Hispanics Across America founder Fernando Mateo called the move an "offensive and cheap trick" to boost ratings.
"The participants will be held to the daunting and unfair challenge of representing an entire race of people," he said.
"What will it mean for a team – a race – to fail in a battle of wits and strength against another race?"
(tags: news racism entertainment)
[Shreveport Times] Nine black children attending Red River Elementary School were directed last week to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white children.
[NYT] Evolutionary biology has vanished from the list of acceptable fields of study for recipients of a federal education grant for low-income college students.
(tags: right-nuttery news biology)
[BBC] Too bad: we have to let the brown dudes go. Got to hassle them though!
[BBC] The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved over-the-counter sales of the emergency contraceptive pill after three years of controversy.
The federal government filed a lawsuit against state officials and Verizon Communications Monday to prevent the release of information about the company’s alleged role in the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program.
(tags: NSA-spying news)
[NYT] Biologists have developed a technique for establishing colonies of human embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos, a method that, if confirmed in other laboratories, would seem to remove the principal objection to stem cell research.
(tags: news)
[MyWayNews via RawStory] "In effect, the government is arguing that an innocent man who was wrongly convicted should not be released from the custody of the United States," U.S. District Judge Lawrence Kahn wrote. He ruled that Perez never should have been deported.
(tags: news immigration law-enforcement)
[CNN] Arrested for unbuckling seat belt and using cell phones! Not much until you consider clincher: they were brown!
THE GRAND ILLUSION: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11
[Guardian] The Syrian president, Bashar Assad, today warned he would consider the deployment of international troops along the Lebanon-Syria border a hostile move towards his country.
(tags: )
[via Register] Women over 50 will be the best bosses in the future because they understand the importance of flexible working, according to research from BT.
[via BBC]
(tags: news)
Frequently updated projection of US Senate 2006 results, from MyDD.
(tags: elections)
Guardian: Perelman turns down Fields Medal and Clay Institute prize, for solving the Poincare Conjecture.
Guardian: UK public too (like Spain and Italy) unhappy with ruling party’s Iraq action.
AP: Armitage is Woodward’s source on Plame?
Robert Parry wonders why the chief warmongering chickenhawk at the NYT gets to peddle his illogic to the masses he despises so much.
(tags: dangerous-idiots people)
SPI: After being ejected from the Democratic party, Joementum starts adopting their positions!
(tags: )
Robert Reich gives his take on where American companies are investing for research.
(tags: )
FMNN: RIAA objects to background music use in user videos posted to YouTube.
Drawing on a wide range of studies to cross-match faith – measured by belief in God and acceptance of evolution – with homicide and sexual behavior, Paul found that secular societies have lower rates of violence and teenage pregnancy than societies where many people profess belief in God.
WSJ article that looks at the failure of political polls and the science/biology underlying human behaviour in these surveys.
AP: Nevada, SC added closer to Iowa and NH.
(tags: )
Daily Mail: Blair finally breaking with Bush?
(tags: BushTracker news)
BostonChannel.com: Israel violates ceasefire again, enters Lebanon.
NY Times: A federal judge in Detroit ruled today that the Bush administration’s eavesdropping program is illegal and unconstitutional, and she ordered that it cease at once.
(tags: totalitarianism news BushTracker)
ABC News: [A]s Hezbollah cleans up the rubble, it’s also hanging signs amid the destruction that say "Made in USA." It is clear America’s support for Israel during the 34 days of bombing will not be forgotten.
Google Analytics is now open for sign-up. No invitation needed.
NY Times article on the claimed proof of the Poincare conjecture by Perelman.
NY Times article describing the dominance of Hezbollah in rebuilding Lebanon and helping those devastated by Israeli bombing.
Great Flash based interactive US map with Senate, House and Governor race info. Playout different scenarios interactively and even save them.
(tags: elections)
Startup will offer books for download for free upon viewing (included?) ads.
Using a detailed examination of the history of science, Feyerabend demonstrates the shallowness of the idea of a single well-defined method in scientific activity and knowledge. To Feyerabend, the lack of one (and only one) method is a good thing since a proliferation of techniques increases our store of knowledge.
(tags: books PhilScience)
First you have to publish a blog, but now that’s pretty overdone. You syndicate it through FeedBurner, get yourself on Technorati, throw in Haloscan comments, provide email feeds through FeedBlitz, do tracebacks, pingbacks, and most importantly, join a like-minded blogging posse by setting up a prominent blogroll. The perils of blogroll politics have been explored elsewhere, and here I want to just note down (perhaps mostly for my own later reference, since I am no blogging expert) some ways to maintain your blogroll.
If you are running your own server and use some popular blogging tool like b2evolution or WordPress, you can use their built-in blogroll (or linkblog) capabilities to maintain your set of links to sites your recommend. Popular blog hosts like Blogger and WordPress provide such capabilities too. If you find these things limiting (Blogger, last time I checked required text editing to create a blogroll, and a non-hierarchical non-tagged one at that), there are a few other esoteric techniques: host a blogroll/link-collection elesewhere, and use supplied (by the hosting site) JavaScript or XML-RPC to post your link updates to your site.
Services like Blogrolling.com can be used to maintain your blogroll which using HTML/JavaScript can be imported into a section of your blog.
A blogroll is not much different from the old bookmarks idea, and social bookmarking (made popular by del.icio.us) sites may be one interesting way to maintain your links. Many of these sites provide JavaScript and/or XML-RPC mechanisms to bring your roll into your blog. I particularly like Jots and Blogmarks both of which can post your entries at their site to your blog using XML-RPC or other means. Both services are Blogger/WordPress/Typepad/etc aware. Most interestingly, both provide (similar to del.icio.us, which also supports such export) tagging of links. As is standard these days, they also provide bookmarklets which you can add to your browser to quick link/add pages. As far as I can tell, one problem many of these sites face is that they do not provide a way to do multiple tag (logical AND) searches (for that feature, try Scuttle). Another thing to note is that most of these servers post to your blog (as blog entries) and not to the blogroll within your blog. This may be unsatisfactory.
I use Jots to maintain my links and have it post update as blog entries to the blog category: Bookmarks. Additionally, I provide a link in my Blogroll called Bookmarks pointing to my Jots page. This works fine for me since I am conflating blogrolling with bookmarking. YMMV.
Yet another option is to use an online aggregator like Bloglines, which you are probably already using to read RSS feeds, and let it export [part of] your feeds list as a blogroll using one of the techniques above.
This is a very cursory sketch of my investigation into the available services, and I hope to flesh it out from my notes when I have additional time.
Also see: Roxomatic provides a great comparison of social bookmarking sites.
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