shouting loudly

Think Progress had a good piece on Wednesday about the Republican leadership’s new love affair with the Twitter.  Apparently, Representative John Culberson (R-TX), thinks that he and his 8,097 twitter-followers are going to retake congress thanks to this powerful new technology. I’m gonna need some help here. I only joined Twitter a couple of months [...]

Lawrence Lessig, who is quite nearly my idol, is trying to enlist would-be campaign donors in a strike for change. The idea is that campaign donors will go on strike; we’re not to give money to candidates for federal office until and unless those politicians commit to publicly funded campaigns. I’ve been thinking about this [...]

Thanks to Alex Curtis at Public Knowledge for the stimulus bill content filtering update. The good news is in the headline: No on content filtering, yes on open network requirements. He also posted a PDF of the relevant section. See the highlighted portion on page 9 for the nondiscrimination requirements.

As the WikiLeaks site describes it, here’s some change you can download. I’ll let them explain: February 8, 2009 EDITORIAL Change you can download. Wikileaks has released nearly a billion dollars worth of quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress. A full listing of reports is available here. The 6,780 reports, current as of [...]

Check this out. Apparently Gates was giving a talk about malaria at the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference and, after mentioning that Malaria was spread by mosquitoes, opened a jar onstage and said “I brought some. Here I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected.” For serious.  Bill Gates [...]

Man, some days I just love my research topic.  Yesterday, Roger L. Simon, the head of Pajamas Media, sent a letter to all Pajamas Media network bloggers indicating that, in essence, they’re all fired.  That represents about 40% of the elite conservative blogosphere according to my readings, including such major sites as Hot Air, Instapundit, [...]