I have to admit it: I have a warm spot in my heart for unions –not for union leadership, nor for union politics, but for the unions themselves. I have been a member of a few unions in my lifetime, and like all members have complained and bitched about the dues, the corruption, etc. But [...]
Last night on the Daily Show, Jon Stewart relayed how Brian Kilmeade on Fox & Friends had been scared as a child, transcript courtesy of C&L:
Jon: “Luckily for my pre-conceived notions about the FOX network, the conversation soon got back on the express to Crazy Town.”
Brown hair guy who’s not Steve Doocy: “Here’s the problem, [...]
Last week Citizen Lab released a kind of everyman guide to circumventing Internet censorship. The guide is by no means exhaustive, but offers some well known and simple methods for bypassing Internet content control systems used by some of the most repressive governments in the world. It has been said that we now live in [...]
I have written several times in the past about AT&T’s questionable treatment of content in order to further their own business agenda. Now comes word that AT&T is officially enshrining their policies in their Terms of Service agreement with AT&T users. As Slashdot reported a few days ago, the updated ToS includes the following [...]
Robert Greenwald has done a nice video summation of the push for war with Iran:
The media has been particularly lazy in trying to understand or present the complexities of both Middle Eastern and Islamic culture and politics. For instance, I am sure that you have not heard that Al Qaeda has been threatening Iran with [...]
I’ve spent many days in NOCs trying to keep an ISP up and running through various local disasters, but the guys at directNIC.com in New Orleans are amazing. The amount of work and dedication these people have put in to keep their few remaining customers up and running is inspiring.
One of OPs is blogging [...]
At Eschaton there’s a fascinating post about coverage of the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. Atrios shows two news photos of people gathering food to survive. In one the caption refers to the participants “finding” food, in the other the caption refers to the participant “looting” food. The only visible difference is the looter is black [...]
