Silent Lucidity http://evilqueen.demesnes.net Weblog of The Evil Queen Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:30:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/http://www.feedburner.comhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/SilentLucidity_EvilQueen?bg=9F363A&fg=FFCC33&anim=0Feed Powered by FeedBurner.comSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site. I recommend Google Reader. links for 2008-11-20 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SilentLucidity_EvilQueen/~3/460225931/ http://evilqueen.demesnes.net/2008/11/20/links-for-2008-11-20/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:30:54 +0000 del.icio.us http://evilqueen.demesnes.net/2008/11/20/links-for-2008-11-20/ \n Google Docs Templates \n Templates for use with Avery labels, postcards, business cards, etc. \n (tags: avery templates google google-docs labels business-cards) \n
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    Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

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    Taking advantage of 'Jefferson's Revenge,' state legislatures have brought impeachment much closer to reality.

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    Natural history, French colonization, British colonization, US territory, US state, references and further reading.

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    This Timeline of the history of scientific method shows an overview of the cultural inventions that have contributed to the development of the scientific method. For a detailed account, see History of the scientific method.

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    This is a timeline of Irish history.

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    Life Annotation in Principle and Practice by Ashley D. Smith, a doctoral thesis (July, 2008).

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    • ]]>     http://evilqueen.demesnes.net/2008/11/18/links-for-2008-11-18/feed/ http://evilqueen.demesnes.net/2008/11/18/links-for-2008-11-18/     links for 2008-11-17 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SilentLucidity_EvilQueen/~3/456629198/ http://evilqueen.demesnes.net/2008/11/17/links-for-2008-11-17/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:33:40 +0000 del.icio.us http://evilqueen.demesnes.net/2008/11/17/links-for-2008-11-17/ \n Federal Contractor Misconduct Database - POGO \n The government awards contracts to companies with histories of misconduct such as contract fraud and environmental, ethics, and labor violations. In the absence of a centralized federal database listing instances of misconduct, the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is providing such data. \n (tags: contractors database contract-fraud ethics labor environment misconduct [...]
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    The government awards contracts to companies with histories of misconduct such as contract fraud and environmental, ethics, and labor violations. In the absence of a centralized federal database listing instances of misconduct, the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is providing such data.

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    Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute. This is an expanded version, with primary documents attached, of a story that appears in the October 6, 2008 issue of The Nation.

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    Lawsuits charge Ringling Bros. with abusing animals, endangering public health, and sabotaging its critics using CIA spooks. Could this be the end of the circus as we know it?

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    In the latest chapter in one of the most bizarre stories in the annals of espionage, a District of Columbia judge ruled yesterday that a civil suit filed against former CIA operations chief Clair E. George and others accused of conspiring to derail the career of local writer Jan Pottker could proceed to trial.

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    Under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-526), NSA is required to review all records relating to the assassination and provide copies to the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB). The Board, in turn, provides copies to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). NARA has over 170,000 records relating to the J.F.K. assassination of which only a small number originated with NSA. The documents listed are the ones released by NSA to date.

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    The documents listed on this page were located in response to the numerous requests received by NSA on the subject of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO). In 1980, NSA was involved in Civil Action No. 80-1562, "Citizens Against Unidentified Flying Objects Secrecy v. National Security Agency".

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    This collection of material by and about Richard Helms as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and Ambassador to Iran comprises the largest single release of Helms-related information to date. The documents, historical works and essays offer an unprecedented, wide-ranging look at the man and his career as the United States' top intelligence official and one of its most important diplomats during a crucial decade of the Cold War. From mid-1966, when he became DCI, to late 1976, when he left Iran, Helms dealt directly with numerous events whose impact remains evident today and which are covered in the release.

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    Tens of thousands of America's former nuclear bomb builders are sick, dying or already dead because of their exposure to radiation and other poisons. After decades of stonewalling, the government started a compensation program in 2000. After four years of bungling, Congress reformed the program, demanding that it be "compassionate, fair and timely." Perhaps you knew that. But what you may not know is that today only one in four claimants has been compensated and millions more of your taxpayer dollars have been wasted creating hurdles instead of help.

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    In January, 2007, the Archive and Washington Media decided to join forces, as we had done on documentary film projects over the past 20 years. The results are seen on this web site: The documentary, "Torturing Democracy," and the first stage of a comprehensive Torture Archive that aims to serve as the online institutional memory of the essential documentary evidence.

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    Phlow-Magazine.com is a weblog about free mp3 music released under a creative commons. You can legally download all the mp3s on this website.

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    ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.

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    My Google Shared Stuff page.

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    CLICK ON THE CITY OF YOUR CHOICE to START THE TEST against that city and server!

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    A cable network to cover the workings of Michigan state government in the same manner that the national C-SPAN networks cover the federal government. Live online streams of the Michigan House and Senate floor proceedings.

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    This false claim is a badly distorted version of Obama's call for doubling the Peace Corps, creating volunteer networks and increasing the size of the Foreign Service.

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    CrowdVine, founded in 2007, builds simple and powerful social software to help people connect. Seems like some borrowed ideas from NewsVine, including the motto: Meet Smarter.

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    This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use.

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    This extension lets you right click on any selected text, Click "Tinypaste selected text" and it gives you the Tinypaste URL without leaving the current page.

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    From January 2008: As the Supreme Court considers the question of whether the military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay provide adequate safeguards to satisfy habeas corpus requirements (oral arguments were on Tuesday in that case), the Washington Post reports on newly released documents that show just how unreliable and incoherent those safeguards are currently.

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    The Selfish Gene is a book on evolution by Richard Dawkins, published in 1976. It builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams's first book Adaptation and Natural Selection. Dawkins coined the term selfish gene as a way of expressing the gene-centred view of evolution, which holds that evolution is best viewed as acting on genes and that selection at the level of organisms or populations almost never overrides selection based on genes. An organism is expected to evolve to maximize its inclusive fitness—the number of copies of its genes passed on globally (rather than by a particular individual). As a result, populations will tend towards an evolutionarily stable strategy. This is a free online copy of the book.

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    The web site for the Hobbit episode of Nova has opened. It features some graphics with endocast scans and some video from the program. The site also includes an essay by Peter Tyson on the history of the island rule, which is a nice article, even if you know a lot about island biogeography.

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    Sweatshop-free hemp products help the environment, protect human rights,\nand fight Global Warming.

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    Reason, egoism, individualism, capitalism - Objectivism in a nutshell.

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    I suspect that anyone still drawn towards egoism is horribly abusing evolutionary psychology and I would strongly urge them to read some good, contemporary evolutionary psychology on altruism. (Frans de Waal's Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals, while probably not perfect philosophically, would be a very good place to start.)

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    This wonderful blog chronicles exactly why and to what extent Ayn Rand was horribly incorrect on a number of issues. This is for the fence-sitting and fanatic but otherwise intelligent Objectivist alike. If the latter even exists.

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    Website of the Office of the President-Elect.

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    The computer systems of both the Obama and McCain campaigns were victims of a sophisticated cyberattack by an unknown "foreign entity," prompting a federal investigation, NEWSWEEK reports today.

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    A team of NEWSWEEK reporters reveals the secret battles and private fears behind an epic election.

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    The controversial author speaks to newstatesman.com about India and Kashmir and her view that even if he's elected Barack Obama will govern like just another white man…

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    Everybody knows that authoritarian regimes, regardless of their ideology, use the mass media for propaganda. But what about democratically elected regimes in the "free world"?

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    We would like to know who would be the next president of the United States of America - if the world could vote!

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