7Oct/091
Links of the Day, October 7
Happy birthday, Barcode! Also, baseball playoffs start today--go Dodgers!
News
- One of the most wanted suspects in Rwanda's 1994 genocide has been arrested.
- Obama's Afghanistan strategy will not involve withdrawing troops.
- He's also pursuing urban renewal.
- Pasadena Chief of Police Bernard Melekian steps down to take up a post in DC.
- Another ring is discovered around Saturn.
Health care
- Fox News' Shep Smith schools Rep. John Barrasso (WY) on the public option--I'm generally not a huge fan of Fox News, but Shep Smith is one redeeming feature.
- If you had five minutes to tell me why a public option is a good thing ...
Human trafficking
- The Metropolitan Police is considering disbanding its human trafficking team. What--is the problem solved already?!
Finance reform
- How private equity firms make billions by driving companies into bankruptcy.
Miscellaneous
- Charts to help you succeed in online dating.
- Check out the US electric grid.
- Secretary of Education Arne Duncan guests on the Colbert Report.
- The Minnesota Twins edge out the Detroit Tigers in an extra-innings one-game playoff to get to the postseason. (I wouldn't bet against the Yankees clobbering them, though ...)
- GOOD Magazine illustrates the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
18Aug/090
Links of the Day, August 18
News
- A water crisis may hit Asian food sources.
- Heptathlete Jess Ennis won a first ever gold in the event for Great Britain at the World Championships in Berlin.
- Dustin Ackley, the Seattle Mariners' first round draft pick, inks a deal. (Also, Stephen Strasburg, the first overall draft pick, signs with the Washington Nationals.)
Human trafficking
- A trafficking ring is busted in Missouri.
- Sex trafficking in London rises ahead of the 2012 Olympics.
Health care
- CBS looks at how the French do it ...
- Jon Stewart tackles the muddy messages from the White House.
Miscellaneous
- A Washington Post op-ed on why we should legalize drugs.
- DNA evidence can apparently be fabricated now.
11Aug/090
Links of the Day, August 11
Enjoy this time lapse film exploring rush hour in London.
Rush Hour London from Chris Searson on Vimeo.
News
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver passes away.
- Aung San Suu Kyi found guilty of violating "security laws" by a Burmese court.
Human trafficking
- The PBS Documentary "Made in LA" looks at sweatshops in the Southland.
- A UNHCR article about sexual violence in the Congo.
- The Feds break up a sex trafficking ring in Long Island, NY.
- Nowhere 2 Hide writes up on help for trafficking victims.
- A stunning 3,400 trafficking survivors rescued in China.
- The Economist considers the US's unjust sex laws.
Miscellaneous
- The Perseid meteor shower, also known as the Tears of St. Lawrence, is coming up, supposedly peaking just after midnight on August 12 (that's tonight).
- How to read faster in 20 minutes.
- See if you could pass the US citizenship test (or at least ten questions from it--I got 90% ... phew).