1. Obama has yet to fill empty seats at civil liberties watchdog committee 2 hours ago   permalink

Obama has yet to fill empty seats at civil liberties watchdog committee
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing

It's been a year and Obama has yet to fill the empty seats on the government's main civil liberties oversight committee: The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was recommended initially by the bipartisan September 11 commission as an institutional voice for privacy inside the intelligence community. Its charter was to recommend ways to ...

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2. Steampunk leather mask with a breathing tube beard 2 hours ago   permalink

Steampunk leather mask with a breathing tube beard
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3. The Data-Info-Knowledge-Wisdom hierarchy 13 hours ago   permalink

Davidw / Joho the Blog

As part of my Be A Bigger A-Hole resolution, let me note that the Harvard Business Review blog has just run a post of mine that looks at the history of the DIKW pyramid and why it doesn’t make that much sense.

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4. Taking the hint 14 hours ago   permalink

Taking the hint
Dooce / Dooce� main feed

Fellow blogger/author Gayla Trail's new book, Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces comes out today, and it's just one of several things that The Universe has directed my way to say, dude, (yes, The Universe calls me "dude") you don't have to be a master chef, but it might be good for you and your family if you learned some basic ...

5. Living in the Post-Cancer Moment 14 hours ago   permalink

Living in the Post-Cancer Moment
Well.blogs.nytimes.com

Having cancer is like being kidnapped, being harried to a dark and deadly place by an unexpected assailant who has pressed the cold barrel of a gun to your skull. You might be strong enough or lucky enough to escape, to survive. Then again, you might not.

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6. TF: The Illuminati 1 day ago   permalink

Fred Clark / Slacktivist

So I'm reading a painstakingly thorough work of investigative journalism when suddenly, in Chapter 6, our friend Tim LaHaye makes a surprising and pivotal cameo appearance. The book I'm reading is Selling Satan: The Evangelical Media and the Mike Warnke Scandal, by Mike Hertenstein and Jon Trott. It expands on the reporting the duo did for ...