March 2008
64 posts
More Americans turning to Web for news →
More than half of those who grew up with the Internet, those 18 to 29, get most of their news and information online, compared to 35 percent of people 65 and older. Older adults are the only group that favors a primary news source other than the Internet, with 38 percent selecting television.
So You Hacked Our Site!? →
February 2008
76 posts
Survey Finds Teenagers Ignorant on Basic History... →
“The group says President Bush’s education law, No Child Left Behind, has impoverished public school curriculums by holding schools accountable for student scores on annual tests in reading and mathematics, but in no other subjects.” A clear article of how the No Child Left Behind act is not working. I really don’t see how our young are learning anything with such a saturated...
The Story of Stuff →
“Understanding Bias
You click on MSNBC.com and notice a hot new development in...”
– honestreporting.com
Zero Punctuation: Uncharted: Drake's Fortune →
This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee goes treasure hunting with Uncharted.
Where to Find Free Math Courses Online →
Memoir: Part 4 (END)
“Lenny, come to my room, now,” Dwaine ordered. Lenny, who was shaking as much as a coffee addict, slowly stepped towards his father’s voice into a room much like one in which prisoners are interrogated. Each step created a small creaking sound that was magically amplified to increase the suspense. Lenny stopped in front of his dad in a mournful position, bowing his head down, not in any...
WatchArtist: Keren Ann Song: Nolita
Many Americans religiously unaffiliated: survey →
When it comes to religion, more and more U.S. adults either have none or do not identify with a particular church, although the country remains highly religious, a survey said on Monday. The report from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found a constantly shifting landscape of religious loyalties, with the Roman Catholic Church losing more adherents than any other single U.S....
Olbermann Timeline: How the Bush Administration... →
Watch the video on the bottom. For some reason, earlier today, my post made all of my previous posts to disappear.
McCain Talks Environment, Misses Votes When It... →
Where is the democracy in Web 2.0?
From Slate’s article below, I think that there is no traditional model of democracy because we really have no basis on which to base it off of. I’m of course talking about the American model, where we have the government entrusted on the hands of few… Americans do not run on a democracy, but rather a republic for one simple reason that has the web 2.0 holding power against the...
Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy... →
Every model has its drawbacks. Unlike Wikipedia, Helium doesn’t lend itself to comprehensive articles drawing on many sources. Nor is Slashdot free of moron commenters, though its quotient is significantly lower than on any unmoderated message board. It’s refreshing, though, that these sites acknowledge that Web 2.0 isn’t a fairy-tale democracy without letting themselves become...
Exxon Oil Spill Case May Get Closure - Robert... →
When a federal jury in Alaska in 1994 ordered Exxon to pay $5 billion to thousands of people who had their lives disrupted by the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill, an appeal of the nation’s largest punitive damages award was inevitable. But almost no one could have predicted the incredible round of legal ping-pong that only this month lands at the Supreme Court. In the time span of the...
Super-speed Internet satellite blasts off in Japan →
The Associated Press said the satellite would offer speeds of up to 1.2 gigabytes per second.
Memoir: Part 3
Lenny assured me the case was not armed and it would be a breeze because there were no guards at the front entrance. I, again, told him the alarm would go off. My mind ran the scenario countless times. The one scenario that seemed to be the most plausible in my mind, at that time, was that the door alarm would read a specific barcode on the case with small, invisible lasers, ...
WatchArtist: Stevie Wonder Song: Sir Duke
I Wish...
I’m so amazed at what Amazon has to offer. I want to share my wishlist somehow…
Fascist America, in 10 easy steps →
From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all
Facebook loses a few bitches →
Facebook has suffered its first drop in monthly users, according to numbers from web analytics outfit Nielsen Online. Five per cent fewer people in the UK visited the site in January compared to the previous month. A total of 400,000 seem to have become bored with the social network and didn’t bother to return.
Zero Punctuation: Yahtzee Goes to GDC →
This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee goes to GDC: a special presentation of Yahtzee’s Developer’s Choice Awards Videos from GDC 2008.
Stanford drops tuition for some students →
Czech police wonder where bridge has gone →
Police in the Czech republic are trying to find out who stole a 4 tonne railway bridge from the border town of Cheb.
Zero Punctuation Alert: Yahtzee Goes to GDC →
Stay tuned for a special presentation of Yahtzee’s Zero Punctuation GDC Developer’s Choice Awards videos tonight at midnight!
“So where does Republican frontrunner John McCain stand on this issue? McCain was...”
– Red Wind from theseminal.com
Oh, All Right. She Deserves it. →
amandaelend: Every feminist in the world is swooning over Ellen Page. In an interview with The Washington Post, the actress said these now immortal and worshipped words: “I call myself a feminist when people ask me if I am, and of course I am ‘cause it’s about equality, so I hope everyone is. You know you’re working in a patriarchal society when the word feminist has a weird connotation.”Hippie”...
Memoir: Part Two
There is the door, I thought. There are only 15 more steps and then I don’t have to worry about anyone trying to stop me. I saw the exit with two ladies checking receipts from purchasing customers. I walked right past the ladies with relief because they paid no attention neither to me nor Lenny. I am finally safe, I thought, this is truly a phenomenon. But I wasn’t safe. I wasn’t safe...
Bottled water 'is immoral' →
Drinking bottled water should be made as unfashionable as smoking, according to a government adviser.
“Tap water in Finland has been found to be significantly purer than bottled...”
– HELSINGIN SANOMAT from http://www.hs.fi/
Kosovo MPs proclaim independence →
Kosovo’s parliament has unanimously endorsed a declaration of independence from Serbia, in an historic session.
An Inevitable Draft?
It’s a question voters should be highly concerned about. Who’s dieing out there in Iraq, wait, screw that, the whole Middle East right now? American soldiers? Iraqis? Palestinians? Now, I’m not a pure pacifist or anything, but I know that America can get into more serious wars will a warmongering president that could be elected in 2008. The US is prone to have a draft if it...
“When Hillary Clinton said, way back in New Hampshire, that Vladimir Putin...”
– Ben Smith from the Politico
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