Against Their Wills is a magnificant (yet terrifying) article about the forced sterilization that has occurred in North Carolina and why it lasted so much longer than in other states. Aside from being an amazing article, the stylization of the article is fabulous.
Over the holidays, “thieves nabbed personal information of 500,000 members of military and families.” Scarily enough, this data was nabbed because all medical records of the military members have been systematized and therefore are aggegatable. I wonder who will have to experience identity theft before the practice of collecting data is questioned. Often data is collected for a very different purpose than it is used. What happens when someone else believes that they have a right to this data? Or when data is sold (liquidization of a business) or when it is outright stolen? I really do hope someone tries to steal John Poindexter’s identity… i think that would be a hoot.
Here’s a preacher i could follow: Preaching Against the ‘Evil’ of Consumerism
Don’t you love how evil is encapsulated with quotes, as though a newspaper can’t actually admit that there’s an evil element in consumerism without quoting it? I mean, could be preaching against the “evil of consumerism” which sounds awefully different than the “evil” of consumerism. But don’t forget: orange is the new pink (why couldn’t that have been a good movie???)
Ah yes, another one of those articles that reminds me of how screwy the drug war is… It seems as though Air Force pilots are required to take speed when in a battle situation. And of course, i’m absolutely convinced that most truck drivers are on amphetamines when driving cross country (either illegal ones or those ones sold in every truck stop). It seems as though speed is required, condoned or at least tolerated for certain professions. And you wonder why we have a country who abuses amphetamines?
internet or Internet? It seems as though i’m not the only one fighting for the role of the letter ‘i’ in our society.. and hell, i know that i’m not the only one who is grumpy about the different spellings/positionings of digital technology
web site vs. website
e-mail vs. E-mail vs. email
(i, of course, prefer website and email.. let them be their own unique words without having to be a descriptive of an old word.. they’ve matured to that level at least!)
Late night entertainment: psychedelic republicans
There is nothing that pisses me off more in academic contexts than ripping off someone’s work and taking credit for it.
NYC Wireless – be aware that your beloved chat system was not designed or developed by Sociable Design, but by one Fernanda Viegas.
Boston is one of the first cities to fully include gender identity and expression in its city-wide non-discrimination policies. Yippee! Of course, entertainingly, the one guy who dissented did so because “If I put on a dress and heels and lipstick, am I a woman?” Some people just never seem to get it.. ::sigh::
Don’t you hate it when you see disaster emerging and yet you feel so ineffective at stopping it?
Well, duh… They think that they’re building a Castle, right?
I love how i always learn more about Eve every time i read an article about her… And how i’m a member of the “Vagina Army.” Wait until the V-Party really exists.. oh boy oh boy.