- Child’s Own Studio – A specialty order toy studio that takes drawings that would otherwise hang all over the refrigerator and turns them into plush toys! I’m not a child anymore, but I love this idea. And I have a handful of exquisite corpse sketches that would totally fit the bill.
- Politifact Checks the Tea Party/CNN Debate – Rep. Michele Bachmann is also wrong about vaccines. Just sayin’. (It’s that pesky correlation/causation nuance, it’s lost on her). And Gov. Huntsman, I love that you made Kurt Cobain reference, but seriously in front of that crowd? Learn to read the room, sir!
- ACS Launches Webcast Series on Constitution – YES! If we’re gonna do this “Back to the Constitution”
crapconversation, we may as well do it right. And that means, to the lawyers! “In response to escalating political rhetoric by some conservatives about the U.S. Constitution, some of the country’s most esteemed scholars are “setting the record straight” during Constitution Week” with webcasts all about “constitutional understanding and interpretation”. Yay for expert opinions! - UK Department for Transport Goes (More) Open Source – the DfT is moving to “the WordPress open source content management system which will be running on RackSpace’s public cloud and the department’s…private clouds”. It will save the DfT cash it would have used on software licenses and allow for greater flexibility in making web resources available according to demand. It’s nice to see governments working with new technology, and embracing open source….even if it is mostly other governments.
- Science Isn’t Just Diamond Planets – If for no other reason, this article deserves notice for its title. And dramatic closing statement, “The scientific method is universal. If we selectively ignore it in certain disciplines, we do so at our peril”.
- ACLU Report, A Call to Courage: Reclaiming Our Liberties Ten Years After 9/11 – Recommending that y’all read at least the summary article is as close as I plan to come to talking about 9/11 or the ten year mark.
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