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  The Case of the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker

  01.26.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  From the NYT (through yc news): Unintended Consequences: The Case of the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker

• business, news, politics

  Shopdropping

  12.25.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  From the nyt: Anarchists in the Aisles? Stores Provide a Stage

  Otherwise known as reverse shoplifting, shopdropping involves surreptitiously putting things in stores, rather than illegally taking them out, and the motivations vary.
  Anti-consumerist artists slip replica products packaged with political messages onto shelves while religious proselytizers insert pamphlets between the pages of gay-and-lesbian readings at book [...]

• politics

  United Russia for the sweep

  12.08.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  To nobody’s surprise, Putin’s United Russia party won about 64% of the vote in last Sunday’s election. Check out the party share vs. voter turnout graph (from /.). At least Kasparov is out of jail, though his party was not allowed to run for parliament.
  The question is where the democratic hegemony lies in the world [...]

• politics

  Generation Q

  10.10.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  From Thomas Friedman at the nyt: Generation Q “may be too quiet, too online, for its own good, and for the country’s own good”: “Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy didn’t change the world by asking people to join their Facebook crusades or to download their platforms.”

• politics

  Insect robot spies

  10.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  From the washington post: Insect robot spies seen at antiwar rallies (from digg).

• personal, politics

  If the Canadian health system is so great…

  10.03.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Why are high-risk pregnancies being sent to Seattle?

  Ash’s hospital couldn’t handle the high-risk pregnancy. Doctors searched for another hospital bed, but even hospitals in Vancouver, B.C. didn’t have a neo-natal bed.
  “So two provinces didn’t have enough room, so I have to go to another country,” said Ash.
  Ash was sent to Swedish Medical Center where, nurses [...]

• news, politics

  Putin will run for parliament

  10.01.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  From the nyt: Putin Says He Will Run for Parliament:

  President Vladimir V. Putin announced today that he would be the leading candidate on the list of Russia’s dominant political party in parliamentary elections in December, and said he might become the country’s prime minister next year.
  …
  Mr. Putin’s statements strongly suggest what most analysts had already [...]

• politics, travel

  Train to the Roof of the World

  06.30.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Wired Mag: Train to the Roof of the World: “In its entirety, the Qinghai-Tibet railway stretches 1,215 miles, and most of the new portion runs over terrain with elevations between 13,000 and 16,000 feet – cruising altitude for some commuter flights.”
  Why can China build a train like that while we can’t build a simple high [...]

• politics, reviews

  Domino’s Pizza Sucks

  12.27.05 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  This is why we’re not going to eat their pizza (other than quality)… the founder of Domino’s is Thomas Monaghan, who also started the Thomas Moore Law Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Thomas Moore Center calls itself the “sword and shield for people of faith”; it has defended various pro-life groups and supports the [...]

• personal, politics

  Holiday fun at Cafepress.com

  12.22.05 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Update: sadly Penni, I am the moron that misspelled ‘Cheney’. These are 100% tingleff.com designs. I need the spelling police to keep a closer watch around here.
  For the angry liberal with everything… why not a “Bush Lied” black t-shirt?

  Or for the stylish women’s libbers, a “Bush Lied” pink hoodie?

  And my personal favorite, for men and [...]

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