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.
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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.

2Oct/092
Links of the Day, October 2
Today is Gandhi's birthday!
News
- The death toll in Indonesia is up over 1,000, with thousands more still trapped.
- A fossil find in Ethiopia may turn evolution theories on their head.
- Tony Blair is in line to become Europe's first president, assuming the Irish say yes.
- Obama meets McChrystal.
- Jon Stewart lays into Democrat Senators. (Yes, I consider this news, because Jon Stewart is the most trusted newsperson in the US.)
Health Care
- Here's the latest on the Baucus bill, which will get voted on next week.
Politics
Miscellaneous
@justinfung
- Digging @TheFray's new album, "Scars and Stories." 23 minutes ago
- The new trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man. http://t.co/TBa2Z9Qi 39 minutes ago
- Yesterday's Super Bowl ads expose deeper underlying ways of thinking that we need to address. http://t.co/kSoj3kAc 19 hours ago
- I love this idea: "The Phone Stacking Game." http://t.co/uWstfb19 20 hours ago
- Can someone explain to me China and Russia's veto on Syria? Who does that?! 2 days ago
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