Present Tensed

Found on Web Between June 5th and June 11th, 2009

Here are some links that I’ve tagged recently. This set is from June 5th through June 11th:

• The Best iPhone Apps for Kids — Gad­get­wise Blog — NYTimes.com ::
• Is Twit­ter Really That Big? ::
• Tased and con­fused: Cop Tasers 72-year-old Texas granny with 50,000 volts at traf­fic stop — Shiny Objects ::
• Exclu­sive: The Future of Face­book User­names — Anil Dash :: June 13, 4:04pm: A white guy named David dis­cov­ers every vari­a­tion of his name on Face­book is already taken, and finally recon­sid­ers the con­de­scend­ing con­tempt he’s always had for black peo­ple who give their kids unique names. This tiny bit of racial recon­sid­er­a­tion is the only unequiv­o­cally good news to come out of the Face­book User­names launch.
• Build a Web­site — Square­space ::
• Alexan­der Bar­rett » pan­dadents ::
• Annals of Med­i­cine: The Cost Conun­drum: Report­ing & Essays: The New Yorker ::
• Pres. Paul Kagame: A Dif­fer­ent Dis­cus­sion About Aid — Peace Corps ::
• Court­ing trou­ble — chicagotribune.com :: Here’s a bet­ter solu­tion: Replace judi­cial elec­tions with a sys­tem of merit selec­tion that min­i­mizes the role of pol­i­tics. As this deci­sion reminds us, jus­tice and cam­paign finance make an awk­ward pair.
• Teach­ing in Africa: Lap­tops and Appro­pri­ate Tech­nol­ogy ::
• Will Iran’s ‘Mar­riage Cri­sis’ Bring Down Ahmadine­jad? — TIME ::
• AT&T speaks on teth­er­ing, iPhone 3G S pre­orders, upgrades — Ars Tech­nica ::
• Teach­ers With­out Bor­ders ::
• Life­hacker — Down­load of the Day: iCon­cert­Cal (Windows/Mac) — Down­loads ::
• 10 Answers You Should Know Before Your Job Inter­view — Dumb Lit­tle Man ::
• Offi­cial Google Africa Blog ::
• Lard: After decades of try­ing, its moment is finally here. — By Regina Schram­bling — Slate Mag­a­zine :: I’m con­vinced that the redemp­tion of lard is finally at hand because we live in a world where trendi­ness is next to god­li­ness. And lard hits all the right notes, espe­cially if you euphem­ize it as ren­dered pork fat—bacon butter.
• Study Links Med­ical Costs and Per­sonal Bank­ruptcy — Busi­ness­Week :: Har­vard researchers say 62% of all per­sonal bank­rupt­cies in the U.S. in 2007 were caused by health problems—and 78% of those fil­ers had insurance
• Con­sumerist — Loan Offi­cers Detail Wells Fargo’s Bla­tantly Racist Sub­prime Loans — Wells Fargo ::
• 388 – US States As Coun­tries of Equal Pop­u­la­tion « Strange Maps ::
• Sugar Activ­i­ties Por­tal from Sugar Labs — OLPC News ::
• CAPES | Chicago Area Par­tic­i­pa­tory Eco­nom­ics Soci­ety ::
• Stuff White Peo­ple Like ::
• Hyde Park church lan­guishes after decade of dis­use — The Chicago Maroon ::
• nextstop: Dis­cover Things to Do, Local & Travel Guides, Rec­om­men­da­tions and Maps | nextstop.com ::
• Hot Chicks with Stormtroop­ers ::
• The Uni­ver­sity of Chicago Law School Fac­ulty Blog: Sonia Sotomayor and the Hypocrisy of “Con­ser­v­a­tive” Crit­ics ::
• Amadou and Mariam hooks in Park West crowd — chicagotribune.com :: SR: I was there…
• AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com ::
• 30 Must-Have Tweaks For Your Mac | How-To | Smash­ing Mag­a­zine ::
• Life­hacker — Life­hacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essen­tial Free Win­dows Down­loads — Life­hacker Pack 2009 ::
• Map­ping The Stacks : A Guide to Black Chicago’s Hid­den Archives ::
• Word­Camp Chicago ::
• Pathetic Man Think­ing About Maybe Tak­ing Some Sort Of Class Of Some Kind | The Onion — America’s Finest News Source ::
• My Sto­ry­Maker : Carnegie Library of Pitts­burgh ::
• SIMILE Wid­gets | Exhibit ::
• Project Man­age­ment Source: Lessons from Project Man­age­ment: 101 ways to orga­nize your life ::
• The Deadly Toll of Abor­tion by Ama­teurs — Series — NYTimes.com ::
• SX110IS — CHDK Wiki ::
• Op-Ed Colum­nist — Abor­tion Wars, the First Time Around — NYTimes.com :: Dr. Tiller is just the lat­est in a line of brave peo­ple who have died for pro­vid­ing abor­tions. Per­haps the most infa­mous of these was a mid­wife named Ann Lohman, who killed her­self in New York in 1878 after decades of harassment.
• How to tran­si­tion reluc­tant teach­ers to con­fi­dent facil­i­ta­tors « ::
• Drop­box — Home — Secure backup, sync and shar­ing made easy. ::
• Life­hacker — Jif­fle Shares Your Avail­abil­ity More Effec­tively — Meet­ings ::
• Saru­Dama :: Japan­ese Hor­ror Movies, Japan­ese Folk­lore and Japan­ese His­tory ::

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