April 2010
413 posts
Credit card fraud, misuse found at 5 Florida... →
One-to-one: Spring of firsts for FSU coach Jimbo... →
Alicia Parlette faces final stages of journey →
(04/16/2010) Surrounded by her favorite things - her rescue dog, Clarabelle, a 1960 edition of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” her scrapbooks and her stuffed Baby Bear, San Francisco writer Alicia Parlette…
Vigil held for slain Frostburg athlete →
Angola's Jonas Savimbi Was No Freedom Fighter →
Dolphins take Jared Odrick in 1st round after... →
Ex-trooper given 18 months in prison for sexting... →
Survey shows North Koreans losing trust in Kim →
(03/25/2010) Evidence is mounting that Kim Jong Il is losing the propaganda war inside North Korea, with more than half the population now listening to foreign news, grassroots cynicism undercutting…
Teen held in murder had prior gun arrest, but... →
Among the Dead, Prayer for Our Enemies : ... →
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Acquittal in Rodney King beating sparks riots...
When Los Angeles police officers were caught on video beating Rodney King, most expected the courts to punish them.
Their acquittal (18 years ago today) on charges of using excessive force as they hit Rodney King repeatedly with batons as he lay on the ground shocked people across the city, state, nation and world.
What came next renewed the shock, though may not have been a surprise: Riots...
“The true poem is the daily paper.”
– Walt Whitman, 1852 (via austinkleon)
The Geocities-izer
wondertonic:
The Geocities-izer allows you to make any modern webpage look like it was made by a thirteen year-old in 1996, replete with background music and dancing baby GIFs. Below is just one of the ways it can style the New York Times. Try it out.
The Principles of Journalism - Journalist's... →
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Dave Eggers and the Joy of Print →
tapwaterjackson:
Nieman Journalism Lab
“I don’t want to read online,” Eggers said. “I don’t want to wake up and look at a screen. I feel like as a society, we try to put everything on that same goddamn screen, and pretty soon we’re going to be eating on the screen or, like, making love through the screen. It’s just sort of like: ‘Why does everything have to be on the screen?’
So: “I do think...
White supremacist rally at L.A. City Hall draws... →
NYT slideshow about the history of timelines →
bobeda:
Because I guess a timeline of timelines would have been too confusing?
The fourth one, The “Temple of Time,” by Emma Willard is my favorite.
Castro regime ending?: Predicting rebellion a... →
Grandmother says Misty Croslin told details of... →
The great happy Vatican death spiral →
(04/14/2010) Is it almost time? Can we finally start making preparations, send out a global Evite welcoming millions to a grand ritual down by the beach, a fantastic ceremony featuring copious…
Equality Myth: Would a Story About a (Male) Nobel... →
Today the Feminist Peace Network points us to a story in the Corvallis, Ore. Gazzette Times, about a conference featuring Nobel laureate Jody Williams. The headline is harmless enough—“Nobel laureate shares her views on peace”—but instead of beginning the story with what those views…
Buying a credit score? →
Longform.org →
The site posts articles, past and present, its editors think are too long and too interesting to be read on a web browser.
They’re posted via the Instapaper reader, which allows you to save an article to read offline.
longform.org is edited by Aaron Lammer & Max Linsky.
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Happy birthday, iTunes!
The question, seven years ago today, was whether people would pay 99 cents a song for music they could download on the web.
Apple already had the iTunes software on all Macs that shipped, but this was something new: An online store where people could purchase songs a la carte. Music downloads were in their infancy, with courts having forced Napster to shut down operations because people were...
Newspaper mummies
inebriation:
There’s actually two living breathing humans under all that.
“It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world everyday always...”
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Casino regulars who knew couple left shaken by... →
From layoffs in Seminole ... to tax breaks and... →
Money talks in California politics →
(04/04/2010) Meg Whitman’s $46 million contribution to her own gubernatorial campaign is the most visible example of money run amok in California politics. But it is hardly the only illustration of…
Jobless pay expires for thousands →
Live from the Scene: Newspaper Web Sites Take on... →
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NFL draft pick-by-pick recaps →
