September 2010
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WatchConfirmed: Rahm Emanuel Likely to Leave White House This Week
/via @abcnewsradio &@creepysleepy:
While speculation of Emanuel’s departure has been rampant, ABC News can now confirm that Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel will declare his intentions to leave the White House and run for mayor of Chicago this Friday.
ABC’s Jake Tapper Reports:
Although no final decision has been made because of...
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FiveThirtyEight: The Uncanny Accuracy of Polling... →
@creepysleepy:
/via @FiveThirtyEight
By NATE SILVER
Part I
I spend a lot of time thinking about uncertainty. The key difference in Pecota, the forecasting system that I developed eight years ago to predict the performance of baseball players, was not that it did better than its competition, on average (it did in most years, but only by a tiny bit). Rather, it was that it looked at the...
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Creepy Sleepy: Fake Pimp from ACORN Videos Tries... →
Interesting story - O’Keefe paid a visit to ABC News Radio about 18 months ago. O’Keefe pitched us on doing similar-types of ‘gotcha’ journalism. This was pre-ACORN controversy (and the resulting notoriety), and not knowing who he was (or would turn in to) my boss and I took a brief meeting with him. Needless to say the experience surreal and foreshadowed events to come....
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The Official History of Creepy Sleepy →
@creepysleepy:
A Brief History of Creepy Sleepy
By W. Doc Stodden with Dan Patterson.
Creepy Sleepy, as an entity, began a LONG long time ago, in the earliest part of the 21st Century. What eventually became the legendary and award-winning series of life lessons known as the Creepy…
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What News & Politics Blogs Should We Follow? →
/via @abcnewsradio:
Good morning and happy Tuesday!
If you have a moment and so desire, we’d love your recommendation on Tumblr.
But more importantly we’d like to know who we should be following! We’re enjoying following you and would to know your favorite Tumblr blogs.
What news & politics Tumblr blogs should ABC News Radio follow on Tumblr?
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What Zombie Blogs Should We Follow? →
/via @zombie_doom and theinevitablezombieapocalypse:
Hi there and happy Tuesday! The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse <3 zombies, but we <3 you more!
If you have a chance and feel so enclined please give us a recommendation on Tumblr in the ‘Weird’ category.
And: what other blogs should we be following, reblogging, and <3ing?
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Gladwell: Small Change - Why the Revolution will... →
The world, we are told, is in the midst of a revolution. The new tools of social media have reinvented social activism. With Facebook and Twitter and the like, the traditional relationship between political authority and popular will has been upended, making it easier for the powerless to collaborate, coördinate, and give voice to their concerns. When ten thousand protesters took to the streets...
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The Sad Science of Hipsterism →
/via @andrlik
Interesting article from Psychology Today on how the essence of being a hipster seems to depend on not only the common trappings of hipster culture, but also on the conscious desire to pretend not to be one.
From the article:
Their problem is that their purchases tend to place them within a category whose mythology they despise. That’s right: Nobody likes hipsters, not...
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WatchJust a few weeks before the mid-term election, Christiane Amanpour digs to White House strategist David Axelrod.
@abcnewsradio:
Interview With David Axelrod
Senior White House Adviser David Axelrod discusses the war in Afghanistan with “This Week” anchor Christiane Amanpour
Contrasting recent statements by administration officials that the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan set to...
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WatchJohn Berman with a Very Brief History of: The Tea Party Movement /via @abcnewsradio & @nightline
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Politics on ABC News →
@abcnewsradio:
What We’re Reading
‘Contract’ 2.0: House Republicans Roll Out ‘The Pledge to America’
House Republicans today are unveiling “The Pledge to America,” the “governing agenda” they plan to pursue if they regain control of the House of Representatives — and it calls for some changes that won’t win them friends at the White House.
President Obama Challenges UN Delegates to Support...
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“They don’t want you to call it the Contract with America. [This] morning, House...”
– JON KARL - ABC News Senior Political Correspondent (via nightline)
ABC News has learned this new Pledge will include five broad categories, including jobs, government reform, spending, national security and health care. Under each category, there will be four or five specific proposals and actual...
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Health Care - 6 Month Anniversary
6 months ago today Presiden Obama signed the health care bill, though most components have yet to take effect.
Do you have health insurance? Will the bill help you? Will you vote Democrat or Republican because of the bill?
From the New York Times
Thursday is the six-month anniversary of the signing of the bill, which remains controversial among voters.
With Republicans campaigning on a...
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Sex! Hackers! Embellishment! The Inside Story of... →
When the movie based on his college exploits and Silicon Valley conquests hits screens this fall, he’ll become the first tech nerd to be granted Hollywood celebrity. But then, that’s what happens when Tinseltown turns your life into film, your callow college years into fable, and your billion-dollar company into a metaphor for American ambition and the inherent loneliness that lurks just beneath...
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Make Your Own Low-Power AM Radio Transmitter →
Cool:
Abstract
Have you ever wondered how an AM radio station works? In this project you will learn the basics of how your favorite songs are transmitted by a radio station. You will learn how you are able to tune to your favorite station and listen to music. This is a very simple project that requires very few materials to make, but it gives a basic knowledge of how a radio transmitter...
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Newark Public Schools to Get a $100 Million... →
Via /@nytimes
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook, has agreed to donate $100 million to improve Newark’s long-troubled public schools, and Gov. Chris Christie will cede some control of the state-run system to Mayor Cory A. Booker in conjunction with the huge gift, officials said Wednesday night.
The three men plan to announce the arrangement Friday on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
The...
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Barack Obama's Bob Woodward Gamble →
An engrossing process-piece on Bob Woodward’s new book ‘Obama’s Wars’ by Mike Allen and John Harris from @Politico.
Of particular interest is how Woodward shrewdly uses information, sources, and his the egos of his subjects to craft an air-tight narrative.
Early in Barack Obama’s term, he and his aides faced a rite of passage familiar to every White House for the...
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“The discriminatory order of capitalism and the hegemonic approaches are facing...”
– - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the United Nations General Assembly
/via @reuters
“Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday told a U.N. General Assembly session on poverty that capitalism was on the verge of death and that it was time for a new economic system.
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Recommend The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse!
zombiedoom:
It’s Tumblr Tuesday! We all know what that means - time to recommend your favorite Tumblr blog.
We’d be totally honored if you were to recommend The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse.
But we also LOVE other zombie blogs on Tumblr. Who should we recommend and why?
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Twitter Needs to Be Decentralized →
From Alex Payne:
The call for a decentralized Twitter speaks to deeper motives than profit: good engineering and social justice. Done right, a decentralized one-to-many communications mechanism could boast a resilience and efficiency that the current centralized Twitter does not. Decentralization isn’t just a better architecture, it’s an architecture that resists censorship and the corrupting...
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WatchWill Sarah Palin run for President? She Spoke tonight at the Iowa Republican Party’s “Reagan Dinner: A Salute to Freedom.” @abcnewsradio and @nightline
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How International Relations Theory Would Cope with... →
I’m a geek for the amalgamation of foreign policy and zombies. So too is @docstodden, the source of this link.
/via zombiedoom:
International Relations theoretical explanations of Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse for Foreign Policy magazine.
/via @docstodden
Alex Massie alerts us to this BBC story about modeling who would win if the dead actually did rise from the grave:
If zombies...
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@UN: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Afghan...
Media release from the @UN.
Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General
on the electoral process in Afghanistan
The Secretary-General commends women and men of Afghanistan for their courage and determination in exercising their democratic right to vote during the parliamentary elections that, in accordance with the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of...
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WatchThe Tea Party’s Edge Over The GOP
@abcnewsradio:
The Tea Party’s Edge Over The GOP.
@nightline:
“The starfish is just out there”: Jonathan Rauch on the difference between the Tea Party and the other two.
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10 Years Ago - Boing Boing: The Anarchist Cookbook →
Via @BoingBoing a great look back at a retrospective on the Anarchist Cookbook. The 20/20 perspective (read: maturity) offered by the author of this iconic counter-culture tomb is pretty fascinating.
The Anarchist Cookbook was written during 1968 and part of 1969 soon after I graduated from high school. At the time, I was 19 years old and the Vietnam War and the so-called “counter...
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Christine O'Donnell on Rove's 'Un-factual' Remarks... →
This year’s primaries have been fascinating - the anti-incumbency vibe is remarkably similar to that of 2008, but from a completely different political faction. Below George does a great job of analyzing what happened in last night’s Delaware Republican primary.
@abcnewsradio:
George Stephanopoulos’ Bottom Line
Christine O’Donnell on Rove’s ‘Un-factual’ Remarks and ‘Republican...
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Iowa For Freedom | Blog | Sandra Day O’Conner on... →
From @ghollingsworth and interesting link and analysis on Sandra Day O’Conner and so-called ‘activist judges’:
Now, here’s that quote with a little thing we like to call context:
’We have to address the pressures that are being applied to that one safe place, the courtroom,’ O’Connor said. ‘We have to have a place where judges are not subject to outright retaliation for...
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Endorse The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse! →
The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse is a group blog that I co-moderate with a few friends. It’s been active for a month or so and a blast to maintain and read. The people involved have all worked pretty hard and we’d love your recommendation. More interesting, however, is the call for recommendations of OTHER similar blogs - I dig the idea of community content and hopefully this can...