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Waltz With Bashir
Jan 31st
“A bailout organized around urban and public infrastructure...”
— Emma Rothschild
Jan 31st
“Democracies are predicated not simply on Socratic energy,...”
— Cornel West
Jan 31st
Watch Watch
Men On Football
Jan 31st
“The Republicans in office now are by and large social...”
— Larisa Alexandrovna
Jan 31st
“There’s a moral dimension to every kind of bombing...”
— Pierre Sprey
Jan 31st
Barring a pick-up in job creation—which is...
Jan 31st
The Bailout Game
Jan 31st

A Q&A With Gregory Cochran

2blowhards.com: What is the Gregory Cochran view on 'Idiocracy'? I.e. the recent phenomenon where rich countries' economic surplus, created by the successful evolutionary adaptation of their population acts nowdays to yield a sizable demographic surplus of gene-carriers of the less successful adapters.
Gregory Cochran: Average genetic IQ potential is probably dropping: something in the range of 0.5 -1.0 pts per generation. The driver is mostly low fertility among women with lots of education.
Jan 31st
The credit crunch according to Soros
Jan 31st
“In their slavish devotion to Hooverism, today’s...”
— Colbert I. King
Jan 31st
Presidents and Economic Performance
Jan 31st

A relatively large number of feeds?

Daring Fireball: NetNewsWire and iPhone-Sized Data As you might imagine, I subscribe to a...
Jan 30th
“Racism, to most black evangelicals, is a virus permeating...”
— Friends of Justice
Jan 30th
Republican Suicide
Jan 30th
“I coined the term “Generation Jones” for this...”
— Jonathan Pontell
Jan 30th
“The overall method of American occupation is so expensive...”
— Philip Greenspun
Jan 30th
Watch Watch
Did You Know? 3.0
Jan 30th
Are we married to the mission or the methods?
Jan 30th
“We should not expect the Bible to answer the questions that...”
— John H. Walton
Jan 30th
Watch Watch
The Commons
Jan 30th
Six Ways to Boost Brainpower
Jan 30th
“The Communications Act of 1934 provided that the airwaves...”
— Douglas Crockford
Jan 30th
DanzigerCartoons.com
Jan 30th
Rush Limbaugh Gives Republicans Hope Again
Jan 30th
“Copyright was never intended as an alternative mechanism for...”
— Ars Technica
Jan 30th
“In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow...”
— Bruno Argento
Jan 30th
“So 2009 will be a squalid year, a planetary hostage...”
— Bruce Sterling
Jan 30th
Presidential Approval Ratings from 1945-2008
Jan 30th
Floating rubbish dump 'bigger than US'
Jan 30th
“As the world changes ever faster, as industries shrink and...”
— Seth Godin
Jan 30th
What's the Matter with Michigan?
Jan 30th
The Joy of Tech
Jan 30th
Iraqi Government to Blackwater: Get out and...
Jan 30th
“Congress does not have the moral will or political courage...”
— Bruce Droppings
Jan 30th
Ten Reasons to Like the Pittsburgh Steelers
Jan 29th
cagle.com
Jan 29th
“This is a prime example of the continued “ghettoization” (no...”
— Bruce Droppings
Jan 29th
10 Reasons Eating Raw is Healthier For You...
Jan 29th
“Years ago, reporters for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer are...”
— Thom Hartmann
Jan 29th
OLPC 2.0: After Layoffs, One Laptop...
Jan 29th
“Unfortunately, Roberts is wrong. Government databases are...”
— Schneier on Security
Jan 29th
Ten sci-fi devices nearing reality
Jan 29th
“So, in a replay of 1993, the Republicans made clear with...”
— Robert Parry
Jan 29th
CIA Station Chief accused of multiple...
Jan 29th
State of the States: Political Party Affiliation
Jan 29th
What real life bad habits has programming...
Jan 29th
“Random stranger spits in Mike Arrington’s face;...”
— Giles Bowkett
Jan 28th
Congressman intros bill requiring...
Jan 28th
The Social Pulpit
Jan 28th
“God is not threatened by differences. It’s we who are.”
— Richard Rohr
Jan 28th
“While the church is still talking about diversity or...”
— Dave Gibbons
Jan 28th
“To cure health care, give your care-givers a clear incentive...”
— Robin Hanson
Jan 28th
Police Could Soon Control Stolen Cars Using...
Jan 28th
Tracking Layoffs
Jan 28th
“Limbaugh and many of his listeners have said they hope Obama...”
— Guy Reel
Jan 28th
Disagree with a flight attendant? You're a...
Jan 28th
“I think we might have stumbled upon a new fallacy–call it...”
— The NonSequitur
Jan 28th
“Glenn Beck wants everyone to think he’s just an...”
— Orcinus
Jan 27th
cagle.com
Jan 27th
“I just heard a Republican making the case for a stimulus...”
— daggatt
Jan 27th
“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good...”
— Stephen Grellet (via...
Jan 27th
“Next, write off anyone who asserts that it’s always better...”
— Paul Krugman
Jan 27th
Marijuana could prevent Alzheimer's
Jan 27th
danzigercartoons.com
Jan 27th
A 93-year-old man froze to death inside his...
Jan 27th
“The Bush regime was a lawless regime. This makes it...”
— Paul Craig Roberts
Jan 27th
How to Read a Book: The Rules for Analytical...
Jan 27th
azcentral.com
Jan 27th
Why do the majority of people never get...
Jan 27th
“…when we read the bible, the dead sea scrolls, or other...”
— The Bible, Metaphor, and...
Jan 27th
“Despite the positive harbingers from Obama of a new,...”
— Juan Cole
Jan 27th
Watch Watch
NBS Nightly News with Ted Philips, March 11th 1970
Jan 27th
“Most of the “traditions” we associate with...”
— Stephanie Coontz
Jan 26th
Free Monty Python Videos on Youtube Lead to...
Jan 26th
“…we need to realize we’ve been told that there are only two...”
— David Korten
Jan 26th
70,000 Jobs Lost Worldwide Today
Jan 26th
“A near unanimous 94% of Americans are concerned about our...”
— Frank Luntz
Jan 26th
The Linux Alternative Project
Jan 26th
washingtonpost.com
Jan 26th
“It was Israel, not Hamas, which violated the truce...”
— Chris Hedges
Jan 26th
Global Internet Audience Surpasses 1 billion...
Jan 26th
“With only a week in office, Barack Obama has already...”
— Glenn Greenwald
Jan 26th
Working from Home: Why It Sucks
Jan 26th
“I’ve been skeptical of the “stimulus” as...”
— Jim Kunstler
Jan 26th
“Old-fashioned copyright is nothing but a form of modern...”
— Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jan 25th
DanzigerCartoons.com
Jan 25th
A year with an Amazon Kindle
Jan 25th
“If you start getting into the whole creation-evolution...”
— Rob Bell
Jan 25th
Fifteen Pro-Life Truths to Speak
Jan 25th
Waltz with Bashir
Jan 25th
Robotic Mall Cop Unveiled in Japan
Jan 25th
“If you look with a squinty eye at most of personal computing...”
— Alan Kay
Jan 25th
Coffee Today Keeps Dementia Away
Jan 25th
nypress.com
Jan 24th
How America Embraced Lemon Socialism
Jan 24th
“Here is the final accounting for the equity markets under...”
— daggatt
Jan 24th
Watch Watch
Fox News Fear Imbalance
Jan 24th
“You too can apply the Kristof Principle, which he advocates...”
— Sadly, No!
Jan 24th
“Think about how intellectually dishonest Kristof’s...”
— David Sirota
Jan 24th
“The team plays in a stadium plopped into a cotton field. The...”
— Rogue Columnist
Jan 24th

An opportunity to confront neoliberalism...

Recycling Free Market Myths NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof engages in myopic binary thinking...
Jan 24th
“Whenever people asked Mother Theresa about her work in...”
— Irresistible Revolution
Jan 24th
Watch Watch
Shane Claiborne at Fusion Youth
Jan 24th
Too bad you can't pay back investors with...
Jan 24th
“The First Rule of Critical Reading, digital or otherwise,...”
— Whimsley
Jan 24th

What was your first job?

So far back into my life annals, I am uncertain which came first — my paperboy gigs or working as a...
Jan 23rd
rjmatson.com
Jan 23rd
“When it comes to foreigners, American justice is not blind;...”
— Chris Crawford
Jan 23rd
“Christians who call for U.S. air strikes on some...”
— Laurence M. Vance
Jan 23rd

People were not watching the Reagan...

Nielsen puts Reagan Above Obama Conservatives, sour over the fact that Barack Hussien Obama is now...
Jan 23rd
Towards responsible use of...
Jan 23rd
cagle.com
Jan 23rd
The third greatest commandment
Jan 23rd
“Morales ran for election against this agenda. He said that...”
— Johann Hari
Jan 22nd
Learning to Think Like A Programmer
Jan 22nd
“…we have elected as president the most remarkable politician...”
— daggatt
Jan 22nd
bartcop.com
Jan 22nd
“In today’s America, it is also quite possible to talk about...”
— Perestroika 2.0 Beta
Jan 22nd
“In the first half of the last century, railroads used these...”
— Back on Tracks
Jan 22nd
Time 1234567890 is coming up soon
Jan 22nd
“Barack Obama will have spent his first several days in...”
— Glenn Greenwald
Jan 22nd
Inside Programmable Road Signs
Jan 22nd
“We contend, and we contend relentlessly, for the dignity of...”
— Richard John Neuhaus
Jan 22nd
seattlepi.nwsource.com
Jan 22nd
“Access is so superior to ownership, or possession, that it...”
— Kevin Kelly
Jan 22nd
“I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is...”
— Norman Finkelstein
Jan 22nd
“In his timely inauguration speech, Obama gave us marching...”
— Cathleen Falsani
Jan 22nd
cagle.com
Jan 22nd
What Does It Mean To Be An Internet...
Jan 22nd
“…it’s hard to abide the commentary suggesting that...”
— Ezra Klein
Jan 22nd
Tiny motor allows robots to swim through...
Jan 22nd
“Less than a decade ago, Mexico was considered the darling of...”
— Crime Pays
Jan 22nd
If a church purchases a mall, is that culture...
Jan 22nd
“On his first day in office, President Obama put former...”
— Obama to Bush: I Can Release...
Jan 22nd
“Of all the endeavors we humans are now engaged in, perhaps...”
— New Rules for the New Economy
Jan 21st
'Bulletflight' iPhone App Helps Snipers Hit...
Jan 21st
DanzigerCartoons.com
Jan 21st
“America is losing its overwhelming technological dominance...”
— Robert A. Pape
Jan 21st
The Joy of Tech
Jan 21st
“Executives of Chinese state-owned companies don’t bring home...”
— Glen Ford
Jan 21st
BibleMap.org
Jan 21st
“…much of the decline of newspaper circulation relates not to...”
— C. Edwin Baker
Jan 21st
Watch Watch
Project Save Justice
Jan 21st
Irony Is Dead
Jan 21st
The Steelers say they have a new fan in the...
Jan 21st
Watch Watch
Happy “Obama is President Day”
Jan 21st
An Inauguration for the Ages
Jan 21st
“On January 11, 1944, in his annual State of the Union...”
— Michael Lind
Jan 21st
Throw your hard drive away, Google's Gdrive...
Jan 21st
“…it struck me that President Obama repeatedly called upon us...”
— David Brin
Jan 21st
Obama Renovates WhiteHouse.gov
Jan 20th
Brush with Obama
Jan 20th
Watch Watch
Pete Seeger & Bruce Springsteen - “This Land is Your Land”
Jan 20th
“On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over...”
— Obama’s Inaugural...
Jan 20th
azcentral.com
Jan 20th
Our world may be a giant hologram
Jan 20th
“HE LEAVES the White House as one of the least popular and...”
— The Economist
Jan 20th
Will the Republicans Have a YouTube Response...
Jan 20th
Watch Watch
Ubiquity for Firefox
Jan 19th
“The heart of King’s dream wasn’t about racial equality. It...”
— Greg Boyd
Jan 19th
poverty is not economics (via amaah)
Jan 19th
“And so Jesus gave us a new norm of greatness. If you want to...”
— Martin Luther King
Jan 19th
“Just to have a president who can speak well and...”
— Rogue Columnist
Jan 19th
“There was a time when the church was very powerful—in...”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Jan 19th
cagle.com
Jan 19th
The Santa Clausification of Martin Luther...
Jan 19th
“One day a man came to Jesus, and he wanted to raise some...”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jan 19th
theatlantic.com
Jan 19th
“There’s been plenty of buzz in the blogosphere about...”
— Jim Kunstler
Jan 19th
Would Martin Luther King, Jr. Go To Disney...
Jan 19th
“To me the relationship of this ministry to the making of...”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jan 19th
“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance...”
— Eric Shinseki
Jan 19th
A Review of the Best Robots of 2008
Jan 18th
DanzigerCartoons.com
Jan 18th
“Collapsing economy, unrevalling climate, 1,000,0000 dead...”
— The Bush administration in ten...
Jan 18th
“Just when you begin to lose faith in America’s ability to...”
— Matt Taibbi
Jan 18th
“Today, King would urge Obama to continue building a broad...”
— Michael Honey
Jan 18th
bartcop.com
Jan 18th
“The Republicans will likely continue their destructive...”
— Chris Crawford
Jan 18th
“For the president-elect, religion has always been less about...”
— washingtonpost.com
Jan 18th
A glimpse at the future of crowds
Jan 18th
“HOWEVER, THE worst results of this war are still invisible...”
— Uri Avnery
Jan 18th
Watch Watch
Michelle Goldberg: The Rise of Christian Nationalism
Jan 17th
“I’m all for reading bad books because I consider them...”
— Ann Patchett
Jan 17th
In Mottos We Trust?
Jan 17th
“I’m sorry, but if we don’t have an inquest into what...”
— Paul Krugman
Jan 17th
Belkin's Amazon Rep Paying For Fake Online...
Jan 17th
“Offering Americans 21st century transportation options is...”
— Rogue Columnist
Jan 17th
“The choice is not between violence and nonviolence. It is...”
— Martin Luther King
Jan 17th
cagle.com
Jan 17th
George W. Bush’s gift to the American...
Jan 17th
“Boxee has allowed me to replace cable with no remorse. Most...”
— Jef Holbrook, a 27-year-old...
Jan 17th
Fresh evidence of Israeli phosphorus use in...
Jan 17th
“The failure can be traced directly to an elitist economic...”
— The Speech President Obama...
Jan 17th
Watch Watch
Joseph Pine on what consumers want
Jan 16th
“In tort law there used to be a concept known as “one free...”
— daggatt
Jan 16th
What's a typical American?
Jan 16th
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in...”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Jan 16th
“The atom is the icon of the 20th century. The atom whirls...”
— New Rules for the New Economy
Jan 16th
Really great news from YouTube
Jan 16th
DanzigerCartoons.com
Jan 16th
“One part of Americans’ ‘official future’ is that Mexico will...”
— Mexico: Decline & Fall
Jan 16th
14 Percent of U.S. Adults Can't Read
Jan 16th
Wireless Electricity Is Here (Seriously)
Jan 16th
Watch Watch
Arpaio’s First Victims of 2009
Jan 16th
“We experimentally demonstrate a causal link between...”
— Recordkeeping alters economic...
Jan 16th
Lipstick on a Deficit
Jan 16th
“I have a hard time taking these Cassandras of the Computer...”
— How Google Is Making Us...
Jan 16th
The 10 most unethical people in business
Jan 16th
“For years, Republicans have been trying to create a large...”
— David Brooks
Jan 16th
“When Barack Obama steps into the White House next week the...”
— daggatt
Jan 16th
DanzigerCartoons.com
Jan 15th
Google Features I’d Like To See
Jan 15th
“The PackBot is only one of the many new unmanned systems...”
— Robots at War: The New...
Jan 15th
“Anger is easy. Anger at the right person, at the right time,...”
— Aristotle
Jan 15th
Broken Government: Top Ten Failures of the...
Jan 15th
“But the drug war has undermined the rule of law in other...”
— War on Drugs: The Collateral...
Jan 15th
Hitler appointed me his biographer
Jan 15th
Watch Watch
Six Days Seven Nights
Jan 15th
“Three out of four Republicans think Bush has actually done a...”
— daggatt
Jan 15th
Watch Watch
Wrath of Khan
Jan 15th
“Reporters (like the ones responsible for the journalistic...”
— billmon
Jan 15th
rjmatson.com
Jan 14th
“Terrorism” is probably the single most elastic and...”
— Glenn Greenwald
Jan 14th
“Word, Google Office and OpenOffice all come with a...”
— Cory Doctorow
Jan 14th
“Why does Israel have a right to exist, but Palestine...”
— Paul Craig Roberts
Jan 14th
“Punchline: if we really care about the investigation and the...”
— Seth Godin
Jan 14th
washingtonpost.com
Jan 14th
Obamicon.Me
Jan 14th
“If someone held for civil contempt can’t meet the...”
— No Charge: In Civil-Contempt...
Jan 14th
How to Become a More Effective Learner
Jan 14th
“…the events of the last few months should have etched...”
— Drew Westen
Jan 13th
Report Finds Online Threats to Children...
Jan 13th
“The reason we have almost everything that we value as a...”
— Dave Johnson
Jan 13th
Why You Should Be Screaming for Higher Taxes
Jan 13th
“Of course, few put any faith in the now-failed policies of...”
— Wayne Flynt
Jan 13th
Jeff Danziger
Jan 13th
“I mean, really, I’m just so impatient with the argument that...”
— Clay Shirky
Jan 13th
“War – every war – is the realm of lies. Whether called...”
— Uri Avnery
Jan 13th
"REVOLVING DOOR" – AN INVESTIGATION INTO...
Jan 13th
“There’s much consternation about the so-called...”
— Randall Amster
Jan 13th
“The funny thing, though, is when television came along, it...”
— Clay Shirky
Jan 13th
Christianity Is No Longer Americans’ Default...
Jan 13th
Heavy Metal Band Names
Jan 13th
Skype for iPhone in the Works
Jan 13th
“The collapse of the job market means even harder times for...”
— Paul Craig Roberts
Jan 13th
Why Text Remains King of the Web
Jan 12th
“We can now see why blogging and the Net matter so greatly in...”
— Jay Rosen
Jan 12th
cagle.com
Jan 12th
“Let’s face it. The founding fathers stole a continent and...”
— Randy Woodley
Jan 12th
“My own theory-du-jour goes something like this: The current...”
— Jim Kunstler
Jan 12th
If, tomorrow morning, you had 60% of the time...
Jan 12th
A Month of Spam
Jan 12th
Why is it that economics is a Teflon...
Jan 12th
“The incursion into Gaza is not about destroying Hamas. It is...”
— Chris Hedges
Jan 12th
How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a...
Jan 12th
“So I am not sure what is more astonishing, that this fool...”
— Larisa Alexandrovna
Jan 12th
“ARPA succeeded because they basically funded people instead...”
— Alan Kay
Jan 12th
“First, that we always pay a price for technology; the...”
— Neil Postman
Jan 12th
bartcop.com
Jan 11th
The Hidden Cost of Smart Drugs
Jan 11th
“Instead of crusading and picketing against all of the...”
— Jon Zens & Cliff Bjork
Jan 11th
Malware on Facebook
Jan 11th
“After all, next to big-ticket administration horrors like...”
— Frank Rich
Jan 11th
Why Are the Media More Interested in Blago...
Jan 11th
bartcop.com
Jan 11th
“Libertarianism assumes the presence of many cultural...”
— Giles Bowkett
Jan 11th
“A nationalization of the private sector can indeed be called...”
— ClubOrlov
Jan 11th
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a...”
— Aristotle
Jan 11th
cagle.com
Jan 10th
The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008
Jan 10th
The digitization of books by Google is a...
Jan 10th
“What we are seeing in Gaza is the latest battle in the...”
— Bill Moyers
Jan 10th
Watch Watch
History of the Internet
Jan 10th
“Deliberate attacks on civilians that lack strict military...”
— Israel Is Committing War...
Jan 10th
washingtonpost.com
Jan 10th
“How much of the unemployment is really coming because of...”
— Dave Johnson
Jan 10th
“These moralistic arguments don’t solve anything; they...”
— Chris Crawford
Jan 9th

The Pre's Got Mojo

A developer speaks about Palm’s new SDK Our developer also tells us that Palm is open to...
Jan 9th
“The short answer is that Pittsburgh’s success...”
— Rogue Columnist
Jan 9th
The Real Price of Gold
Jan 9th
“When President Bush took office, the unemployment rate was...”
— Isaiah J. Poole
Jan 9th
Biblical Literacy Reaches New Low — Why "John...
Jan 9th
Writing in the Age of Distraction
Jan 9th
The History of Visual Communication
Jan 9th
“There are so many things that make The Wall Street Journal...”
— Jonathan Chait
Jan 9th
TV news investigation finds that nearly 1,400...
Jan 9th
“One thing you may notice, if you’ve listened to the Coast to...”
— Nut Who Proved Barack Obama’s...
Jan 8th
xkcd
Jan 8th
“Having goals is a pain in the neck. If you don’t have...”
— Seth Godin
Jan 8th
“Whether you love her or hate her, Coulter is clever. She...”
— Yvonne R. Davis
Jan 8th
Republicans Don't Get Open Source
Jan 8th
The REAL Threat to Americans
Jan 8th
W. and the damage done
Jan 8th
“Well, first off, for a trillion dollar industry dedicated to...”
— Kung Fu Monkey
Jan 8th
Judge Locks Up Sheriff in Own Jail for...
Jan 8th
“The resurrection of Jesus was and is the most culturally...”
— Andy Crouch
Jan 8th
washingtonpost.com
Jan 8th
“What you are witnessing now is exactly what happens when we...”
— Zed Shaw
Jan 8th