It’s Even Worse Than it Appears
See anything biased about the image below? (It’s from an early May edition of US News and World Report.) Think about it a minute, and see if you can find 3 points of … Read more
Politics
They Are Just Words
Hilarious link from Farber’s Interesting People list: It seems some of the Brits are rather amused at the goings on recently at the FCC. One of the BBC channels has been running a … Read more
A Voice From Madrid
Tom Tomorrow posted a lengthy letter from a Spanish reader commenting on the recent bombing in Madrid and the subsequent elections. He eloquently speaks of the heroism and compassion displayed in the immediate … Read more
Martha My Dear
I guess Martha Stewart, now convicted of a relatively minor, victimless crime, has a greater appreciation for this Bob Dylan quote: Steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot … Read more
Grey Tuesday
Today is Grey Tuesday.This morning I edited the site’s CSS file and turned most background elements a shade of grey as a sign of support for the right to distribute the Grey Album. … Read more
eDem Highlights
Based on a quick search for “digital democracy” over at feedster, it’s clear that this conference is going to be extremely well documented. I’m going to link to some of the entries that … Read more
Digital Democracy Teach-In
The Digital Democracy Teach-In, an adjunct session to this week’s Emerging Technology conference, is off to a great start. Joe Trippi, former Dean campaign manager, was the first speaker, and provided both a … Read more
Mixed Message
or just extremely insightful news coverage? This accidental juxtaposition of two seemingly unrelated topics struck my funnybone. I suspect that one could make sport of this, watching CNN, etc. looking for similar odd … Read more