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Does my insurance cover falling satellites? (via @slate)
september 2011
Bent Objects
Anthropomorphized fruits and vegetables = my new favorite blog.
art  blogs  humor  food 
september 2011
the arch(L)ive (by @jaytiesse)
Archives as places of "activation and animation," not "burial and deep storage"
dpla 
september 2011
Where Falling Satellite Lands Is Anyone's Guess : NPR
september 2011
Uganda: Government to ‘ban’ international human rights organisations because "they tell lies"
uganda 
september 2011
Photos of Kansas hipsters from 1957 (via @boingboing)
!!!
september 2011
MacArthur Genius Award recipient thinks email from MacArthur is spam
september 2011
Osceola urges Kansas to drop Jayhawk name
Whaaaaaaaat?!?!
KU  lawrenceKS  kansas 
september 2011
South Sudan is now official on Google Maps
sudan  maps 
september 2011
NASA’s Kepler Telescope Finds Planet Orbiting Two Stars
september 2011
Library Copyright Alliance Statement on Authors Guild, Inc. et al. v. HathiTrust et al. (PDF)
dpla  libraries  copyright 
september 2011
Google's Global Library Takes a Further Blow
dpla  digitallibraries  google 
september 2011
Stunt poetry (via @dooce)
"This was a deep breath that I desperately needed to take today."
beauty 
september 2011
Exploding Kansas
Excellent @nytimes article on the Civil War along the Kansas-Missouri border.
kansas 
september 2011
Extreme Tidying Up : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR
Loving these photos, and wishing I were this organized.
inspiration  design 
september 2011
TED Blog | Explore the relaunched Encyclopedia of Life: EOLv2
september 2011
Road trip! American student joins rebels in fight for Qaddafi stronghold
#nottheonion
libya  crazy 
september 2011
New TLD system: Internet bureaucrats, not users or businesses, are in control. (via @slate)
ICANN  internet  internetinfrastructure 
august 2011
Live the good life, live Ffene!
An ode to the jackfruit
uganda  blogren 
august 2011
Bachmann staffer was arrested on terrorism charges in Uganda | FP Passport
uganda  uspolitics 
august 2011
Offering Funds, U.S. Agency Dreams of Sending Humans to Stars
nyt  NASA  space 
august 2011
G-Chat Status
This is why I'm always yellow.
august 2011
Fitness Marketing Hall of Shame (by @lmiyakawa)
See also: Truvia's commercials (http://bit.ly/p87fMg)
august 2011
8 Hours in Brooklyn on Vimeo
super slow-mo and beautiful.
video  nyc  art 
august 2011
Cow's Run for Freedom Amusing to Everyone Except Cow
vegetarianism 
august 2011
Google Creating a Map of Africa’s Broadband Cables
google  broadband  africa 
august 2011
How Rolling Dice Helps Save Leopards (by @freakonomics) via @cblatts)
Using randomized responses to ask sensitive survey questions
surveymethods 
august 2011
Arab Spring, Chinese Winter (from @TheAtlantic)
china  twitter  internetfiltering  internetfreedom 
august 2011
BBC News - Uganda anger at opposition's 'Twitter 'insurrection'
politics  twitter  uganda 
august 2011
Uganda Modern Literary Digest
Looking forward to exploring this.
uganda  writing  literature 
august 2011
Owino market razed by fire again
Second time in two years.
uganda  kampala 
august 2011
As Teenagers, Jon Hamm Humiliated Paul Rudd at Trivial Pursuit (via @nymag)
!!
august 2011
Propaganda Posters for Facebook, Twitter, and Google+
socialmedia  design  facebook  twitter  google 
august 2011
Citizen Media: A Global Innovation Competition
Nominate projects by 9/14; winners get $5k or a 3 year Ashoka Fellowship.
citizenmedia  technology  transparency 
august 2011
WordCamp is coming to East Africa
I would *love* to go to this.
wordpress  technology  eastafrica 
july 2011
So hot that Somerville road is melting
Ack.
july 2011
Top 100 Ugandans on Twitter (compiled by @dispatchug)
uganda  citizenmedia  twitter  blogren 
july 2011
Five Ideas on Meaningful Consent in Trauma Journalism by @itsjina
journalism  media  mediaethics 
july 2011
Confusion, Apathy and the Tools at Hand
reflections on journalism and activism by @oddletters
activism  socialchange  journalism  media 
july 2011
Beyond The Anti-Gay Bill: The Difficult Truth About Museveni’s Government In Uganda | The New Republic
uganda  glbt  activism  USforeignpolicy 
july 2011
The revolution will be translated: @globalvoices’ citizen-powered site experiments with English-second
globalvoices  translation  citizenjournalism  citizenmedia 
july 2011
We are women and we play drums which makes us happy (via @blacklooks)
rwanda  music 
july 2011
[Taking Stock] 2011 in Protests So Far (by @oso)
To refer to the worldwide protests of 2011 as the Arab Spring is to mark a serious misnomer.
activism  politics  digitalactivism  socialmedia 
july 2011
Official Google Africa Blog: Encouraging Online Freedom of Expression in Sub-Saharan Africa
africa  internetfreedom  freespeech  FOE 
june 2011
The Internet in East Africa: An aid or a weapon? (via @pressfreedom)
eastafrica  africa  uganda  tanzania  rwanda  burundi  sudan  ethiopia  internetfiltering  internet 
june 2011
The FP Twitterati 100 | Foreign Policy
twitter  foreignpolicy 
june 2011
From @ethanz, an excellent post on understanding #amina
"people are going to be looking closely for the man behind the curtain in citizen media for a long time to come."
syria  citizenjournalism  citizenmedia  glbt  LGBT 
june 2011
Iceland crowdsources its constitution | FP Passport
iceland  governance  crowdsourcing  socialmedia  transparency 
june 2011
Book rescue turns nightmarish for Sask. couple
Couple saves 350k books from being burned; weight of books is now crushing their house.
books 
june 2011
France bans Facebook and Twitter from radio and TV
#notanonionheadline #realnews
facebook  twitter 
june 2011
Prince Philip is apparently a huge fan of the word "ghastly"
june 2011
Activist Forced To Apologize 100 Times On Twitter - Jezebel
twitter  internetfreedom 
june 2011
Saddest octopus story I've ever heard
octopi 
june 2011
When the Internet Thinks It Knows You
There is a new group of gatekeepers in town, and this time, they’re not people, they’re code.
internet  internetfiltering 
may 2011
Digital Public Library of America Steering Committee Announces ‘Beta Sprint’
via @berkmancenter
dpla 
may 2011
Museveni wants Constitution amended
Via @dailymonitor: M7 wants mandatory 180 days in jail for "riot suspects."
uganda 
may 2011
Uganda uses Anti-Homosexuality Bill as a political diversion
via @blacklooks
uganda  LGBT 
may 2011
BBC News - Besigye: No Ugandan deserves to be treated like me
uganda 
may 2011
YouTube - Emerson - Mommy's Nose is Scary! (Parody)
Laughing so hard at this.
crazy  humor 
may 2011
Music For One Apartment And Six Drummers
This is stunning.
music  video 
may 2011
Real-Life Infographics - Jose Duarte | Geekosystem
In awe.
infographic  information  photography  inspiration  data  internet 
may 2011
Breaking Bin Laden: visualizing the power of a single tweet (by @gilgul)
twitter 
may 2011
Mozilla resists US gov't request to nuke "MafiaaFire" add-on
Eeek. Also blergh.
internetfreedom 
may 2011
Pakistan: Live-Tweeting Osama bin Laden’s Death from Abbottabad /via @globalvoices by @justamira
pakistan  osamabinladen 
may 2011
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Positions Found in The Kama Sutra for Midwesterners.
love. 
may 2011
In Somerville, Massachusetts, a Census Asks, Are You Happy? - NYTimes.com
somerville  sociology 
may 2011
Uganda riots over Kizza Besigye's arrest
#walk2work protests turning to riots
uganda 
april 2011
Those who said you will never see war were wrong
@RosebellK on what's happening in Uganda
uganda 
april 2011
xkcd: Null Hypothesis
Totally.
statistics 
april 2011
Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
Oh, algorithms.
amazon  math  algorithms  crazy 
april 2011
US National Science Foundation blocks Global Voices Advocacy website /by @ethanz
#irony
globalvoices  censorship  internetfiltering  internetfreedom  USgovernment 
april 2011
Dispatches From MENA to Loved Ones in New York
A collection of emails, phone calls, and texts from the Arab Spring.
MENA 
april 2011
Uganda Broadcasting Council warns on walk-to-work coverage /via @dailymonitor
uganda  censorship  media  pressfreedom 
april 2011
Ugandan media censored over Walk to Work protests /by @echwaluedward via @pressfreedom
uganda  media  censorship 
april 2011
At One Post Office, Tax Day Is a Reason to Dance and Sing
#yaylawrence
lawrenceKS 
april 2011
Official Google Africa Blog: Over 100 years of the Kenya Gazette goes live on Google
kenya  google  newspapers  digitization 
april 2011
UCC orders 24-hour shutdown of Facebook /via @dailymonitor
uganda  internetfiltering 
april 2011
NZ MP votes for anti-piracy law hours after tweeting about her love of pirated music /via @boingboing
copyright 
april 2011
Kizza Besigye shot at second #walk2work protest
Things are heating up in Uganda.
uganda  politics 
april 2011
Why did 250,000 Chinese Facebook users disappear on April 5? | FP Passport
china  facebook 
april 2011
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