Palin: 'Bot or Not?, written 11 hours ago, Like me, you're no doubt obsessed with this year's political campaign. And like me, you've clearly had only one question on your mind, ever since John McCain picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate: Is she cybernetic politicalbot, or...

Reducing reoffending statistics, written 3 days ago, Reoffending frequency rates fell amongst both adult and juvenile offenders in 2006, according to the latest reoffending statistics.

Sweden on the sentence against Parvin Ardalan, written 2 days ago, "The prison sentence of 3 September against Iranian human rights activist Parvin Ardalan gives cause for concern. Ms Ardalan was not permitted to travel to Sweden to accept the Olof Palme Prize in March of this year. The claim t...

At Least Someone In the Media Has the Balls to Apologize for the Despicable Treatment of Sarah Palin, written 2 days ago, Sarah Palin is not the only one with a mastery of sarcasm: On behalf of the media, I would like to say we are sorry. On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very...

LHC scientists get death threats, written 2 days ago, So it's come to this: Death threats against physicists. About what? The earth-destroying Large Hadron Collider, of course. Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog...

From the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy.

DOLE forms team to implement labor agreements with Canada, written 3 hours ago, The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has begun efforts for the implementation of the labor agreements with western Canadian provinces, that will provide Filipino workers greater access to employment opportunitie...

Ravitch disses reform, written 2 days ago, In an entry on the Bridging Differences EdWeek blog entitled "This Strange New Era of 'Reform'," Diane Ravitch disses reform noting that This is the strange new era we are embarked upon, in which the mantle of "reformer" has passed to th...

Breaking News: Feds Can Executives at Fannie May and Freddie Mac, written 13 hours ago, The Bush administration and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson made the move today for the federal government to take control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and removed executives of both.  ...

House Candidates Back on the Program, written 3 days ago, ST. PAUL, Minn. -- After having their originally-scheduled appearances bumped off the Republican National Convention program Monday in the wake of Hurricane Gustav, a small slate of GOP House candidates has been slotted to appear early in the...

OneWebDay 2008: An E-Democracy Time Capsule, written 2 weeks ago, We're just under a month away from OneWebDay 2008, and the Washington, DC OneWebDay planning committee would like to invite you to participate. Susan Crawford, an Internet legal scholar and CDT Policy Fellow, started OneWebDay four ye...

Obama's Web Team Is Asleep at the Helm, written 3 hours ago, Barack Obama has an attractive website with some nice online grassroots tools for volunteers. Nonetheless, Obama's Web team is making some novice mistakes as the campaign progresses. A well-done usability evaluation performed by the Cataly...

Top News of the Day- National Hurricane Center, written 3 days ago, Thu, 4 Sep 2008 17:50:19 UTC Top News of the...

Set Free!, written 14 hours ago, I've been deeply ensconced in a couple of creative projects lately, leading me to reopen two books that have been bedside companions of mine over the past several decades, Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace, Gordon MacKenzie...

PSA: I am neither suicidal nor dumb, written 1 week ago, Man, you take apart a monitor at a party and everyone wants to know what the hell you?re doing.I mean, L. and I had a perfectly good reason for it: it was a hacker party, we were working on hacking together a high-voltage power supply from a C...

Kiss Off, written 6 hours ago,

The New York Times Adds Its Voice to Caperton v. Massey Case, written 18 hours ago, An editorial in the Sunday New York Times echoes the American Bar Association and other groups in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review the ruling by its West Virginia counterpart overturning a $76.3 million judgme...

Blog Post Round-Up, written 1 day ago, Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5...

The Military's "Non-Lethal" Blow Torch, written 1 day ago, The Danger Room has been following the US military's R&D into allegedly "non-lethal" weaponry for some time. Last weekend, Noah Schachtman reported: "Defense contractor Northrop Grumman is promising the Pentagon ...

Jazz on the 5th, Nr.4, written 3 days ago, Jazz singers have enchanted us. Like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. Or Joe Williams and Bobby McFerrin. Or Al Jarreau. But there are also singer groups. In older days, the Andrews Sisters or the Modernaires. And who does not know the "Golden Gate ...