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"I'm feeling bad. I'm thinking about where to sleep." -- Rubina Ali, the 9-year-old girl who starred in the film "Slumdog Millionaire" as she tried to salvage twisted metal and splintered wood -- all that remained of her bubble-gum pink home after Indian authorities demolished part of a city slum where she lived. Months after their movie swept the Oscars, Ali and Azharuddin Mohammed

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unfortunately my posting frequency on [supposedly] has declined significantly (not that it was ever in competition with the 24 hr news cycle).it's interesting to see how much things have changed in the six years since [supposedly] was created. i'm trying to discern the best way to deal with the numerous publication outlets now available and what content to put where. facebook, twitter, and

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Sitting outside the poll yesterday, I listened to Steven Johnson discuss emergence on both a Radiolab podcast and TED Talk. I didn't quite make the direct connection at the time, but later in the day I began to recognize Obama's political success in our country as an example of emergence. In the same way that Alan Watts speaks of a tree appling and a planet peopling, the United States just

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Howard Rheingold just announced the launch of the Social Media Classroom.In an educational setting, the social media classroom is designed to augment or—when physical co-presence is not possible—to replace face-to-face interaction. The power derived from using social media in group learning processes comes not from a more efficient computerized extension of older communication forms—the classroom

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I was surprised to hear today that Sarah Palin told Fox News that she reads The Economist. I suppose Sarah knew she was taking flak for not being able to name a single news outlet when she was recently asked where she got her news. Surely The Economist is a reputable, serious source of information. Honestly, I couldn't agree more.But hearing this from Palin reminded me of a letter from the

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Appling

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I recently discovered Hulu, a joint venture by NBC Universal and News Corp to provide video content online. Hulu is an effort by two of the big media outlets to compete with Apple and itunes. So far I have been impressed by what they have available.High-def versions of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report? Where have you been all my life?But then I noticed something kind of interesting. On

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Radiohead created a video for House of Cards using "two scanning technologies to capture 3D images. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produced structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne LIDAR system that uses multiple lasers was used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In the video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900

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According to Cordis News, the G8 plus several G20 countries have agreed to increase government support for low carbon research and development:Science ministers from the G8 countries have agreed to increase funding for research and development to create a low–carbon economy.The ministers, along with representatives from Brazil, China, India, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, the Philippines and

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So I don't really intend for this blog to end up just being a list of various websites and services I've tried and like, but recently I've come across a few new things I feel like passing along.The latest is a personal finance site called Mint. Mint is fantastic because it monitors my finances for me and gives me various analytical tools and displays to show me what I'm doing with my money.

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"TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader."Their website has lots of great videos of recent, and not so recent, speakers.Al Gore's new slideshow on climate change was especially compelling.

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I've tried on several occasions to use an RSS aggregator to put all of the stuff I want to read in one place. I also seem to end up with thousands of unread articles. I hate feeling stressed for not reading all of this stuff. At the same time, I'm still looking for something to help me get all of the things I want to keep an eye on in one place.I just started trying out Brijit. Brijit combines

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I'm intrigued by sites that combine social networking trends with opportunities for commerce. Zopa allows potential loan recipients to bypass the traditional loan providers and borrow directly from other lenders. Pretty cool.

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I just heard about a new website designed to be a sort of YouTube for ideas. Pretty interesting stuff..."bigthink.com is a new and growing website, currently in its private beta version, with a simple mission:This is a digital age, one in which a wealth of accessible information empowers you, the citizen-consumer. But where is the information coming from? How accurate and unprocessed is it,

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Arianna Huffington recently wrote on the Huffington Post about a project by Rich Silverstein (the award winning ad exec who came up with the "Got Milk?" and Budweiser frog campaigns, among others). Huffington says Silverstein "had such a grasp of what makes for effective communication in radio, movies, TV, and online, that I thought he might have some ideas on how to help the Democrats, who

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I don't know what it is exactly, but I feel there's a common thread uniting Radiohead's recent announcement that their latest album will be available on their website for whatever you want to pay with Bill Clinton's most recent comments about philanthropy. It seems to me that they may be starting at opposite ends of the spectrum and finding themselves in a slightly similar middle ground. Both

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The Economist has a great article about the One Laptop Per Child initiative.A project that was originally discounted by the likes on Michael Dell and Intel is now receiving much praise.The laptop sports an AMD processor under the hood. Intel originally shunned the project but now wants to be a part of it.The bottom line: the laptop they've come up with is pretty awesome.I want one.If Libya can

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So I went down to the National Gallery of Modern Art to check out the Jasper Johns exhibit today.The National Gallery of Art describes it as the following:Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965 presents some of Johns' most iconic paintings, drawings, and prints selected from public and private collections, including the artist's own. Departing from the format of the survey or

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Briere would later be kicked out for spearing.

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DruryDainius ZubrusWatching Ryan Miller on the day MSU wins the National Championship

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Listening to George Stephanopoulos' interview with Mitt Romney on ABC's This Week, I was struck by the Governor's explanation of his stance on abortion. While he was once pro-choice and now describes himself as pro-life, what he really likes to focus on is the states' right to determine whether they are pro-life or pro-choice. He said that under his policy, Massachusetts would remain a

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So The Economist lays out what a possible merger of the Catholic and Anglican churches would look like. It's one of those stories that you read and think--is this an April Fool's joke?I think it goes to show how religion is understood and discussed in the British press versus the U.S. It is hard to imagine a U.S. newspaper carrying out the same line of reasoning.

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Steve Jobs' essay "Thoughts on Music," posted on the Apple.com website yesterday has unleashed a fury of discussion on the future of digital rights management or DRM.Steve Jobs writes, “With the stunning global success of Apple’s iPod music player and iTunes online music store, some have called for Apple to ‘open’ the digital rights management (DRM) system that Apple uses to protect its music

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According to the Economist, we residents of Washington, D.C. are almost full fledged participants in this experiment we like to call democracy:"DC's congressional representative—and those of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa and the Virgin Islands—inched closer to gaining full voting rights in late January. The House passed a bill allowing the five territories to vote, although if any of their

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From the Politico Website:OUR GOAL The Politico is being launched in January 2007 with the mission of covering politics -- the lifeblood of the nation’s capital -- with enterprise, style, and impact. We will bring an unblinking focus to three arenas of coverage: the politics of Capitol Hill and of the presidential campaign, and the business of Washington lobbying and advocacy.

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We are now a mere 10 hits away from the big millennium mark.Truly cause for celebration.The only question remains...where will lucky #1000 be from?

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My posting on this blog goes in waves. I have periods of time when I'm on here frequently and then I'll go for a month or two without saying much. I'm going to try to post on a more regular basis. (This a rather lame attempt to get the ball rolling). Maybe my lack of activity has something to do with the Nov-Dec holiday season, but there are lots of interesting things going on that I plan on

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check out this blog post on wired:"Google's powerful patent search engine allows immediate access to the documents that have driven innovation for more than a century.Pictured is Wilbur and Orville Wright's airplane, but other famous inventors are well-represented: Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison intrigue. Looking for Sir Clive Sinclair's cool but commercially ruinous C5 electrical vehicle, my

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According to the Washington Post, the D.C. city council is considering a measure that would require all new city construction to comply with "green" building standards:"...within two years all new District-owned projects, including schools, would have to meet the green standards, and in 2009, any building receiving more than 20 percent public financing would have to do the same. By 2012, every

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From the Room to Read website:"Room to Read partners with local communities throughout the developing world to establish schools, libraries, and other educational infrastructure. We seek to intervene early in the lives of children in the belief that education is a lifelong gift that empowers people to ultimately improve socioeconomic conditions for their families, communities, countries, and

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37signals has created a new set of software designed to enhance your productivity while simplifying your life. Pretty cool.“Basecamp and Backpack were awarded Best of the Web 2005 awards by the editors of BusinessWeek.”-BusinessWeek“37signals is the best little web company of 2005 (Yahoo was the best big web company of 2005)”-Richard MacManus, Best Web Companies and Innovators of 2005“37signals’

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The New York Times reports:"The government of Libya reached an agreement on Tuesday with One Laptop Per Child, a nonprofit United States group developing an inexpensive, educational laptop computer, with the goal of supplying machines to all 1.2 million Libyan schoolchildren by June 2008."I've been a fan of Nicholas Negroponte's since I started reading his column in Wired Magazine in the mid-

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via information aesthetics

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"BumpTop aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world."

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check them outand The Cloud Appreciation Society

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"World leaders gathered at the Millennium summit agreed on these goals in 2000, and they were reaffirmed last year. They represent a major challenge for the nations of the world, and UNESCO is doing its part to help assure that they are met."UNESCO In the Spotlight: Education and CultureCheck out the UNESCO website on its support for the MDGs.

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I have been addicted to magazines since I was about twelve. I remember getting Consumer Reports for Kids and then they went bankrupt and I didn't understand how they could just stop sending me their magazine when I had already paid for it. Consumer Reports for Kids, boy that sounds exciting.I've been a Wired reader for 12 years now. It's fascinating to go back and read issues from the mid-90s.

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Pandora:The Music Genome Project"On January 6, 2000 a group of musicians and music-loving technologists came together with the idea of creating the most comprehensive analysis of music ever.Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together

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Watch webcasts, both live and archived, from the 2006 Clinton Global Initiative.You should also check out the podcasts available.

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September 23-30 is banned book week.Check out the books from the Radcliffe top 100 books of the 20th century that have been banned at one point or another.Google's even getting into the action.

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There's an interesting article on Fuzzy Signals discussing the overall level of violence in the world."According to the Human Security Report,Without new superpower 'proxy wars' starting in the Third World, overall armed conflicts have fallen by more than 40 per cent, and extremely violent conflicts -- those with 1,000 or more battle deaths -- have dropped by 80 per cent... International arms

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Princeton has a remarkable website, Mapping Globalization, which provides several tools for visualizing this concept.From their site:"With all the talk of globalization it is easy to forget that at the very core of the concept is a notion of geographical location. Globalization involves connections between at least two places and the first step in our understanding must be an appreciation of what

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so i've taken a new job which has altered my relationship with supposedly.if anything, i recognize the need for a skeptical mindset now more than ever.i will do my best to continue to relate to this space on a more regular basis.the council on foreign relations' site has a number of quality resources available.in particular, i appreciate the backgrounders. they serve as a touching off point for

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Check out Fred Kaplan's article on Slate: "Looking for Intel in All the Wrong Places: What Washington can learn from Britain's foiled terror plot."

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Alive in Baghdad is an attempt by 25 year old journalist and filmmaker, Brian Conley, to give voice to people living in and through the current Iraqi crisis. His idea is that instead of having Americans, or other westerners, in Iraq to tell us what is going on, why not empower Iraqis themselves to tell their stories. A key component of this is the use of sound and video. By seeing the day to

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"Want to see the future of Net video? Download the open source Democracy Player"Wired Magazine, May 2006Stop squinting at tiny web video. Instead, download and watch all the best internet TV shows in one powerful application: any video RSS feed, video podcast, video blog, or BitTorrent file. Fullscreen, high resolution, 100% free and open source. New channels arrive daily in the built-in Channel

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Time magazine profiles new fed chair Ben Bernanke..."The shift is about more than clearer communication and punch lines. What's really at stake is a plan to make the Fed a more transparent and accessible institution. When Bernanke first showed up at the Fed as a governor in 2002, he started eating in the cafeteria, much to the surprise of younger economists, who weren't used to governors joining

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Former U.S. Ambassador Martin Indyk in today's Financial Times:"Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, will visit the Middle East this week, raising hopes of an American initiative to end the Lebanese-Israeli imbroglio. On the surface, a surprising consensus is forming about the necessary elements of that initiative: a comprehensive ceasefire; the Lebanese government’s authority extended to

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Robin Wright of the Washington Post reports:"Israel, with U.S. support, intends to resist calls for a cease-fire and continue a longer-term strategy of punishing Hezbollah, which is likely to include several weeks of precision bombing in Lebanon, according to senior Israeli and U.S. officials."For the United States, the broader goal is to strangle the axis of Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria and Iran,

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Google plans to open an advertising center in Ann Arbor, Michigan.[photo courtesy of AP]

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Robert Wright interviews John Polkinghorne on the anthropic principle on Slate's Meaning of Life TV. (The video's two and a half minutes long.)Here are some of the other offerings:"John Maynard Smith, one of the great figures in modern evolutionary biology, died in April of 2004. He was a scientist who tackled very big questions and yet maintained his intellectual humility--appreciating, for

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New America Foundation fellow, Douglas McGray:Speak two languages and you’re bilingual. Speak one? You must be American. So goes the old joke. But globalization means that students can no longer remain blissfully unaware. Can Americans open the classroom door, or will today’s youth be unprepared to lead tomorrow’s world?"in the May Foreign Policy.

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I went to see the Outwin Boochever 2006 Portrait Competition with my girlfriend this past Sunday.It was amazing. They received over 4000 entries from each of the fifty states. Needless to say, the 51 finalists were outstanding. The works here are the first prize winner Sam and the Perfect World byDavid Lenz and My Father in the Living Room of Our 10th House by James Seward.The National Potrait

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Here's a little Radiohead update from green plastic:"Whew! What a last few days. Radiohead played a marathon set of 28 songs in front of 80,000 people at Bonnaroo last Saturday. According to the reviews sent to us, it was an awesome time. Bonnaroo grossed over $15 million making it the top-grossing festival in the world.After leaving Tennessee, the band traveled North to Chicago where they played

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Mr. Negroponte, I'm afraid you have company. According to Apple Insider, hip-hop star, 50 Cent is in talks with Apple's Steve Jobs to help put affordable computers in the hand of less wealthy inner city residents."I'm creating a foundation that will be around for a long time, because fame can come and go or get lost in the lifestyle and the splurging," 50 Cent told Forbes Magazine. "I never got

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Have you seen the energy industry's response to concerns about global warming?Well at least they're creative.

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Here are three things I'd like to highlight today:Check out the World Bank's Private Sector Development BlogIt quoted Nobel Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu as saying,"I’m of the attitude that, like in politics, development is local. You can have the grand view but if you don’t infuse the people at a grass roots level you’re playing marbles. I think what this shows is you’ve got the people,

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Whole Foods Market on 60 Minutes."Can you find virtue in a grocery store? John Mackey, the CEO and founder of Whole Foods Market, is convinced you can."Watch the video

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"Saturday June 3 & Sunday June 4, 2006 6am June 3 thru 6am June 5TV Land welcomes Benson this quarter with a 48 hour marathon. Starring Robert Guillaume, this spin-off from Soap, begins as Jessica Tate sends her butler, Benson, to live with her widowed cousin, Governor James Gatling. In addition to performing his butler duties, Benson guides the governor on personal and political decisions. Watch

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Unity 08 presents an alternative to the current US political landscape.From their website:"What We Believe Unity08 believes that neither of today’s major parties reflects the aspirations, fears or will of the majority of Americans. Both have polarized and alienated the people. Both are unduly influenced by single-issue groups. Both are excessively dominated by money.For most of the 20th Century,

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A NY Times article about the lives of the Clintons notes that the former president frequents a local restaurant:"They decided later that dinner would not work, so Mr. Clinton did what he often does: He rounded up some familiar faces — former aides including Joe Lockhart and Mike McCurry — and went out for a late bite at Lauriol Plaza, the bustling Tex-Mex restaurant in Dupont Circle."

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From the Financial Times:"Dell Computer signalled a shift in alliances in the personal computer world yesterday, saying that it would end its exclusive use of Intel microprocessors and begin buying from Advanced Micro Devices."

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In today's Financial Times, Richard Koch and Chris Smith argue that five factors: Christianity, Optimism, Science, Growth, and Individualism have led to "enormous strides in economic, military, political, and social terms."Yet, confidence in these concepts is diminishing in some respects. If western civilization is to continue on a successful path, they argue, society must reconcile its current

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It seems to me that the public debates regarding immigration policy and the future of social security aren't mutually exclusive. Wouldn't a thoughtful approach to both dilemmas consider the ways a reformed immigration policy can help to address concerns about mass baby-boomer retirement and the strains this will put on the U.S. economy? For that matter, isn't the immigration issue also closely

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From Joel Achenbach's column in yesterday's Washington Post: "The Copernican Principle states that I should not be in a special position in regard to all the people who might or might not have a parking space. The likely fate of a human being is to be, in most respects, ordinary -- not as a matter of good or bad luck, but merely as a statistical probability in a universe that is deeply

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ESPN.com reports that San Jose fans booed the Canadian national anthem Sunday night before Game 5 of their team's second-round playoff series with the Edmonton Oilers.It's kind of funny how they only play the national anthems of the teams participating. Most of the players--on both U.S. and Canadian teams--are from Canada and Europe. It must have been strange for the Canadians on the San Jose

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Fast Company's Danielle Sacks discusses the irony of fast-food chains pedalling wares for enhanced mindfulness and health. It's crazy enough it just might work. Sigh."The pristine white packaging engraved with shiny gold lettering was enough to make me suspicious. When I realized the gold lettering was actually Mickey D's iconic 'M' (with modern urban twist 'I'm lovin it') hanging above the

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Anthropologists Go Native in the Corporate VillageAmerican companies are realizing that an anthropologist can provide useful insight into the strengths and weaknesses of their organizations. Maybe our government should consider such an approach."Briody is a pioneer in a growing and influential field -- corporate anthropology. What began as an experiment in a handful of companies such as GM has

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The Financial Times has two important editorials today.The first one expresses the serious danger the world economy would face if the current Doha trade round fails. Recent stagnation in negotiations along with political calls for a more protectionist approach give cause for concern."Erosion of WTO principles and disciplines would replace the rule of law with the law of the jungle. Nations' use

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The Financial Times reports: "The US needs to head off domestic protectionist sentiment that risks reducing the openness of the US economy and dampening growth," the World Trade Organisation warned on Wednesday.In its latest report on US trade policies, written before the controversy over the sale of US port operations to a company based in the United Arab Emirates, the WTO secretariat says open

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Check out this graphical representation of the U.S. budget on deviantart's website.2004 Military Spending: 399 Billion2004 Non-Military Spending: 383 Billion

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Now here's an incredibly bizarre story:Claude Allen's Mentor - Shoplifting and Bushonomics. By Jacob Weisberg"Last week, Slate broke the news that Claude Allen, until recently the White House chief domestic-policy adviser, was arrested for theft in suburban Maryland. The president has expressed his shock and disappointment. How could one of his top appointees, a devout Christian who passed a

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It has been a while since I posted something. Oops.Enjoy the silence.And maybe check this out from ESPN:LAS VEGAS -- A minor league hockey team is spoofing Vice President Dick Cheney's recent hunting mishap with a plan to distribute bright orange hunting vests printed with the words, "Don't Shoot, I'm Human."The Las Vegas Wranglers plan to distribute 1,000 vests to fans arriving for Friday's

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Here's a thoughtful take on the recent uproar surrounding the aquisition of several U.S. ports by a firm owned by the UAE."The anxiety is that America is losing its place at the forefront of the global economy. We're suffering, experts say, from a bad case of economic insecurity that is rooted in America's long-standing inclination toward isolationism."

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Do yourself a favor and watch this trailer:Brokeback to the Future

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Forbes has a summary of a meeting held yesterday at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars with the Israeli and Egyptian Ambassadors as well as the PLO representative to the U.S.To me, the central issue for the United States is how to reconcile support for "free and fair" elections in Palestine--observed by the U.N. and the National Democratice Institute--with the coming to power of

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An interesting essay by Robert Wright, Schwartz Senior Fellow, discusses the implications of new developments in technology on the ability of terrorists to plan and carry out attacks.Here's an excerpt (italics added):"Why has terrorism become public enemy number one? The most common answer--the rise of a brand of radical Islam that uses terror as its weapon—-is true insofar as it goes. But the

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Michael Imbroscio has a great article in today's Post: "Because of its proximity to Pittsburgh -- four hours by car-- Washington and its suburbs are a hotbed of transplanted "Yinz-ers" -- a name derived from a quirk of the Pittsburgh dialect in which other people are referred to not as "you" or even as "you all," but as "yinz." Thousands of Yinz-ers, now in their thirties and forties -- such as

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Project Implicit is a fascinating method for associating an individual's preference between two concepts. The test I just took was between imprisonment and capital punishment for example. The results of the test are often surprising.The project was recently discussed on Slate and in Malcolm Gladwell's book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

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The Globalist's Thomas P.M. Barnett suggests that a nuclear armed Iran may be a stabilizing force in the region. His "Blueprint for Action" presents a number of interesting possibilities in a development that has so brought about few new perspectives.In the recent increase in tensions between Iran and the West it is important to distinguish between the Iranian government and the Iranian people.

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Condoleezza Rice recently remarked on the creation of the position of director of Foreign Assistance within the State Department. This new director will also serve as the USAID administrator.Rice believes this will allow for the better coordination of U.S. development efforts while others are concerned that this will allow State Department concerns to subsume USAID objectives.The creation of the

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The future of hockey is here and his name is Alexander Ovechkin

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Here's a quote by Emerson I recently encountered:"So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, - What is truth? and of the affections,— What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great

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A new set of television ads by the Red Cross seems to suggest that since saving the world is so difficult we should just donate some blood instead. Curious.

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FAIR reports that "CNN’s Headline News has hired radio talkshow host Glenn Beck to host a one-hour primetime show, according to a Daily Variety report (1/17/05). Variety quotes CNN Headline News president Ken Jautz's description of Beck: 'Glenn’s style is self-deprecating, cordial; he says he'd like to be able to disagree with guests and part as friends. It's conversational, not confrontational.'

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Sorry I've been a bit slow on the posts lately. I promise to pick things up as the new year gets going in fully swing.Lawrence Lessig provides an apt critique of U.S. broadband policy and conveys the daunting proposition that we are slowly falling behind the rest of the world in internet infrastructure. If only policymakers could set aside special interests and develop an innovative policy to

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"Broadband is the electricity of the 21st century--and much of America is being left in the dark."An article from the Washington Monthly encourages American policy makers to close the digital divide in the U.S. or risk falling behind Asian innovators in technological expertise.

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A recent Foreign Policy interview with Lawrence Lessig expounds on the debate between U.S. and international interests on the future of the internet.

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At long last, here is my top ten list of best top ten lists for the end of 2005.10. All Songs Considered Best Music of 20059. The Globalist Top Ten Books on Globalization in 20058. Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 20057. Top Ten Google Searches for 20056. Wired News Biggest Discoveries of 20055. National Geographic's Top Ten News Photos of 20054. The New Republic's Top Ten Overlooked Movies of the

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There's a thought-provoking editorial in today's Financial Times that addresses the impact technology has on multiple facets of our lives. In particular, it highlights the common human mistake to underestimate the power of the exponential advancement of technology."We tend to project the past on to the future. Yet accelerating rates of change are bringing the future racing towards us...Had it

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Check out this fantastic website."Gapminder is a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualise human development. This is done in collaboration with universities, UN organisations, public agencies and non-governmental organisations. Gapminder is a Foundation registered at Stockholm county administration board (Länstyrelsen) (reg. nr. 802424-7721). It was founded

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It seems the Bush administration has been so focused on successful elections in Iraq that the consequences of an Islamist majority have not been fully considered.A Christian Science Monitor article provides a preliminary assessment of the outcome."With more than three-quarters of the country giving a vote of confidence to Islamist parties, last Thursday's vote raises the prospect of Iraq being

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An article in yesterday's Financial Times discusses the inevitability of the next five years of tech development. It all seems so matter of fact."In emerging markets, consumers can look forward to simple $100 or pay-as-you-go computing machines helping them access vital data. They might just need a weather forecast or the price of wheat, says Phil Hester, chief technology officer at AMD, whose

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So I shook the president's hand today! President Bush was here at the Wilson Center today to give a speech on the war on 'terrer' and I worked as a volunteer. I assisted the White House with the press corps. My job was to make sure they didn't leave their cordoned off area. I was in the ballroom before all the guests entered, so I witnessed the whole process which was fascinating. Secret service

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It appears Mr. Negroponte's $100 laptop is causing quite a stir.If nothing else, it is encouraging a lot of people to think about providing access to technology for children around the world.In a recent article with Wired News, Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel, disparaged the $100 laptop as a "gadget," Saying what people want is a computer, not a gadget. Hmmm. Do I sense a hint of jealousy in Mr.

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Here's a picture of Negroponte's $100 laptop.

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Pick a starting location, enter in time and monetary constraints, and personalworldmap.org will show you where you could travel. It's an interesting idea that could probably be expanded on in the future.

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I suppose I couldn't consider myself a true Chicago Bears fan if I didn't also include a link to the Super Bowl ShuffleThe Bears are doing quite well this year with some comparing this year's defense to the tenacious D of 1985...could there be a new Super Bowl Shuffle on its way?

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Ode to the 1987 Stanley Cup Champions Calgary Flames

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