Line Rider – beta by ~fsk on deviantART: —– you draw a line, there is a little guy on the sled… he sleds down the line…. then.. at the end, he has either crashed, or, he falls off the end of the line and spins off into the Sartrian existentialist fugue.

Are We Really So Fearful? – washingtonpost.com: Can’t the United States see that when we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim and the perpetrator who are corrupted, not only the “intelligence” that is contaminated, but also everyone who looked away and said they did not know, everyone […]

Shame and Horror: First option, block this horror — filibuster if needed — and risk paying a political price: For a taste of the ‘vote for us or die’ campaign that’s in the works, see this utterly repulsive ad already being run by Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-CT). And recall that Johnson is supposedly one of […]

Tucson Weekly : currents : Censored Stories : Halliburton, the notorious U.S. energy company, sold key nuclear-reactor components to a private Iranian oil company called Oriental Oil Kish as recently as 2005, using offshore subsidiaries to circumvent U.S. sanctions, journalist Jason Leopold reported on Globalresearch.ca, the Web site of a Canadian research group. He cited […]

Average home has more TVs than people – Yahoo! News: NEW YORK – The average American home now has more television sets than people. That threshold was crossed within the past two years, according to Nielsen Media Research. There are 2.73 TV sets in the typical home and 2.55 people, the researchers said. —– this […]

New York Times Ad: The National Council of Churches makes a statement, that I agree with.

Random Walk in Learning: Problem of Being an Expert and Having Expertise: Is expertise pure “social-fact”, a socially recognised procession of a collection of “scientific fact” as in positivism, or a connection of nodes including other experts, databases or organisations? —- I’ll respond on corante sometime today, but… neither is true. expertise is not a […]

Canadian Was Falsely Accused, Panel Says – washingtonpost.com: Some crucial questions about the incident remain unanswered, at least publicly. Over the repeated objections of O’Connor, the federal government censored much of the testimony given during the proceedings as well as some of the final report. O’Connor’s report said a federal court should be asked to […]

Opinions: ‘Baby bomber’ by Josephine Wall | Prospect Magazine October 2006 issue 127: Google made obsessively tracking progress of my bad joke an easy task. A week after the solicitor’s letter, the controversy had appeared in 35 newspaper articles. Ten days later and my quote had appeared on nearly a thousand websites. An online store […]