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4
Feb 10

Teabagger’s Promised Land

It will be very, very interesting to see how the “Government Free Lite Zone” of Colorado Springs, CO plays out. The Denver Post via Sadly, No!:

More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday. The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops — dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled.

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Jan 10

Daily Links for January 12th through January 15th

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social-media-print-magazines.png (PNG Image, 522×3218 pixels) – An infographic asserting that the rise of social media is correlated to the decline of print.
Why can’t the UK deal with snow? | GDS Publishing – As snow sweeps the country, the UK has coped in the way it usually does – with surprise, confusion and chaos.
How Much Is A Petabyte? | The Mozy Blog – An infographic of the size of a petabyte of data.
The App Store Economy is Booming – Apple – Gizmodo – An infographic detailing the metrics of the Apple iPhone/iPod apps store.

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Dec 09

Daily Links for December 21st through December 26th

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why local first | Local First – This question is best answered by Michael H. Shuman, author of the book Going Local. "Going local does not mean walling off the outside world. It Means nurturing locally owned businesses which use local resources sustainably, employ local workers at decent wages and serve primarily local consumers. It means becoming more self-sufficient and less dependant on imports. Control moves from the boardrooms of distant corporations and back into the community where it belongs."

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Dec 09

Daily Links for December 2nd through December 4th

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Researchers Say the Social Web Improves Kids’ Literacy (Geeks Say ‘Duh’) – According to a recent survey of around 3,000 kids, those who text, blog and use social sites such as Facebook have better writing skills than their less technologically inclined counterparts.
WordPress 2.9 Packs in Loads of Features: Hands-on Review « Weblog Tools Collection – WordPress 2.9 beta 2 is out, and the final release of WordPress 2.9 should be out in a short time. However, not many of you might have tried out the beta or may be aware of the new functionalities that will be included in it.
Here is a hands-on review of WordPress 2.9 Beta 2. I try to showcase some of the most interesting features you can look forward to.

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Oct 09

Daily Links for October 1st through October 2nd

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Op-Ed Columnist – The Wizard of Beck – NYTimes.com – They pay more attention to Rush’s imaginary millions than to the real voters down the street. The Republican Party is unpopular because it’s more interested in pleasing Rush’s ghosts than actual people. The party is leaderless right now because nobody has the guts to step outside the rigid parameters enforced by the radio jocks and create a new party identity. The party is losing because it has adopted a radio entertainer’s niche-building strategy, while abandoning the politician’s coalition-building strategy.

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Sep 09

Daily Links for September 27th through September 29th

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Student Loans: Studen Loan Interest and Total Cost of Student Loans | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice – Sadness.
Colleges Cut Costs – TIME – A funky roommate named recession is settling in on campuses this fall as colleges and universities slash budgets for virtually everything from salad bars to ski teams. U.S. colleges and universities suffered, on average, a 23% endowment drop in the second half of last year, according to a study by a group of campus business officers. That reduction in funding has set off a scramble to freeze hiring, cut hours and hunker down until the economy improves. "Institutions will have to manage with less," says Oberlin's vice president for finance, Ron Watts. Here's a look at how schools are getting creative with their wallets.

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Sep 09

Daily Links for September 18th

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Daily Number: A Scarcity of Car Lovers – Pew Research Center – Americans' romance with the automobile seems to be cooling off a bit. A Pew Research survey conducted in 2006 found that just 23% say they consider their car "something special — more than just a way to get around," barely half of the 43% who felt this way in 1991.

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Sep 09

Daily Links for September 18th

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One Crisis Down, Next Up: The School District budget meltdown | Young Philly Politics – This is a situation the School District ignored as it padded executive offices and signed off on millions of dollars in contracts for the past five months – despite appeals that contracts should be prioritized or even held off until the state budget came through. It’s a situation the School District steadfastly refused to acknowledge even when the governor’s budget was clearly dead in the water. It’s a situation that the School District’s only apparent preparation for was a “doomsday budget” it passed out to Council last spring in the event of a worst-case scenario.

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Aug 09

Daily Links for August 4th

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Conspiracy Theories | Cracked.com – Conspiracy theorists divide the world into "Everyone even remotely involved/qualified vs. Me," and decide that they'll win single-handedly. They're like Rambo with bullshit instead of bullets.
Beer Calculus . homebrew recipe calculator – A calculator for home beer brewing.

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Jul 09

Daily Links for July 29th

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Economist’s View: "Why had Nobody Noticed that the Credit Crunch Was on its Way?" – So where was the problem? Everyone seemed to be doing their own job properly… And according to standard measures of success, they were often doing it well. The failure was to see how collectively this added up to a series of interconnected imbalances over which no single authority had jurisdiction. This, combined with the psychology of herding and the mantra of financial and policy gurus, lead to a dangerous recipe. Individual risks may rightly have been viewed as small, but the risk to the system as a whole was vast.
So in summary, Your Majesty, the failure…, while it had many causes, was principally a failure of the collective imagination of many bright people, both in this country and internationally, to understand the risks to the system as a whole. …