December 2011
9 posts
“Once digitized, a page of words loses its fixity. It can change every time it’s...”
– Nicholas Carr on E-Books - WSJ.com (via infoneer-pulse)
Is this how people are rationalizing the ridiculous price of e-books? Waving the flag of innovation to cover hand over fist greed?
The Ethical Guide to Dining Out
utnereader:
Anyone who has waited tables or cooked in a restaurant kitchen knows the backbreaking work, the questionable conditions, and the meager rewards. Now, it’s easy to find the restaurants that treat their employees right with the 2012 National Diners’ Guide, presented by the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC). The guide outlines the pay and benefits of 186 of the country’s most...
Robert Reich: Why the Republican Crackup is Bad... →
robertreich:
Two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, the Republican crackup threatens the future of the Grand Old Party more profoundly than at any time since the GOP’s eclipse in 1932. That’s bad for America.
The crackup isn’t just Romney the smooth versus Gingrich the bomb-thrower.
Not just House Republicans…
“Truth and love must prevail over lies and hate.”
– Václav Havel, 1936 – 2011
via Ned Resnikoff
When Václav Havel was still a playwright and dissident in Communist Czechoslovakia — before the Velvet Revolution and his ascendance to the presidency of the post-Communist Czech Republic — he would urge his fellow anti-Communist revolutionaries to...
“The US government has regularly claimed that it supports a free and open...”
– An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress | Electronic Frontier Foundation (via emmawelles)
