Akkam’s Razor

• Journal of Computer Mediated Communication
  (tags: socialnetworking research academic social journal web2.0 culture)
• The Big Picture | Countrywide Led Mortgage Cos in Risk Taking
  Some more chart porn for you Countrywide (CCF) fans: Note the outsized-risk Countrywide was taking as insiders were dumping shares worth $100s of millions of dollars . . .
  (tags: charts infographics bigpicture Coutnrywide housingbubble mortgages)
• OpenSocial Sandboxes for hi5, Ning, and Plaxo Go Live. Dig In.
  So add hi5, Ning and Plaxo to your list of OpenSocial-compatible sandboxes, right next to Orkut. We’ve seen the first (buggy) implementation of OpenSocial on Plaxo and hi5, and we were pretty excited when OpenSocial finally opened its doors.
  (tags: opensocial partners hi5 Plaxo Ning)

• BBC NEWS | The Editors: No 9/11 Conspiracy Here…
  They “lost” the footage from one of the more horrible events in recent human history due to a “cock-up”? (Ah, the British!)
  (tags: 9/11 conspiracy disaster error bbc)
• Speak Up › Idiocratic Design
  Some of the graphics from the Mike Judge movie, Idiocracy.
  (tags: advertising branding culture comedy design mikejudge)
• Visuwords: online graphical dictionary
  (tags: Dictionary Visualization reference Thesaurus english language)
• webpodge » Blog Archive » 8 Drupal Articles you should read
  (tags: Articles development drupal howto reference)

US contingency plans for air strikes on Iran extend beyond nuclear sites and include most of the country's military infrastructure, the BBC has learned. It is understood that any such attack - if ordered - would target Iranian air bases, naval bases, missile facilities and command-and-control centres.

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• Weblog Tools Collection » Blog Archive » WordPress Plugin Releases for 1/19
  Slickr Gallery is a bandwidth-friendly AJAX photo gallery plugin for Wordpress. It allows you to pull your Flickr-hosted photos into a gallery section of your blog, as well as easily add Flickr-hosted images to your posts and pages.
  (tags: Wordpress Flickr Plugin)
• 10 Minutes to a Better Drupal User Interface | Nick Lewis: The Blog
  Some thoughts on UI design, and why it's better to emulate webapps and desktop apps in layout to facilitate the user experience.
  (tags: drupal module menu howto design tutorial cms)

• BBC NEWS | Middle East | Washington ’snubbed Iran offer’
  “But as soon as [the letter of Iranian concesions] got to the White House, and as soon as it got to the Vice-President’s office, the old mantra of ‘We don’t talk to evil’… reasserted itself.”
  (tags: news Politics Iran Invasion War)
• Mainstream Media to Bloggers: Bug Off.
  “Thus the MSM today stands condemned by its own record: by crucially important news untold, and by lies and misinformation told. [...] The internet is a spontaneous public response to these failures.”
  (tags: blogging internet journalism media)