It seems that we are still very far from a paperless world: WYSIWYG stands for What You See Is What You Get. It doesn’t stand for What You See Is What They Get. What you see is almost always not what they get. Geoffrey Pullum recounts the experiences that led to the supervisor of the [...]
Mike has taken the electoral vote map from Electoral-Vote.com and modified it so that states are as large as their number of electoral votes: Certainly gives you a different perspective!
Last week, Kevin Drum wrote: Mark Kleiman thinks there are a few little seedlings of evidence that people are growing up and talking more honestly about race these days — and John Kerry is one of them. I hope he’s right. I wondered, what do Mark and Kevin mean by “talking more honestly about race”? [...]
Not much posting lately, sorry. I’ve done a lot of work on my wiki though. Take a look, and help out! Current topics are: Language, Taiwan/East Asia, Online Publishing, Politics, and the Economy. My page on inequality is one of the more developed pages. If you want to practice without worrying about messing anything up, [...]
Are you prepared? Using the threat of terrorism to scare voters: all of September will be “National Preparedness Month“
Top Ten Post-War Contractors Ranked by Total Contract Value in Iraq and Afghanistan From 2002 through July 1, 2004 Kellogg, Brown & Root (Halliburton) —– $11,475,541,371 Parsons Corp. —– $5,286,136,252 Fluor Corp. —– $3,754,964,295 Washington Group International —– $3,133,078,193 Shaw Group/Shaw E & I —– $3,050,749,910 Bechtel Group Inc. —– $2,829,833,859 Perini Corporation —– $2,525,000,000 [...]
It’s the economy, stupid: Today’s map is illustrative of what could actually happen in November. Bush wins Ohio by a substantial margin, wins Florida by a handful of votes, yet loses the electoral college due to Kerry’s growing strength in the industrial states of the Midwest where many people have lost their jobs. But November [...]
Organizers of an exhibition in Australia are looking for photos from around the world from the February 2003 anti-war march. It seems like a great idea to document this, although I personally wish they planned to make the entire exhibition available online, rather than in a book. In February 2003, 30 million people around the [...]
I’m very happy to announce, that after much thought and preparation, I have finally launched my own personal wiki! It isn’t the first time I’ve run a wiki. Before the invasion of Iraq I set up the NoWarWikki. I turned off the collaborative editing features after the war, but I continue to host it as [...]
From Teller’s review of Penn’s new book: Finally, in the interest of full disclosure: six times a week onstage in Las Vegas, Penn fires a .357 Magnum revolver at my face. It’s a trick. I end up alive and healthy with the bullet neatly caught between my teeth. I survive, in large part, because Penn [...]