18 April 2005

Where else has my translation of the Fatwa gone?

Research Topics I think it is time to talk about "open-source" translation. Is there anything like that out there?
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Take it to the churches!

Hullabaloo | Prove It

But like I said, all that needs to change things here is that these vast numbers of priests, pastors and preachers tell their tens of millions of obedient flocks to stop watching the bad stuff. The bad stuff will disappear if they do it, guaranteed. Take this message to the churches, not the politicians. If we are to believe that this country is awash in religiosity and that religious people make up the constituency that can make or break any political party, then I say prove it. Here's your issue. Get your followers to stop watching all the shows on television that are allegedly polluting our culture and you will have shown once and for all that social conservatism is a majority position in America.

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13 April 2005

The right to die, Catholic-style

Remember my obituary for the Pope? I said it once, so I am going to say it again : The Pope's feeding tube was pulled out so he could die in peace. Do you want proof? Historically, the French archbishophry has always been the "side door" to the Vatican.

BBC NEWS | Europe | France adopts 'end of life' law | The French senate has approved a law granting terminally ill patients the right to end their life.

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12 April 2005

Fantastic quote for the next time I discuss blogs vs. MSM

I'm going to get a t-shirt made at CafePress that'll say : Have you Sterling Newberried today? OK, I do have one of those "only in the US can you get such a white sounding name like that" moments when I hear his name. But when it comes to his writing, AND I MEAN ANY WRITING, I devour it whole. In the Blogosphere, Sterling is to Political Economy what David Newirt is to Sociology and Eric Muller to Law and History --but he's got them out written at least 2 to 1. He consistently put out good, quality writing on a daily basis. It's an invaluable contribution of knowledge and insight. All I need now is really good bloggers in Microbiology, Phorensic Archeology, Immunology, Philology, Microeconomics and Statistics. Any good recommendations? The Blogging of the President: 2004

The truth is that the mainstream is where the fish are swimming, and any fish on fox is a fish out of water. This is why the use of the term "mainstream" to refer to the top down media is a bad idea. The employee of a large corporation may be upstream, but whether it is water or sewage depends on what is coming out of the pipe, not the amount of money that it cost to buy the pipe. as this Pew report shows the mainstream is the people searching for information, and everyone, from the mightiest of corporate outlets to the smallest of bloggers, is carried along by the tide of that stream. Looking at the demographics - 50% of college graduates and 36% of people from 18 to 49 go online for news at least three times a week, and 82% of 18 to 29 year olds are on the internet regularly. Getting news online now equals in frequency reading a magazine. That's as mainstream as it gets.

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See Atrios Run

As popular as the man is, I really don't understand why so many people flock to his site. Most days I don't feel the snak : his not an "OH WOW READ THIS OUT LOUD", kind of writing you find in many a DailyKos or my new queerdaddy, John. Today is different : Eschaton | Run Newt Run!, has the quote of the year!

I for one look forward to an all-star matchup between Phil Gramm, Liddy Dole, Steve Forbes, Pat Robertson, Newt Gingrich, and Pat Buchanan. (..and, on the other side we can expect the all-star matchup of Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Al Sharpton, Bob Kerrey, Bill Bradley, and perennial Fox News Democrat "Some asshole with a mean sign".) -Atrios

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09 April 2005

I just discovered BADTUX and I think I have fallen in luv

Jesus' General and The Rude Pundit better watch out : I've found another snark-loving stud. He is an evil kitten killer and filly buster but, oh so funny! If you don't want to catch him at that wantonly liberal blog full of DEMONcrats, give him a try at his own place, Badtux the Snarky Penguin. Badtux ought to write more and code less indeed.

Daily Kos :: Friday Cat Killer Blogging | So whatever these here Filly Busters is (I wonder if they got somethin' to do with taming horses?), contact our good pal Bill and tell'em Bubba sent ya to tell him that you want them Filly Busters to be glowin' in the dark, ka-BOOM! NOO-clear, my man. Whoo! Makes my li'l soldier salute just a THINK'IN about that thare mushroom cloud where them DEMON-crats was thinkin' they were gonna, like, act like democracy was somethin' other than doin' like we'uns tell'em to do!

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07 April 2005

This is not an April Fool's stunt : Michelle Malkin's wordly ghost

Can we get some of the people of EPluribus Media on this case? I know, they strive strive to be professional journalists; but this story is just too good to let go. | The Liberal Anti-War Avenger: Ghost blogging?

Once is a typo, twice is a figure of speech, three times - plus all the other evidence - makes me ready to state my conclusions for the records: Malkin not only has a "gold-plated intern", it's her husband. Or to put it another way, Jesse Malkin has a great deal of influence on Michelle's writing, even to the point of posting on her blog, probably on a regular basis. I think it's very possible that the books were cowritten as well; In Defense of Internment was written over a period of sixteen months, the last six (or so) of which Jesse was at home. This is important because, for me, it calls into question Malkin's motivation. If her husband is a partner in punditry, where do Michelle's opinions end and Jesse's begin? And, in today's personality-driven politics, would even right-wingers be as willing to swallow this kind of thing from a white male PhD as from a photogenic minority woman?

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01 April 2005

WOW! Google ups storage to "infinity+1"

Welcome to Gmail On the eve of Gmail's one-year birthday, our engineers were toiling away furiously. Notes scribbled all over the walls. Complex calculations on napkins and empty pizza boxes. Millions of M&Ms.; The result?... starting today, we're beginning the roll-out of our new and top secret Infinity+1 storage plan.
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29 March 2005

Johnnie Cochran, RIP

MSNBC - Defense superstar Johnnie Cochran dead at 67 | After all these years, I feel extremely ambivalent about this man. He created enough reasonable doubt ... but I still think his client did do it.

Los Angeles - Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., who became a legal superstar after helping clear O.J. Simpson during a sensational murder trial in which he uttered the famous quote "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit",? died Tuesday. He was 67. Cochran died of a brain tumor at his home in Los Angeles, his family said.

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Terri Schiavo has a blog

Good thing I'm an atheist because I'd be going straight to hell for laughing so hard at Terri Schiavo's Blog. Don't blame me. Blame Billmon for the link.
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No honey, nobody is taking advantage of the father

He has whored his daughter in the most despicable way any man could have; because she is, after all, hers first and Michael Schiavo's second. It would not shock me if this man was the root of his daughter's starving herself to death. He claims it was Michael's fault; but you know what, a lot of women end up marrying younger versions of their fathers.

The New York Times > Washington > List of Schiavo Donors Will Be Sold by Direct-Marketing Firm "So the Schindlers do know the details," Mr. McCullough said on Monday.How much attention they paid to the matter is hard to assess, he added. [...] Direct mail and mass e-mailings are ubiquitous fund-raising tools of interest groups on the left as well as the right, and others in the direct-mail business defended the sale of lists like the roster of donors to the Schindlers as a useful way for potential donors to learn of causes that might appeal to them. Pamela Hennessy, an unpaid spokeswoman for the Schindlers, said she was initially appalled when she learned of the list's existence. "It is possibly the most distasteful thing I have ever seen," Ms. Hennessy said. "Everybody is making a buck off of her." Ms. Hennessy, who operates the Schindlers' Web site, www.terrisfight.org, said the family had not released any of the names or e-mail addresses gathered there. "Obviously these people are enterprising, and they are taking advantage of this very desperate father," she said.

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28 March 2005

More blogwork

Fixed the part entries so they'll now show the author. I'm still trying to figure what the heck is going on with Safari. That damn browser needs to have Firefox' web dev plug-in. Seriously.
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25 March 2005

The US's New Terms Of Agreement under BushCo

Important Changes to Your Citizenship Agreement - Please read and retain for your records. By Evan Eisenberg

SECTION 5 : The Freedom of Speech section of the Agreement is amended to distinguish between Regular Preferred Speech and Non-Preferred Speech. The Non-Preferred Speech rate applies to all speech which is not in good standing as defined under the "Preferred Citizen Rate Eligibility" section of your Agreement. Both the rate and your freedom of speech may vary based on changes in the National Terror Alert Level.

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Activist Judges? Almost all involved in the Schiavo case are Republican

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Why do Republican judges want Terri Schiavo to die?
by John in DC - 3/24/2005 10:31:00
So now the religious right and congressional republicans think even Reagan appointed judges are too activist and too liberal. Then who IS proper to be a judge if even a Reagan appointee is too liberal? Or, is the problem simply that the religious right and the GOP won't accept ANY judge that doesn't rubber stamp any and all of their extreme views?

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23 March 2005

Activist judge? Hardly.

TalkLeft: Judge Wittemore's Judicial Rulings
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See Freddie Run

Marist Poll :: Home

MATCH-UPS FOR MAYOR: Former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer leads Mayor Michael Bloomberg by seven points in the race for mayor among New York City’s registered voters. Ferrer receives the support of 49% of the city’s registered voters compared with 42% for Mayor Bloomberg. Mayor Bloomberg is closely matched with potential rivals Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields, Council Speaker Gifford Miller, and Congressman Anthony Weiner.

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You know Bush won't swallow this "culture of life" bait

Gotta give it to the Catholic prelate --they are consistent. I can't remember when was the last time I was impressed by an official Catholic Church pronouncement. The New York Times > Washington > Bishops Fight Death Penalty in New Drive

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops staked out a comprehensive position against the death penalty 25 years ago. But Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., said the conference was beginning a campaign for "greater urgency and unity, increased energy and advocacy." "We cannot teach killing is wrong by killing," Cardinal McCarrick said at a news conference here. "We cannot defend life by taking life."

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You know Republicans are in trouble when they start using the word "theocracy"

The New York Times > Washington > Conservatives: G.O.P. Right Is Splintered on Schiavo Intervention

"This Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy," Mr. Shays said. "There are going to be repercussions from this vote. There are a number of people who feel that the government is getting involved in their personal lives in a way that scares them."

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Paging Dr. Franz Fanon! Racism and psychosis at work

This is one of the saddest pieces of news I've read in a long time : The New York Times > National > Behind the Why of a Rampage, Loner With a Taste for Nazism. That a Chippewa teenager would call himself "NativeNazi" because there were not enough pure-blood Peoples, it's just beyond belief. It just fills me with sorrow. Then again, at Mixed Media Watch - tracking media representations of mixed people | White-supremacy record label closes up shop, we find out the close down was attributed to the fact one of the co-owners had a Mexican mother. No wonder he was dubbed "the well tanned skinhead".

Although the F.B.I. said it could not confirm the authenticity of the Web postings, someone who identified himself as Jeff Weise, a high school student living on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, posted 34 messages on a neo-Nazi Web forum last year, expressing admiration for Hitler and frustration at the lack of racial purity and authentic racial pride in his community. He used the handles Todesengel, meaning "angel of death" in German, and NativeNazi on the Libertarian National Socialist Green Party's Web forum. The forum has a swastika on a green flag on its homepage and promotes itself as an alternative to white-supremacist sites, a place where people of all races are welcome as long as they oppose racial mixing.

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22 March 2005

Take the Poll at MSNBC

MSNBC - Should Terri Schiavo be placed back on a feeding tube?
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Not Even Living Wills Can Guarantee Death

death with dignity * experts: living wills often flawed

The living will, long touted as a way to prevent technology from complicating death and artificially prolonging life, has outlived its usefulness, a growing number of medical and legal experts say. For more than two decades, wary Americans have been using the documents to state their health care preferences in anticipation of a time when they can't do so. The usual reason for a living will has been to avoid the arsenal of ventilators and feeding tubes that can keep seriously ill patients alive, sometimes in a persistent vegetative state. But experts say the concept is obsolete. "It's [the living will] a virtual failure," said Thomas Murray, president of The Hastings Center, a bioethics institute in Garrison, N.Y. "The living will is particularly ill-designed to do what you want it to do. Any tiny crack can be enough to destroy the entire foundation of that document."

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17 March 2005

Is there hope for a true blue New York?

I hope so. I like Eliot Spitzer. A lot. I think he has the bravado and the smarts needed to govern this godforsaken state. New York City - Politics

The Siena College Research Institute poll had Spitzer leading Pataki, 53 percent to 30 percent, up from a 51 percent-to-35 percent lead for the attorney general in a Siena poll last month. Asked if they would vote to re-elect Pataki, just 24 percent of voters surveyed said they would, while 60 percent said they would prefer someone else. Just 37 percent of voters had a favorable opinion of Pataki while 50 percent had an unfavorable opinion.

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13 March 2005

The sound of pain for a new generation

The New York Times > Arts > Music > Fighting Words. You can get a PDf of the article here.

If rock 'n' roll, the sounds of Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and Creedence Clearwater Revival, was the music of American service members in Vietnam, rap may become the defining pulse for the war in Iraq. It has emerged as a rare realm where soldiers and marines, hardly known for talking about their feelings, are voicing the full range of their emotions and reactions to war. They rap about their resentment of the military hierarchy. But they also rap about their pride, their invincibility, their fallen brothers, their disdain for the enemy and their determination to succeed.

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Dominatrix to the "Free" World : Welcome to Dubya's fantasy

Condoleezza Rice's Commanding Clothes (washingtonpost.com)

Rice's coat and boots speak of sex and power -- such a volatile combination, and one that in political circles rarely leads to anything but scandal. When looking at the image of Rice in Wiesbaden, the mind searches for ways to put it all into context. It turns to fiction, to caricature. To shadowy daydreams. Dominatrix! It is as though sex and power can only co-exist in a fantasy. When a woman combines them in the real world, stubborn stereotypes have her power devolving into a form that is purely sexual.

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Hey TWhid, this article is going to depress you even further

ABC News: You Call That Art?

So it's just all in the eye of the beholder? "I wouldn't say it's all in the eye of the beholder," Hoover said. "I think you need to know the story behind the work to understand its full impact and meaning."

Osease, it's in the eye of the beholder.
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10 March 2005

What do I have in common with Linus Torvald?

I also use an Apple Computer because I am a total technology whore. I'd perpetrate unspeakable acts upon Steve Jobs nature for the price of, hmmm ... a few of his servers, laptops and iPods. I am a pricy whore after all. Torvalds switches to Apple: ZDNet Australia: News

Linux creator Linus Torvalds said this afternoon that he's now running an Apple Macintosh as his main desktop, mainly for work reasons, although partly simply because he's a self-described "technology whore".

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22 February 2005

IE 7 to be released in the summer

IE7

First, some basics: we're committing to deliver a new version of Internet Explorer for Windows XP customers. Betas of IE7 will be available this summer.

I don't care about security. I want a browser that is standards compliant. This stupidity of building a site backwards in order to accomodate for IE is a waste of time and money. What's the word on that? Is MS thrashing all the crap they created with IE6 ---especially with widths and how that affects boxes and floats-- or are they keeping that crap. That's all I want to know.
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Is this what every man wants?

Steak and BJ Day March 14th is now officially "Steak and Blowjob Day". Simple, effective and self explanatory, this holiday has been created so you ladies finally have a day to show your man how much you care for him.
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20 February 2005

My new guilty pleasure

I feel dirty and cheap reading this blog but, it's soooooo good! Veiled Conceit
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There is a traitor list. And it's trademarked.

Current Traitor List And can you believe the father of my future children (he doesn't know it yet) is in that list. The nerve! What is most atrocious about this site is the idea that you can make money out of putting a hit on other people's lives. Update: This is the first time I use the "nofollow" rule; and for obvious reasons.
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A Cock-teasing URL

Welcome to Pen Island! The best pens on the internet!
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Do geeks cook? With charts, of course!

Cooking For Engineers
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17 February 2005

"You sure smell better down here than the collectivists I've slept with."

So I guess I've come out of the closet as a philosophy geek with this link : The 25 Most Inappropriate Things An Objectivist Can Say During Sex 2. "I appreciate the thought, but I consider it an act of self sacrifice for you to swallow." 5. "Emotions are the mind's near-instantaneous evaluation of a perceived fact or idea as either good or bad for the individual. Hence, my wet panties." 6. "You sure smell better down here than the collectivists I've slept with." 7. "To say 'Fuck me harder' one must first know how to say the 'me'." 10."I haven't had this much fun since I rejected the concept of God." 16. "Don't you have any Tchaikovsky? Rachmaninoff is fine for 69s, but nothing beats Tchaikovsky when it comes to anal." 20. "It's time for me to teach you the difference between Platonic love and Aristotelian love." 22. # "It doesn't really matter whether I come or not. I believe that man's tongue is an end in itself."
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15 February 2005

Alan Keyes disownes her daughter because she is not just a lesbian, but a liberal lesbian

When Sexuality Undercuts A Family's Ties (washingtonpost.com) What is interesting about this case is the fact that it is not just her lesbianism that got her in trouble --or her blog, for that matter. It's the fact that she does not share any of her parents core beliefs.

"As long as I was quiet about being gay or my politics, we got along," she says. "Then I went to the Counterinaugural," last month's protests in Washington against President Bush. "My father didn't like that."

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On the false triumphalism of blogmobs

Anil Dash: Non-Blogger Fired For Blogging!

And about Eason Jordan: More myopic blogger triumphalism. Dear political bloggers, most people, even in the blogosphere, have never heard of the whole kerfuffle, let alone the one surrounding Jeff Gannon. This is inside-baseball cliquishness at its worst. I'm not saying these guys didn't screw up, I'm saying that you didn't win. It won't temper we liberals who control the media to be more moderate, and it won't keep the White House from trying to spin the media. Net effect? Lots of negatives, few positives. Not to put too fine a point on it, but you're hurting us. You're hurting all weblogs.

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14 February 2005

What does a black woman have to do to get a cab on a rainy day?

Seriously.
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10 February 2005

Simply put, Camilla was always his queen

BBC NEWS | UK | Prince Charles to marry Camilla If there is one romantic anti-faily tale story, it's this one: It's the story of the older woman who breaks up last fairy tale marriage --and stays the queen of the future king's heart, long after his young bride is out of the picture. THEN AGAIN, this could signal one thing : Prince Charles will never rule as king. It may mean the Queen will skip the son and go straight for the grandson. Just a thought. One thing's for sure : They seem genuinely in love. To have found your true love at 57, that's just astounding. It brings hope to the rest of us.
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Free IT administration is as good as cold, hard cash. TAKE IT!

Marc Perkel Rantz: Free Spam Filtering for Progressive Nonprofit Organizations The setup is simple. Once you decide to do it all I do is make an entry in a table on my servers telling the system what domains get forwarded to what servers. Then - you change your MX record from pointing to your email server to pointing to my server network. The email comes to me - I clean it - and then you get it. It really is that easy. What does it cost you? Nothing! All I ask is a thank you on your thank you page and a link to my service. That's all I want - and that you spend your time accomplishing great things. To me - this is a way that I can donate what is equivalent of millions of dollars in your savings at a cost to me of almost nothing. It's an extremely efficient form of giving to me.
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Why yes, of course I speak Hispanic!

This estupidez is brought to yoy by Jim Gilliam | Wal-Mart and Kraft celebrate Black History Month
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Justice William Rehnquist is Deep Throat? Well, that would be ironic beyond belief

The irony of Justice William Rehnquist being Deep Throat is worse than the tought of George H. Bush being the one; given he is ailing from thyroid cancer that led recently to a tracheotomy. It would definitely prove that Karma can be a bitch. [Via Political Wire: Rehnquist Takes Lead in "Deep Throat" Contest. See also, Early Returns in 'Deep Throat' Contest: Rehnquist Takes the Lead!.]
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Overheard in New York

Anytime you overhear people, if you only hear a second of what they say, it's always completely stupid

Pandagon

Do you mind if we trap you?

Parableman

Some say I speak in parables. The reality is far more complex. Within these walls you may find musings on philosophy, theology, politics, and Christian apologetics (but probably no parables -- I'm much more competent a straight-talker than a storyteller).

Political Wire

by Taegan Goddard

Pornblography

:: Daily Grind ::

Potatoland

From the man who coined 'Shred the web' way before Adobe

PressThink by Jay Rosen

Ghost of democracy in the media machine

Prometheus 6

Do not make the mistake of thinking that because my conclusion is the same as another person's that my reasoning is the same

Purse Lip Square Jaw

Anne Galloway's blog

Radio Free Blogistan

Metablogging since the turn of the century

Rafael Galvão

Um pouco de nada e nada de muito importante

Red vs Blue

The Blood Gulch Chronicles tell the story of the men stationed in a desolate outpost as they fight for control of the universe's most strategic dry creek bed in the middle of a box canyon.

Rhizome

Founded in 1996 to provide an online platform for the global new media art community

Rox Populi

A discussion about politics, art, language and culture

Scriptygoddess

A labor of blog scripting love

Standard Deviance

Mocking the World Since 2003

Stereo Describes My Scenario

Avery Tooley Keeping It Real and Keeping It Right.

Stopdesign

(Douglas Bowman's awesome site, portfolio and blog)

Sweet Blog o' Mine

A chronicle of life and times in sunny NYC. Alive and (sorta) kicking since July 29, 2002. So far, so good.

TalkLeft

The Politics of Crime

Talking Points Memo

by Joshua Micah Marshall

The Blogging of the President: 2004

Notes on the transformation

The Boondocks

by Aaron McGruder

The Brazilian Muse

A BLOG ABOUT BRAZILIAN MUSIC, DANCE, CULTURE, AND PEOPLE IN NEW YORK CITY

The Dead Parrot Society

Best read over a warm slice of pie

The Ig Nobel Prizes

The Igs are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative -- and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology.

The Melting Blog

Musings on the Intersection Between Marketing and Culture

The Memory Hole

[rescuing knowledge, freeing information]

The Onion

America's Finest News Source (tm)

The Power of Many

How the Living Web Is Transforming Politics, Business, and Everyday Life

The Power of Many

How the Living Web Is Transforming Politics, Business, and Everyday Life

The Superficial

Because You're Ugly

TwiddlyBits' Sex Blog

The ramblings of a very horny woman (...with regular guest submissions from her cross-dressing husband)

Uffish Thoughts

Are you drinking with me, Jesus?

Uppity-Negro.com

The Uppity Negro not only speaks truth to power, they speak truth and self-serving lies and deny that the person they're addressing even has power to begin with. The Uppity Negro challenges the validity of the hierarchies which lie at the heart of our supposedly egalitarian society. But mostly, the Uppity Negro likes starting shit for the fun of it.

V-2 Organisation

beauty. utility. balance.

WEBLOG DE UNA MUJER GORDA

Diario de Mirta Bertotti, una señora que podría ser tu madre

Wampum

Progressive Politics, Indian Issues, and Autism Advocacy

We the Blog

In order to form a more artistic union

World of Awe

Created by new media artist Yael Kanarek, is a multi-media narrative that revolves around the story of a traveler in search of a lost treasure. The project engages the ancient genre of the traveler's tale to explore the connections between storytelling, memory, travel and technology that ranges from the lament over the absence of a lover to a comical declaration of loyalty to a floppy disk. To expand the story, World of Awe spins a network of projects and collaborations online, in galleries and in performance spaces.

YETI SPORTS

(A yeti, penguins and the ocassional orca) by chris hilgert

Zonageek

Sebastian Delmont's "not so stupid" bilingual blog