George W. Bush

Read: Cheney ordered CIA to withhold secret program from Congress: report http://bit.ly/Zv9F6 [from http://twitter.com/krisnelson/statuses/2608725978]

Read: Sotomayor receives highest ABA ranking http://bit.ly/1b7BMo [from http://twitter.com/krisnelson/statuses/2525544203]

Read: US elected to UN rights council seat for first time http://tr.im/lcvK [from http://twitter.com/krisnelson/statuses/1781140954]

Who Are The Stevens Six? http://tinyurl.com/dk9kk7 [from http://twitter.com/krisnelson/statuses/1487544050]

A follow-up to the warrantless-wiretapping and torture scandals (and maybe more). Why is the new executive trying to keep abuses of power committed under the old administration hidden?

whitehouse.gov looks great. and it's even (nearly: 1 error) xhtml compliant. awesome

Following the lead of Iraqi shoe-thrower Muntazer al-Zaidi, Code Pink on Thursday launched its own protest using footwear. The anti-war group known for disrupting congressional hearings featuring prominent Bush administration officials gathered in Washington Thursday to put hundreds of shoes in front of the White House. The group also hung shoes outside a Marine Corps recruiting station in Berkeley, Calif.

Comedians can't seem to get enough of that shoe-throwing incident in Iraq. President Bush was shown over-and-over ducking the shoes thrown by an Iraqi reporter during a Baghdad news conference. David Letterman joked that Bush "hasn't dodged anything like that since, well, the Vietnam War." Jay Leno wanted to know where the Secret Service was. He asked, shouldn't they have "at least jumped in front of the second shoe?"

Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly→, “As We May Think→” (July, 1945), a member of the Manhattan Project proposes the [tag]Memex[/tag]↔, a sort of microfilm-based knowledge desk. Many consider the Memex to be the pre-digital precursor to the idea of the Web and Internet as we know it today. It may reflect the dawn of the information age.

Powerful satire delivered to an unamused white house and a tense press.