Present Tensed

Links/Articles Tagged Between September 9th and September 16th

Here are some links that I’ve tagged in del.icio.us recently. This set is from Sep­tem­ber 9th through Sep­tem­ber 16th:

• Uni­ver­sity of Chicago sci­en­tists await start-up of Large Hadron Col­lider | The Uni­ver­sity of Chicago ::
• The Sky­line | Chicago Tri­bune | Blog :: Burnham’s results: How the Plan of Chicago changed the face of the city and suburbs
• :*:Onion­Map:*: ::
• Neu­ro­science: Indian Court Accepts Brain Scans as Evi­dence of Mur­der ::
• The Palin-Whatshisname Ticket — Op-Ed — NYTimes.com :: If the Oba­mas had a 17-year-old daugh­ter who was unmar­ried and preg­nant by a tough-talking black kid, my guess is if they all appeared onstage at a Demo­c­ra­tic con­ven­tion and the del­e­gates were cheer­ing wildly, a num­ber of con­ser­v­a­tives might be dis­cussing the issue of dys­func­tional black families.
• Bering Straight Talk — Op-Ed — NYTimes.com :: The really scary part of the Palin inter­view was how much she seemed like W. in 2000, and not just the way she pro­nounced nu-cue-lar. She had the same flimsy but tena­cious adept­ness at say­ing noth­ing, the same gen­er­al­i­ties and plat­i­tudes, the same restrained resent­ment at being pressed to be spe­cific, as though spe­cific is the province of silly eggheads, not peo­ple who clear brush at the ranch or shoot moose on the tundra.
• Five ex-secretaries of state urge talks with Iran — Yahoo! News ::
• Devel­oper app helps you archive Face­book pics ::
• For Obama, Race Remains Ele­phant in the Room — TIME :: But for polit­i­cal pun­dits, “working-class” or “blue-collar” or even “small-town” vot­ers still means white; blacks have their own category.
• Chicago seeks aid after worst rain in at least 137 years — CNN.com ::
• Chuck Kloster­man on Base­ball — Esquire :: Base­ball is a turgid game that no longer reflects soci­ety. It fails to attract the best U.S. ath­letes and doesn’t trans­late to tele­vi­sion. It should be a dead sport. But it’s not.
• Blog­ging Tools: IZEAfest talk — White African ::
• Archi­tec­ture Mir­rors Unreal Life: The Force Is With Design, These Days ::
• EA’s Cleanup Over Spore is Going to Be Big. Real Big. (Poll) ::
• Gov. Palin’s World­view — Edi­to­r­ial — NYTimes.com :: What made it so much worse is the strat­egy for which the Repub­li­cans have made Ms. Palin the front­woman: win the White House not on ideas, but by den­i­grat­ing expe­ri­ence, judg­ment and qual­i­fi­ca­tions. The idea that Amer­i­cans want lead­ers who have none of those things — who are so blindly cer­tain of what Ms. Palin calls “the mis­sion” that they won’t even pause for reflec­tion — shows a con­tempt for vot­ers and raises fright­en­ing ques­tions about how Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin plan to run this country.
• Fly­ing the Unfriendly Skies — NYTimes.com ::
• Edu­ca­tion Week: Where We Stand ::
• Edge: WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN? By Jonathan Haidt ::
• Mar­ginal Rev­o­lu­tion: Why Lib­er­tar­i­ans Should Vote for Obama (1) ::
• Tens of thou­sands of Iraqis could come to U.S. in ’09 — Yahoo! News ::
• McCain’s ‘Edu­ca­tion’ Spot Is Dis­hon­est, Decep­tive — washingtonpost.com ::
• I’m So Totally, Dig­i­tally Close to You — Clive Thomp­son — NYTimes.com ::
• When it Comes to Pol­i­tics, Don’t Lis­ten to Me ::
• Google Cal­en­dar: How to Sync Any Desk­top Cal­en­dar with Google Cal­en­dar ::
• the so-so cor­ral ::
• Chicago Striv­ing Read­ers Project: Chicago Pub­lic Schools ::
• High school for gay stu­dents pro­posed in Chicago | ajc.com ::
• New Trier stu­dents form coali­tion in wake of rally :: News :: PIONEER PRESS :: Wil­mette Life :: SR: That kid is going to be quite the politi­cian someday
• It’ll cost mucho dinero for Chad Ocho Cinco to switch jer­seys — Shut­down Co… — NFL — Yahoo! Sports :: the NFL has told John­son he’d have to reim­burse the com­pany for the price of the jerseys…
• Com­men­tary: Race, age, gen­der are taboo in elec­tion — CNN.com :: …but we can’t be naïve to the real­ity that when vot­ers go into that vot­ing booth, they will, as one per­son told me dur­ing an inter­view, “vote with their tribe.”
• Amer­i­can per­former: Israeli secu­rity made me dance — Yahoo! News ::
• If Elected … — Obama Looks to Lessons From Chicago in His National Edu­ca­tion Plan — Series — NYTimes.com ::
• macosxhints.com — Dis­able iTunes store arrow links in iTunes 8 ::
• Barack Obama Mask Adult Hal­loween Cos­tume Acces­sory (B858) (Amazon.com) ::
• Tax­pay­ers off the hook for GOP con­ven­tion law­suits :: some crit­ics say the agree­ment has only encour­aged police to use aggres­sive tac­tics know­ing they won’t have to pay damages.

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