Political Patterns on the WWW -- Divided We Stand, Valdis Krebs updates his excellent mapping of political book buying patterns on Amazon. Its as striking as ever.
Due Diligence has notes from the near future of paranoia and digital security
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: Bruce Mau: The Aura of Power
424 Sound Monster rips up those ring tone beats
huméco: exploring fair trade in the garment industry
Quality Propaganda from Ben Cohen's True Majority
Bruno Latour's Paris: Invisible City is apparently a "sociological web opera". Sort of like what hypertext academics where dreaming of pre dot com, only now realized successfully. Need to spend more time with it to judge whether the web is the most apropos venue for the work...
DetroitYES - The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit Forum
Scot Hacker's thoughts on the Grey Album, pretty on point, although I'd argue that Jay-Z's talents as an MC are mainly of the subtle sort that is difficult to impress on the non hip hop fan. Took me a long time to appreciate him as a brilliant MC and I love the music...
" The draw of these shows is obviously their romantic lure: we get to watch in astonishing detail while a couple falls in love. But doesn't the format of the show make it a little too obvious just how mechanical the whole affair is? After all, on every single one of these shows all you have to do is give the guy/gal 25 members of the opposite sex for a few weeks and bingo! With almost computerlike precision they fall deeply in love with at least one of the contestants — and usually with two or three of them.
"How is it possible to retain our fantasies about the ineffable and mysterious qualities of love under these circumstances?"
Dove Beauty, more signs of marketing's classy, artsy future?
MarketingWonk: Toyota in Exclusive eBay Deal, signs of the future marketing web?
Howard Stern Pulled Off Air, they say "indecency", I say repugnant or not Howard Stern is the most popular leftwing radio personality on the air. Hmmmmm
the Dubya Constitution, funny and not funny at all, simultaneously.
angermann2 » Dislocation: Cut-Up Cartography
"We don't support that" and other tales of tech support hell. Makes me like Dell even more, living proof that you can build a company on service. Lets hope others wake to it.
Fuck, as if Bush pushing the anti gay marriage amendment is bad enough, now I have to learn that the proposed language might be a bait and switch banning all civil union protections for gay couples. Does this administration have no shame? Do I even need to ask that?
Bubble Chamber | Processing exhibition, November 2003
Under the Freeway, by Rob Walker, public space in New Orleans, well worth the read.
Education Secretary declares the largest teacher's union a terrorist organization.
Talking Points Memo and Whiskey Bar are breathing fire this morning. Chalabi offers to take the fall, illegal immigrants and more political nastiness...
Metatempo: Surviving Globalization, Decision Support Systems, Inc.
Even the Religious conservatives get screwed by Bush, is there anyone left who hasn't?
tech ronin: FlipStart Micro PC 1lb, I want one.
Vietnam Ironies Inside Ironies via Billmon
Joshua Micah Marshall on the next Republican scandal, yep another one...
Coming Attractions, the Lords of the Bling, heh. Ja Rule as Golem is absolutely classic...
More Cities Supportive of Gay Marriage and I've got to admit that Newsom has surprised me in a good way as SF mayor. Meanwhile Jack Balkin argues that constitutional change often starts with political action and hits the courts last.
Patrick Moore, the Battle for Biotech Progress, sums up some of the inherent contradictions in the environmental movement. Peep the latest Harper's for another eye opener.
WHERE IS THE RUNAWAYCHEF?: S-21 CAMBODIA, the "security prison" for the Khmer Rouge, damn.
S/FJ on Shopsin's with bonus Stienski remix.
papersplease.org the case of Dudley Hiibel
Cowboyz 'n' Poodles: Checking Out of the Holidae In and letting dem other bloggas know how to get down.
Yahoo! News - Dean to Leave Race, Mobilize Supporters, looks like my 'new DFA' predictions are coming true.
Bill Bennett, the Dom and the standards of sex scandals
Martial Law in the NYC? Either way the GOP convention in September is going to be hectic in the streets...
apophenia: Ni una mas! Not one more in Juarez!
"Scott McClellan finally lost it Friday, according to White House reporters."
Michel Gondry : Steriogram Walkie Talkie Man Music Video, can Gondry do no wrong?
Back to Iraq 3.0: Civil War a Real Possibility
Forget an Affleck when I begin my own failed engagement to the J.Low I'm getting her this
Question? How old and conservative do you need to be to think that John Kerry hanging with Jane Fonda is a political negative?
The Dubya Abortion? them rumors, they spreading
Bush's driving arrests disclosed, second page of arrest info still redacted.
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: Neville Brody Revisited
How to steal an election online, step by step instructions, don't have time to process this, but damn, this story gets bigger and bigger every month...
v-2 Organisation | interface usability | Mike Buzzard: the v-2 interview
Joshua Micah Marshall as he often does, make things a lot clearer, this time with the Bush military records fiasco. So what are you hiding Mister Dubya?
Soul In Code: The Next Predator : MIT Aerial Robotics
Did Bush Get a Nose Job in the Oval Office? And is that worse then...
Political Wire: Chandler Looks Good With One Week To Go, and he raise $40,000 in 10 days off of blog ads!
danah boyd on Joe Trippi + Manuel Castells on the segregation of information
Timeless Movie Characters: The Ass-to-Ass guy
Calpundit keeps on the AWOL president story
Is Tony Toast?, don't miss the illustration too...
completely surrounded by no trees, TV on the Radio have a blog, yeah.
Style: The Sound, S/FJ chops up the Neptunes/Timbaland axis for the NYTMag...
Social capital and a lack of public engagement
-=< Halavais: News Archives>The Third Person Candidate
The Virus Underground by Clive Thompson with photos by the one Ryan McGinley
The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare, Abrupt climate change, brrrr.
blentwell.com the blended music authority
Massive Change - Call for Images deadline is tomorrow (today?) Friday the 6th...
Core77 Articles: Insanely great, or just good enough?
Joi Ito's Web: Lunch, the universe and everything with Seth Lloyd
infovore.org one who consumes information.
Social Design Notes: Protest and New Media, 1787 the roots of non profit tactics.
runawaychef: Central Market at Phnom Penh
Jim Moore: Dean restocked by the grassroots
How India became the capital of the computing revolution
malevole - Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?
A Well-Imagined Star, the Mingering Mike story, damn that's a good read
G A P M I N D E R Making sense of the world by having fun with statistics
oh shit... the electronic voting fear grows increasingly legitimate
a time for fear gives the low down on Pakistani nukes
stevenberlinjohnson.com: My Theory About Dean's Demise: He Got Fewer Votes Than The Other Guys
Andrew Orlowski is talking more shit, this time about the Dean campaign. More on point then usual for once, which means he maybe got 1 out 5 facts right... Follow the picture link though that's a legitimate critique. Cool that Mr. Armstrong credits Deleuze and Lakoff too.