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Web site recommendations: IT/politics/misc
Apologies for the long silence and thanks to those of you who’ve sent me emails wondering if you’d been unsubscribed. No, the list is intact, and we now return to our regular programming. Please resume sending me pointers to interesting online content!
And welcome to the many new subscribers who I assume found me thanks to my article on the BBC online. I’ll start with that link for the rest of you.
I had an article on BBC News Online last week:
Life Beyond Google
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3601371.stm
I had another piece about search engines last month:
Do you “google”? Understanding search engine use beyond the hype
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_3/hargittai/
My syllabus for a grad seminar on Social Implications of Communication and Information Technologies
http://www.eszter.com/courses/cst525.html
But enough about me…
Some good April Fool’s news items (mostly for those following tech policy news)
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000565.html
Dangerous phishing spam
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/26/email.scam/index.html
http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/press/2004/pr0604.html
The best of British blogging (as per The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/weblogs/story/0,14024,1108883,00.html
Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?
http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/killerquiz/
Do you know what ‘powerless’ means?
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/10/02/powerless/
Motorcycle ride through Chernobyl
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/
“Barbie is a Lesbian” Shirt Suit Settled
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040402/od_nm/life_barbie_dc_1
Boy punished for talking about gay mom at school
http://www.aclu.org/LesbianGayRights/LesbianGayRights.cfm?ID=14481&c=104
It’s time for the deception to stop
http://www.moveon.org/censure/caughtonvideo/
The Liberal Label
http://www.prospect.org/print/V14/8/nunberg-g.html
Censored at the SuperBowl
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4114703/
The Constitution - cartoon about proposed amendment
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/luckovich/2004/022504.html
Bush in 30 seconds ads
http://bushin30seconds.org
Right-wing eye
http://www.rightwingeye.com/
— a great flash movie to promote the April 25th March for Women’s Lives
Romancing the Tire Swing
http://slate.msn.com/id/2093292/
Seeing Double - Cloning Humans with a Camera
http://www.photographymuseum.com/seeingdouble.html
Chocolate Wrappers Museum - take a walk down memory lane
http://www.mujweb.cz/www/chocolate/en/index.htm
&
one of my personal favorites:)
http://www.esztersblog.com/blogathon03/archives/00000021.html
Play 80s arcade games!
http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/games/
Today’s quote:
“Wars not make one great.” — Yoda, Star Wars