December 1, 2008 – 06:10 pm
From YouTube’s Symphony Channel: “We invite musicians from around the world to audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Your video entries will be combined into the first ever collaborative virtual performance, and the world will select the best of you to perform at New York City’s Carnegie Hall in April 2009.” [Via NY Times]
December 1, 2008 – 10:38 am
From Alternet’s How to Find out the Hidden Secrets of the Bush Administration: “Treat Cheney’s offices like a crime scene, create a 9/12 Commission, and declassify the Bush papers — the public deserves to know. “
November 30, 2008 – 12:50 pm
From the Atlantic’s The Lightning Rod: “Since her arrival, in the summer of 2007, Rhee, just 38 years old, has become the most controversial figure in American public education and the standard-bearer for a new type of schools leader nationwide. She and her cohort often seek to bypass the traditional forces of education schools and [...]
November 30, 2008 – 12:26 pm
From Tim O’Reilly’s Put change.gov Under Revision Control!: “There’s a profound and simple tool that the Obama administration can use to improve government transparency. It’s something that’s enabled worldwide collaboration among software developers, and whose relevance for content development has been definitively demonstrated by wikipedia: Revision control. Not only does revision control allow a community [...]
November 30, 2008 – 11:36 am
From James Gleick’s How to Publish Without Perishing: “One could imagine the book, venerable as it is, just vanishing into the ether. It melts into all the other information species searchable through Google’s most democratic of engines: the Web pages, the blogs, the organs of printed and broadcast news, the general chatter. (Thanks for everything, [...]
November 25, 2008 – 09:51 am
From Organization & Market’s In Praise of the US Auto Industry: “The proposed bailout of GM, Ford, and Chrysler overlooks an important fact. The US has one of the most vibrant, dynamic, and efficient automobile industries in the world. It produces several million cars, trucks, and SUVs per year, employing (in 2006) 402,800 Americans at [...]
November 24, 2008 – 03:37 pm
From Salon’s Barack Obama, honeymoon killer?: “In fact, in [Obama's] appointments, and in what can be divined of his foreign policy, there are loud echoes of the last Democratic administration, and also of that lady he beat in the primaries, the one the netroots didn’t like very much. Certainly, some of Obama’s supporters are getting [...]
November 24, 2008 – 11:38 am
From Slate’s A new translation of the Quran.: “Arabic is a language whose words can have multiple, sometimes contradictory, meanings, so how one chooses to render a particular word from Arabic to English has a lot to do with one’s biases or prejudice. Take the following example from Sura 4:34, which has long been interpreted [...]
November 22, 2008 – 12:11 pm
From the NY Times’s What Happy People Don’t Do: “Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading newspapers — but they don’t spend a lot of time watching television, a new study finds. That’s what unhappy people do. Although people who describe themselves as happy enjoy watching television, it turns [...]
November 21, 2008 – 11:22 am
From the Rutland Herald’s Douglas opposes bill on marriage: “Gov. James Douglas said Thursday he would oppose legislation allowing same-sex marriages, saying the state’s civil unions law is adequate and that lawmakers should be focusing on the state’s money problems….Both [State Sen.] Campbell and Beth Robinson, a Middlebury-based lawyer who chairs the Vermont Freedom to [...]
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