You just can’t make up headlines like this
Pentagon wants cyborg insects to sniff WMD, offer free wi-fi
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month June 2009
Could ‘Latvia on the Pacific’ default on its debt
It could happen. California has $5.7-billion in debt obligations. And while that will grow, debt occupies pride of place in California’s constitution — only education must be paid off before the next slug of cash goes to creditors. Get that?…
Iran protests. Huge coverage by Twitter and blogs
Mashable has the numbers and graphs Twitter: 221,744 “Iran” tweets in one hour Blogs: 2,250,000 blog posts on Iran in 24 hours YouTube: 3000 Iran videos uploaded in one day These trends clearly demonstrate that social media has been front-and-center…
Iran protests going beyond the election now
Juan Cole: Protesters are even now targeting Khamenei directly, not just denouncing dictatorship, according to Robert Tait at the Guardian, chanting, ‘”Seiyed Ali Pinochet, Chile Iran nemishe” (Seiyed Ali Pinochet, Iran won’t become Chile).’ This chant is consistent with a…
The liberal blogosphere’s uncertain future
This was retweeted twelve times in five minutes after I posted it. Blogs can’t move news that fast. Eric Boehlert at TPM says the liberal blogosphere faces two challenges. Keeping readership after Obama’s win (and liberal blog readership has plummented…