December 2008
The Ten Young Progressive Intellectuals Who Make... →
“I doubt that ink on paper can ever replace the smell, the feel of the Internet...”
– Jay Rosen
Professor pioneers DIY adjustable glasses that do... →
“Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start with a small trivial...”
– Linus Torvalds
“In reality, the big elephant fields that the world depends on are already past,...”
– Rogue Columnist
“But, like most of the alleged principles to which our political elite professes...”
– Glenn Greenwald
How to be creative →
Human beings are born with numbers on the brain →
“Hollywood did not regain this golden slurry until the 1990s, when Kevin Costner...”
– Johann Hari
Coming Soon From Apple: Big Touch? →
“Reinstate something like the Fairness Doctrine of the airwaves. It doesn’t have...”
– David Brin
What Do You Wish From Google in 2009? →
Usable AppEngine platform — batch (offline) executions, improved DataStore mechanics, and just feeling of a production web application framework
Google Chrome for Mac
Native iPhone Google Reader application
Bring back JotSpot or some other simple Wiki platform
Repair the broken YouTube search feature
“Everyone knows what happened in the Soviet Union and throughout Eastern Europe...”
– Harold Pinter
Poverty-Stricken Africans Receive Desperately... →
“Corporations have intruded into every facet of life. We eat corporate food. We...”
– Chris Hedges
Yellowstone rattled by "swarm" of quakes →
Is the Super Volcano Beneath Yellowstone Ready to... →
“The idealistic former altar boy joined the C.I.A. because he wanted to be part...”
– Philip Agee - Unspooked
Oldest American man dies at 112 →
“Terrorism is a normative term and not a descriptive concept. An empty word that...”
– Nir Rosen
“So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a...”
– George Washington
“It sounds meddlesome and anathema to libertarian principles. Yet, without such...”
– David Brin
How kangaroo burgers could save the planet →
“But let me say that what Israel is doing in Gaza is not an act of self-defense,...”
– Dr. Mustafa Barghouti
“It’s all coming to pieces, isn’t it — the world we live in,...”
– Roger Ebert
Mass Produced Software Components (1968) →
In a survey of a random sample of U.S. emergency... →
“The world isn’t just watching the Israeli government commit a crime in...”
– Johann Hari
“Without reviewing all the vertiginous particulars of the year now ending,...”
– Jim Kunstler
In Iraq, the priests routinely celebrate mass in... →
“Understanding this dynamic — that Americans were divided over how properly...”
– Jonathan Rowe
“Vermonters often ask me whether I am pessimistic about the future of our...”
– Sen. Bernie Sanders
How To Blog Like A Pro →
What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About... →
Stack Overflow launched about three months ago,... →
“But if we are concerned about land abuse, we have begun a profound work of...”
– Wendell Berry
“Once again, Israel’s violent responses, even if there is justification for...”
– Gideon Levy
“Traditionally retailers measure “footfall”, as the number of people entering a...”
– The way the brain buys
“It’s doubtful that a majority of the population during the American...”
– Jonathan Rowe
Which CEOs Have Been Naughty or Nice According to... →