November 9, 2008
Monday, November 10
- King of the World "It's important that President-elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one." -Valerie Jarrett, the newly appointed co-chair of the president-elect’s transition team. [HT Moonbattery]
- Post-election celebrations continue in Iraq: Baghdad double bombing kills 25
- ThreatsWatch.Org: 'Unproven Missile Defense Systems' Are 'Proven' To Russians
- Well worth looking at: Jules Crittenden's (Hot) Reporter Investigated For Looting
- Pause.... and Begin Again: A Flag, on a Hill by Bill Whittle
- Tom Lord on ritual, knowledge and the web
As we more and more intrusively let the Net redefine "friendship," "reputation," "freedom," "collaboration," and "knowledge," we are turning our attention away from the real social order and we're turning our backs on the Enlightenment entirely.
- The Name Game #169 "Amanda g. & albert M. bring a girl forth and tag her with Aysia Kamora. So now there's a little girl running around who's named after a continent and a fish with a suction cup on its head."
- Al Gore
InventsJoins Twitter
- Stuff White People Like: #115 Promising to Learn a New Language
- Open the Future: 80 Hours in the Air-Conditioned Nation Singapore. Briefly.
- A nod is as good as a wink:
"The US is just as segregated as it was before Martin Luther King – in schools, streets, neighbourhoods, holidays, even in its TV-watching habits and its choice of fast-food joint. The difference is that it is now done by unspoken agreement rather than by law." -PETER HITCHENS: The night we waved goodbye to America...our last best hope on Earth
- Prometheus - Lies Posing as History"What is it about the climate change debate that causes previously excellent scholars to go absolutely insane and disregard all standards of research integrity?"
- Gay LA Cop Says LGBT in California is nuts: ex-Liberal in Hollywood: Gay Activist Opposes Church Protests "As a gay man, who spent years protecting my community as a gay police officer, I am deeply ashamed of my community. I am disgusted with what I have seen, read, and heard."
- Unquote: Missing the Mark - WSJ.com "Quotation marks have fallen out of favor, and that's bad for books"
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