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{ Monthly Archives } April 2007

links for 2007-04-18

Alex Wilson’s Journal: Christopher James Bishop 1971-2007
Blacksburg victim
(tags: VT Blacksburg obit)

Mindjack Magazine - the beat of digital culture
AWESOME. I know two people working on implementing /shitlist right now.
(tags: cory fiction)

links for 2007-04-17

YouTube - THE REAL REASON IMUS WAS FIRED!
for all you conspiracy theory nuts
(tags: imus conspiracy)

INLS 40: Research Project Assignment
Due Friday
(tags: school)

links for 2007-04-16

Technology monitor | Flying wind farms | Economist.com
via /.
(tags: wind energy)

Orange County Weekly - Illegally Park-ed
(tags: police gender corruption)

links for 2007-04-15

SSRN-A Taxonomy of Privacy by Daniel Solove
need to read this
(tags: law taxonomy Privacy)

links for 2007-04-14

Researchers Map The Sexual Network Of An Entire High School — Image
frijole pointed to this when I brought up “Frontline: The Lost Children of Rockdale County” in #trilug.
(tags: culture gender visualization)

policyd-weight - A policy daemon for Postfix
A great way to spend a Friday night…
(tags: postfix policy antispam)

Annals of Transport: There and Back Again: Reporting & [...]

Excellent article on commuting

This’ll show up later as an auto-import from my del.icio.us tags, but I had to share this snippet now:
“Drive until you qualify” is a phrase that real-estate agents use to describe a central tenet of the commuting life: you travel away from the workplace until you reach an exit where you can afford to buy [...]

links for 2007-04-13

Human Trafficing - Shocking But True - Al Bawaba Blogs
Brilliant!
(tags: bush slavery)

FireGPG - Install the extension
adds gpg buttons to your gmail interface. woot!
(tags: gmail gpg)

NPR Starts A War | Medialoper
do you like internet radio? not for long…
(tags: culture law media music npr radio)

links for 2007-04-12

“Parties of God: The Bush doctrine and the rise of Islamic democracy” by Ken Silverstein (Harper’s Magazine)
“…as I discovered during my own visits with Islamist leaders over the past year, these groups are busy forging their own notions of freedom, some of them Western and some of them decidedly not. If we want to envision [...]

links for 2007-04-11

Balkinization
are you on a no-fly list? (via MeFI)
(tags: bush corruption freedom)

Boing Boing: Bikes Against Bush arrest was part of counter-RNC protestor “intelligence” op
you sure you wanna protest? it’ll get you hassled.
(tags: police state RNC joshkinberg)

take the pop quiz

Calling Out Idiot America
From the article:
The task of holding Congress to account is a daunting one, and can be accomplished only if the citizenry that forms the respective constituencies of our ignorant congressional representatives are themselves able to operate at an intellectual capacity above that of those they are holding to account. So rather than [...]