Newstopia getting better

Recommended Reading

• Thiessen…adventures in Newspeak
  Marc Thiessen had a column up in yesterday’s Washington Post and he continues in the proud tradition of his fellow propagandists. One lawy...
• Defence expenditure explorer
• Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal « What I Couldn't Say…
• Tron Legacy trailer
  Fuck. Yes. Tags: movies   trailers   Tron Legacy
• Kingdom of Ife at the British Museum, review - Telegraph
  The artist who in the early 14th century created the naturalistic bronze seated figure found in the village of Tada had an understanding...
• Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa, British Museum, London - Reviews, Art - The Independent
  At the same historical moment that Andrea del Verrocchio was doing his wonderfully painstaking, high-Renaissance drawing of a female h...
• Truth and Reconciliation Commission begins hearings in the Solomons - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
  TONY EASTLEY: Old wounds are about to be reopened in the Solomon Islands as the country delves back into its violent past.
• Look mum: no laptop
  How many days does it take for a school student to lose a laptop?
• Fee-paying uni students bully academics for good marks | Article | The Punch
  There’s a hidden epidemic of bullying in Australia – and it’s not in the schoolyard. The corporatisation of universities has led to an...
• ABC The Drum - Demolishing the entire superannuation system
  The system also shifted the risk,. Previously, employers and the state bore the risk and workers enjoyed a "defined benefit", or guaranteed...
• Scott and Scurvy
• Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide | Video on TED.com
  Note: The last minute of this talking about OpenStreetMap and Haiti is incredible.
  TED Talks At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly a...
• Research and Development: Apple vs Microsoft vs Sony [Graphs]
  Note: Microsoft spends 17% of their revenue (about $9 billion) on R&D.
  The core of any long-standing technology company is research and development. Here's how Apple, Microsoft and Sony's last decade of spendin...
• Republicans scold Liz Cheney - Yahoo! News
  A group that includes leading conservative lawyers and policy experts, former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and several senior officials...
• Agency ratings put to the legal test
• Big-money anomalies in defence contracts
• If you think Ashcroft is a scandal, what about the attacks on the BBC? | David Mitchell
  No broadcaster in the world can match the BBC and its critics should stop belittling itWhen the Conservatives' deputy chairman, Lord Ashcrof...
• Software patents
  Richard Stallman, transcribed from a talk: So let’s see what happens if [an inventor] tries to use a patent to stop them. He says “O...
• The ICC’s most wanted
  Check out this interactive online application from USA for the ICC, giving an overview of the International Crimina...
• Chief Justice of the Federal Court Michael Black steps down - The Law Report - 2 March 2010
  'A waste of public resources bordering on the scandalous.' That's the way one frustrated judge (a few years back) described a massive legal...
• More...