• Sarah, we are not that different, you and I – Ta-Nehisi Coates on Palin and the sexism of McCain.
• Seven years since – Interesting aerial photos of the 9/11 aftermath
• Wordle – DIY Word Clouds. Hours of fun
• Authonomy – Here's an interesting new site run by HarperCollins, looking to find new talent via the power of social networking. I like the design too.
• Eye of the Storm – Sullivan: Oil is the source of the power of our enemies … there is no peaceful future for a world run on oil. This is now not just a matter of environmental concern; it's a geo-strategic urgency.

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• Malwebolence – The World of Web Trolling – New York Times article: Technology, apparently, does more than harness the wisdom of the crowd. It can intensify its hatred as well.
• A Nice Cup of Tea – George Orwell essay
• reCAPTCHA – A free anti-spam service that helps digitize books

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• Is Google Making Us Stupid? – As we are drained of our “inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance,” Foreman concluded, we risk turning into “‘pancake people’—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button
• 2008 Design Trends – Its the year of the 'Vintage' and 'Texture' look, of which I am a purveyor.
• Project Gutenberg – There are over 25,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg

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• Hallelujah! – Brian Appleyard on Leonard Cohen's modern masterpiece
• Jesus Rodriguez Velasco – Striking design, reminds me of Borges for some reason.
• Democratic Candidates and Technological Metaphors – Clinton is Yahoo, Obama is Google. McCain is Microsoft.
• Why I wrote PGP – "If you really are a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide, then why don't you always send your paper mail on postcards? Why not submit to drug testing on demand? Why require a warrant for police searches of your house? Are you trying to hide something
• Interracial Intimacy – White-black dating, marriage, and adoption are on the rise. This development, however, is being met with resistance—more vocally by blacks than by whites
• HisSpace – The Internet Presidency – How would Obama’s success in online campaigning translate into governing?
• Wanted: new-thinking pioneers – Martin Bright: "Even exceptional behind-the-scenes strategists such as Dan Corry, the present head of the No 10 Policy Unit, or Nick Pearce, Brown's strategy adviser, are in no position to think in the long term."

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• Is politics stuck in the present? – Jack Stilgoe on the Demos blog: "The future of science is too capricious to be reduced to Yeses and Nos. Politics needs to be able to talk about the Yes-buts, the No-buts and the Maybes."
• Structured Procrastination
• Election typography – The fonts used by the three main candidates.

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• My gateway to infinity – Clive James again: "It can talk about value, saying not just “This is what I have done” but “This is what others have done, and I find it valuable beyond price”.
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• Music Gives Me Hope – Daniel Barenboim on the decline of Israeli socialism and the unifying power of music: "Before a Beethoven Symphony, all human beings are equal"
• USA political election logos 2008 – 1960 – I think Nixon's use of a full stop is particularly interesting.
• normblog: Israel at 60 – “Those who cannot celebrate the existence of Israel but only criticize it, put themselves beyond all sense of sympathy with the legitimate concerns of the Jewish people – as if these had no basis, no rationale, no historical genesis; as if Israel’s history was solely about usurpation and error; as if it was not itself born under the threat of annihilation, a threat that is ever renewed.”

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• all streets – Ben Fry presents a map that is comprised of all the roads in the USA and nothing more
• Let Them Eat Arugula – Bill Clinton recently declared, "The people in small towns in rural America, who do the work for America, and represent the backbone and the values of this country, they are the people that are carrying her through in this nomination." The corollary–that
• 50 More Excellent Blog Designs – Smashing magazines present some unique blog designs. Food for thought for when I get around to redesigning my own place. Some seem rather generic, though.

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