14Oct/090
Links of the Day, October 14
News
- Heartbreaking: girls sell sex in Hong Kong for shopping money.
- Some coal plants are dumping waste into drinking water sources. How generous of them ...
- According to the Guttmacher Institute, bans do not reduce the number of abortions. Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 women a year.
Health care
- The Senate Finance Committee passed its bill, 14-9, with Sen. Snowe (R-ME) the only Republican to cross party lines.
Politics
- Sen. Lindsey Graham is really getting it from the right for working with Sen. John Kerry on climate change legislation.
Miscellaneous
- A follow-up to the suggestion that email is on its way out: why email will never die.
- Enjoy:
- The world's "most beautiful object": this fireplace.
- Social stratification in social networking? Apparently so.
1Oct/092
Links of the Day, October 1
Happy October! Only three months of 2009 left!
As a fall treat, here's a picture from the White House photostream of Barack playing with his Asian-American niece, Savita:
Eugene Cho blogs about it.
News
- In more sobering news, the death toll in Indonesia passes 700.
- Iran talks nuclear.
- Senators Boxer and Kerry introduce the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. Here's John Kerry's op-ed in Politico.
Miscellaneous
- BBC News covers William Kamkwamba, the "Boy Who Harnessed the Wind." (See my previous LotD entry.)
- This kid is NOT going to live this play down. Oh, high school football ...