15Dec/090
Links of the Day, December 15
Apologies for skipping yesterday--we're heading into the holiday season and things are getting BUSY at work!
News
- Some Guantanamo inmates will be moved to a near-empty prison in Illinois, marking a significant step toward shutting down the camp at Guantanamo Bay.
- Televangelist Oral Roberts, loved by some, scorned by others, passed away, aged 91.
- Mike Huckabee is one of several conservatives to praise Barack's Nobel Peace Prize speech. (I find it interesting that so many people are surprised ... must be too busy projecting their own issues onto the President to really hear what he's been saying all this time.)
- David Brooks writes about Obama and Christian realism.
Green
- Hip-hop goes green in California.
- Did you know that the New York Times has a "Learning Network"? Because they do; and here's their page on global warming.
Miscellaneous
- An oil lobby photoshops diversity into its ad.
- Marvel meets Disney:
2Dec/090
Links of the Day, December 2
For those who love This is Spinal Tap:
News
- The President orders 30,000 new troops to Afghanistan. More thoughts to come.
- Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo is the new President of Honduras.
Green
- Boing Boing helps with energy literacy: climate change.
1Dec/090
Links of the Day, December 1
It's World AIDS Day. Watch this vid:
Iron Man 2:
News
- Barack will make an address tonight on Afghanistan, with preliminary reports suggesting a rapid deployment of an additional 30-35,000 troops.
- The proposed Comcast-NBC merger would be the largest media merger in recent history.
- South Africa vows to treat all HIV-positive babies (which is a big change of direction post-Mbeki).
Health care
- Latino voters see health care as the overwhelming priority.
Green
- The folks over at Treehugger debunk the global-warming-conspiracy conspiracy and critique the whole Climategate fallacy.
Finance reform
- The House is moving forward on financial regulation reform; the Senate is sluggish ... very sluggish.
Miscellaneous
- My good friend Ziya looks at the different perceptions of beauty.
- Is Lasik worth thousands of dollars?
10Nov/090
Links of the Day, November 10
Happy 40th birthday, Sesame Street!
News
- North and South Korean ships trade fire.
- John Allen Muhammad, the D.C. sniper, is set to be executed tonight in Virginia.
- "In defense of a 130 million dollar church building project," by Eugene Cho.
Health care
- Barack discusses abortion in the health care bills with Tapper.
- Bill Clinton is going to address Senate Democrats on the health care bill.
Green
Miscellaneous
- Jonathan Safran Foer writes about quitting meat.
- Howl's Moving Castle made out of Lego:
