[political-research] Join and Master Friendfeed Now

2009-01-31 Thread Sean McBride
Another reminder: there is much more interesting activity going on on Friendfeed than in Yahoo Groups. Friendfeed recently won the Crunchies Best New Startup of the Year for 2008. If you're not in the FF stream, you're missing a great deal. Most of my posts are now originating from Friendfeed.

[political-research] Google's GDrive Will Allow Access to Files Anywhere, Anytime

2009-01-30 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Google's GDrive Will Allow Access to Files Anywhere, Anytime [Google Web Drive] via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on 1/30/09 The Google Operating System blog points to one blogger's discovery of text inside the Google Pack software suite that basically

[political-research] Elliott Abrams to Parachute to Council on Foreign Relations

2009-01-28 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Elliott Abrams to Parachute to Council on Foreign Relations via LobeLog.com by admin on 1/26/09 I guess this is breaking news on which I hope to have more to write later (I have a deadline on reporting Obama’s greenhouse-related announcements today

[political-research] Select-n-Go Does Inline Contextual Search [Downloads]

2009-01-27 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Select-n-Go Does Inline Contextual Search [Downloads] via Lifehacker by The How-To Geek on 1/27/09 Firefox/IE only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Browser extension Select-n-Go integrates inline search results into any page for quick research without all

[political-research] It's easier than Tom Friedman thinks: a realistic Middle East strategy

2009-01-26 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: It's easier than Tom Friedman thinks: a realistic Middle East strategy via Stephen M. Walt by Stephen M. Walt on 1/26/09 Tom Friedman almost gets it, but what he leaves out is at least as significant as what he puts in. In his column in Sunday's

[political-research] Darnton: Google the Future of Books - The New York Review of Books

2009-01-23 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Darnton: Google the Future of Books - The New York Review of Books via Fresh and Hot from the Diigo Community on 1/23/09 How can we navigate through the information landscape that is only beginning to come into view? The question is more urgent

[political-research] Parsing Obama’s Words on Mitchell Appointment

2009-01-23 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Parsing Obama’s Words on Mitchell Appointment via LobeLog.com by admin on 1/22/09 Intelligence analysts and diplomats must be poring over Obama’s carefully scripted remarks today at the State Department where he confirmed the appointment of Sen

[political-research] TweetNews Ranks News Stories by Twitter Links [News Aggregation]

2009-01-20 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: TweetNews Ranks News Stories by Twitter Links [News Aggregation] via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on 1/20/09 Noting that breaking news stories move a lot faster through Twitter than aggregation sites like Google/Yahoo News and Digg, A Yahoo BOSS

[political-research] First Earth-Sized Exoplanet May Have Been Found

2009-01-19 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: First Earth-Sized Exoplanet May Have Been Found via Slashdot by kdawson on 1/19/09 Adam Korbitz writes New Scientist is reporting the extrasolar planet MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb — whose discovery was announced just last summer — may actually be the first

[political-research] Back in the spotlight…again

2009-01-18 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Back in the spotlight…again via Michael Gross by Michael Gross on 1/18/09 New York’s Daily News and England’s Guardian both peeked past the doormen at 740 Park today. The News focused on Ezra Merkin, the whipping boy du jour for the Great Recession

[political-research] An unconvincing defense (Stephen Walt on Thomas Friedman)

2009-01-14 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: An unconvincing defense via Stephen M. Walt by Stephen M. Walt on 1/14/09 In today's New York Times, Thomas Friedman offers a quasi-defense of Israel's assault on Gaza, expressing that hope that Israel is trying to teach Hamas a lesson similar

[political-research] Obama and the Middle East, Part II (Robert Dreyfuss)

2009-01-14 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Obama and the Middle East, Part II via The Nation: The Dreyfuss Report by Robert Dreyfuss on 1/14/09 'This is the second part of a five-part series on Barack Obama's Middle East. Yesterday, Part I covered the so-called War on Terror. Today, in Part

[political-research] Ubiquity Sees Major Update, New Look, Better Performance [Featured Firefox E...

2009-01-14 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Ubiquity Sees Major Update, New Look, Better Performance [Featured Firefox Extension] via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on 1/14/09 Popular Firefox extension Ubiquity—which adds a natural language command line to Firefox—sees a significant update today

[political-research] Review: Programming Collective Intelligence

2009-01-12 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Review: Programming Collective Intelligence via Federated Search by Sol on 1/12/09 Web 2.0 is a fascination of mine. I’m very community oriented and I’ve watched the computer industry evolve over the past nearly thirty years. I’m very excited about

[political-research] UPDATE: Ross Super-Envoy Post May Not be Done Deal

2009-01-10 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: UPDATE: Ross Super-Envoy Post May Not be Done Deal via LobeLog.com by admin on 1/10/09 I understand from various sources that Dennis Ross’ prospective status as Middle East super-envoy and, as the WINEP memo disclosed by The Nelson Report claimed

[political-research] What Would Google Do?

2009-01-10 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: What Would Google Do? via Amazon.com: Google in Books on 12/30/08 A bold and vital book that asks and answers the most urgent question of today: What Would Google Do? In a book that's one part prophecy, one part thought experiment, one part

[political-research] Petraeus vs. Ross?

2009-01-09 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Petraeus vs. Ross? via LobeLog.com by admin on 1/8/09 Back in July, I wrote a post on this blog with the title, “Is Petraeus Preparing to Betray the Neo-Cons?” in which I suggested that, given his expanded geographical jurisdiction as CentCom

[political-research] UPDATE: Washington Institute Reports Bigger Role for Ross

2009-01-08 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: UPDATE: Washington Institute Reports Bigger Role for Ross via LobeLog.com by admin on 1/7/09 The matchless Nelson Report has updated the news about the prospective appointment of Dennis Ross as Special Envoy for Iran, and the update is even more

[political-research] Perle Explains

2009-01-08 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Perle Explains via LobeLog.com by admin on 1/6/09 Don’t miss Richard Perle’s comprehensive but remarkably unpersuasive explanation in The National Interest Online of how neo-conservatives, least of all himself, really exercised very little influence

[political-research] Wibe7.tv Provides Thumbnail-Only YouTube Search Results [Search]

2009-01-07 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Wibe7.tv Provides Thumbnail-Only YouTube Search Results [Search] via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on 1/7/09 If you're looking for one particular, recognizable YouTube video amidst a galaxy of copycats and look-alikes, Wibe7.tv offers a vast wall

[political-research] Orwell on Gaza

2009-01-06 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Orwell on Gaza via Stephen M. Walt by Stephen M. Walt on 1/5/09 Over at TPMCafe, Israel Policy Forum's M.J. Rosenberg spotlights a telling quotation from George Orwell that is directly relevant to the current furor over the attack on Gaza. Money

[political-research] On Gmail's Success

2009-01-05 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: On Gmail's Success via FriendFeedLinks - Home on 1/5/09 Shared 46 times Paul Buchheit, the ex-Googler who created Gmail, remembers how difficult was to convince people that Gmail has the potential to become successful. We starting working on Gmail

[political-research] Nelson Report Says Ross Will Get Iran File

2009-01-05 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Nelson Report Says Ross Will Get Iran File via LobeLog.com by admin on 1/5/09 Very concerning news from the very excellent Nelson Report tonight — that Dennis Ross will become Special Envoy for Iran, reporting directly to SecState-designate Clinton

[political-research] YackTrack Keeps an Eye on Comments [Tracking]

2009-01-04 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: YackTrack Keeps an Eye on Comments [Tracking] via Lifehacker by Jason Fitzpatrick on 1/4/09 YackTrack is a comment tracking service. If you've ever wondered who is talking about a blog post or news article you can enter the URL and see who

[political-research] Israeli Wiretappers, the NSA, and 9/11

2009-01-04 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Israeli Wiretappers, the NSA, and 9/11 via 911Blogger.com - Paying Attention to 9/11 Related Alternative News by Reprehensor on 1/4/09 (James Bamford has done another great deed for the public by revealing the extent of the NSA's wiretapping on U.S

[political-research] Five File-Sharing Predictions for 2009 | TorrentFreak

2009-01-02 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Five File-Sharing Predictions for 2009 | TorrentFreak via FriendFeedLinks - Home on 1/1/09 Shared 26 times Granted, making predictions is easy. Being right is much harder, but I’m going to give it a try anyway. Please check back in a year and see

[political-research] What Do Your Twitter Followers Think? Conduct a twtpoll And Find Out.

2009-01-02 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: What Do Your Twitter Followers Think? Conduct a twtpoll And Find Out. via FriendFeedLinks - Home on 1/2/09 Shared 32 times One of the simplest ways to use Twitter is to conduct instant polls among your followers. But compiling all the replies

[political-research] What Will Change Everything?

2009-01-02 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: What Will Change Everything? via FriendFeedLinks - Home on 1/1/09 Shared 25 times Regular Radar contributor Linda Stone sent this in to be posted today. What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see

[political-research] Greenwald's Point

2009-01-02 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Greenwald's Point via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan on 1/2/09 Leave aside the usual huffing and puffing. Can you answer this question for me: Is there any other significant issue in American political life, besides Israel

[political-research] Heilbrunn Reviews Neo-Con Travails

2009-01-01 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Heilbrunn Reviews Neo-Con Travails via LobeLog.com by admin on 1/1/09 Jacob Heilbrunn of The National Interest, which is related to the Nixon Center, has written two very interesting articles on the plight of the neo-cons after the Republican

[political-research] Most Useful Web Applications for 2008

2008-12-30 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Most Useful Web Applications for 2008 via FriendFeedLinks - Home on 12/30/08 Shared 28 times As we bid adieu to 2008, let’s looks at some useful web applications that really made an impact. All these apps are available online for free and require

[political-research] 2009 Web Predictions

2008-12-30 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: 2009 Web Predictions via FriendFeedLinks - Home on 12/30/08 Shared 28 times It's time for our annual predictions post, in which the ReadWriteWeb authors look forward to what 2009 might bring in the world of Web technology and new media. Looking

[political-research] Top Technology Breakthroughs of 2008

2008-12-26 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Top Technology Breakthroughs of 2008 via FriendFeedLinks - Home on 12/25/08 Shared 20 times The economy may be tanking, but innovation is alive and well. When it came to products, incremental improvements were the name of the game this year

[political-research] Neo-Cons Still Busy on Iran

2008-12-26 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Neo-Cons Still Busy on Iran via LobeLog.com by admin on 12/26/08 While no doubt demoralized, the neo-conservative hawks at American Enterprise Institute (AEI) will be continuing their efforts for a major U.S. confrontation with Iran. They’ve

[political-research] Ross vs. Kurtzer

2008-12-26 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: “Ross vs. Kurtzer” via LobeLog.com by admin on 12/26/08 Scott McLeod at Time sums up the key battle, as I understand it, over who (Dennis Ross vs. Dan Kurtzer) will get the Israel-Palestinian (and possibly -Arab) portfolio in the Obama

[political-research] Researchers challenge gravitational waves report for Director of National In...

2008-12-23 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Researchers challenge gravitational waves report for Director of National Intelligence via KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News on 12/23/08 A recent report on High Frequency Gravitational Waves (HFGW) for the Office of the Director

[political-research] Top 10 Alternative Search Engines of 2008 - ReadWriteWeb

2008-12-20 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Top 10 Alternative Search Engines of 2008 - ReadWriteWeb via FriendFeedLinks - Home on 12/19/08 Shared 21 times Editor's Note: This list was contributed by Charles Knight, editor of AltSearchEngines, a former RWW network blog. In terms of user

[political-research] Sean McBride: a God's-eye view of all human situations in unified combination

2008-12-15 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Sean McBride: a God's-eye view of all human situations in unified combination via FFHolic - Most Discussed English Entries on FriendFeed in 24 hours on 12/14/08 Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to FFHolic - Most Discussed English Entries

[political-research] Change You Won't Believe

2008-12-15 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Change You Won't Believe via Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler by james howard kunstler on 12/15/08 The peak oil story has not been nullified by the scramble to unload every asset for cash -- including whomping gobs of oil contracts -- during

[political-research] The costs of eight years of Republican rule (a few key figures):

2008-12-15 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Sean McBride: The costs of eight years of Republican rule (a few key figures): via FFHolic - Most Discussed English Entries on FriendFeed in 24 hours on 12/15/08 Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to FFHolic - Most Discussed English Entries

[political-research] Microsoft's Thumbtack, an Answer to Google Notebook

2008-12-14 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Microsoft's Thumbtack, an Answer to Google Notebook via Slashdot by timothy on 12/14/08 An anonymous reader writes Microsoft's Live Labs have introduced a new service that lets users collect snippets of information from Web sites and share

[political-research] Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You?

2008-12-14 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You? via Amazon.com: Google in Books on 12/8/08 What Does Google Know about You? And Who Are They Telling? When you use Google’s “free” services, you pay, big time–with personal information about

[political-research] Google Book Search Now Includes Magazines [Google Book Search]

2008-12-09 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Google Book Search Now Includes Magazines [Google Book Search] via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on 12/9/08 Google announces that its Book Search engine now includes magazine archives in its results, in full-color, page-to-page, browseable format

[political-research] The big vision: parse and plug the conceptual content from all the book...

2008-12-06 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: You: The big vision: parse and plug the conceptual content from all the books, articles and databases in the world into a single unified semantic knowledgebase. (via FriendFeed) via FriendFeed on 12/6/08 You posted a message “The big vision: parse

Re: [political-research] The big vision: parse and plug the conceptual content from all the book...

2008-12-06 Thread Sean McBride
Reminder to subscribers here: most of the discussion on this list is now occurring on Friendfeed. If you haven't discovered Friendfeed yet, you're missing out on the next big wave in social and discussion media. --- On Sat, 12/6/08, Sean McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Sean McBride

[political-research] Cyber Warfare

2008-12-05 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Cyber Warfare via WBUR and NPR's On Point with Tom Ashbrook by Hilary Barngrove McQuilkin on 12/8/08 Employees of the National Security Agency sit in the Threat Operations Center in Fort Meade, Md. (AP File Photo/Evan Vucci) Cyber insecurity

[political-research] The Future Of Conservatism

2008-12-02 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: The Future Of Conservatism via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan on 12/2/08 This is a typically concise and brilliant summation of the problem from Richard Posner. And this paragraph helps lay out the depth of the challenge

[political-research] Do the math. Please.

2008-12-01 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Do the math. Please. via AltSearchEngines by Charles Knight on 11/30/08 Percentage of U.S. searches among leading search engine providers: Domain October 2007 October 2008 www.google.com 64.49% 71.70% search.yahoo.com 21.65% 17.74

[political-research] The Dangers of Revisionism: Tom Friedman tries to hide his very big stick

2008-11-30 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: The Dangers of Revisionism: Tom Friedman tries to hide his very big stick via Salon: Glenn Greenwald by Glenn Greenwald on 11/30/08 With a new administration ascending to power in a matter of weeks, witnessing Beltway denizens desperately scampering

[political-research] War Profiteering

2008-11-30 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: War Profiteering via The Washington Note on 11/30/08 The first blog post I did over four years ago at The Washington Note had to do with the subject of war profiteering and players in the national security establishment that were making money from

[political-research] What comes after Google Wikipedia? Webzzle

2008-11-29 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: What comes after Google Wikipedia? Webzzle via AltSearchEngines by Charles Knight on 11/29/08 Why should you use Webzzle? Simply to explore the knowledge Web, the meaning based collaborative Web, with one click. What can I use Webzzle for? All

[political-research] Amazon Upgrade - read your books on line

2008-11-29 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Amazon Upgrade - read your books on line via TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home by Paul Biba on 11/29/08 Whatever you might think of Amazon, you certainly have to admit that they are clever. They now have something called Amazon Upgrade which allows

[political-research] E-books mean more than just digital text

2008-11-29 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: E-books mean more than just digital text via TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home by Paul Biba on 11/28/08 We most often think of e-books as digitized text coupled with a convenient reading medium. But there is a lot more to e-books than that if you use

[political-research] Ruppert on the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks

2008-11-29 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: (title unknown) via Act 2: From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog by FTW admin on 11/28/08 HELPING US ALL UNDERSTAND HOW TO WORK BETTER TOGETHER – MORE ON CHECHNYA AND MUMBAI (I have asked Jenna to put this on the Main Page and added new material from

[political-research] Obama Foreign Policy: Realists to Reign?

2008-11-28 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Obama Foreign Policy: Realists to Reign? via AntiWar.com by Jim Lobe on 11/28/08 Excerpt: Less than two months before taking office, President-elect Barack Obama is making clear that realists -- some more identified with Republicans and the military

[political-research] 'J Street' Cannot Take on AIPAC and the Neocons Frontally

2008-11-27 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: 'J Street' Cannot Take on AIPAC and the Neocons Frontally via Mondoweiss by Philip Weiss on 11/27/08 I said earlier this week that I was going to get to Jeremy Ben-Ami's comments at the Jewish antiwar conference of last Sunday. Ben-Ami is the brains

[political-research] Free Software We're Most Thankful For - Lifehacker

2008-11-27 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Free Software We're Most Thankful For - Lifehacker via RSSmeme by Gina Trapani on 11/27/08 Shared 151 times Tagged Downloads (6117) Feature (7425) free (3053) Free Software (398) Open Source (3029) thanksgiving (645) Top (14952) Dear free software

[political-research] Software 'can identify' Rumsfeld's unknown unknowns

2008-11-26 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Software 'can identify' Rumsfeld's unknown unknowns via Short Sharp Science by Tom Simonite on 11/26/08 The Bush administration will soon be history. But we may be left with a computerised version of former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld

[political-research] David Ray Griffin’s “The New Pearl Harbor Revisi ted” rated “Pick of the Week...

2008-11-25 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: David Ray Griffin’s “The New Pearl Harbor Revisited” rated “Pick of the Week” by Publishers Weekly via 911Blogger.com - Paying Attention to 9/11 Related Alternative News by Reprehensor on 11/25/08 David Ray Griffin’s “The New Pearl Harbor Revisited

[political-research] Invention: Personal life mapper

2008-11-24 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Invention: Personal life mapper via KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News on 11/24/08 University of Massachusetts researchers have patented personal information maps that cluster related documents and information, and superimpose the results

[political-research] MRQE - The Movie Review Query Engine

2008-11-24 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: MRQE - The Movie Review Query Engine via AltSearchEngines by Charles Knight on 11/24/08 Founded in 1993 by Stewart Clamen, the continually growing site provides a searchable index of all published and available movie reviews. As the premiere search

[political-research] Keyboardr Is Lightning Fast Search Mashup with Keyboard Shortcuts

2008-11-24 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Keyboardr Is Lightning Fast Search Mashup with Keyboard Shortcuts [Search Engines] via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on 11/24/08 Web site keyboardr is an as-you-type search mashup of Google (including blog and image search), Wikipedia, and YouTube

[political-research] Amazon Courting Eggheads To Its Cloud With Free Access To Scientific Data (A...

2008-11-22 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Amazon Courting Eggheads To Its Cloud With Free Access To Scientific Data (AMZN) via Alley Insider by Eric Krangel on 11/22/08 A new feature for the Amazon's (AMZN) EC2? The cloud computing community is abuzz today over Public Data Sets coming soon

[political-research] Screen Fluency

2008-11-22 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Screen Fluency via The Technium on 11/22/08 We were once People of the Book but now we are becoming People of Screen. But to complete this transformation in full we need a set of tools which will allow us to manipulate, create, and process moving

[political-research] Google Personalizes Search with SearchWiki

2008-11-21 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Google Personalizes Search with SearchWiki via KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News on 11/20/08 Google has introduced a new feature called SearchWiki that will allow people (in a gradual rollout to all users) to modify and save

[political-research] IBM gets DARPA Cognitive Computing Contract

2008-11-21 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: IBM gets DARPA Cognitive Computing Contract via Alex Constantine's Blacklist by Alex Constantine on 11/19/08 The contract was just handed out to IBM, but it's certain that cognitive computing already exists in the classified sector. DARPA works

[political-research] Scowcroft and Brzezinski Tell Obama Israel/Palestine Is Issue #1

2008-11-21 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Scowcroft and Brzezinski Tell Obama Israel/Palestine Is Issue #1 via Mondoweiss by Philip Weiss on 11/21/08 A forceful piece in today's Washington Post by the realists: We believe that the Arab-Israeli peace process is one issue that requires

[political-research] So, will you make the leap to LeapFish?

2008-11-21 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: So, will you make the leap to LeapFish? via AltSearchEngines by Charles Knight on 11/21/08 LeapFish, a multi-dimensional search aggregator, announced today the launch of its beta search engine, LeapFish.com, that promises to conveniently surprise

[political-research] Europeana crashes due to its popularity

2008-11-21 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Europeana crashes due to its popularity via TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home by Paul Biba on 11/21/08 In a project that I am sure is close to David’s heart, Europeana opened on November 20. Here is the object of the site, as stated on its Web site

[political-research] Hunting for a Brainy Computer

2008-11-20 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Hunting for a Brainy Computer via KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News on 11/19/08 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a $4.9 million grant to five universities and IBM Research for the first phase of an ambitious

[political-research] Pipl Updates, Offers Better Organized Stalking [People Search]

2008-11-19 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Pipl Updates, Offers Better Organized Stalking [People Search] via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on 11/19/08 Previously mentioned people search engine Pipl has updated with a slightly tweaked look and better, more organized results. In a quick comparison

[political-research] AIPAC's Man in the Obama Camp

2008-11-18 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: AIPAC's Man in the Obama Camp via AntiWar.com by Philip Giraldi on 11/18/08 Excerpt: Barack Obama's first appointment, that of Chicago Congressman Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff, is quite frankly unsettling and suggests that voters who had hoped

[political-research] Howard Zinn: I Don't Care If 9/11 Was An Inside Job

2008-11-18 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Howard Zinn: I Don't Care If 9/11 Was An Inside Job via infowarsnews at Yahoo! Groups by Paul Joseph Watson on 11/18/08 Howard Zinn: I Don't Care If 9/11 Was An Inside Job Another gatekeeper illustrates the intellectual cowardice

[political-research] Prophesy of economic collapse 'coming true'

2008-11-18 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Prophesy of economic collapse 'coming true' via KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News on 11/18/08 A real-world analysis of a controversial prediction made 30 years ago in the book Limits to Growth concludes that economic growth cannot

[political-research] A New Face-Finding Search Engine

2008-11-17 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: A New Face-Finding Search Engine via AltSearchEngines by Charles Knight on 11/17/08 Today there are more low-quality video cameras–surveillance and traffic cameras, cell-phone cameras and webcams–than ever before. But modern search engines can’t

Re: [political-research] Here it is - search your web history with infoaxe

2008-11-17 Thread Sean McBride
low resolution to large file high resolution) for free and rapid download here: http://www.archive. org/details/ ThePowerOfNightm ares On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 04:31:48PM -0800, Sean McBride wrote: Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Here it is - search your web history

[political-research] Jimmy Carter and the Jews--Demme's Documentary

2008-11-16 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Jimmy Carter and the Jews--Demme's Documentary via Mondoweiss by Philip Weiss on 11/16/08 A friend gave me the documentary, Man From Plains, about Jimmy Carter's 2006 book tour for Palestine Peace Not Apartheid. It came out a year ago. My wife and I

[political-research] Wikipedia deletes Benjamin Emanuel entry

2008-11-15 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Wikipedia deletes Benjamin Emanuel entry via Signs of the Times on 11/15/08 Wikipedia has deleted Rahm Emanuel's father's page. Benjamin M. Emanuel's entry was recommended for deletion shortly after Obama named the younger Emanuel as his Chief

[political-research] Romney Favors Hubbard Novel

2008-11-15 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Romney Favors Hubbard Novel via Alex Constantine's Blacklist by Alex Constantine on 11/15/08 By JIM RUTENBERG April 30, 2007 “What’s your favorite novel?” is a perennial campaign question, the answer to which presumably gives insight

[political-research] Jaguar, World's Most Powerful Supercomputer

2008-11-15 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Jaguar, World's Most Powerful Supercomputer via Slashdot by ScuttleMonkey on 11/14/08 Protoclown writes The National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS), located at Oak Ridge National Labs (ORNL) in Tennessee, has upgraded the Jaguar

[political-research] Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction

2008-11-15 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction via Slashdot by kdawson on 11/14/08 wiredog sends in a study from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Center For Biosecurity, assessing risks of human extinction and the costs of preventing

[political-research] HUGE EXOPLANET NEWS ITEMS: PICTURES!!!

2008-11-15 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: HUGE EXOPLANET NEWS ITEMS: PICTURES!!! via RSSmeme by Phil Plait on 11/13/08 Shared 121 times Tagged astronomy (637) Cool Stuff (786) Pretty pictures (167) Science (4088) This is incredible: For the first time, ever, astronomers have captured

[political-research] Take in a New Point of View at Big Think [Video]

2008-11-15 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Take in a New Point of View at Big Think [Video] via Lifehacker by Jason Fitzpatrick on 11/15/08 If You Tube had an overly-intellectual kid brother who preferred Noam Chomsky to Naruto, that brother would be Big Think. Big Think is a web site built

[political-research] IREON – the German gateway for Search

2008-11-15 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: IREON – the German gateway for Search via AltSearchEngines by Guest Author on 11/15/08 The database “World Affairs Online” is a joint venture of German think tanks, for example the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik” in Berlin, and is offered since

[political-research] Hope dives right into DeepDyve, should you?

2008-11-14 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Hope dives right into DeepDyve, should you? via AltSearchEngines by Hope Leman on 11/14/08 Okay, here I am at home today and away from the firewalled, database-rich environment of my usual medical library setting. That was also the case a few weeks

[political-research] Who Should We Be?

2008-11-14 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Who Should We Be? via The Technium on 11/14/08 The technium is not an inert surface, but an active force in our lives. Our inner lives are shaped by our language and alphabet, by our tools of seeing, by our notions of laws and justice – all of which

[political-research] ”800 Newspapers from NewspaperDirect now available on iRex Digital Reader’

2008-11-13 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: ”800 Newspapers from NewspaperDirect now available on iRex Digital Reader’ via TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home by David Rothman on 11/13/08 A Kindle, iPhone or a big-screen iRex or other device—which would you rather read an e-newspaper on? It’s

[political-research] Obama’s Mideast Team – Who’s In, Who’s Not I n (Yet), Who’s Probably Out

2008-11-13 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Obama’s Mideast Team – Who’s In, Who’s Not In (Yet), Who’s Probably Out via The Magnes Zionist by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry Haber) on 11/11/08 N.B. The following post is based on conversations I have had in the last few days with folks who are close

[political-research] Sean McBride: Is Jeff Jarvis gloating about the death of print? - By Ron Ros...

2008-11-12 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Sean McBride: Is Jeff Jarvis gloating about the death of print? - By Ron Rosenbaum - Slate Magazine via FFHolic - Most Discussed English Entries on FriendFeed in 24 hours on 11/12/08 Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to FFHolic - Most

[political-research] Another UN official goes public on 9/11 doubts

2008-11-12 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Another UN official goes public on 9/11 doubts http://corbettreport.com/ via 911blogger.com - Paying Attention to 9/11 Related Alternative News by Joe on 11/11/08 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB3qqixEzAg http://corbettreport.com/ Another UN

[political-research] Documents Linking Iran to Nuclear Weapons Push May Have Been Fabricated

2008-11-11 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Documents Linking Iran to Nuclear Weapons Push May Have Been Fabricated via CommonDreams.org Headlines by jon on 11/11/08 The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has obtained evidence suggesting that documents which have been described

[political-research] Top Ten Forecasts For The Next 20 Years

2008-11-11 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Top Ten Forecasts For The Next 20 Years via KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News on 11/10/08 Everything you say and do will be recorded by 2030, and by the late 2010s, ubiquitous, unseen nanodevices will provide seamless communication

[political-research] WorldCat - 1.2 Billion items in 10,000 libraries!

2008-11-11 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: WorldCat - 1.2 Billion items in 10,000 libraries! via AltSearchEngines by Charles Knight on 11/11/08 WorldCat - Search for items in libraries: What is WorldCat? WorldCat is the world’s largest network of library content and services. WorldCat

[political-research] Ericsson Predicts Mobile Phones With Full HD, 1 GHz Processor Frequency By 2012

2008-11-10 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Ericsson Predicts Mobile Phones With Full HD, 1 GHz Processor Frequency By 2012 via KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News on 11/10/08 Mobile phones will be equipped with 12 MP to 20 MP cameras with full HD capability by 2012 via 100Mbps

[political-research] Future Phones to Read Your Voice, Gestures

2008-11-10 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Future Phones to Read Your Voice, Gestures via KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News on 11/9/08 Five years from now, it is likely that the mobile phone you will be holding will be a smooth, sleek brick -- a piece of metal and plastic

[political-research] Wikipedia’s quick updates

2008-11-10 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Wikipedia’s quick updates via TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home by David Rothman on 11/10/08 Wikipedia is almost like a wire service these days, with near-instant updates reflecting such events as election results. Excerpt from New York Times: True

[political-research] 11/09/2008 IRmep: The Israel Lobby in the Cabinet: Kennedy to Obama - WZBC

2008-11-10 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: 11/09/2008 IRmep: The Israel Lobby in the Cabinet: Kennedy to Obama - WZBC via Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy on 11/10/08 Radio host Sherif S. Fam interviewed Grant Smith on WZBC Cambridge, Massachusetts. During the Sunday morning

[political-research] Google Reader Now Translating Feeds Automatically [RSS]

2008-11-10 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Google Reader Now Translating Feeds Automatically [RSS] via Lifehacker by Jackson West on 11/10/08 Google Reader and Google Translate have teamed up to bring a neat new feature — you can choose to have feeds in Google Reader machine-translated

[political-research] Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes

2008-11-09 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: bob (friend of Paul Buchheit): Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes | Environment | The Observer (via FriendFeed) via FriendFeed on 11/9/08 bob (friend of Paul Buchheit) posted a link Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes | Environment

[political-research] Very Large Telescope Captures New 27 Megapixel Deep Field

2008-11-09 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Very Large Telescope Captures New 27 Megapixel Deep Field via Slashdot by Soulskill on 11/9/08 xyz writes European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope has captured the deepest ground based U-band image of the universe yet. The image contains

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >