Category: Politics
NPR – Congresswoman, 6 Others, Killed By Gunman
Political disagreements should never be resolved through violence.
ConceivablyTech – The Ultimate Patent Troll Patent: Get Sued When You File A Patent
Just when you thought patents couldn’t get any more stupid, IBM comes through.
The New Yorker – Sorting out the Senate
In Congress it isn’t majority rule, it’s super-majority rule.
Electronic Frontier Foundation – 2010 Trend Watch Update: Global Internet Censorship
Censorship and the internet, what’s up with that.
Schneier on Security – Full Body Scanners: What’s Next?
Simply and beautifully put.
Truthout – Arizona Bans Ethnic Studies and, Along With it, Reason and Justice
Arizona really is just a bundle of crazy isn’t it.
Darryl Cunningham Investigates: Climate Change
An entire comic devoted to showing what climate change is, why local events don’t prove or disprove it, why it is happening and why it is caused by humans, event tackling Climategate along the way.
A Guide to the Open Internet
Just in case you need a good solid pointer to over the holiday breaks as to why Net Neutrality is important and what it really means.
Organization of American States – Joint Statement On Wikileaks
On the plus side the UN and OAS came out pretty strongly in favor of Wikileaks and support of freedom for access to information.