Monthly Archives: August, 2008
Gustav Emergency Response
I’m posting this from an email I received because it could be of value in the next day or two:
Hi Friends, Neighbors, and Colleagues.
There’s a movement to create a Gustav Emergency Response using Social Media.
@acarvin of NPR has started this on Ning: http://gustav08.ning.com
He has also started a wiki where all the information is aggregated: http://www.gustavwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
It would be [...]
Kremlin critic shot in Ingushetia
The owner of an internet site critical of the Russian authorities in the volatile region of Ingushetia has been shot dead in police custody.
Magomed Yevloyev, owner of the ingushetiya.ru site, was a vocal critic of the region’s administration.
The Russian prosecutor’s office said an investigation into the death had been launched, Russia media report.
A post on [...]
Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America
From Alternet.org:
“It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant.” Barack Obama finally said it.
Though a successful political and electoral strategy, the Right’s stand against intelligence has steered them far off course, leaving them — and us — unable to deal successfully with the complex and dynamic circumstances we face as a nation and a [...]
Swedish government – it’s illegal for schools to teach religious doctrine as if it were true.
Courtesy of The Guardian:
The Swedish government has announced plans to clamp down hard on religious education. It will soon become illegal even for private faith schools to teach religious doctrines as if they were true. In an interesting twist on the American experience, prayer will remain legal in schools – after all, it has no [...]
God damned orange eaters
Bigfoot Duo’s New Discovery: A Lawsuit Against Them
The two goons who wasted the world’s time by claiming they’d found Bigfoot are now finding themselves on the receiving end of a lawsuit.
Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer went the full nine yards with a news conference, DNA tests (that showed nothing), and all sorts of empty [...]
Information as computer art
The following video made me wonder at the mad database skills this guy must have. It also made me marvel at the idea of information as art, data as design, the beauty of a database.
Brooklyn-based artist Jonathan Harris‘ work celebrates the world’s diversity even as it illustrates the universal concerns of its occupants. His computer [...]
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