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Transparency Corps
Latest project from the Sunlight Foundation. Like Mechanical Turk for government transparency.
government  politics  tumbl 
august 2009 by jimray
Project Vote Smart - API
apis  webdev  politics 
august 2009 by jimray
OpenSecrets has released 20 years of data, for free
This is pretty incredible - campaign finance and lobbying data going back to 1989, in a scrubbed CSV. They also offer a number of APIs and enhanced politician profiles.
politics  awesome  money  data  transparency  tumbl 
april 2009 by jimray
The White House is on Vimeo
With a very slick looking site - much better than their YouTube site
politics  obama  video  vimeo  tumbl 
january 2009 by jimray
Serving lunch at the inauguration
For everyone who asked about what it was that they served at that lunch.
food  politics  tumbl 
january 2009 by jimray
Vu Nguyen gives a behind-the-scenes look at msnbc.com's interactive coverage of the 2008 election
Paige West's interactive team did an amazing job of building one of the best interactive maps of the election.
work  msnbc  visualization  politics  2008election  tumbl 
november 2008 by jimray
Liberal rag 'The Economist' endorses Obama for president
Laments, as I'm sure does he by now, the Palin pick and wonders what could have been if only the real McCain had been running.
media  politics  election2008  tumbl 
october 2008 by jimray
Dahlia Lithwick on the fallacy of voter "fraud"
Lithwick has been on this issue for years and offers one of the most insightful analysis on why the real fraud is all of the right wing hysteria about this non-issue
politics  voting  tumbl  government 
october 2008 by jimray
PublicMarkup.org
Sunlight Foundation project to increase transparency of how a bill becomes a law
legal  politics  media  awesome  democracy  opengovernment  tumbl 
september 2008 by jimray
Governor Palin broke Alaskan state law publicly advocating against an initiative that would have protected salmon fisheries
The Clean Water Initiative was meant to limit the amount of arsenic that could be dumped in Alaska's coastal waters, which would have protected salmon spawning ground. Instead, a giant gold and copper mining site will go into full operation.
environment  politics  2008election  food  republicans  tumbl 
september 2008 by jimray
Write in Bush 2008
A third candidate could really shake things up
funny  politics  religion  tumbl 
july 2008 by jimray
Scamming the true believers
I don't know how to feel about a group of Republicans duping right-wing idealogues into donating millions of dollars for no-name campaigns and pocketing most of the cash. Just desserts?
schadenfreude  republicans  dumb  politics  tumbl 
july 2008 by jimray
Ars has a really great breakdown of the White House email system
And, more interestingly, how the Bush administration failed at basic accounting of that email system as required by the Federal Records Act
government  corruption  email  history  legal  politics  tumbl 
may 2008 by jimray
Obama hoops it up with North Carolina players
Well, he's lost the Duke vote, but since the New Jersey primary was months ago, no big loss there.
politics  basketball  northcarolina  tumbl 
april 2008 by jimray
Where is McCain's flag pin?
FLAG PIN GATE IS SWEEPING THE NATION!
politics  dumb  patriotismisthelastrefugeofthescoundrel  tumbl 
april 2008 by jimray
Seattlest has a pretty good primer on how to caucus this year
Washington screwed everything up - main points: if a Democrat, you have to caucus because the DNC is counting primary votes. You can register to vote onsite. If you've moved since the last time, go to the polling place for your new address.
politics  seattle  tumbl 
february 2008 by jimray
Judge: Man can't be forced to divulge encryption passphrase
Said to be in violation of fifth amendment rights against self-incrimination. So... maybe PGP encrypt your iPod before the RIAA comes knocking.
cryptography  government  politics  privacy  tumbl 
december 2007 by jimray
McClellan blames Bush for CIA leak deceit
It's all rats and sinking ships for the next year, I'm afraid
politics  government  tumbl 
november 2007 by jimray
U.S. hopes to use Pakistani tribes against al Qaeda
Arming a group of, at best, ambivalent, at worst, openly hostile, tribal leaders in the vain hope that they'll help us kill their own countrymen while we maintains almost zero military presence in one of the most unstable parts of the world. WHAT COULD GO
dumb  politics  pakistan  war  terrorism  tumbl 
november 2007 by jimray
How the candy lobby got an extra hour of daylight on Halloween
Apparently, moving daylight savings time past Halloween is something they've long lobbied for and only the completely ill conceived Energy Policy Act of last year was able to deliver.
business  funny  dumb  politics  tumbl 
october 2007 by jimray
Noted Islamic scholar and state representative Rex Duncan returns donated Quarans
Says that the Muslim holy book condones the killing of innocent people. Oh, wait, he's not a scholar on anything other than trying to find new ways to insert his own head into his ass? Huh.
dumb  republicans  religion  tumbl  politics 
october 2007 by jimray
CRAIG: Convey Republicans Away to Iran's Gay-lessness
"In this country we have some people--they're called Republicans--who want to prevent gay marriage and stop gay people from getting equal protection under the law. And now we know there's a country without gay people to which the Republicans can move, thu
brilliant  funny  politics  homosexuality  tumbl 
september 2007 by jimray
Google has an amazingly impressive 2007 election guide for Australia
The mapping stuff alone is nothing short of awesome, this is a warning shot across the bow of the mainstream media ship in the U.S. for '08
google  news  government  politics  election  maps  media  tumbl 
september 2007 by jimray
Josh Wolf is running for mayor of San Francisco
Incidentally, still a douchebag
dumbass  politics  bloggers  tumbl 
july 2007 by jimray
Murdoch takeover of Dow Jones now official?
The official line is that the only agreement made was over independence, but that was the only sticking point, so...
media  newspapers  politics  tumbl 
july 2007 by jimray
The New York Times new Washington blog is reading the Family Jewels so you don't have to
Interesting look at the important and not-so-important parts from a panel of folks who know the difference
politics  nytimes  weblogs  history  cia  tumbl 
june 2007 by jimray
Today is a day of internet radio silence
Protesting the proposed changes to broadcast royalty rates that would make internet broadcasts all but impossible for everything but the most commercialized drivel.
internet  music  radio  politics  legal  riaa  tumbl 
june 2007 by jimray
The Washington Post is blogging a special report on the Cheney vice presidency
Interesting use of the blog format, curious to know how they're going to keep up with the avalanche of comments
politics  washingtonpost  newspapers  media  weblogs  cheney  via:joeweiss  ac 
june 2007 by jimray
Doctors' beliefs hinder patient care
When you choose a career based in science, you have to check your inane religious superstitions at the door.
dumb  religion  politics  medicine 
june 2007 by jimray
Indecision 2008 launches
"Something approximating election news with something approximating honesty"
politics  funny  media  2008election  tumbl 
june 2007 by jimray
Google gets political with a public policy blog
Sorta... odd. I'd expect this more from google.org than .com
google  politics  tumbl  government  privacy 
june 2007 by jimray
More Americans belive in creationism than accept evolution
Here's the nice thing about science and facts, though: it's still true even if you don't believe it.
via:kottke  religion  politics  dumb  republicans  science  evolution  tumbl 
june 2007 by jimray
Who's a rat
"The largest online database of informants and agents" - is this for real?
legal  government  crime  wtf  privacy  politics 
june 2007 by jimray
Slate is launching an online video site
For original video content from the Slate.com staff
magazines  media  video  politics  tumbl 
june 2007 by jimray
The incredible, disappearing American Center for Voting Rights
Slate takes a damning look at the problem that voter fraud isn't. Interesting how Republicans do better when fewer people vote...
politics  republicans  voting  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
Nancy Pelosi is asking for global warming solutions on Ask Yahoo
Predictably, most of the "answers" are just people bitching about Pelosi's politics. Go internets!
politics  globalwarming  yahoo  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
The face of media criticism to come?
The BBC did a story critiquing Scientology, they responded with a multimedia campaign to slander the BBC. Oh, and some reporter yelled a lot.
bbc  media  science  politics  religion  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
President Intervened in Dispute Over Eavesdropping
Really spectacular NY Times account of the lengths the Bush administration went to in order to get the wiretap program reauthorized, including a race to Ashcroft's hospital bed.
politics  legal  media 
may 2007 by jimray
The asshattery of Digg strikes again
A bunch of childish republicans (any other kind?) are pissed that hopeless candidate Ron Paul isn't listed in some poll, put NBC's main switchboard number online and slander our marketing director. It's the wisdom of the crowds!
dumb  digg  republicans  msnbc  politics  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
Obama wants debates in the public domain or under creative commons license
Sharp thinking, that guy
copyright  creativecommons  politics  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
Who doesn't believe in evolution?
Chris Matthews asked a throwaway question at the Republican debate last night, Brownback, Tancredo and Huckabee all answered affirmative. See, unlike virgin births or flying spaghetti monsters, evolution doesn't give a god damn if you believe.
dumb  republicans  politics  religion  science  evolution  creationism  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
Bill Moyers interviews Jon Stewart
Great thoughts on media, politics, all the rest. Of course.
media  politics  funny  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
Holovaty breaks down the new presidential candidate tracker at the Post
Great feature set, pretty much exactly what you'd expect from that crew
media  databases  newspapers  politics  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
Race to the Whitehouse
I'm linking to this only to officially distance myself. No one I know or work with had anything to do with this simplistic, stupid idea. It was built by some dude in Utah at who's request, I don't know.
work  dumb  television  politics 
april 2007 by jimray
Lessig says that the presidential debates should be creative commons licensed
I whole heartedly agree. Not only that, I think the government should pay for it and throw it all online in a neutral format. Maybe, since no candidate actually accepts the money I keep allocating in my tax form, we could use it for something like this?
media  creativecommons  politics  tumbl 
april 2007 by jimray
Warren Ellis is back with Doktor Sleepless
Sounds bloody awesome (also, silverbulletcomicbooks.com - it's the 21st fucking century, learn how to goddamn permalink)
tumbl  comics  politics  via:snarkmarket 
april 2007 by jimray
Nice campaign finance graphic from NYT
design  infographics  maps  money  politics  media  work 
april 2007 by jimray
NPR fights the good fight against the RIAA's inane webcast royalty clusterfuck
I love NPR
npr  radio  riaa  via:kidethnic  legal  politics  media  tumbl 
march 2007 by jimray
Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) first national politician to publicly declare he doesn't believe in God
Officially a "Unitarian who doesn't believe in a supreme being" - I guess that's a start...
religion  politics  atheism  tumbl 
march 2007 by jimray
John Edwards is a twitterer
That yellow background is SOO gay. I kid, I kid!
twitter  politics  awesome  tumbl 
march 2007 by jimray
The purge of U.S. attorneys (partially) explained
"Perhaps the most important lesson to be drawn from the purge isn't that the Bush administration puts ideology above the rule of law."
politics  evil  legal  tumbl 
march 2007 by jimray
The big question
"We asked 100 writers and thinkers to answer the following question: Left and right defined the 20th century. What's next?"
via:colin  politics  philosophy  writers  science  future 
march 2007 by jimray
Jerry Falwell/Pat Robertson or Usama Bin Ladin Quiz
Pick which quote came from which religious nutjob!
tumbl  funny  religion  politics 
march 2007 by jimray
Main Page - Conservapedia
It's my great hope that conservatives will create parallels of all of our pesky fact-based resources until the Rapture finally happens and those idiot motherfuckers finally leave the rest of us alone.
dumb  politics  religion  wikipedia 
february 2007 by jimray
Slate does a good job of ripping apart the "half hour news hour"
"The mind strains to conceive of political humor that might be less humorous"
media  politics 
february 2007 by jimray
Just pretend it's all ok
If you can fit it between your Darwin fish and "IMPEACH THE BASTARD!" bumper sticker
politics  via:revgeorge  funny 
february 2007 by jimray
A peek inside the WSJ editorial board
The WSJ puts a video camera inside their editorial meeting. Wow, a bunch of white dudes aping Karl Rove. Fascinating.
politics  opinion  video  newspapers  wsj  media 
february 2007 by jimray
The Secret Diary of Hillary Clinton
[this is good]
politics  2008election  satire  fake  weblogs 
january 2007 by jimray
Baby Einstein, wtf?
Man, I'm glad I'm not the only who couldn't figure out what the fuck that was about.
politics  dumb 
january 2007 by jimray
Freshman Senator John Tester from Montana keeps his daily schedule online
And he's an organic farmer with a freaking buzz cut. I want to move to Montana in six years just so I can vote for this guy.
politics  awesome 
january 2007 by jimray
State of the Union: Interactive analysis and weigh-in
Self-updating word frequency analysis "cloud" - my colleagues Jim Montgomery and Paige West built this and they rock
work  politics 
january 2007 by jimray
Martin Luther King "I have a dream"
Remembering today as something other than a chance to go skiing
politics  civilrights 
january 2007 by jimray
George Orwell: Politics and the English Language
2read  writing  politics  language 
january 2007 by jimray
John Edwards has a Flickr profile
Friended!
politics  flickr  photography  awesome 
january 2007 by jimray
Death penalty world map
See, we have more in common with the third world than we know. Go America!
via:kidethnic  legal  politics  sad 
january 2007 by jimray
NPR : Border Fence Firm Snared for Hiring Illegal Workers
Irony you are a fickle mistress
funny  politics  immigration  dumb 
december 2006 by jimray
Tomorrow begins today
John Edwards announces he's running for president... ON YOUTUBE?!
politics  youtube  video  awesome 
december 2006 by jimray
Va. Congressman fears more Muslims elected
Xenophobic asshat
politics  immigration  dumb  islam  religion 
december 2006 by jimray
Gay Merit Badges by Larry Jens Anderson
As someone with lots of non-gay merit badges, who also thinks that the Boy Scouts need to get over their collective homophobia, this is pretty awesome
art  boyscouts  homosexuality  politics  parody  funny 
december 2006 by jimray
Slant of media is driven by audience, not owners, U.S. study shows
Catering to the audience
via:alistairbrown  media  bias  politics 
december 2006 by jimray
Wired News: So. Many. Letters
Wired got so many responses to the athiesm piece, they're starting a blog to post every letter
via:revgeorge  wired  magazines  religion  science  politics 
december 2006 by jimray
Wired News: MPAA Kills Anti-Pretexting Bill
"The MPAA has a tremendous amount of clout and they told legislators, 'We need to pose as someone other than who we are to stop illegal downloading,' Goldberg said."
copyright  evil  mpaa  politics  privacy  via:revgeorge  legal 
december 2006 by jimray
Huffington Post Will Add Original Reporting to Its Blog
They hired a Newsweek reporter as their politics editor, plan on covering Congress and the '08 election
politics  weblogs  media 
november 2006 by jimray
The iPod Was Not Developed by Baptists in Waco, Texas
Garrison Keillor: "Creative people thrive in a climate of openness and tolerance, since some great ideas start out sounding ridiculous." Right on.
politics 
november 2006 by jimray
Election Night 2006: An Evening in the Life of the American Media | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)
2read  media  politics  election 
november 2006 by jimray
Study finds Web isn't teeming with sex
Only 1% of the internet is porn. Which is still a lot of porn.
politics  pornography  sex 
november 2006 by jimray
TIME: The Wit and Wisdom of Donald Rumsfeld
This is really pretty awesome, especially from Time mag of all places
funny  politics  via:snarkmarket  war 
november 2006 by jimray
What you missed on Election Night
media  politics 
november 2006 by jimray
http://Stevens.senate.gov - Technical difficulties.
"Sorry, the http://Stevens.senate.gov web page you have requested is experiencing technical difficulties. The Webmaster has been alerted." Tube must've gotten jammed or somethin'
funny  politics  dumb 
november 2006 by jimray
Hacking Democracy (HBO Special) - Google Video
Wow, the whole thing is on Google Video? Rad.
2watch  google  video  politics  voting  fraud 
november 2006 by jimray
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