March 2011
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This American Life: DIY →
After four lawyers fail to get an innocent man out of prison, his friend takes on the case himself. He becomes a do-it-yourself investigator. He learns to read court records, he tracks down hard-to-find witnesses, he gets the real murderer to come forward with his story. In the end, he’s able to accomplish all sorts of things the police and the professionals can’t.
Alexander:...
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February 2011
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10 myths busted by the Egyptian revolution (and...
MYTH 6: ORDINARY PEOPLE CAN’T RUN THE WORLD
The most inspiring lesson of Tahrir Square is that ordinary people can run society. Egyptians self-organized to provide medicine, security, food, childcare, sanitation, literacy, and communication—without bosses, the police, the courts, or parliament — offering a glimpse of what a better world could look like.
via streamsofwikileaks
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I’m in Mobile for the weekend — curled up in my internest watching The Kids in the Hall and being unproductive until I head back to Auburn. Life is good.
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The U.S. House of Representatives has just voted... →
vruz:changetheratio
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What’s Happening With China’s Jasmine Revolution? →
notadinnerparty: This is INCREDIBLY informative, which I was (perhaps) inexplicably surprised by. I guess you don’t see a lot of analysis of China in the liberal-oriented press (Mother Jones, The Nation, Utne Reader, et al); I, and others (like this guy, in this book), would hypothesize that this is because it’s hard to know what to do with China, or fit it into our progressive framework:...
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Has HarperCollins lost its mind or its soul? →
HarperCollins has changed its agreement with the main distributor of e-books to libraries: e-books will now become inaccessible after 26 checkouts.
I understand publishers’ desire to limit ebook access so that selling one copy doesn’t serve the needs of the entire world. But think about what this particular DRM bomb does to libraries, one of the longest continuous institutions of civilization....
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WatchIn the clip, a white kid uses a variety of tools, including a metal saw and even an electric saw with goggles to try to cut through the chain on a bike. most people walk by without caring, only one woman tries to follow up with the police. in the second part of the clip, an african-american kid about the same age does the same thing in the same park with the same bike, and is accosted by angry...
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Julian Assange isn't scared to try and bring down... →
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AP via USA TODAY: 20-year-old Saudi student... →
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The Brothers Koch: Rich, Political And Playing To... →
nprfreshair: Since they’re in the news again, here’s our story from last August on the Koch Brothers.
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Nuclear Madness in Tripoli →
Jeremy Bernstein: If any further proof is needed of Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi’s mental instability it is provided by WikiLeaks dispatches from US diplomats in Tripoli in November and December of 2009. At issue was some nearly loose nuclear material, a Russian plane, and a lone security guard—a footnote in the WikiLeaks scandal that many may have missed.
vruz: but wikileaks doesn’t matter,...
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“I don’t know about you, but the Singularity is not the world I want for myself,...”
– Utne Reader founder Eric Utne on Singularity. Read more … (via utnereader)
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“Saudi Arabia has always had a fear of encirclement, whether with Communism or...”
– Saudi Arabia Feels Insecure Amid Mideast Unrest - NYTimes.com via evangotlib
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China's modest "Jasmine" protests fail to take... →
100+ Chinese protesters have been arrested by the government in the wake of an anonymous call for protests
13 number of cities where the protests were expected; police have been out in full force in each of them
no China won’t let people talk about “Jasmine” online, and protest…
via shortformblog
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The Koch brothers funded GOP just voted to... →
The new polluter-funded GOP House majority continues to dance with those that bought them – international oil companies, gas companies and coal companies, and the many front group organizations they spawn that further their interests.
As a result, the latest “slashing” of the US budget completely eliminates funding for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, with a cut that will...
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An Open Source Brand? →
AdFreak: Alex Bogusky set to invent a new capitalism via cthrin
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We need a GitHub for academic papers →
demarko: I’ve heard this idea before, I think it really needs to happen (hopefully, not sponsored by Google). This, while hilarious, is actually a really intriguing idea.
(Academic link via @golan, dna hilarity via @WikiChen)
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Top 10 free open source tools for network admins →
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China to Convert Phone Booths to Wifi Hotspots →
“With mobile phones nearing 100% market penetration, the Chinese government appears determined to transform the country’s widespread telephone booths into wifi hotspots.”
via paramendra:entrepreneuradvocate:vruz