Maybe I’ve Been Asleep for a While…: “

…but when did Amazon start tracking blogs? It’s weird to see a screenshot of my old template, but it’s also interesting to see their ‘recommendations,’ i.e., people who visit my website might also enjoy Liz Lawley, Unfogged, Culture Cat, and Arts and Letters Daily. At least I’m in good company.

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(Via the chutry experiment.)

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amazon bought alexa alexa archived the internet, the archive they made became archive.org, the company and tools went to amazon, so, amazon has had, other than a9, a search engine, site analysis and traffic analysis tools. internet history this is… coming back to remind us. amazon has integrated alexa.com tools into their site. neat, but not new. not even new that they do blogs, because they do tons of stuff, if you have a unique url, you are probably in alexa.com.

ACLU: New Documents Show Bush Order Authorizing Inhumane Prisoner Treatment: “The ACLU reports that new documents it received from its Freedom of Information Act request on Iraqi prisoners contain a shocking revelation: A document released for the first time today by the American Civil Liberties Union suggests that President Bush…”

(Via TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime.)

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if this is true, it should be impeachable. or at least i would hope.

Socialist Review: “”

(Via .)

it is pretty good, and i like his books too.

Sandbag shelter wins architecture prize: “Mark Frauenfelder:

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(Via Boing Boing.)

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cooool

Weebls Stuff – Toons: “”

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Down and Out in Discount America: “Al Zack, who until his retirement in 2004 was the United Food and Commercial Workers’ vice president for strategic programs, observes that appealing to the poor was ‘Sam Walton’s real genius. He figured out how to make money off of poverty. He located his first stores in poor rural areas and discovered a real market. The only problem with the business model is that it really needs to create more poverty to grow.’ That problem is cleverly solved by creating more bad jobs worldwide. In a chilling reversal of Henry Ford’s strategy, which was to pay his workers amply so they could buy Ford cars, Wal-Mart’s stingy compensation policies–workers make, on average, just over $8 an hour, and if they want health insurance, they must pay more than a third of the premium–contribute to an economy in which, increasingly, workers can only afford to shop at Wal-Mart.”

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this is one of the reasons that i boycott walmart.

Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | ‘We have to protect people’ : “But more than one gay playwright is at a stake here. Allen claims he is acting to ‘encourage and protect our culture’. Does ‘our culture’ include Shakespeare? I ask Allen if he would insist that copies of Shakespeare’s sonnets be removed from all public libraries. I point out to him that Romeo and Juliet was originally performed by an all-male cast, and that in Shakespeare’s lifetime actors and audiences at the public theatres were all accused of being ’sodomites’. When Romeo wished he ‘was a glove upon that hand’, the cheek that he fantasised about kissing was a male cheek. Next March the Alabama Shakespeare festival will be performing a new production of As You Like It, and its famous scene of a man wooing another man. The Alabama Shakespeare Festival is also the State Theatre of Alabama. Would Allen’s bill cut off state funding for Shakespeare?”

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ignorant and uninformed legislators…. yes, it likely would ban shakespeare…. and reading the constitution would likely be next.

totse.com | Chemistry of women: “MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEET

Woman–Chemical Analysis
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somewhat sexist, but all jokes like this are.