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Friday, September 19th, 2008If you’re on the U.S. Government’s “No-Fly” list - or have a name similar to someone who is on that list, you can forget about enjoying a plane ride ever again. You will be questioned, searched, delayed, hassled and bullied. You can formally request that your name be removed, but that process is so cumbersome [...]
Crack Cocaine Cconomics
Thursday, September 11th, 2008Lifted from Dennis Howlett’s excellent article on Crack Cocaine Economics and six ways to get off it.
This talk by economist Steven Levitt, filmed at TED Talks shows what it is like being at different points in the crack cocaine gang hierarchy.
This is the basis of (or comes from) one of the more famous chapters [...]
Is the post 9/11 World Turning against Photography ?
Monday, August 11th, 2008Photographer Thomas Hawk was thrown out of the
Jon Stewart, Daily Show on The New Yorker
Friday, July 18th, 2008from jeff jarvis at Buzz Machine:
Jon Stewart was, of course, brilliant in his defense of satire and The New Yorker:
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Burma - Before and After
Friday, May 16th, 2008At the moment there doesn’t seem to be a lot we can do, until the local rulers decide to allow aid in, without stealing it and without using it for propaganda purposes. However, once NGO’s and other agencies are allowed to operate fully in the areas affected by Cyclone Nargis, they will need all the [...]
Is your ISP is messing with your BitTorrents ?
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008We have seen claims that almost 70% of ALL Internet traffic is P2P (but no one can tell what the ratio of legal vs. illegal content is). Since then, many ISP’s have taken it upon themselves to throttle down BT related traffic, despite the fact that no one knows whether you’re downloading a Linux Distribution [...]
Barack Obama’s Race Speech
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
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In Tuesday’s speech, Obama has drawn a distinction between his religious connection with Mr. Wright, which should be none of the voters’ business, and having a political connection, which would be very much their [...]
The 10th Anniversary of THAT Drudge Exclusive
Saturday, January 19th, 2008Guide Fawkes blogs on how ten years ago to the day, Matt Drudge ran his story on Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky and changed not just Clinton’s presidency, but also the media.
While Drudge was not and is not a blog, he did lead the revolution to online media. Drudge still single handedly makes and [...]
Capitalism’s bad PR
Friday, January 18th, 2008Peter Saunders on capitalism’s bad PR:
Capitalism lacks romantic appeal. It does not set the pulse racing in the way that opposing ideologies like socialism, fascism, or environmentalism can. It does not stir the blood, for it identifies no dragons to slay. It offers no grand vision for the future, for in an open market system [...]
Help the hungry Japanese
Thursday, January 17th, 2008From Kiwi Blog:
The Japanese government must believe their people are very hungry, otherwise they would not be hunting whales in the Southern Oceans.
To assist our Japanese friends, we propose to send packets of instant noodles to Japan to save the whales from being eaten. To show the intent of these noodles, please attach a letter [...]
