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The Best Data Visualization Projects of 2011 →

Dec 21st

BBC E-mail: UK requests return of US detainee →

The judgement against the government came under the law of Habeas Corpus, one of the most important and ancient cornerstones of English law. The rule forces the authorities to bring a prisoner to court - or to explain why they cannot do so. It was originally developed to stop monarchs making their enemies disappear without trace. ** UK requests return of US detainee ** The British government...

Dec 21st

Russell Hoban: Disappearances →

Was the late Russell Hoban an object-oriented ontologist? How’s this sound? More and more I find life is a series of disappearances followed usually but not always by reappearances; you disappear from your morning self and reappear as your afternoon self; you disappear from feeling good and reappear feeling bad. And people, even face to face and clasped in each other’s arms, disappear from each...

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Slick IT: WebDAV on Windows 7 →

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Amis on Hitchens: 'He's one of the most terrifying... →

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Costco - Complete 3-Month, 2-Person Food Supply... →

Insane.

Dec 15th

Kavinsky - Nightcall (Nation Remix), posted on... →

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Louis C.K. Answering Questions on Reddit →

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“UPDATE. OK, either it was me in 2011, or someone else 75 years earlier. Courtesy...”

– ‘A Dumb Person’s Idea of a Smart Person’: Whose Line Is It? - James Fallows - Politics - The Atlantic

Dec 13th

"People are cows," I say. "What do you mean?" "I mean they'll do whatever the federal government tells them to do," I say. "How come you don't go through the machine?" he asks me. I give him several more answers than he expected: 1) I prefer to limit my exposure to radiation, which the back-scatter imager produces;
 2) I don't think this new technology will stop terrorism;
 3) I find the idea of the government taking pictures of my genitalia a discomfiting invasion of privacy;
 4) I find the specific pose a person is forced to take inside the machine -- hands up, as in a mugging -- particularly debasing. "Okay," he says, "have a nice flight."

Dec 13th

“I asked him if he was looking forward to conducting the full-on pat-downs....”

– For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance - Jeffrey Goldberg - National - The Atlantic [O, jeeeez…]

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