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The backlash against Obama's blackness

2010-08-31T15:07:20Z

Dan Kennedy: "You literally cannot understand the current moment without watching the political satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert."

The Full-On Assault On Cable Is Underway

2010-08-30T18:41:21Z

TechCrunch: "And in that regard, the cable companies have positioned themselves fairly well because many of them are among the largest ISPs in the country now. But it’s their core business, cable television, that is facing this assault."

How habitable is the Earth?

2010-08-28T06:57:32Z

Charlie Stross: "There are elaborate and fascinating competing theories to explain why it took so long for oxygenation to take off: even the Moon gets blamed (the huge 50 metre tides that churned the anoxic early oceans and would have sucked premature photoautotrophs to their doom deep below: oxygenation had to wait for the moon to migrate out far enough for the tides to die down, permitting photosynthetic organisms to thrive near the surface)."

Because you made a phone call

2010-08-26T07:06:17Z

Lee Maguire: "Presumably he implies that you’ll also need to recuse yourself from your existing social groupings in order for this to work, like entering a witness protection programme."

A letter to my students

2010-08-25T00:47:05Z

Michael O'Hare: "The budget deficit that’s paralyzing Sacramento is about $500 per person; add another $500 to get back to a public sector we don’t have to be ashamed of, and our average income is almost forty times that.  Of course we can afford a government that actually works: the fact is that your parents have simply chosen not to have it."

Millions of Americans are furious about the 'Ground Zero mosque'. But it doesn't exist

2010-08-24T00:33:18Z

The Guardian: "Sixty per cent said they learned it from the media. Which means it's time for the media to give up."

Malware implicated in fatal Spanair plane crash

2010-08-24T00:24:34Z

msnbc.com: "Some of the most likely ways are through third party devices such as USB sticks, Yaneeza said, which were responsible for the International Space Station virus infection in 2008, or through a remote VPN connection that may not have the same protection as a computer within the enterprise network." - why are airplanes not air gapped?

Consumers Are Clamoring for Elizabeth Warren

2010-08-22T07:18:03Z

NYTimes.com: "if he chooses anyone but her, he will be widely seen as helping the banks at the expense of the rest of us "

Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World. Welcome, Big Brother

2010-08-20T23:56:48Z

Fast Company: "When you get masses of people opting-in, opting out does not help. Opting out actually puts more of a flag on you than just being part of the system." [...] "You can start to track from the point a person is browsing on Google and finds something they want to purchase, to the point they cross the threshold in a Target or Walmart and actually make the purchase."

There is no ‘Ground Zero Mosque’

2010-08-20T23:31:09Z

Olbermann: "Because this is America, dammit. And in America, when somebody comes for your neighbor, or his Bible, or his Torah, or his Atheists' Manifesto, or his Koran, you and I do what our fathers did, and our grandmothers did, and our founders did -- you and I speak up."