Doc points to Intellicast weather

Mark Liberman at some length, as nice a summary as you'll find

recommended by Stephen Downes

via William Gibson, and he's right: "Many more like this, please!"

What's The Buzz at Mediated Cultures: Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University

via SavageMinds

Stephen Downes is ALWAYS worth listening to, even if you then go and do elsewise yourself. Wise and fearless, and in Moncton NB

yes folks, the hype is well deserved this time

always interesting

An Oral History of the Bush White House: Politics & Power, from vanityfair.com Read it and weep.

NYTimes: "People picked up on suspicion of immigration violations are held in a patchwork of detention centers. Most of the largest are privately run… The fastest-growing, least-examined type of incarceration in America, an industry that detains half a million people a year, up from a few thousand just 15 years ago…" …map with mouseover detail

Eirik Solheim did it, and so can you

from Strange Maps, presenting the Word of the Day: "cartocacoethes – the compulsion to see maps everywhere"

"It's Christmas!" in Ijaw, a language of southeastern Nigeria