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philgyford : What all this Leno/Conan/Late Night Gubbins is about: a primer for friends in the UK (from little.red.boat ) - Lengthy but clear explanation from Anna Pickard. Hurrah! I'm hoping she does get started on 'Saturday Night Live'...
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philgyford : Schneier on Security: The Comparative Risk of Terrorism - Some examples of how many Americans will die from different causes each day. eg, 50 murders, 85 suicides, 120 in traffic accidents. Every day.
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Rod Begbie : Capuano: A Washington Insider, Unknown At Home - NPR piece on Mike Capuano, my old House representative in Somerville, running for Ted Kennedy's senate seat. MA residents: Please give him your consideration. "He’s not afraid of being seen as a Washington insider. In fact, he tells the crowd of about [via] #
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6 month ago
philgyford : Legally required paid annual leave around the world, in days (05wwln.400.690.jpg) - Although some US states do have legal minimums apparently (via Haddock)
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philgyford : Historical Blogging - Pretty fantastic. Students from The Anderson School in New York created blogs, IM chats and blog comments for American Civil War-era characters. Have a read.
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Rod Begbie : E-Updates from Congressman Capuano's office - Back catalogue of Mike Capuano's e-update newsletters. Incredibly open, especially in comparison to the PR dreck I get from my current representative, Nancy Pelosi. #
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Rod Begbie : Michael Capuano jumps in Senate race - This makes me very happy. Mike Capuano was my representative when I lived in Somerville, and always impressed me. I still subscribe to his constituent's email list, where he openly discusses the way he has voted on House issues. I'd encourage any of my #
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philgyford : Government Beyond Obama? - The New York Review of Books - A review of 'The Case for Big Government' from March 2009, good at putting levels of US federal government spending in a historical perspective.
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Milo Vermeulen : The Most Interesting New Tech Startup of 2009 - Anil Dash
Anil : The Most Interesting New Tech Startup of 2009 - I love seeing people start new companies, especially in the tech world. But I've probably gotten a little bit jaded about new startups, especially when the story seems to be more about who's funding the effort than about the product itself. To me the dist
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Anil : The Most Interesting New Tech Startup of 2009 - I love seeing people start new companies, especially in the tech world. But I've probably gotten a little bit jaded about new startups, especially when the story seems to be more about who's funding the effort than about the product itself. To me the dist
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philgyford : New York Review of Ideas - Looks like rather a nice new online journal thing, marred only by having its articles split over several pages. Maddening. (via Kottke)
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Rod Begbie : For those of you comparing my facehair... - ...to Wolverine or John McCrirrick, you're wrong. My inspiration is 21st president, Chester A Arthur. #
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Rod Begbie : A Day in the Life of 3G - PC World - Useful survey of the quality of 3G cell networks in the US. Now you know that when AT&T's ads say "America's fastest 3G network", you can respond under your breath "Yeah, but you only have a 68% chance of connecting". #
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Rod Begbie : The Top 10 Most Absurd Time Covers of The Past - ZOMG Moral Panic! The things that have doomed America over the last 40 years. [via] #
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Rod Begbie : The flag of equal marriage - Now at five stars. [via] #
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tehu : Seven Deadly Sins Nationwide with "Hot Spots" - Las Vegas Sun - via <a href="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/378-x-m-aarrrh-ks-the-spot/#comment-82186">x</a>
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Rod Begbie : In Massachusetts, a husband's death shows how important marriage is - A beautiful essay by a friend about how important same-sex marriage has proven to be when faced with the unexpected death of his husband. [via] #
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13 month ago
Rod Begbie : The Hope Chest - Grisly snippets of 1930's Detroit newspapers. Disturbingly gripping. [via] #
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Rod Begbie : Please Raise My Taxes - NYTimes.com - This is exactly my attitude (which I refer to as "left-wing capitalism"). People should be free to earn as much money as they can, but an increasing amount of it should be taxed. [via] #
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gleuschk : PolitiFact | The Obameter: Tracking Barack Obama's Campaign Promises - amazing how much more I (and so many other people) care about this sort of thing now
Andy Baio : St. Petersburg Times' Obameter, tracking Obama's campaign promises - brilliant example of database-backed journalism
Rod Begbie : The Obameter: Tracking Barack Obama's Campaign Promises - A scorecard for tracking President Obama's campaign promises. A great idea. #
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Rod Begbie : Obama's People - The New York Times - Portraits of Obama's transition team. Someone should make a map of these portraits to their fictional "The West Wing" counterpart. [via] #
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Rod Begbie : Nobel Physicist Chosen To Be Energy Secretary - Yes, I know it's still the honeymoon period, and Obama isn't even president yet, but still… His appointment of a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who has been researching renewable energy to the post of Secretary of Energy is such a great sign. Really exc #
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deusx : Schneier on Security: The Future of Ephemeral Conversation - "In the end, this is cultural. The Internet is the greatest generation gap since rock and roll. We're now witnessing one aspect of that generation gap: the younger generation chats digitally, and the older generation treats those chats as writt
philgyford : Schneier on Security: The Future of Ephemeral Conversation - "The younger generation chats digitally, and the older generation treats those chats as written correspondence. ... until we have a Presidential election where both candidates have a complete history on social networking sites from before they were t
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Andy Baio : Mark Newman's 2008 election maps and cartograms - weighted by population, fun to compare to the 2004 election
Rod Begbie : 2008 Electoral Cartograms - Remoulding the US electoral map based upon population, rather than geographic, size. [via] #
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Rod Begbie : "November 4, 2008" by Patrick Moberg - #44! [via] #
Greg Storey : November 4, 2008.
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