May 2007
40 posts
Department of Homeland Security Not Focused on... →
“Of the 814,073 people charged by DHS in immigration courts during the past three years, 12 faced charges of terrorism, TRAC said. Those 12 cases represent 0.0015 percent of the total number of cases filed.”
The Brain: Malleable, Capable, Vulnerable →
“The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that...”
– Stanley Kubrick (via tinyblip.com)
Man who claims FBI is after him puts entire life... →
The Market Function of Piracy →
The Death of Pandora and the Rebirth of Webcasting →
“The bell is tolling for Webcasting in the U.S. after the Copyright Review Board refused to alter the new proposed royalty rates, which represent an enormous hike in the money online radio stations must pay.”
Royal De Luxe II: Face-Off in Reykjavik →
The Older-and-Wiser Hypothesis →
The Only Word For It Is ‘Insanity’ →
“Yesterday, the House passed a $646 billion dollar defense bill for the budget year beginning October 1st – yes, you read that correctly. There are a few arguments going on about the bill, but none over its sum.”
William Gibson's Neuromancer Finally Coming to the... →
I am exceedingly geeked about this.
Books Not Available For Children →
WatchBen Folds covers Postal Service
Parallel universes, the Matrix, and... →
Written in 2003, but very interesting
I Chat, Therefore I Am... →
Spying on the home front →
“‘So many people in America think this does not affect them. They’ve been convinced that these programs are only targeted at suspected terrorists. … I think that’s wrong. … Our programs are not perfect, and it is inevitable that totally innocent Americans are going to be affected by these programs,’ former CIA Assistant General Counsel Suzanne Spaulding tells...
“Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.”
– Law of Probable Dispersal
ASCII Rock →
WatchHigh Power Job
Running The Numbers →
An American Self-Portrait. (via tinyblip)
Study released on Bill O'Reilly →
“A new study by Indiana University media researchers finds that Fox News host Bill O’Reilly calls ‘a person or a group a derogatory name once every 6.8 seconds, on average, or nearly nine times every minute during the editorials that open his program each night.’”
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is...”
– William Hazlitt
Bill Moyers interviews Jon Stewart →
“You are truth from foot to brow. Now what else would you like to know?”
– Rumi
Explore Congressional funding with Sunlight... →
The War the Government Cannot Win by Llewellyn H.... →
“Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the...”
– HL Mencken
Spying on Americans →
“… Mr. Bush is in a hurry. He has submitted a bill that would enact enormous, and enormously dangerous, changes to the 1978 law on eavesdropping. It would undermine the fundamental constitutional principle — over which there can be no negotiation or compromise — that the government must seek an individual warrant before spying on an American or someone living here legally.”
The brain is a category buster →
“Ever since Plato, scholars have drawn a clear distinction between thinking and feeling. Cognitive psychology tended to reinforce this divide: emotions were seen as interfering with cognition; they were the antagonists of reason. Now, building on more than a decade of mounting work, researchers have discovered that it is impossible to understand how we think without understanding how we...
World Without Oil Launches →
9 things I learned about the world from anonymous... →
