1. How Are the Copenhagen Talks Supposed to Overcome Collective Action Problems? 1 hour ago   permalink

Volokh.com

Let me leave aside for the moment all the leaked memos and stuff.  I would describe myself as a non-expert on climate issues who has been gradually persuaded to the following positions:

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2. The Weekend Wrap 1 hour ago   permalink

Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

On the Dish over the weekend we learned that the Iranian regime threw another nuclear tantrum, the Swiss banned Muslim minarets, and "The Family" funded the horrifying anti-gay campaign in Uganda. We also tracked the EAU climate-change scandal here, here, here, and here. Also, Andrew dissected Krauthammer's latest take on the ...

3. Gallup: Opposition to ObamaCare almost at majority … of adults 1 hour ago   permalink

Hotair.com

Whatever uncertainty Americans feel about ObamaCare has begun to dissipate, and in the wrong direction for Barack Obama and the Democrats.  Over the last month, the number of undecided respondents on Gallup’s question of whether American adults would advise their Congressman to vote for or against ObamaCare slid 11 points, while the ...

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4. Chart Of The Day, Ctd 1 hour ago   permalink

Chart Of The Day, Ctd
Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

The graph the Dish ran Saturday on consumer debt is not inaccurate but it is a little misleading. If you read it not in absolute terms of accumulating debt, but by annual change in debt accumulation, the growth of private debt doesn't seem quite as staggering, although the longer the period that consumer credit keeps rising, the bigger and ...

5. The Prosperity Gospel And The Subprime Collapse, Ctd 2 hours ago   permalink

The Prosperity Gospel And The Subprime Collapse, Ctd
Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

"Not only do the American practice their religion out of self-interest, but they often even place in this world the interest which they have in practicing it. Priests in the Middle Ages spoke of nothing but the other life; they hardly took any trouble to prove that a sincere Christian might be happy here below. But preachers in America are ...

6. The Fall and Rise of Media 3 hours ago   permalink

Www.nytimes.com

Historically, young women and men who sought to thrive in publishing made their way to Manhattan. Once there, they were told, they would work in marginal jobs for indifferent bosses doing mundane tasks and then one day, if they did all of that without whimper or complaint, they would magically be granted access to a gilded community, the large ...

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Stowe Boyd / Message :   Words Tell

7. Four short links: 4 hours ago   permalink

Four short links:
Nat Torkington / O'Reilly Radar

Paywall Performance for News -- the National Business Review (NBR) in New Zealand went to a paywall in mid-July, and Foo Camper Lance Wiggs says their visitor numbers reveal a grim picture. As a commenter says, of course, visitor numbers go down but NBR makes money directly from the visitors that stay. I'm curious to see the effect on ...

8. Department of Defense orders 2,200 PS3s 4 hours ago   permalink

Www.boingboing.net

Good thing the PlayStation 3 dropped in price. The US Department of Defense ordered 2,200 more of the consoles to crank up their PS3 supercomputer, currently consisting of 336 of the devices in a Linux cluster. According to the official Justification Review Document (cache link) required for the purchase of the PS3s, the game platform, with its ...

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Nat Torkington / O'Reilly Radar :   Four short links:

9. Man sought in slayings granted clemency by former Gov. Huckabee 12 hours ago   permalink

Man sought in slayings granted clemency by former Gov. Huckabee
Seattletimes.nwsource.com

The man sought for questioning in the execution of four Lakewood police officers was granted clemency in 2000 by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.

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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish :   Huckabee Sweats

10. A Last-Minute Meeting On Afghanistan 11 hours ago   permalink

Politics.theatlantic.com

President Obama convened a last-minute meeting of his national security team tonight to discuss the language that his administration will use to describe its new strategy for Afghanistan. Two administration sources confirmed that the meeting, which began at 5:00 pm, included cabinet officials like Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The officials ...

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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish :   Rallying The Troops

11. CRU on Global Temperture Data 12 hours ago   permalink

CRU on Global Temperture Data
Rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com

The Times had an article yesterday reporting the old news that CRU did not have in its possession the original station data from some locations that comprise its global temperature index. I am quoted in the Times article as follows:

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12. 15 hours ago   permalink

Www.steverubel.com

I have a love-hate relationship with writing. Clearly, it's intimately tied to what I do. But sometimes it's also a fear that grips me. I struggle to find the right words, which result in my re-using the same ones over and over again (doh - like the word "over.")

13. Earth2Tech Map: Where the Next Green Cars Will Be Born 19 hours ago   permalink

Earth2Tech Map: Where the Next Green Cars Will Be Born
Earth2tech.com

With car companies gearing up to launch a new generation of plug-in hybrid and electric cars over the next five years, the time has come to pick sites for manufacturing the vehicles. Given that many of these factories come with promises to create hundreds or thousands of jobs in the surrounding area, stakes have been high in the competition among ...

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14. Preview of Jolicloud: The social Netbook OS 23 hours ago   permalink

Preview of Jolicloud: The social Netbook OS
News.cnet.com

One of the things that has been most-surprising about the advent of Netbooks is that it has become less about the hardware as much as how mainstream operating systems and applications have had to adapt to fit within their confines. In the earlier generations of these machines, operating systems like Windows Vista just didn't cut the mustard, ...

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15. Tumbling Is As Tumbling Does 1 day ago   permalink

Stowe Boyd / Message

Tumbling demonstrates what's wrong with the convention of references: the idea that you have to refer to the original source of a comment, insight, or picture. We should just adopt the notion that -- in a world where tools will...

16. Dirk Kirchberg Interview From ConventionCamp, Hannover Germany 1 day ago   permalink

Stowe Boyd / Message

I was recently (Thanksgiving Day!) in Hannover for ConventionCamp where I gave a keynote. Dirk interviewed me right afterward, so I was still in that frame of mind. Stowe Boyd from Dirk Kirchberg on Vimeo.