"Wozniak didn't offer much in the way of specifics . . . . [but said, 't]he more we transfer everything onto the web, onto the ...

I've been hearing of conflicts between Israel and its neighbors my whole life, but the news media never explained enough for it to make ...

More at the links. 1. What Facebook Knows . "[O]n 219 million randomly chosen occasions, Facebook prevented someone from seeing a li...

The excerpt below is from Wisconsin Wave ; I hope you'll read the whole article, 'cuz it's a great summary of what happened in 2...

What we know (see image right, from Labor's Pains ) : What we don't know: From BradBlog : The early Exit Poll results had reported...

Been out of town; so, in cased you missed these (more re- each item at the headline link) . . . 1. Don't Forget to Sign Up for the ...

. . . you should minimize your use of the hundreds of terms listed at Animal on social media sites (or elsewhere online?) I was going to...

I'd embed Alain de Botton's TED talk, "Atheism 2.0," except that for some reason, TED's forcing a big bunch of empty s...

Per TPM , "coder turned activist" Aaron Swartz has been arrested and charged with "breaking into MIT's network and using...

Setting the record straight almost impossible * * * * * The effect of misinformation on memory and reasoning cannot be completely eliminate...

(1) "Who Are My Sycophants?"; and (2) "Of Whom Am I on the Brink of Becoming Categorized as a Sycophant?"

Telecomix seems perhaps to be a subset of We Rebuild, or a term associated with certain news and other functions? Among other efforts, Tele...

If you had any remaining doubt as to whether and how much this is happening, wonder no more. Two projects have shown that Comcast and Road ...

Dispersion (and thanks to Alison Hearst at the Modern of Fort Worth for bringing it to my attention); recommended . . . one thought it insp...

Per NBC , U.S. military officials tell NBC News that investigators have been unable to make any direct connection between a jailed army pri...

Greg Mitchell is still blogging the Wikileaks story more or less continually at The Nation . He's also written a great article on it he...

Thomas Bodström is a lawyer for the two women accusing Assange of sexual misconduct. Bodström is a former justice minister. In Sweden the j...

A few notable items since my last updates: (The image at right shows Wikileaks' backup servers and routing paths as of 2010-12-10, fro...

1. At DU, links to info re- " CIA torture theorist working for KIPP charter schools ": former American Psychological Association...

In case you hadn't heard . . . . Per The Christian Science Monitor , "[t]he US State Department has directed its staff around the ...