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How to Get iOS 5’s Biggest Features in Android Right Now
18 iOS 5, Apple's latest update to its mobile OS, was released this week, and with it came a ton of great new features for iPhone and iPad owners. If you own an Android phone and wish some of those new features can be yours, they're closer than you think. Here's how you can get some of them, like Wi-Fi sync, cloud storage for music and documents, an
Get 50 GB of Free Storage for Life on Box.Net—IF You're an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch User
22 iOS: Now through December 2, cloud storage provider Box.net is giving away free 50 GB accounts you can use forever. The account is good on your PC too, but to get the 50 GB upgrade, you'll need to download and sign in or register from the iPhone or iPad app. More »
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'Occupy' park clean-up postponed
10 Anti-Wall St protesters celebrate as New York authorities cancel clean-up which had threatened to become a flashpoint.
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Occupy Boston Under Attack~ 100′s Arrested
Occupied Boston Live is currently offline, but there is a message at the bottom. The following is a link from Twitter by Keith Olberman Boston police move in on protesters on Greenway, scores arrested boston.com Oct. 10, 2011 By John M. Guilfoil and Derek J. Anderson, Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent Boston police moved in and began arresting scores of Occupy Boston protesters who refused to l
Occupy Wall Street the Media is the Message
The Invisible 99%: Sunday Morning Talk Shows Ignore Occupy Wall Street PoliticsUSA October 2, 2011 By Jason Easley The five Sunday morning talk shows on CBS, Fox, CNN, NBC, and ABC devoted zero segments with zero guests to Occupy Wall Street today. To the media inside the Beltway, the 99% do not exist. A day after over 700 protesters were arrested during a march over the Brooklyn Bridge, the five
Reports Of Arrests And Pepper Spraying At Wall Street Protests
pThere have been multiple reports of arrests and pepper spraying of protesters on Wall Street tonight. According to the Guardian, “there’s a flashpoint on the intersection of Broadway and Cedar Street, with reports of a number of arrests. Police have deployed orange netting to contain protesters. Subway trains have been ordered not to stop at [...]/p via Reports Of Arrests And Pepper Spraying At W
Portland Oregon preparing for Wall Street protests.
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Sayeeda Warsi on Britain – Pakistan relations…
guest post by Rima Saini The first of a series of four events presented by the RSA, City University London and the Samosa was a resounding success with a keynote speech by Conservative Chairman Baroness Warsi followed by a fiery Q and A session with Anwar Akhtar, director of The Samosa. Anwar Akhtar began the lecture with an insight into his personal connection with Pakistan, drawing attention to
Shared war experiences
This is a guest post by Haroon Ravat. Many observers trace the origin and development of the English Defence League to a poppy-burning publicity stunt staged by the group Muslims Against Crusaders (MAC) at last year’s Armistice Day commemorations. For many British Muslims like myself, the actions of MAC left us in a precarious situation with the tabloid press intent on providing front page public
Series of events: what next for India and Pakistan?
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi is to kick off a series of four events with a speech exploring the complex and intimate relationships between Pakistan, Britain and the Pakistani diaspora in the UK. The four debates will discuss: · Given the historic ties between Britain and Pakistan (with 1.2 Million British citizens having Pakistani heritage and over 10,000 people flying from Manchester Airport to
Speaking at launch of Centre for Identities and Social Justice
This is public interest note… I’ll be speaking at the launch of a new think-tank based at Goldsmiths college called ‘Centre for Identities and Social Justice’. The event will take place on Wednesday, 5th October, 6pm. LG Theatre 1, The New Academic Building TOPIC THE PREVENT AGENDA: What are its unintended and intended consequences? SPEAKERS LORD CARLILE (Liberal Democrat, House of Lords) SUNNY HU
Boycotting The Durga Puja
This is a guest post by Rita Banerji. She blogs here. Calcutta currently is in the midst of the Durga Puja – the 10 day carnival celebrating the goddess Durga. It is the annual climax of Calcutta’s cultural ethos. Not having grown up in Calcutta, I had never actually attended this celebration as a child. So at 30 when I moved to the city, I was fascinated and curious. I photographed the celebr
EDL exposed in damning academic report
As recently highlighted by The Guardian, the ugly reality of the English Defence League has been exposed in a newly-published report by Dr Matthew Feldman and Dr Paul Jackson at Northampton University’s Radicalism and New Media Research Group. The report was formally released during a major international conference recently hosted by the RNM; it is based on extensive independent research and is a
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Occupy Wall Street: Just give me liberty, cause this feels like death
I want to be patriotic. I want to say the pledge of allegiance in a strong voice. I want to pledge my allegiance knowing that I cannot lose this country, these values, this brotherhood, this opportunity. I want to see an American flag and see the people supported by a system, not the people supporting a system. But I don’t believe we have that. I’ve watched to many Americans suffer. I’ve watched t
US-Pakistan relations: The shadows of hate
As the rains waned and the sodden ground re-emerged from under the waters, the rising din of war drums echoed throughout the country. Admiral Mike Mullen, America’s top military official, hurled towards Pakistan a tremendous accusation. In a statement issued towards the end of last month, the now-retired Admiral Mullen accused the Pakistani intelligence agencies of supporting the Haqqani network a
Profiling: Security and trust, suspicion and scapegoating
Ever since 9/11, the American Muslim community has been placed under a tremendous amount of scrutiny. Even now, more than ten years after those terrible events, the cloud of suspicion has not lifted over the community. According to a months-long investigation, the Associated Press has published an article claiming that the New York Police Department, with apparent help from the CIA, has engaged in
Response to recession: Less mosques, more charity
It was announced recently that 40,000 Bank of America employees are being laid off. My heart feels broken over the news. It seems like every time there is a chance that we as a country can pull together and work through this, something else knocks us back down a couple of notches. The economic news is compounded by the fact that before these layoffs, 15 percent of our country was already in povert
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Retoxification
Cameron’s retoxification of the Tory Party continues.
Greens adopt Pirate policies
Back in 2009, when I co-founded Pirate Party UK, it was part of my game-plan that we would win in part by persuading other parties to our point of view. I didn’t expect it to happen this quickly. The Green/EFA group in the European Parliament has adopted Pirate policies on file sharing and DRM: namely that non-commercial file sharing should be legal, and it should be legal to circumvent DRM. The p
Conservative poster
This poster sums up what the Tories stand for: Via Bright Green
German Pirates on 8%
Following their recent victory in Berlin, the German Pirate Party are now polling nationwide at 8%. This is important, as it’s over the 5% hurdle imposed by the German electoral system: so if people continue to support the Pirates at this level, they will definitely get elected to the Bundestag and European Parliament. The next Bundestag election is due in 2013, and if the Pirates do well then, it
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Update to Job area of Green White
Some of you might remember we launched a startup focused job area few months back. At that time it was just a limited functionality area. How ever people from bayt came forward and offered me to help make it better. And they have been able to setup a job portal for greenwhite users. you can go check it out at http://jobs.greenwhite.org Now you can create your organizations profiles and post jobs,
Reboot – Here I go again
Credits to Jawwad Farid's Book This is more of a personal update not a lot of tech news so you can skip if you want to. The picture you see is of Jawwad Farid’s book reboot I could not find a better picture to depict what I will be doing again. Long time in past I was a happy employee doing my corporate job and happy at my achievements of next rank, next bonus and new 22 inch monitor. My bad l
Ten Pearls wins another Nokia Award
TenPearls has gon ahead to claim another win in the world of Nokia, They have recently won Nokia and AT&T Innovators 2011 Contest for their game Animal 101. Ten Pearl has been doing very well on the Nokia front, last time TenPearls got selected for Nokia Ovi publisher Successes and earlier they Wons NOKIA 1st Prize for Most Innovative Mobile App. Seems the trend goes on and we have one company
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On Being An Actual Nigger Woman
2 I can remember the very first time someone called me a nigger. I was 12 years old and in the 8th grade. I was walking from the gifted program at Kenwood high school in Chicago back to Kozminski, my grammar school. I wasn’t alone, there were 5 of us that walked that way every day. Two boys and three girls. All kind of nerdy, but with delusions of coolness ahead in high school. And every day these
Life with Racism & Kids
6 My sons are 12 & 5. They’re black. Male. Adorable. Sweet. Sarcastic. Silly. Oh sure, my oldest is biracial, but he can’t pass for anything but light skinned black male. And he chooses to ID as black. Some of that is probably about his biological father’s abandonment & his subsequent attachment to his black stepfather. He’s a great kid, who loves life, video games, his family, drawing &
RIP Troy Davis Time of death 11:08pm
10 I have a lot of black men in my life that I love. My husband, my sons, my nephews, my friends…I’m crying right now so this may be scattered. Any of the men I love could be Troy Davis. My husband’s first brush with the law was at 13 when a cop beat him up. Didn’t arrest him. Didn’t even tell him why he hit him. He was playing with friends one minute & being beaten the next. Think about that fo
Foodstamps 101
6 So I’ve seen more than a few posts lately from people who are in positions where food is scarce and so is money. And I’ve been in more than a few financially insecure situations myself, so I’m going to talk to you about poverty in America & making it work when you’re broke as hell in the United States. First off, apply for food stamps. Yes, even if you don’t have any children. If anyone tells
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Steve Jobs RIP
I always thought his belief in reincarnation was so infused in his work. Apple is famous for their product cycles and how they will kill something to great nerd rage and grief, only to come out with something new that takes their breath away. Life. Death. Rebirth. He was a complicated man and I will miss him.
Will the GOP come out against math?
The current crop of Republican candidates have come out against basic science recently following the trend of dumbing down America. Breaking it down, they have stated they believe the Earth is only 6000 years old, hence they do not believe in Geology. GOP candidates stated they don’t believe burning fossil fuels leads to climate change, hence they do not believe in Chemistry. GOP candidates have
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Off With Their Heads!
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!I say we just kill all accused murderers from now on.Think of the money saved, the deficit, and, of course, the children.Now that we've established that the courts and Constitution don't matter, let's just jail all the accused criminals, too. Why lose sleep? They're murderers and criminals!The state says so.All Presidents need the power to assassinate people simply because the
Said The Red Queen
SAID THE RED QUEEN.First, we don't kill all the lawyers. Let's continue the examination of the lawfulness of the killings of American citizens Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan I began in my post, Off With Their Heads! (Many comments there; Amygdala version here.(That various other non-citizens, including Muhammad Salme al-Naaj and Abdul-Rahman bin Arfaj, and another several Yemenis, were killed
Papers, Please
PAPERS, PLEASEChildren.Who we hates, we do, because their parents are illegal immigrants.And in Alabama, this is now happening: FOLEY, Alabama -- Many of the 223 Hispanic students at Foley Elementary came to school Thursday crying and afraid, said Principal Bill Lawrence. Nineteen of them withdrew, and another 39 were absent, Lawrence said, the day after a federal judge upheld much of Alabama’s s
You'Re Only As Small As Your Dreams
YOU'RE ONLY AS SMALL AS YOUR DREAMS. Dream large. Read more posts at Amygdala!
Orbit With Me
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Johann Hari Vs. Johann Hari On The Ethics Of Making Sh!t Up
by matttbastard Johann Hari, September 2011: “If I had asked the many experienced colleagues I have here at The Independent… they would have explained just how wrong I was. It was arrogant and stupid of me not to ask.” Indeed it was — or was it…? Johann Hari, June 2011: “I called round…other interviewers for British newspapers and they said what I did was normal practice and they had done it t
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Bits and Pieces - October 14, 2011
Mostly Occupy stuff, but scroll to the bottom for stuff about spies and the sins of the Murdoch empire.One of the 1% says Occupy has it right.Superheroes and other comic characters as the 1%.From the world media.Looks like Mayor Bloomberg backed off from a confrontation.Juan Cole provides some numbers.There's a lot in this piece that reminds me of the sixties. I've been feeling really happy to see
Bits and Pieces - Occupy Edition
From the Atlantic: #OWS: What the Media Can't See About America's First Web-Era MovementMatt Taibbi at Rolling Stone: My Advice to the Occupy Wall Street ProtestersAfter a TNR editorial panning the movement, John Judis and Jonathan Cohn come out in support.Ezra Klein and co-workers have been positive all along, and Suzy Khimm now reports that the movement is spreading to London.I've stolen the Oli
More (Sort Of) on that Iranian Plot (Sort Of)
I'm not following this story closely, meaning that I am spending no time at all trying to figure out who said what to whom when or the various degrees of plausibility of the various claims. But I am following some people who are doing that, and I have drawn the conclusion that there is a boatload of stupid in this case, possibly shared by all sides.That is not to say that I don't believe that the
Bits and Pieces - October 12, 2011
Today is National Fossil Day!So let's celebrate trilobozoans!Making Money the Old Fashioned Way, By Cooking the BooksGregory Djerejian: This Ain't No Tea Party: A Conservative Defense of Occupy Wall StreetUpdate: Another scam from the Murdoch empire, this time the Wall Street Journal. They were buying their own papers through an intermediary to boost circulation.
That Iranian Plot
Yesterday the arrest of two men for intending to blow up the Saudi ambassador to the United States was announced. The plot, going through Mexican druglords, sounds improbable. But countries and people do dumb things, so that's not a reason to reject it.Not much information has been released so far. It's not at all clear, for example, how involved the Iranian government might have been, the possibi
Bits and Pieces - October 11, 2011
America: Don't Be CruelHow Debt Deleveraging Killed the Economy. Long and something of a primer on how easy it can be for the economy to fall into a downward spiral.Report from Zucotti Park by Jeff Madrick.Why does Newt Gingrich hate the Constitution?Russia's Worsening Demographic CrisisThe unsayable beginning to be said: Disarmament talks in the Middle East must include Israel's arsenal.
Nuclear Diner Now Open
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Houston City Elections—Vote Even If You Are Not Enthused
I’m overdue to blog extensively about the upcoming Houston municipal elections. Early voting starts on October 24 and Election Day is November 8. I’m embarrassed to claim these elections are relevant. The energy and optimism of the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Houston movements in recent weeks has made our Houston city elections seem even more irrelevant. The narrow ideological range of the issue
Photos From Occupy Houston—Learn About The Occupy Movement For Yourself
Below are five photos from Occupy Houston that I took a few hours ago. The Occupy Houston has been going on for a week so far. 1. New participants are always welcome. 2. Each day there is an agenda. 3. If you come to visit or to stay overnight–There will be some healthy food for you to eat. 4. The Occupied Wall Street Journal from the New York Occupy Wall Street effort relates the news from w
Occupy Galveston Protest On October 15th—Links To Other Occupy Movements In Texas
Among the many Occupy movements in Texas, I’m glad to report there is one in Galveston. Galveston is a great Texas city. It is a fine spot to spend a day at the beach and to enjoy all the attractions, and it is a great place to stand up for the other 99%. (Above–The Flag of Texas waiving proudly in Galveston Bay. Photo copyright Neil Aquino.) Occupy Galveston has a blog. Occupy Houston also has a
Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts Health Care Reform Was The Model For Federal Health Care Reform—What Did Romney Tell People To Get Elected In Liberal Massachusetts?
NBC News reports that the White House used the Massachusetts health law as the model for federal Health Care Reform, and that the Obama White House met with policy experts who helped write the Massachusetts law that was signed by then Governor Mitt Romney. “Above–Governor Romney’s portrait as Governor of Massachusetts. Painted by Richard Whitney.) From NBC— “Newly obtained White House records pro
Less Or More
I’ve been out and about in Houston today. In my travels about the city, I came across the sign you see here in the picture. I like this sign because it leaves open the question if the goods in this store cost more or less than $1. Maybe even the prices are determined by a spin of the wheel, or by drawing from a deck of cards when you take your purchase to the register.
Pluto May Have An Ocean—You Never Know What Lies Beneath An Icy Exterior
New Scientist magazine reports that Pluto may have an ocean. (Above—A rendering of what might look like on the surface of Pluto. This image comes from the European Southern Observatory.) From New Scientist— “PLUTO could hide a liquid ocean beneath its icy shell. Indeed, other bodies on the solar system’s frigid fringe could also harbour subsurface oceans, and these could provide the conditions
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The Daily Dig: Is Occupy Wall Street Illegally Occupying a Public Park?
• Is it legal to occupy a private park? The Occupy Wall Street movement brings up some interesting questions about public versus private areas in New York City. (TreeHugger) • In Thailand, the worst floods in decades create panic and Read more ›
New Time-Lapse Video Shows NYC in All Its Beauty and Glory
Fueled by voracious sharing among friends via blogs, Twitter and Facebook, time-lapse videos of big cities have become an Internet hit in recent years. They’ve become so popular because they show just how frenetic, impressive and, dare we say, cool, Read more ›
The Daily Dig: Is Rikers Island a Death Trap?
• How prepared is Rikers Island, a complex of 14,000 inmates accessible by only one bridge, for an emergency? (CityLimits) • Two Amtrak trains collided at an Oakland, California station, injuring 17 people. (AP) • In Vermont, Hurricane Irene flooded Read more ›
Rush-Hour Read: Reading Deeply Into China’s High-Speed Rail System
Certain traits of a nation’s character can often be found by studying how a country’s transportation system operates. In Japan, their slick Shinkansen high-speed rail shows how much order is often valued in that society. In the U.S., the collective Read more ›
The Daily Dig: The 14 Infrastructure Projects to be Expedited
• The 14 infrastructure projects the Obama administration plans to expedite. (WhiteHouse) • A deeper look into one of the federally expedited projects, the Tappan Zee Bridge. (NYT) • Workers at our nation’s ports have an insiders perspective into how Read more ›
President’s Jobs Council Says ‘Invest in Infrastructure’
President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness — a group of private-sector advisers that have been charged with offering recommendations for job creation — is releasing its latest report…and infrastructure is one of the stars of the show. The new Read more ›
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Remembering Collier’s and Looking Ahead
We’ve been talking lately about space missions designed to maximize science vs. those that are at least partly geared toward public relations. But most missions will have both components, the need for public support being woven into the fabric of our ambitions. As we try, then, to ramp up the scientific return, what can we also do to keep the public engaged and instill interest in space exploratio
Huge Mountain Among Early Vesta Results
2 So much has been happening in recent weeks that I haven’t had the chance to keep up with all the stories in the queue, and that’s not a bad thing considering that a high level of activity usually means we’re learning new and interesting things. Consider the Dawn mission, which has been orbiting the asteroid Vesta since the middle of July. The Dawn team has been sharing results about Vesta in multi
Thoughts on a Different Apollo
10 Did the Apollo missions produce enough good science to justify their cost? It’s a question Freeman Dyson has speculated on in the past, calling the missions a success because they were “conceived and honestly presented to the public as an international sporting event and not as a contribution to science.” Symbolic of this is the fact that the first item to be unpacked after each landing was the
The Snows of Enceladus
12 Once again it’s time to catch up with Enceladus, the little moon that has such a huge impact on the planetary system it moves through. We’re learning, for example, how much water vapor is erupting from the features in the moon’s south polar region known as the ‘tiger stripes.’ Cassini measurements (using the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph aboard the spacecraft) had pegged the rate of discharge a
Updating the 100 Year Starship Symposium
2 I’ve got an out of town speaking gig today and am pressed for time, so this may be a good occasion for something I needed to do anyway for the record, which is to highlight the papers given by Tau Zero Foundation and Project Icarus people at the recent 100 Year Starship Symposium. Most of the following were delivered as individual talks, although some were presented in panels. If you’re interested
A New Slant on ‘The Planet of Doubt’
16 Among all the planets, Uranus seems to get the least play in science fiction, though it does have one early advocate whose work I’ve always been curious about. Although he wrote under a pseudonym, the author calling himself ‘Mr. Vivenair’ published a book about a journey to Uranus back in the late 18th Century. A Journey Lately Performed Through the Air in an Aerostatic Globe, Commonly Called an A
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Assassination Plot Was Pushed By DEA Informant
Assassination Plot Was Pushed By DEA Informant Arbabsiar thought he was involved in a drugs deal Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Friday, October 14, 2011
FBI Insider: Obama Administration Likely Manufactured Dubious Terror
FBI Insider: Obama Administration Likely Manufactured Dubious Terror Plot No information about plot exists within FBI channels Paul Joseph Watson Prison
Fed Insider Cain Caught In Brazen Debate Lie
Fed Insider Cain Caught In Brazen Debate Lie Establishment favorite claims he never opposed audit of Fed Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday,
VeriSign Demands Power To Kill "Abusive" Websites
VeriSign Demands Power To Kill "Abusive" Websites Manager of all .com internet addresses seeks authority to terminate domains on government order without legal
'Occupy' Forms Alliance With Obama Lobby Group
'Occupy' Forms Alliance With Obama Lobby Group OWS protesters fear movement is being turned into a Democratic election campaign front Paul Joseph Watson Prison
Rand Paul: Obama's Rhetoric Could Turn 'Occupy Wall Street' Violent
Rand Paul: Obama's Rhetoric Could Turn 'Occupy Wall Street' Violent Senator tells Judge Napolitano demonstrators remind him of "Paris mob" Paul Joseph Watson
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Guardian Confirms Mossad Fears
A mainstream media source has finally plucked up the courage to publish the widespread concern among MOD, Cabinet Office and FCO officials and military that the Werritty operation was linked to, and perhaps controlled by, Mossad – something which agitated officials have been desperately signaling for some days. “Officials expressed concern that Fox and Werritty might even have been in freelance di
Matthew Gould and Adam Werritty
An interesting and insufficiently explored aspect of the Werritty scandal is the role of Matthew Gould, UK Ambassador to Israel. Gould met with Werritty and Fox at least twice, at a pre-posting briefing meeting in the MOD and at an anti-Iranian conference in Israel. It is quite probable he had many more contacts with Werritty than that. As Werritty’s financiers specifically sought to promote th
The Real Werritty Scandal
This information comes straight from a source with direct access to the Cabinet Office investigation into Fox’s relationship with Werritty. Gus O’Donnell, Cabinet Secretary, has fixed with Cameron the lines of his investigation to allow him to whitewash Fox. This will be done by the standard method of only asking very narrow questions, to which the answer is known to be satisfactory. In this ca
Werritty Finances
A civil service mole has promised me some insider news about Gus O’Donnell’s planned whitewash of Fox relating to how they will treat Werritty’s finances in the investigation. This entry is being posted 45 minutes after I leave home to meet them, by an unorthodox route and method of transport, to an improbable location. Oh, and neither of us is carrying a mobile phone either. So don’t bother, y
Fox
I remember the gay-baiting student Liam Fox as active in the banning of a Gay Society at Glasgow University Union in the early 1980′s. As President of Dundee University Students Association, which at the time had close ties with our Glasgow counterparts in the Scottish campaign against the NUS, I tried to change their mind, and that was my first memory of the odious little bigot. Being sick in be
Muted
I came back from Ghana at the weekend specifically so I could speak to the Stop the War rally in Trafalgar Square yesterday. Unfortunately I brought back a collection of interesting diseases and a fever with me, and a cold wet afternoon seemed too unwise. Oh dear, am I losing my edge?
Three Cheers For Ken Clarke
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Government by Death Panel
Remember the good ol' days when Republicans were running around the country screaming that Democrats' proposal to fund voluntary end-of-life counseling would somehow create a government-sanctioned death panel? Oooh boy, the heartland was ablaze back then. Wracked by anger at a Democrat occupying the White House, an enraged Middle America was genuinely scared about the prospect of a secret group of
Why, Really, Do We Love Steve Jobs?
When Steve Jobs stepped down as head of Apple in August 2011, a stream of accolades began to flow that, upon his death, turned into a flood. Why is this? He invented things, right? One news report claimed Steve Jobs "invented the personal computer as a user-friendly device, invented the notion that the mouse could be our real interface with that computer, never mind the fact that he invented the c
If Only Sexism Could Be Cancelled
Do the women of America really want to go back to 1963? Or the men, for that matter? Riding on, and imbibing, the contrails of Mad Men, two new TV shows, Pan Am and The Playboy Club, seem to think so. That we can even have a show based on, and nostalgic for, Playboy Clubs speaks volumes about how acceptable it is these days to traffic in, and even celebrate, sexist depictions of women in the media
Zombie Lobbyists Occupy Washington
They come creeping from the K Street salons, money dripping from their lips. They skulk the halls of power, bemoan the pain of regulation on the steps of Capitol Hill. Their shrill howls for the brains of our elected representatives cut the D.C. night. They are lobbyists. On any given day, more than 10,000 of them swarm the nation's capital--twenty-six for each U.S. representative and senator. The
A Brave New World
NEW YORK--I came upon a child of God; he was walking on down the road. Also, he was white, bearded, and wearing overalls with no shirt underneath them, and I nearly bumped into him. Anyway, this he asked me: "Ma'am? Ma'am. I'm currently accepting donations to the Crusty Kid Foundation. Can you give me money, cause my parents don't got none?" I demurred. My bank account was on its last $20, I might
Stopping the Insanity
Like most people living through this jarring age of economic turbulence and political dysfunction, you can probably recall a moment in the last few months when you thought to yourself that our lawmakers and corporate leaders are all crazy. And not just run-of-the-mill crazy, a la George Costanza's parents, but the kind of crazy that makes films like Silence of the Lambs and One Flew Over the Cucko
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Gun Rites
The nonsense with the bodies: it just won’t stop. Recently I wrote of the Doritos inventor who was buried with his corn chips scattered on and around his corpse. Which followed the special dispensation granted to the inventor of Pringles, so he could be compacted and laid to rest in a Pringles can. In that piece, I worried that such a someone like Edward Teller, “father” of the hydrogen bomb, migh
The Said Admiral Is Dead
They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fuku americanus, or more colloquially, fuku—generally a curse or a doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom
Change In The Weather
When one first masters the art of magic, it is not uncommon that, at least for a time, one’s powers increase exponentially. And so it is with my neighbor, Burning Man. Last winter I noted here that this man possesses the power to generate rain, by igniting in his yard little fires consuming branches, leaves, boards, and such. He was not aware of this, until I pointed it out to him. Yet the conclus
Yum
Humans will swallow almost anything that does not swallow them first. The animals they relish range in size from termites to whales; the Chinese of Hunan Province eat shrimp that are still wriggling, while North Americans and Europeans eat live oysters; some Asians prefer food so putrefied that the stench carries for dozens of yards. At various times and places, strong preferences have been shown
Eternal Recurrence
To everybody’s amazement old Bonnemort could be seen standing on a log and holding forth in the midst of the uproar. Until then he had stood there absorbed, appearing, as he always did, to be musing on far-off things. Probably he was overcome by one of those garrulous fits which suddenly came and stirred up the past so violently that his memories welled up and poured out of his mouth for hours. A
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Your dirty words Friday open thread
by liberal japonicus I'm thinking this is a more appealing title than my first thought, which was something along the lines of 'Your blog rules Friday open thread'. But more below: I'm not sure who pointed it out, but someone, in writing about the game of basketball, noted that sometimes, you get a stretch of the game where the ref doesn't blow the whistle and the players jus
Things that Make me Want to Scream
-by Sebastian Sorry I've been gone a while. I've been having a crisis in faith, so to speak, and for various reasons I can't talk about it. Interestingly, while my problem is not law enforcement related, it does have to deal with my relationship with the system of law in a way which is similar in kind (though not in intensity) to the account related starting here. Although it is a V
Reading Fukuyama: What kind of property is private property
2 by Doctor Science I just finished Francis Fukuyama's The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. He has some really good points to make and a number of very useful takes on some problems in world history, roller-skate division, but also a number of errors, lacunae, or real WTF moments. The theme in this work that I have the most trouble with is Fukuyama's defin
Your newer plumbing thread
by liberal japonicus Here's a little note to put something to get the blog thru the week, Johns Hopkins reports that automatic faucets may be germier than old fashioned ones. It's a bit old (from March), but I thought we needed to put something up. I'd also remind you that, despite appearances, all the posts here, like the good old manual faucets, are not automatic.
Your expatriated friday open thread
By liberal japonicus When I was looking for this 1998 article about tax law and people renouncing US citizenship that I put in a comment, some other things came up. While the 1998 article focuses on the complex decisions that go into choosing to give up US citizenship, this March 2011 WSJ blog piece on the increasing numbers of expatriates seems to have sorted out all those messy details and figur
Papers, Please
4 by Gary Farber Children. Who we hates, we do, because their parents are illegal immigrants. And in Alabama, this is now happening: FOLEY, Alabama -- Many of the 223 Hispanic students at Foley Elementary came to school Thursday crying and afraid, said Principal Bill Lawrence. Nineteen of them withdrew, and another 39 were absent, Lawrence said, the day after a federal judge upheld much of Alaba
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The pornography of terror.
It's proving to be a busy three months for the good people down in Soho Square. No sooner had the BBFC rejected Tom Six's magnum opus the Human Centipede II, a decision which last week they reversed after the director offered to truncate his work, removing scenes of sandpaper masturbation and barbed-wire rape, than they're banning a slightly more serious work, Adam Rehmeier's The Bunny Game.The t
We need to talk about porn.
This government, by its own admission, has a problem with women. Despite being able to keep the majority of this country's men convinced that a policy of economic suicide is a fantastic idea, the women for some reason don't appear to be taking to the plan of retreating to the bunker and hoping desperately that something will turn up, probably because they're the ones losing their jobs while the r
The Fox hunt: hubris then nemesis.
Has there ever been a political scandal as genuinely entertaining as the one that continues to engulf Dr Liam "actually a real doctor" Fox? Sure, in the past many enjoyed the schadenfreude derived from Jeffrey Archer and Jonathan Aitken getting their comeuppance, while in the sex stakes there's been John Prescott and Ron Davies amongst a whole range of others, but when it comes to general hilarit
It was a mistake to allow distinctions to be blurred...
2 So, what's happened and what have we learned while I've been away?David Cameron is even more of a vacuous fool than last year's Tory conference speech suggestedThe government's economic Plan B is to create even more virtual money to give to the banks to not lendDr Liam Fox (as he must be called) thinks, as so many ministers have before him, that the public are complete and utter idiots who can't p
Boogaloo and hiatus.
So yeah, I'm not here next week. Will be back the Monday after. Hopefully will get the blogging juices back after a break.Keep it foolish.
In the Garden of Eden...
Ah, the BBFC. Not only deciding what we can and can't watch, but also commenting on the shape of the bodies on display in the early naturist films:"I think Garden of Eden would provoke very noisy reactions at tough cinemas like The Elephant. There are some unconsciously funny nudes. Especially one young lady with peculiar glutial muscles." Arses commenting on arses is though rather appropriate.
The wonderful world of Melanie Phillips, pt. 964.
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Sneak attack on pesticide law foiled — for now
Last week, our national pesticide laws were the target of a sneak attack. An amendment that would have stripped EPA's power to protect our nation's waterways was attached to — of all things — the completely unrelated China Currency bill. If the stakes weren't so high, it would be laughable. Attached as an amendment to what? Thanks in no small part to hundreds of outraged phone c
Organic farming better for bottom line
There is nothing “niche” about the recent story on the economics of organic farming in the Agronomy Journal. The journal reports on an 18-year study demonstrating that organic crop rotation is consistently more profitable than conventional corn and soybean production, even when organic price premiums are cut by half. That is very good news for both organic producers and the agricultural econom
Cookies with chemical lobbyists
Ever had lunch with a high-powered lobbyist for the chemical industry? As the Monterey County Weekly reported last week, a small-town high school teacher and a university graduate student were invited to share cookies at the offices of a well-known Sacramento lobbying firm concerned about the growing public opposition to the cancer-causing strawberry pesticide methyl iodide. Goal of lunch: Dif
Doctors' Rx: No more brain toxins
Health professionals are adding their voices to the demand that EPA protect children from the brain toxin chlorpyrifos. Citing a growing body of scientific evidence linking exposure to this widely used pesticide with harms to children's health, more than two dozen health care professionals from across the country submitted a letter to EPA yesterday, calling on the agency to follow their p
Just label it!
A staggering majority of Americans, 93% in fact, want to know when we're eating genetically engineered food. With up to 80% of the non-organic products on our shelves containing GE ingredients, and little-to-no long-term studies on their effects, we are concerned. Meanwhile much of the rest of the world — including Japan, Australia, the European Union and China — already requires genetica
Heinz Awards honor humor, poetry & science
From edgy films about sustainable food to intimately personal stories about the dangers of chemicals in the womb, this year’s Heinz Award winners bring a powerful blend of poetry, science and humor to their work. Since 1994, this award has honored people doing extraordinary things in an area important to the late Senator John Heinz. This year’s winners are working to protect our environment,
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