Linkfest Archives :: Sharing : originaljb.net

Linkfest archive

Monday, April 21, 2008

My sister took a pretty cool photo of the pope on his way through DC. Ok, and her flower photos are pretty good too. (They've got better cherry blossoms than I do.)

Posted by Jon, 7:01 pm :: Comments (0) :: #

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Changed up the ’roll over in that skinny column. Two new sites and a new address for an old friend:

Posted by Jon, 10:43 pm :: Comments (0) :: #

Sunday, June 24, 2007

I occasionally even read the Politics Daily newsletter from the Washington Post that I've subscribed to. Friday's held too many interesting headlines. Here are the ones I clicked on:

CIA to Air Decades of Its Dirty Laundry: The CIA will declassify hundreds of pages of long-secret records detailing some of the intelligence agency's worst illegal abuses -- the so-called "family jewels" documenting a quarter-century of overseas assassination attempts, domestic spying, kidnapping and infiltration of leftist groups from the 1950s to the 1970s, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said yesterday.
Cheney Defiant on Classified Material:Vice President Cheney's office has refused to comply with an executive order governing the handling of classified information for the past four years and recently tried to abolish the office that sought to enforce those rules, according to documents released by a congressional committee yesterday.
Guantanamo Splits Administration (O.k., this one's mostly because I went to college with one of the writers.)
Radicalism is Destroying Muslim Societies (RealClearPolitics, which I've never read before)
Will the Progressive Majority Emerge? (The Nation)
'The Left' Moves Front and Center E. J. Dionne: Whenever you use the word "left" in American politics, you feel almost compelled to add quotation marks. Today's left is not talking about nationalizing industry, abolishing capitalism or destroying the rich. What passes for "left" in American politics is quite moderate by historical standards.
Cheney: Neither Here Nor There? Dan Froomkin: The House Oversight Committee is demanding that Vice President Cheney explain himself. Is his office part of the executive branch? Part of the legislative branch? Or is Cheney suggesting that as far as federal rules are concerned, his office essentially doesn't exist?

Wow. It's just kind of incredible really. All in one day.

Posted by Jon, 12:13 am :: Comments (0) :: #

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

A few things about Justin Verlander's no-hitter:

It was the sixth in Tigers history and first since 1984.
It was the first in Detroit since 1973 (by Nolan Ryan, who notched seven in his career).
It was the first by a Tiger in Detroit since 1952 (and third overall, the other coming in 1912).
Two of our friends were there! Nice whim.

Posted by Jon, 10:45 pm :: Comments (0) :: #

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine
A Spa Town Reclaims Its Glory: "Eight miles of barbed-wire security fencing is up. Beach promenades have been scrubbed clean. And when the world leaders from eight industrial countries arrive this week for the G-8 summit, the spa town of Heiligendamm, on Germany�s Baltic coast, will have come full circle."
Cool NYT photo feature: cool shots using tilt-shift (via kottke) (Yes, it's double-cool.)
The decline of news, an op-ed on sfgate, which lead to the next three:
Hyperlocal doesn�t mean being obsessive about every breath your city council takes
It's a Confusing Moment To Be a Young Journalist
Balancing Act: How News Portals Serve Up Political Stories (last 4 via PressThink: Twilight of the Curmudgeon Class )

Posted by Jon, 11:11 pm :: Comments (0) :: #

Sunday, April 29, 2007

"It's not enough to vote and pay your taxes. It's not enough. ... This is about the web that is binding us together. ... We cannot escape each other. ... You have to try to spend more time, more money, more effort making a world with more partners and fewer adversaries."
-- Former President Bill Clinton, speaking Saturday to University of Michigan graduates

"The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes and they don't need to be told elaborate lies."
-- Jessica Lynch, during testimony before a Congressional committee investigating military handling of the stories of her capture and the friendly-fire death of Pat Tillman.

Posted by Jon, 2:26 pm :: Comments (0) :: #

Friday, April 27, 2007

Some things I browsed past, and listened to, this week:

On NPR's All Songs Considered I liked Ibrahim Ferrer, the Jacques Loussier Trio and Podington Bear.
I've decided to read more about two Americans living in Paris, Mike and Rion
Over at NYT, the wine blog has started a wine school. Gotta work that into my schedule too.

Posted by Jon, 9:28 pm :: Comments (0) :: #

Monday, April 16, 2007

Weekends are for reading, right? Well, here's all the stuff I've popped into browser windows from our friends at the New York Times. This way, you can read them if I never get around to finishing them.

Posted by Jon, 10:08 pm :: More :: Comments (0) :: #

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Once again, I try to post about stuff I find fascinating. I have to confess that I haven't actually read them all yet, but maybe you'll think it's interesting too and leave a comment and it will spur me into a discussion. We can hope, right?

Posted by Jon, 10:26 pm :: More :: Comments (0) :: #

Saturday, March 17, 2007

If you're a fan of the previous "quoting" and "reading" blogs, you'll like this new category. With two friends down in Austin for the music of SxSW, I got caught up in the interactive segment that played out earlier in the week.

Posted by Jon, 11:11 pm :: More :: Comments (0) :: #

» The Archive