Blog posts

BBC NEWS | ‘Single’ euro train fare planned Great news. We’re very much looking forward to being able to travel by train. (tags: environment trains transport) “Bush Commutes Libby’s Sentence” (Harper’s Magazine) “This act can only heighten concerns about the putrid state of justice in Bush’s Administration, and it must heighten our resolve to stand against it.” (tags: abovethelaw georgewbush harpers scooterlibby)

I have a new hero and her name is Mika Brzezinski | Guardian Unlimited What really strikes me in the clip of Mike Brzenzinski refusing to lead with a Paris Hilton story is the refusal of her co-presenters to take her seriously. Sexism is clearly alive and well, and something to be broadcast to the world on MSNBC. (tags: broadcast journalism)

Ghost Cities Of 2100 - Forbes.com Interesting consideration of which cities may disappear, but would be better if it considered potential impacts of oil shortages and carbon rationing. I wonder if such trends could save Detroit as suburbs become more difficult places to live? (via cityofs (tags: detroit ghostcities urbanism)

ongoing · mod_atom Very nice. The atom publishing protocol as an apache2 module. Bake atom directly into your web server (tags: apache app atom) Social websites expose class divide | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology Danah Boyd argues that use of MySpace vs. Facebook is divided along class lines. (tags: forblog myspace) OpenID: Why, how, 37signals Basecamp now supports OpenID and unsurprisingly the 37signals guys are working on communicating OpenId nice and simply (tags: 37signals openid)

For as long as we’ve been planning our current trip we knew we’d only have time for the most cursory of experiences of each place. Driving through New Zealand is a great way to see the country, but it’s also a good way to get a sense of how much you’re missing. In the end it was good that we hadn’t planned to go further south than Christchurch as the far south was largely blocked off by snow, but we now know we very much want to go there eventually. ...

“Torturing An American Citizen” by Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine) It seems like a number of threads are coming together: the attorneys scandal, Dick Cheney and use of torture not only on “enemy combatants” but potentially at least one US citizen… (tags: attorneys bushadministration cheney scandal torture) Social websites expose class divide | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology Danah Boyd argues that use of MySpace vs. Facebook is divided along class lines. (tags: fordevblog myspace) CIA conspired with mafia to kill Castro | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited ...

Everything you’ve heard about New Zealand’s beauty is true. Driving between Auckland and Wellington over the past few days we’ve been constantly taken aback by the scenery and we’re told by reliable sources that the South Island (to which we’re headed on the ferry I’m now aboard) is even more dramatic. What they don’t have in such abundance is public wireless internet access. Most towns have a scattering of internet cafes or kiosks where you can use a public computer to get online, but scouting out a place to connect a laptop is considerably harder. Cafe Byzantium in Ponsonby had free wifi, our hosts in Cambridge had a network of their own, and we were able to pick up a for-fee network in from our hotel in Napier. But try as we might we could not find reasonably prices (less than NZ$10/hr) access in the capital city of Wellington. ...

Feature Presentation: Financial Page: The New Yorker Nice little piece from the New Yorker about how buyers want features but users want simplicity (tags: usability) www.myspace.com/stopmyspacing The best myspace page ever (and an amazing example of how well they can be customized) (tags: forblog myspace)

A Rat With a Whisk and a Dream - New York Times Very nice piece about the foodie details in Ratatouille. Makes me wish we’d been able to afford and get a reservation at French Laundry when in Yountville recently… (tags: food ratatouille) www.myspace.com/stopmyspacing The best myspace page ever (and an amazing example of how well they can be customized) (tags: fordevblog myspace) Exporting I.P.: Financial Page: The New Yorker Yet another article on how the US imposes different standards on developing countries than it experienced during a comparable stage of development, along with some good insights on the place of intellectual property in trade ...

Drupal 6 gets OpenID support! | drupal.org “OpenID 2.0 support is now in Drupal 6 core” – very good news (tags: drupal openid) Submit Multiple URLs to del.icio.us Bookmarks as a Batch at Digital Inspiration Technology Guide Probably going to be useful to me as I’m loading up dozens of tabs while travelling and then wanting to delicious quite a few of them. (tags: bookmark delicious)