crackpot Revolution
Ryan Sager critiques the notion that Ron Paul’s rise is indicative of libertarian surge in the GOP
(tags: politics 2008 ronpaul)

The slaughter of Iraq’s intellectuals
(tags: politics global war policestate)

Making a Killing
The Nation on Blackwater
(tags: war blackwater global politics)

Online newspaper design
(tags: […]

links for 2007-12-04

Oh the humanity — and the genius of TV Carnage
(tags: media humor)

Huckabee comes out against torture?
(tags: politics 2008 huckabee)

What is alternative culture now?

The second installment of my column for Alterati is up:
Does alternative culture still exist? Coilhouse, an excellent web magazine that calls itself “A love letter to alternative culture, written in an era where alt culture no longer exists” obviously doesn’t think so. Neither does Warren Ellis, who wrote on the topic in his Suicide Girls […]

links for 2007-12-03

Paul Wolfowitz back in government
(tags: politics war)

Newsweek on NAFTA conspiracies and Ron Paul
(tags: politics immigration conspiracy 2008 ronpaul)

Six Apart sells Live Journal to SUP
(tags: tech business)

Best stuff I read this week

Nine Things Which Appeared on The Muppet Show, But Wouldn’t Make It Onto Family Television These Days.
Two interviews with Thirtyseven/Justin Boland.
Micronations and autonomous zones covered in new book.

links for 2007-12-01

Nine Things Which Appeared on The Muppet Show, But Wouldn’t Make It Onto Family Television These Days
(tags: media)