I’d like to draw your attention to the right-hand column of detritus, where, under the heading of blogs, there are two proud additions: WFMU’s Beware of the Blog Lifehacker I’m less excited by Lifehacker than I am by the fact that WFMU (radio station, wacky, Jersey City) has a blog, but both are interesting, and […]

Noam Chomsky doesn’t think Bush is lying. His treatment of the question is more or less simplistic, but he delves into some interesting topics re: Iraq and Afghanistan along the way, and it’s a pretty worthwhile read. Mark Kleiman brings up the topic of whether Bush spared Zarqawi (who’s potentially linked to the Berg killing), […]

Dave Pollard at “How to Save the World” has an interesting post on the inadequacies (and idiosyncracies) of communication, focusing mostly on formal presentations and informal conversation. Pollard uses (admittedly anecdotal) evidence to point out the woeful inadequacy of most presentations. As he says, “almost none” of what a presenter says “gets ‘correctly understood, internalized, […]

As of some very recent time, Noam Chomsky has a blog. It’s called Turning the Tide. What’s not to like? (via some other blog, possibly diepunyhumans though possibly not; actual laudatory reference will appear here if I can dig it up)

Maybe. Possibly. It’s well and good to stay informed, but sometimes news is nothing so much as arterial spray: here one minute, gone the next, and what the hell can we do about it anyway? E.g., the blogfolk at Pandagon are thorough and tend to very often bring up salient points, but the problem is […]