Akkam’s Razor

• TechDune » Amazing XP Tools to Arm your PC from Hackers
  (tags: security tools utilities xp hacking networking windows)
• Ezra Klein: What Has Happened To The Right?
  In that way, it sustains itself, each attack preemptively justifying the next vicious assault, justifying the whole hateful edifice on which their politics rest.
  (tags: politics republicans activism wingnuts)
• motivemagazine.com - Top Ten Vehicular Stereotypes
  An amusing confluence of marketing, stereotypes, prejudice, and popculture.
  (tags: automobiles culture)

• Churchbot Comic aka 2006-10-08.gif (GIF Image, 700×1437 pixels)
  ROFL.
  (tags: Atheism funny religion)
• How Political Psychology Explains Bush’s Ghastly Success.
  Reminders of mortality, death, and 9/11 influence voters to support and later defend George Bush.
  (tags: 2008 death election emotion fear psychology)
• Nothing to fear … | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
  We — you and I and all human beings — cling to what we know, what gives our world order and meaning. Threatening that causes us to cling tighter. We fear loss of control, particularly when confronted by the ultimate loss of control: death.
  (tags: psychology)

• beliefnet: Analysis of twelve major political religious voting blocs in America
  (tags: demographics politics religion study)
• wpzipper: Custom Wordpress Archives
  This site allows you to select the plugins that you want and will deliver a single zipped installation file.
  (tags: wordpress plugin zip)
• ColorJack: Sphere (Color Theory Visualizer)
  (tags: color visualization css webdesign)

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• Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: You ain’t going nowhere
  “What this affair reveals is that [...] competitive advantage still seems to be measured by the strength of a site’s or a service’s lock-in and the size of the switching costs it imposes on its “members.” It’s still [...] about erecting barriers as it is
  (tags: API community interesting mashup myspace widgets photobucket)
• Real-time Web Monitor
  (tags: geek graphs internet visualization world)

• John Edwards ‘08 Blog: Digital Political Vandalism and Intimidation in Second Life
  “Shortly before midnight (CST) on Monday, February 26, a group of republican Second Life users, some sporting “Bush ‘08″ tags, vandalized the John Edwards Second Life HQ.”
  (tags: participation politics Research)
• Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive 5 New Jobs of the Web 2.0 Generation «
  (tags: web2.0 Business jobs entrepreneur internet work Web)
• 20bits » Blog Archive » 4 Problems with Drupal
  A short technical criticism of Drupal.
  (tags: cms problems programming)