January 2012
23 posts
“I started the year with almost nothing and ended with a used van, a new utility...”
– Priceonomics Blog: How to Make It on Craigslist
This is a pretty awesome story. (via joesunga)
Romney: U.S. economy 'getting better' under Obama. →
“Inside every bulletin at St. James Cathedral, the laity received marching orders...”
– The Stranger. Why are they fighting something that doesn’t pertain to the church? This is civil marriage not religious marriage. No one is asking them to marry gay people in their church.
“H.J. Res.100 would require that all federal campaigns –all campaigns for...”
– http://www.nationofchange.org/kucinich-announces-game-changing-constitutional-amendment-publicly-finance-federal-elections-1327069
“Apple explicitly said Thursday in its FAQs on the announcement that any...”
– Reinventing Textbooks: A Hard Course - NYTimes.com (via studioartist)
Reality distortion field in full effect. Love the realism from colleges who have actually tried using eReaders. The tech press is pathetic at times.
Jaron Lanier: SOPA Boycotts and the False Ideals... →
I support the objection to #SOPA but this piece is well worth a read. Dogma not good for the cause.
Beautiful photo essay from northern Sweden of the... →
Making Love to WebKit →
webkitbits:
Steven Wittens redesigns Acko.net with some awesome 3d and parallax effects, based on three.js and a custom CSS3 3d renderer.
Wow. This is pretty cool
43% say God helps Tebow →
The website Poll Position has released the results of a phone survey that found 43.3 percent of people believe that Tim Tebow and the Broncos win by divine intervention.
Pollsters supposedly surveyed 1,056 people, see the results here.
I would say God help us but if this is true, He’s too busy helping Tebow. As opposed to, say, war torn countries, starving children, weather-ravaged...
The True Story of Japan’s Economic Success →
Time and again, Americans are told to look to Japan as a warning of what the country might become if the right path is not followed, although there is intense disagreement about what that path might be. Here, for instance, is how the CNN analyst David Gergen has described Japan: “It’s now a very demoralized country and it has really been set back.”
But that presentation of Japan is a myth....
“For the second time in as many days, Rick Santorum waded into the issue of gay...”
– Rick Santorum focuses on gay marriage - latimes.com
Rick Santorum - no comment is really necessary.
Seattle rules →
“Not only are the market applications for disruptive technologies unknown at the...”
– Clay Christensen
(via brycedotvc)
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our...”
– Isaac Asimov, apparently reacting to the Iowa Caucuses. (via spytap)
“Rick Santorum reiterated his belief that states should have the right to outlaw...”
– Santorum: States Should Have The Right To Outlaw Birth Control | ThinkProgress (via studioartist)
ACLU: President Obama Signs Indefinite Detention... →
Happy New Year - 1984 has arrived…
December 2011
33 posts
WatchFootball - worthy of many deity’s time?
College bowl system loots universities →
“As the protagonist of the tale, imagine, if you will, a man who, as Speaker of...”
– Newt Gingrich’s Alternative History : The New Yorker
Read the whole article in case you are in too good of a holiday mood.
“London is promised an exercise in authoritarian elitism to rival Leonid...”
– Welcome to London 2012: the apparatchiks’ games - FT.com (via iamdanw)
The Olympics like soccer (FIFA) is just a giant corrupt machine at this point. The joy of this competition is gone - thousands for tickets. No one but the rich and corrupt bureaucrats in attendance. So sad.
“With this defense authorization act, Congress will, for the first time in 60...”
– Al Franken (via azspot)(via asie)
What the fuck are they doing? What the fuck are WE doing?! What the fuck is wrong with our country right now?
(via spytap)
“Key members of the House Judiciary Committee still don’t understand how the...”
– the last point is the most damning
Dear Congress, It’s No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works | Motherboard
(via fred-wilson)
“Within hours of the news of Hitchens’s passing at the age of 62, the Internet...”
– http://www.salon.com/2011/12/16/god_didnt_kill_christopher_hitchens/
“End result: SOPA 2.0 contains a crazy scary clause that’s going to make it crazy...”
– How SOPA 2.0 Sneaks In A Really Dangerous Private Ability To Kill Any Website | Techdirt (via studioartist)
SOPA violates 1st amendment →
Scripting News: NPR should get a Pulitzer for... →
MPAA Boss: If The Chinese Censor The Internet... →
“Experts are predicting kind of a tough fight between Romney and his biggest...”
– http://www.mittvmitt.com/
“Physiological responses can now even be tracked remotely, in principle without...”
– Eye Glasses That See What’s Really Going On With Another Person | NHNE Pulse (via studioartist)
Jon Stewart Bids Farewell To Herman Cain. →
Funny Android Device Name Generator →