I blame the unions. CostCo must have closed because they didn’t want to pay holiday overtime. Whole Foods was open. I rest my case.

here’s some links…

Naropa Poetics Audio Archives via Leslie, The trace is poetry’s ghostly techne. What is the poet, if not a phonograph?

IN THIS INCISIVE BOOK, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social
representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, and describes
the tactics available to the ordinary person for reclaiming autonomy from the all-pervasive
forces of commerce, politics, and culture.

Rilke and Twombly on the Nile (pdf), by Mary Jacobus
Glenn Greenwald: Bill Keller’s self-defense on torture

Tom’s Torsion Box Workbench

Facebook and the Semantic Web

F*ck the Cloud, link courtesy of Alan Herell

Our Houses, Our Selves, by Sandra Tsing Loh

• The G20 and their commitment to bolstering the wealth of the ruling class by cutting spending and holding down taxes. Toronto, what a riot! With the Wall Street Journal interpreting policy alternatives for them it’s small wonder that they remain clueless.
• Grace Lee Boggs on the US Social Forum
• Oliver Stone: South of the Border
• Janis Gold
• n+1 magazine: On Your Marx
• How Should Journalists be Judged?
• Grateful Dead, live at the Nassau Coliseum, April 12, 1982
• 21-C the future is here
• Kierkegaard’s “Mystery Of Unrighteousness” In The Information Age
• Sunlight Foundation
• Wisconsin Agriculturalist
• SSRN
• Netroots Nation
• Anosognosia, in five parts
• Cockburn on McChrystal

• Juneteenth!
• WordPress Version 3.0 – “Thelonious”
• Greenhouse gas mitigation by agricultural intensification
• Andrew Hessel – Introduction to Synthetic Biology
• Golden Rice
• Julian Assange
• Iceland’s new media laws
• Landrace seeds
• Greepit!
• CSSquirrel
• Why people believe hokum
• Firefox 4 preview
• Justice Souter & Justice Souter
• Jay Rosen think piece
• The very angry tea party
• John Pilger
• Honey Pie
• Robert Fisk
• Joe Bageant – Wendy’s macht fries

• Google stuff. So much of this is great. Why is Feedburner so difficult for me?
• Can the US Punish BP’s Shareholders? The editors of the New York Times asked that question. Is there any doubt that the US could freeze their assets and confiscate every dime? And would that be “punishment?” The NYT takes a swing and misses, bigtime. FAIL.
• Obama summons BP chiefs to White House.
• RSA Boss Slams Barack Obama In BP Row. Brass balls, that’s what the insurance guy who wrote this tract must have. To imply equivalence between the the President of the United States and the Chairman of BP is a bit of a stretch. To offer the President advice from that side of the Atlantic is more than a stretch, it’s presumptuous as hell.
• RSA Ordinary Shares. A chart showing that the presumptuous know-it-all in the previous link has led his company to lose about a third of its value since Obama was elected.
• Gulf spill insurance exposure tops $1.6B: Moody’s. A story showing why the English insurance guy who wrote the “open letter” linked above may be a less than disinterested party.
• Meet the US States that will default on their debt first. We can only hope that English banks and insurance companies are holding these notes.
• Want To Get Faster, Smarter? Sleep 10 Hours. Advice I can live with.
• friendfeed
• Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn do twitter.
• BBDO in the Wikipedia.
• BBDO Turkey. Flotillas are us.

• International Association of Time Travelers–
  11/15/2104
  At 14:52:28, FreedomFighter69 wrote:
  Reporting my first temporal excursion since joining IATT: have just returned from 1936 Berlin, having taken the place of one of Leni Riefenstahl’s cameramen and assassinated Adolf Hitler during the opening of the Olympic Games. Let a free world rejoice!

  At 14:57:44, SilverFox316 wrote:
  Back from 1936 Berlin; incapacitated FreedomFighter69 before he could pull his little stunt. Freedomfighter69, as you are a new member, please read IATT Bulletin 1147 regarding the killing of Hitler before your next excursion. Failure to do so may result in your expulsion per Bylaw 223.

• Five Reasons Obama Should Take Over BP–Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich writes, “If the government can take over giant global insurer AIG and the auto giant General Motors and replace their CEOs, in order to keep them financially solvent, it should be able to put BP’s north American operations into temporary receivership in order to stop one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.”
• Welcome to the Culture of News–I think Karoli buried the lede in her post titled “News, bloggers and oil spill coverage: You get what you pay for”. This is a story about the nuance and complexity of reporting a story like the slowly unfolding drama in the Gulf of Mexico, a meta-narrative. Hooking the “who” on sad-sack Mark Bernstein and his expressed desire for simplistic coverage takes the punch out of the central idea that Mr. Bernstein’s problem isn’t science bloggers; rather, it’s the Culture of News.
• Hamas
• FutureWeb–
  “Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project delivers a keynote on the Future of the Web and answers audience questions. Rainie’s initiative is a “fact tank” known around the world for its assessment of the influence of Internet evolution on every aspect of global life. He and his team release new reports nearly weekly, detailing our use of the Internet and the impact it has on our lives.”
• Using Social Media to Increase Civic Engagement in US Federal Agencies–Yasmin Fodil and Anna York share insights on public policy development at Yasmin’s blog about Government 2.0, “We the Goverati”.
• Wisconsin: Whistling Past the Graveyard, by George Lightbourn
• Burn Canvas–”A simple test of local pixel-based modifications of an HTML5 canvas drawing area,” from Chrome Experiments dot com.
• HTML5 and Web Standards–This is a demonstration that, according to Apple, shows “…how the latest version of Apple’s Safari web browser, new Macs, and new Apple mobile devices all support the capabilities of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Not all browsers offer this support,” the Apple PR machine continues, “but soon other modern browsers will take advantage of these same web standards — and the amazing things they enable web designers to do.” The irony here, the giggle, is that this “web standards” showcase can only be accessed using Apple products. Other products such as the Google Chrome browser, a product already able to “take advantage of these same web standards,” are excluded. That Steve Jobs! What a kidder!
• America Speaks–National “town meeting” on the budget and the economy.
• arXiv vs. snarXiv–an addictive little game. Try to guess which title in the pair of titles offered is from a real paper published in a scientific journal.
• Visual Thesaurus
• “The Shallows”–NPR reporting on Nicholas Karr’s take on what the Internet is doing to our minds.
• Does the Internet Make You Smarter? by Clay Shirky–the opposing perspective to Nicholas Karr’s concern about the great dumbing down.
• Griper News, the bearer of bad tidings–blogging the way blogs should be blogged, by Terry Canaan.
• Slate–it ain’t Griper news, but it pays better.
• Aldiko–”…an ebook reading application that runs on any Android phone and which enables you to easily download and read thousands of books right on your smartphone.”
• arstechnica Week in Apple: pre-WWDC edition–the Apple World Wide developers Conference is just around the corner. The WWDC is a gathering of those who write code for the six percent of information appliance owners who have tied themselves to the closed Apple architecture. That’s six percent of a gazillion users though, no small number.
• Hulu: Life–a TV series about a cop who was framed and went to prison for a long time. When he is exonerated and released and given a $50 million settlement he returns to the LA police force, bringing a fresh if somewhat demented perspective to his police work.

• Hack the Planet, wait for the announcement that only a small tactical nuke will close earth’s gushing wound a mile below the sea in the Gulf of Mexico. There will be a bright side to all that oil spreading out over the surface of the Atlantic between now and September when they get around to dropping a nuke down the pipe. Bright side is: flattened surface yields increased reflectivity equals lowered Albedo equals slowed global warming.
• Aspiring writer questions value of English degree, this one is in the running for the monthly “No shit, Sherlock!” award.
• Not for Profit, a brief interview with Martha Nussbaum, answering the question of what Hindu extremists have in common with Texas school boards.
• The Net Worth of American Presidents, a nice historical review. I recommend you follow the cycle of boom and bust and ask just how much speculation we as a society should permit the greed-balls on Wall Street.
• PRchitecture… a neologism Kat Herding thought she had invented until she googled it.
• Putting the Future Back in the Room, by Alex Steffen. I was shocked to learn that Al and Tipper, after celebrating the fortieth anniversaries of their marriage and of earth day, have decided to call it quits. What that has to do with Steffen’s essay, I don’t know. Al and tipper is a look back to 1970. Steffen suggests we focus on 2024.
• ElasticVapor and Enomaly, Reuven Cohen’s blog and business web sites. Cohen is a leader in the world of cloud computing, a technology that has matured over the last six or eight years and is finally ready for prime time here in the USA, now that we’ve begun to catch up with much of the rest of the world in affordable broadband connectivity.
• Sticks and stones may break our bones so we brought guns.
• Why converse with your customers when you can spam the living daylights out of them?
• More than a recipe for potato leek soup. (May be dangerous to open this one if freedom of speech is compromised in your country).

Finally, a few pointers to what’s next… Web 3.0. Can I say “Web 3.0″ or has O’Reilly already registered it as a trademark?

• web 3.0 by kate ray
• Visual Thesaurus, by Thinkmap.
• Semanticweb.org

It’s flamingly delicious.