Design Issues for the World Wide Web

Scariest chart in the history of computing (for one company at least)

(“The chart misses the fact that the market itself is growing. Bad chart, no Tufte!”)

WikiLeaks Cablegate Visualization

This Is Not Jewish (How to Criticize Israel Without Being Anti-Semitic)

Who is doing the killing in Gaza? Noam Chomsky and others challenge world’s media

Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

“The only way forward is real identity verification: to allow our movements and metrics to be tracked in all sorts of ways and to have those movements and metrics tied to our actual identity.”

How to Live Without Irony – NYTimes.com

“Irony is the most self-defensive mode”

Critical News Literacy in a Non-Democratic Regime: How Young Russians NavigateTheir News | Florian Toepfl – Academia.edu

“Thus, while scholars of the impact of the internet in non-democratic regimes have barely turned to the concept of media literacy, scholars of medialiteracy have barely turned to study non-democratic regimes. Against this backdrop, one of the primary aims of the present article is to link these two academic debates by, tentatively,suggesting a concept of critical news literacy as it can be conceived of in a contemporary non-democratic regime.”

If You Must See “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2,” Bring Booze | Mother Jones

I’m Not A “Person With a Disability”: I’m a Disabled Person – xoJane

such a good, quick overview 🙂

jonezy (Alec Kluniz, 1957 …)

jonezy

Symphysiotomy survivors gather to recount stories of torture

‘Often performed in the place of the more commonplace Caesarean section, symphysiotomies involved breaking the woman’s pelvis during childbirth. The Survivors of Symphysiotomy (SOS) group claims that the operations were carried out without prior knowledge or consent “mainly for religious reasons, by obstetricians who were opposed to family planning.”’

Can the mother of all supercomputers save us from Big Brother?

red kidney bean curry | smitten kitchen

Channa Masala Recipe – Food.com – 17471

AT MY TABLE – A Fancy Meal for Friends, Simply – NYTimes.com

BELGIAN ENDIVE AND GRAIN MUSTARD SALAD Time: 15 minutes. 1/2 cup shelled hazelnuts 1 teaspoon grain mustard 2 teaspoons lime juice 2 teaspoons orange juice 1 teaspoon honey 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil 1 tablespoon vegetable or corn oil 1 pound red or white Belgian endive, separated into leaves 1 bunch watercress.

Orion Magazine | Trebbe Johnson, Lily Yeh, and Glenn Albrecht Discuss Solastalgia

‘”solastalgia,” which describes this phenomenon of ecological sadness’

Cochrane review of flu vaccine not as definitive as health officer suggests Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Cochrane+review+vaccine+definitive+health+officer+suggests/7543272/story.html#ixzz2CWfHTOmB

» Napster, Udacity, and the Academy Clay Shirky

“Higher education is now being disrupted; our MP3 is the massive open online course (or MOOC), and our Napster is Udacity, the education startup…. we’re probably going to screw this up as badly as the music people did.”

Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speeds at 700Mbps | Ars Technica

“He lives in a four-bedroom house run by “Homes For Hackers” on Kansas City’s Hanover Heights neighborhood, just on the state border with Missouri. The house has become one of the hubs for the KC Startup Village, an informal group of entrepreneurs who have clustered around homes immediately eligible for Google Fiber.”

Windows 95 Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks

Windows 95 Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks

Canada: Harper launches major First Nations termination plan | Cimate Connections

To Forgive Is Divine (Then Comes the Tax Bill) – Businessweek