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Iran Election Crisis: 10 Incredible YouTube Videos
Iran Election Crisis: 10 Incredible YouTube Videos Videos #8 and #9, just break your heart. Via Mashable
Watershed for Twitter
An excellent analysis of Twitter’s “coming of age”. A great example is this footage of a massive Iranian protest tweeted by @davidwiner and a zillion other people.
The Decline of The Conservative Intellectual
The Decline of The Conservative Intellectual: “Richard Posner has a fascinating read: My theme is the intellectual decline of conservatism, and it is notable that the policies of the new conservatism are powered largely by emotion and religion and have for the most part weak intellectual groundings. That the policies are weak in conception, have [...]
Remote Workers
The Pond: “ ‘Can I work remote?’ I cringe. It’s Ian and Ian is a senior engineer. He’s a rock. He gets it done. I never have to ask him twice and, after six years, Ian has every right to ask to work remote. But I’m still freaked because my first thought when anyone asks [...]
Teabaggers and Puppetmasters
A Sci-fi authors’ take on Teabaggers and Puppetmasters: An e-mail today, which I suspect is tongue-in-cheek, but which actually is worth making a point about: Why do the teabaggers and their puppetmasters hate America so much? Well, in terms of the teabaggers, of course, they don’t hate America. They love America, and no, I’m not [...]
Obama plans high-speed rail in US
If you believe that Federal stimulus spending is a good tool to help kickstart our ailing economy, what better way than with a high-speed rail infrastructure project? High speed rail has been talked about for over a generation as a “Good Thing”, but the necessary political and financial conditions have never aligned as well as [...]
7 Ebert Paragraphs on history, newspapers, and Bill O’Reilly
Precious. A brief, but typically awesome blog post by Roger Ebert; this time on Bill O’Reilly’s recent attack against a newspaper that dropped his column.
Going rogue inside a big company (a la Best Buy)
Going rogue inside a big company (a la Best Buy) – (37signals): “How can you apply Getting Real-ish ideas inside a big company? Here’s an idea: Go rogue. Pick something and do it under the radar. Create something in a few weeks that normally takes a few months. Do something in a way that works [...]
Rush is the Least of the Republicans’ Problems
Rush is the Least of the Republicans’ Problems (Via FiveThirtyEight.com.)
you can’t make this stuff up
you can’t make this stuff up: “ Breaking news from The Huffington Post: Three days after receiving $25 billion in federal bailout funds, Bank of America Corp. hosted a conference call with conservative activists and business officials to organize opposition to the U.S. labor community’s top legislative priority. Participants on the October 17 call — [...]
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