I wonder how long this insane Castle Doctrine wikipedia page is gonna stay tabbed

"# days since the last prominent homophobe was caught in a gay sex scandal" simple and clever

another disgraced politic pizza connection

"Hiram Monserrate is serving the public again -- one slice at a time.  The shamed former state senator is getting rid of his aggression these days by pounding the dough at a pizza shop in Queens." via will

giant causeway for fun-seeking saudi arabians plays a role in bahraini crisis<br />
“Saudi Arabia did not build a causeway to Bahrain just so that Saudis could party on weekends,” said Toby Jones, an expert on Saudi Arabia at Rutgers University. “It was designed for moments like this, for keeping Bahrain under control.” see http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/world/middleeast/20saudi.html

the last blocks of IPV4 addresses are being leased and what that means

cautious assessment of the environment which has led to arab league revolutions

"An unexpected and unwanted text message from a wireless company prematurely exploded a would-be suicide bomber’s vest bomb in Russia New Year’s Eve" via straup

"Gerald Ratner was someone who underestimated the power of the big Other - Ratner thought he could just say that his shops sold crappy jewellery and it would have no effect, because ’everyone knew’ that this was the case. But the big Other didn’t know, and the catastrophic results for Ratner's business are well known. The capitalist big Other is the virtual entity that believes corporate advertising and PR when no empirical individual can" practical assessments of radical movements

EL DEZADO = THE FINGER

“We have replaced the music of the early morning program with the sound of the rooster, replaced the news music with the sound of the firing bullet and the music of the night program with the sound of running horses,” said Osman Abdullahi Gure, the director of Radio Shabelle radio and television, one of the most influential stations in Mogadishu.

NUTS via jivko

radical infrastructure proposal (via cityofsound)

the economics of wikipedia participation / shaping editorial policy / the kinds of resultant content

"A world map of Involuntary Parks would be an interesting and perhaps enlightening addition to new maps of our newly uninsurable world."

via conjugations

"The ability of states to control events will be diluted, in some cases destroyed. Artificial borders will crumble and become more fissiparous, leaving only rivers, deserts, mountains, and other enduring facts of geography. Indeed, the physical features of the landscape may be the only reliable guides left to understanding the shape of future conflict. Like rifts in the Earth’s crust that produce physical instability, there are areas in Eurasia that are more prone to conflict than others." via migurski

fill up a gulch if ya dont like it

nastiness in the place

the excuse "he did it because he had to do it" is no longer acceptable (via migurski?)

product placement in government reports (via wizardishungry)

whether or not quaint small-town places are apt environmental metaphors

Iraqi date importation (described in a lecture along with notion of "redirect practice")

deconstructing two "black face" typefaces; via marisa olson

for later

I guess it was about abridgement, but here is an article about how Acronyms can lead to disinformation

white house press secretary plays "the blues" with his band, "Beats Working". Put another way, his band name is a literal adaptation of the "Working Hard or Hardly Working??" aphorism...via dave

I bet that's a Scott Storch beat... via artfagcity.com

design relativism, aesthetic populism, intentionally bad design, "lest people assume that a lot of time and/or money had been spent on them" via britta

"It is outrageous, in a post 9/11 world, that a company would use this type of marketing scheme." Boston Mayor RE: AquaTeen throwies. Oops, I forgot that we were in a post 9/11 world... :)

omaha, always on the forefront of the awkward

one of the films from the Ocularis retrospective

willa's friend's protest / anarchist blog

homeless shelters that feed from heat vents / ducts

gerald ford, promoted grassroots anti-inflation