New day, new news
Politics:
-- The Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Mitchell Schnurman writes that we shouldn't blame Rick Perry because most of the jobs in his state are minimum-wage jobs: Texas' low-paying jobs aren't the whole story. I think Schnurman misses the point: Perry is trying to sell these jobs as some sort of "economic miracle," when the only miracle that's really going on is for the corporations paying minimum wage. Yes, it's better than nothing, but Perry's trying to sell it as something it's not; i.e., he's being dishonest.
-- James Kwak (yes, that's really his name) writes that, contrary to Rick Perry's assertions, printing money is patriotic ... and overdue: Hey, Rick Perry: Printing money is patriotic.
-- Ta-Nahesi Coates kills any notion that slavery was anything less than a stain on our nation's history in his recent commentary: The Civil War isn't tragic cont.
-- The New Yorker reports that most members of the so-called Tea Party don't actually want smaller government; they just want more of their god in government: Tea Partiers care more about Godly government than smaller government. I'd say I'm surprised, but nothing about this box of hypocritical lunatics who seek to piss on our nation's heritage of religious freedom surprises me anymore.
World:
-- The riots in England are going to have long-lasting effects. We're just learning about what some of those might be: London riots: Enfield fire hits Manchester's music scene.
-- Meanwhile, in Germany, this child might start a riot of his own: German boy calls police over chores, complains of 'forced labor'. I think a judge should try him for filing a false police report and sentence him to write a 500-word essay on Auschwitz. "Forced labor" my left nut.
Technology:
-- Firefox 6 is out: 6 key facts about Firefox 6. Yes, they just released version 5 two months or so ago, and yes, this is going to be a pain in the ass for everyone who writes extensions for the popular browser. But what are you going to do when no other browser has Adblock?
-- Two researchers at Boston University are trying to figure out what turns people on online: Keen on ... what really turns people on?. I'm not going to say anything more about this one.
-- We finally get to see a convincing argument about why people should regularly change passwords: Fired techie created virtual chaos at pharma company. Password security is one of the fundamental jobs of an IT division ... of course, the execs at Shionogi would have known that if they hadn't laid off their IT division.
-- Finally, the Huffington Post brings us yet one more example of Photoshop fail, yet one more reminder that what you see in magazines is not the real deal: Kate Moss's daughter loses fingers to Vogue Photoshop. Still not as bad as some other Photoshop chop jobs, though.
-- The Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Mitchell Schnurman writes that we shouldn't blame Rick Perry because most of the jobs in his state are minimum-wage jobs: Texas' low-paying jobs aren't the whole story. I think Schnurman misses the point: Perry is trying to sell these jobs as some sort of "economic miracle," when the only miracle that's really going on is for the corporations paying minimum wage. Yes, it's better than nothing, but Perry's trying to sell it as something it's not; i.e., he's being dishonest.
-- James Kwak (yes, that's really his name) writes that, contrary to Rick Perry's assertions, printing money is patriotic ... and overdue: Hey, Rick Perry: Printing money is patriotic.
-- Ta-Nahesi Coates kills any notion that slavery was anything less than a stain on our nation's history in his recent commentary: The Civil War isn't tragic cont.
-- The New Yorker reports that most members of the so-called Tea Party don't actually want smaller government; they just want more of their god in government: Tea Partiers care more about Godly government than smaller government. I'd say I'm surprised, but nothing about this box of hypocritical lunatics who seek to piss on our nation's heritage of religious freedom surprises me anymore.
World:
-- The riots in England are going to have long-lasting effects. We're just learning about what some of those might be: London riots: Enfield fire hits Manchester's music scene.
-- Meanwhile, in Germany, this child might start a riot of his own: German boy calls police over chores, complains of 'forced labor'. I think a judge should try him for filing a false police report and sentence him to write a 500-word essay on Auschwitz. "Forced labor" my left nut.
Technology:
-- Firefox 6 is out: 6 key facts about Firefox 6. Yes, they just released version 5 two months or so ago, and yes, this is going to be a pain in the ass for everyone who writes extensions for the popular browser. But what are you going to do when no other browser has Adblock?
-- Two researchers at Boston University are trying to figure out what turns people on online: Keen on ... what really turns people on?. I'm not going to say anything more about this one.
-- We finally get to see a convincing argument about why people should regularly change passwords: Fired techie created virtual chaos at pharma company. Password security is one of the fundamental jobs of an IT division ... of course, the execs at Shionogi would have known that if they hadn't laid off their IT division.
-- Finally, the Huffington Post brings us yet one more example of Photoshop fail, yet one more reminder that what you see in magazines is not the real deal: Kate Moss's daughter loses fingers to Vogue Photoshop. Still not as bad as some other Photoshop chop jobs, though.