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.
13Oct/090
Links of the Day, October 13
News
- US and Russia will work together to ensure a peaceful Iranian nuclear program.
Health care
- The Senate Finance Committee votes on its health care bill today.
Miscellaneous
- A Facebook addict goes cold turkey.
- The 'new' Michael Jackson single, "This Is It," is actually not that new.
- Found on Digg: this is so wrong.
