"The genteel mainstream news reports of this scandal (which have given it less attention than it deserves or than it will get in the Arab press) have not commented on the explicitly sexual message sent by the abusers, which is that Iraq is f**ked."
The Memory Hole > Photos of Iraqis Being Abused by US Personnel
FLASHPOINT, a disposable projector for political uses, nice.
Ben Affleck lobbies lawmakers to raise US minimum wage, prepping for a political career?
John Battelle's Searchblog: Privacy, Gmail, and Unintended Consequences
Hash, At, Slash, Backslash, Open, Close, Bang William Safire on ASCII...
melted.light.bolb.hiroshim.jpg (JPEG Image, 401x503 pixels)
NathanNewman.org - News and Views: Subcontracting: Big Lie of the Economy
YOU ARE A CRACKHEAD. WHY DON'T YOU OWN A CRACKPIPE?
NY BLOGGERS: MONDAY MAY 3 @ 6PM @ APPLE STORE SOHO
Malcolm McLaren: 8-Bit Punk, missed this when it came out somehow.
v-2 Organisation | news | Redesigning the 1040: my magnificent obsession, Adam redoes the 1040, nice work, more comments to follow...
WILLFUL INFRINGEMENT: A report from the front lines of the real culture wars
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: Catharsis, Salesmanship, and the Limits of Empire
Yahoo! News - German Buys Rights to Communist East German Emblem, for $330.
c u l t u r e k i t c h e n: Condoleezza Rice, a Sally Hemmings for the 21st Century, one of the best blog posts I've read in a long while.
Core77 presents -- Timex 2154 : The Future of Time | International Design Competition
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Malaysian Solar-Hydrogen House
Crooked Timber: To think that an old soldier should come to this
"In fact, 'Bergdorf Blondes' makes 'Sex and the City' resemble a carefully constructed anarcho-feminist critique of capitalist society... If you have any sense of justice at all, the publication of this book demands that you rouse yourself from the couch this very second and set out to loot and burn Manhattan. Meet us at Da Silvano and bring weapons." Or so says the NYT, where 'blogging it in' must be replacing 'phoning it in'...
Fundrace 2004: Neighbor Search. Find out which of your neighbors gave money to politicians. You know what to do with the Bush donors....
An American coup d'etat? (plot against Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1934)
bloggy: Pool Art Addict: A New York Underground Art Fair
Blinded by Gmail's Gigabyte? (Jeremy Zawodny's blog)
Tim O'Reilly: The Fuss About Gmail and Privacy: Nine Reasons Why It's Bogus. I don't agree on a lot of the points, but the argument is well made.
Map of U.S. Intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean
That's apparently the bombshell from the upcoming Woodward book. Its a nasty jab, but is it a KO punch?
Carbon fiber skyscrapers and architectural innovation
BUSH: Yes, I think this is a fantastic opportunity.
WTF?!? That's really the transcript... Mofo NEEDS to go and November is barely soon enough.
Chomsky's tone tends to annoy the hell out of me, but he actually makes a great point in this post.
MoveOn is organizing a series of bakesales for democracy tomorrow. So find one in your hood, get fat, enjoy spring and beat Bush!
Private U.S. Citizens Urged to Leave Saudi Arabia
The New York Times > Arts >Brooklyn Museum: Brooklyn's Radiant New Art Palace
The Dark Side of Numbers: The Role of Population Data Systems in Human Rights Abuses.
The Pinocchio Theory: Scientific study of physical beauty
ANTIHERO SKATEBOARDS has some of the best web design I've seen in a long while. Make sure to watch the Tent City trailer.
"I mean, why bother with suicide bombers when you've got both major political parties on your side?
"A friend of mine likes to call the Israeli-Palestinian issue the "Death Valley" of American progressives -- a hellish, blasted wasteland that sucks the life out of anyone who tries to cross it. Better not to go there, and instead work the land that can be watered and tilled: health care, the environment, econoimc policy, etc. And for a long time I thought that was good advice.
"But since 9/11, I've come to think that the desert has to be crossed, otherwise the gradual descent into an endless war in the Middle East is going to doom whatever slim hopes there may be for a revival of progressive domestic policies in this country -- much as the coming of the Cold War did after World War II. "
- Whiskey Bar: A Higher Law
angermann2 » Embodied information retrieval » The edge-notched punch card
While Bush vacationed, 9/11 warnings went unheard. By Fred Kaplan
"Few libertarians may believe in God, presumably because they think the universe was created by the market in a moment of perfect efficiency." Wow, believe it or not I think we've discovered the rarest of anomalies, a right winger with a sense of humor. Libertarians are such easy targets though...
The Feuilleton: Blogging in the Nineteenth Century
Hitler wasn't real, says one in 10 historically challenged Britons
∑ummation: How San Franciscans and New Yorkers Differ, not a bad take at all.
Saturday 17 April, 15.00 sound/surface @ Tate Modern
Saturday 17 April, 15.00
sound/surface
Dark Suspicions About 9/11- by Justin Raimondo, who is a bit of libertarian wingnut, but he's also been right at times. Treat as suspect, but do not dismiss outright.
Your Government Does Not Want You to See These Pictures
Gothamist Interviews: Clay Shirky, Internet Technologist
apparently the BBC News tonight wrapped up its 9-11 commission coverage by saying that Rice told the commission that "the president lacked sufficient intelligence to prevent the terrorist attack of 9/11."
Heh, I hope that's true, that it went out on the news that is, we all know the intelligence bit is true...
TIME.com: When Private Armies Take to the Front Lines -- Apr. 12, 2004
Mike's Link Blog - Very Scary Shit About John Ashcroft
US Army Chief Says Iraqi Troops Took Bribes to Surrender, last May that is, you know when they could have kept the Iraqy Army on payroll and possibly provented a huge amount of disaster...
v-2 Organisation | architecture urbanism | End to ends
"d as I blog this, all the mosques, Sunni and Shi’a alike, are calling for Jihad..."
NathanNewman.org - News and Views: Reflections: War, Globalism & Sectarianism, is an excellent round up of Newman's very articulate and reasoned leftist stance. It also provides a fascinating glimpse into the infighting that has hindered the left for decades now...
thickeye: girls.girls.girls (+ theory and practice)
dodgeball.social :: a part of the dodgeball.com network
Topix.net Weblog: The Secret Source of Google's Power
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: The Lying Game No. 2 (Or Vietnam Redux)
matt jones | work & thoughts | Royksopping a look and feel
The Living Room Candidate: A History of Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2000
Just finished Mind Wide Open by Steven Johnson and all I have to say is that Steven Shaviro's review is very much on point, so go read it, and the book of course, if ya interested of course.
Who's Got the Acid? - These days, almost nobody. By Ryan Grim
The Journal of Murketing is still email only and still one of best reads online:
Another P&G manager who had convinced an actual, living consumer to spend time with him in a grocery store in exchange for some kind of "research" fee, was surprised when his lab rat requested that fee on the spot, apparently lacking the money to pay for groceries without it. "Due to experiences like this," Ad Age says, "top P&G executives began realizing how many poor people there really are in the world, [and] what a big potential market they made up."
