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Bill Cosby Supports A ‘Muslim Cosby Show,’ But The Research Does Not (tags: race tv) ProPublica Honored With Two George Polk Awards (tags: journalism)

Science Fiction vs. Science Fantasy What the science-fantasy argument is really about is snobbery: "This film doesn't sit well with me, and I want to exclude it from the genre I love, so I'll call it something else." This is ironic, as science-fiction fans complain that the gatekeepers of cultural respectability do the same thing […]

How a song from the 2005 Civilization IV won a 2011 Grammy (tags: games music) Wisconsin Demonstrates Against Scott Walker's War on Unions Today, response to Walker's bill has been… unfavorable. About ten thousand currently surround Walker's capitol office and are streaming into the dome. Walker should be extra-worried to know that the Super Bowl […]

Egypt: Away from the Press, Netizens Report a Massacre in Kharga (tags: politics) Mashuptown.com: Fissunix – Heart Shaped Tron [Daft Punk vs. Nirvana] (tags: music)

The unrest in Egypt is in all our minds right now. So I just threw together an Egypt-related mix with Grooveshark. I'll add more when I get to it. http://listen.grooveshark.com/widget.swf      

Ideas Are Not The Same As Race – NYTimes.com It’s particularly troubling to apply some test of equal representation when you’re looking at academics who do research on the very subjects that define the political divide. Biologists, physicists, and chemists are all predominantly liberal; does this reflect discrimination, or the tendency of people who actually […]

Leaked Cables: Egyptian Government Stokes Fears of Muslim Brotherhood “The Egyptians have a long history of threatening us with the MB bogeyman,” wrote Ambassador Francis Ricciardone to FBI Director Robert Mueller in 2005, in a newly released U.S. embassy cable obtained by WikiLeaks. Another cable from 2006 stated: (tags: politics culture religion) Database to foil […]

Egypt: journalists targeted at Hilton hotel in Cairo (tags: journalism undefined)

News Desk: Does Egypt Need Twitter? : The New Yorker “high risk” social activism requires deep roots and strong ties. But surely the least interesting fact about them is that some of the protesters may (or may not) have at one point or another employed some of the tools of the new media to communicate […]

Recessions Under the Gold Standard – NYTimes.com (tags: economics history money) What Role Have Multinationals Played in Egypt’s Communication Shutdown? (tags: politics internet)