Ryan Tomayko

Wall Street's Naked Swindle —

Matt Taibbi in his latest Rolling Stone piece on the banking fiasco: “We’re in a place we haven’t been since the Depression: Our economy is so completely fucked, the rich are running out of things to steal.”

Toward a new self-definition for open source —

Ian Bicking’s talk from DjangoCon 2009. Stimulating. I’m sure a nice comment thread will develop here over the next few days as well.

Iran's Disputed Election —

The Boston Globe with a 30-40 good-res photos from the Iran election riots. It’s really poppin' off over there.

You are being lied to about pirates —

We live in a crazy world.

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Why AIG Paid the "Bonuses" —

OMG! Real, actual, research on the AIG bonus situation (from their 2007 10-K filing): “In light of the unrealized market valuation loss related to the AIGFP super senior credit default swap portfolio, to retain and motivate the affected AIGFP employees, a special incentive plan relating to 2007 was established. Under this plan, certain AIGFP employees were granted cash awards vesting over two years and payable in 2013.”

Interesting. So the bonuses were lined up in 2007 because all of their top guys would have left for other, less fucked up securities.

The arc of history is long . . .. —

Awesome photo of Obama addressing a massive crowd in front of the Old St. Louis Courthouse — the same place slaves were being auctioned as recently as 1861. Crazy.

Obama 'could stop using e-mail' —

BBC: “The paper quoted aides saying that his emails, sometimes sent as late as 0100 or 0300, were ‘generally crisp, properly spelled and free of symbols or emoticons’.”

Can you imagine?

Dear Mr. Karzai,

im in ur country, bombing ur lands. =p

k thx.
--
- O

The Pound and The Dollar —

Squeal! Squeal like a pig, boy.

Google Super Tuesday Twitter Map View Thingy —

Watch tweets pop up around the country on a google map as people comment on the goings-on of Super Tuesday.

Planetary Society Criticizes NASA's Manned Moon Plan (Which Is really Bush's Manned Moon Plan) —

“He said he had a mandate from the president and Congress and he was not going to consider other options. It’s going to have to change. They don’t have the money to do it.”

Why the Best Voting Technology May Be No Technology at All —

“And there’s the big problem — the people running the elections aren’t actually running them. Vendors are doing that. Election officials don’t know how their equipment works and won’t know if it works wrong.”

The Federalist Papers —

An online edition of the Federalist Papers which is pleasant to look at and provides paragraph-level permalinking. Each paper is marked up in the hAtom microformat with an elastic layout (stays beautiful with bigger/smaller font size).

War is over if you want it —

Sorry people, I’m completely sucked into this Ron Paul thing. Merry Christmas!

What has the government done to our money? —

“Why is the dollar the world’s reserve currency? How does the government fund it’s debt? and what the hell causes inflation?”

GAO: "USA is living beyond its means" —

(Meta: Wow. The Government Accountability Office is vlogging on YouTube.) The money situation over here is what keeps me up at night these days. How am I suppose to explain this to my kids in twenty years?

CNN has postponed speculative documentary "We Were Warned -- Iran Goes Nuclear." —

That special was “based on a different set of rules and a different set of conditions,” said CNN veep-senior exec producer Mark Nelson …

Am I a bad person because I basically hate everyone? —

“Watching the unfolding train wreck that is the 2008 preznidential campaign, I’ve come to the depressing conclusion that every major candidate makes me want to throw up [in my mouth and then swallow it] at least a little bit.”

Time Magazine's FISA Fiasco shows how Beltway reporters mislead the country —

Salon’s Glenn Greenwald pulls the limbs off Time’s Joe Klein on his coverage of the FISA bill. I can’t imagine a clearer exposition on the mentality of most beltway “journalists”. I’ve been a Time subscriber for my entire adult life but that might end …

2,369,239 US Soldiers vs 11,770,000 Iranian Soldiers = DRAFT —

“At the risk of loosing all my credibility, allow my concern to manifest itself in a less than mature way: Our economy is &%$#ed. We have a -862,300,000,000 dollar cash balance. That puts us LAST in the world for cash balance of our own currency.”

November 5th MoneyBomb #3 —

Whoa, Ron Paul’s on track to raise almost $3 million in the 24-hour period beginning 12:00 AM TODAY. He’s done $350K in the first three hours. I can’t imagine that’s going to sustain but he’ll end with $2.8 M if it does. That has to be a record.

Anti-Terrorism and the Death of the Chemistry Set —

“Modern fascist states don’t even bother to kill those people, and pretending they’re going to show up in some stormtrooper outfit and start a gun battle with you is insane.”

Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters —

“No one party has a monopoly on bullshit” … “it’s not just about talking bullshit, it’s also about living it…”

How Benjamin Franklin Made New England Prosperous —

Need more posts like this!

Employees Expose FOX NEWS Distortions —

It’s worse than I thought.

Iran Labels CIA 'Terrorist Organization' —

Iran’s parliament on Saturday approved a nonbinding resolution labeling the CIA and the U.S. Army “terrorist organizations,” in apparent response to a Senate resolution seeking to give a similar designation to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Legislative Inaction Forces [Michigan] State Government Shutdown —

The State of Michigan will shut-down most state operations for 15 days beginning October 1 (tomorrow). Medicaid, State Lottery, VA, The Courts, Dept. of Civil Rights, Dept. of Education, State Police, etc. all impacted.

A Bunch of Phony US Soldiers —

“Brian Chevalier was going to reenlist but decided against it before he was killed on March 14 during our first mission in Baqubah. His phony life was celebrated in a phony memorial where everyone who knew him cried phony tears.”

How a non-Neutral ISP could work —

An extremely effective method of explaining the important of “net nuetrality”.

Congressional Representation Or "Ass-Kissing Little Chickenshits"? —

MoveOn’s response to a congressional vote condemning their recent NYT / Patraeus ad. This is apparently going into the Times sometime over the weekend…

Prohibition Politics —

“Americans in 1920 embarked on a noble experiment to force everyone to give up drinking. Alas, despite its nobility, this experiment was too naive to work… This popular belief is completely mistaken. Here’s what really happened…”

Iraq War Hampers Kansas Cleanup [kcbs.com] —

“The Kansas National Guard has about 40 percent of the equipment it is allotted because much of it has been sent to Iraq.”

A Chat with Aaron Swartz —

Q: Are you working for Reddit as full-time programmer? A: No, I left reddit several months ago. Q: Why did you leave? A: My boss asked me to.

Memorial honoring fallen soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan runs out of room [fortwayne.com] —

“In a grim sign of the times, the ‘Wall of the Fallen,’ set up by House Republican leaders in June, is almost full. The mounting death toll has forced U.S. House staffers to study how to reconfigure the display to squeeze in more names.”

Lose, Lose, Lose —

“You and I — private citizens not in uniform — are asked to do nothing but fret. The sacrifice expected of us is, once again, minimal. Enjoy your iPhones.”

National Review's Best and Worst of Times —

Saying the US is divided is an understatement – the country exists simultaneously in two parallel worlds and is connected only by a small machine that shoots newspapers clippings back and forth. The National Review exists in the other one.

Forn Policy —

Bwwwwaaaaahhhahahaaaaahhaa.

Taking Back the House State by State - OHIO! —

Kos / Oct 17 wrap up on Ohio congressional districts. I’m in the 13th, btw.

War Signals? —

This is the most thorough of five reports I’ve just read, each speculating that a US attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities before the Nov. elections may be likely: “I think the plan’s been picked: bomb the nuclear sites in Iran,” says Gardiner. “It’s a terr

After Pat's Birthday —

Editor’s note: Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat in 2002, and they served together in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pat was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. Kevin, who was discharged in 2005, has written a powerful, must-read document.

Is Olbermann on Thin Ice? —

It would be massively troubling if anything happened to Olbermann. He’s the only even modestly sane person coming out of the TV at this point.

Bruce Schneier on War On Terror —

Bruce nails it. (Crypto-Gram/2006-09-15)

Howard Zinn & Noam Chomsky debate The Lord of the Rings —

Unused Audio Commentary By Howard Zinn & Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002, for The Fellowship of the Ring Platinum Series Extended Edition DVD, Part One

The Overton window. —

Visible in accelerated form on Fox News' recent “coverage” of whether bombing the piss out of Iran would be a good idea right now. Go Think Tanks!

On the implausibility of the explosives plot. —

I’ll have to come out of hiding to bookmark this one. Too good to not make my wow list.

Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse? —

It’s impossible for diffuse flames (jet fuel, paper, office stuff) to reach temperatures needed to melt steel. This guy thinks there were thermite charges in the buildings.

Agreed Framework —

Wikipedia entry on the “Agreed Framework” for nuclear non-proliferation reached between the US and North Korea in 1994. Understanding how we backed out of this agreement is key to understanding the current issues w/ N. Korea.

How Conservatives Argue: A Case Study —

Bwwwahahahahahahahahhaa..

Vatican Paper Hits 'Intelligent Design' —

More ID bashing from the Catholic HQ.

The Impeachment of George W. Bush —

When you see everything stacked up like this, it’s a bit harder to call the impeachment crowd “crazy”.

Daily Kos: The new map —

w00t!

Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the Tubes —

Doc just got upgraded to hero status…

The New McCarthy: Bill O'Reilly —

Aaron nails it…

Former Head of U.S. Central Command Blasts Administration Over Iraq —

Insane: “And so it seems to me that the Defense Department not only needs to think about disengaging in Iraq, but to develop the contingency plans if you wind up with a full-scale insurgency in, say, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, or if these people redoub

Playmobil - Security Check Point —

Now kids can get in on all the fun of airport security!

KATRINA TIMELINE —

very well done..

Bush's use of firemen: props —

Sooooo wrong..

Bush: Katrina "a mess," but Lott's house is gonna be AWESOME —

hahaha! Good one George! You’re soooo funny. Good one George.

"George Bush doesn't care about black people" —

The realness a major emergency creates is soooo refreshing.

The Moral-Hazard Myth —

New Gladwell article in the New Yorker… On Healthcare

Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory —

Bwwwhhahahahaaaa

Bush: Intelligent Design Should Be Taught —

UUUUuuhhhhggg!

Kissing the 4th Amendment Goodbye —

Nice knowin' ya.

Nine Days Later, White House Press Corps Discovers the Rove-Plame Story —

Whoa. Sock it to ‘em!

'Plain Dealer' Holding Stories Because of Fear of Jail —

Okay this is just messed up. wtf is going on here?

CHARLES DARWIN HAS A POSSE —

Right on…

Jon Stewart's ('84) Commencement Address —

“Not everybody can wander around in an alcoholic haze and then at 40 just, you know, decide to be president.”

Hotel Lost Liberty —

Brilliant!

US acknowledges torture at Guantanamo; in Iraq, Afghanistan - UN - Forbes.com —

big surprise.

Public Broadcasting Targeted By House —

This is just horrible. How about you assholes hold back on a tank or two and leave Big Bird alone!

Orange Billion Dollars —

Gha!

Fallujah mosque shooting video -- unedited, for first time. —

Wow

IMPEACHMENT TIME: "FACTS WERE FIXED." —

Actual evidence that Bush lied and forced others to lie about intelligence from Iraq so that we could go to war.

Afghan woman stoned to death for adultery —

Husband has wife stoned and her adulterer whipped 100 times and released.

Bunch of Peak oil articles —

Mark at BoingBoing with a bunch of links to all kinds of opinion on peak oil.

Bush and Taxpayer-Funded Propaganda —

That’s messed up.

Why democracy starts with an 'e' —

BBC covers the UK civic software movement.

North Korea admits having nuclear weapons —

Say they need the weapons “as protection against an increasingly hostile United States.” — IMO, this is the first of many such announcements. I imagine the so-called “terrorist states” are especially wanting to start nuke programs.

Google Maps find Weapons of Mass Destruction —

Google for president!

TheyWorkForYou.com —

Track whether your MP is working for you in the UK Parliament.. Really cool looking piece of civic software.

Rumsfeld cancels trip after accusations (of war crimes) —

Rumy won’t be visiting germany any time soon..

Eliot Weinberger : What I Heard about Iraq —

Block off a half-an-hour for this…

Plame Leaked by Fake News Source? Part VI —

Wow. These guys are really organizing now around this distributed journalism. Please take a look and see if you can help out. I have someone in Ft. Hood that might be able to give general info…

Iraq and cynicism —

I guess that sums it up pretty well.. Gah! sucks…

PBS FRONTLINE: Watch online —

Full video library of PBS' Frontline. I’ve never heard of Frontline but they’ve covered some interesting topics. All available through the web.

How to ambush Fox News —

Vanity Fair’s Judy Bachrach disturbs Fox’s plans of a nice afternoon of inauguration coverage. Note that lying about what you’re going to talk about and being on Live are requirements for getting an honest opinion onto the TV.

NY Times: Few but Organized, Iraq Veterans Turn War Critics —

People would just come up to me and say, ‘How’d you lose your arm?’ “ Mr. Acosta said. "And I’d say, ‘In the war.’ And they would be like, ‘What war?’ ”

Social Security For Dummies —

Understand how Social Security works and why Bush is saying there’s a “crisis”.

Social Security: There Is No Crisis —

Awesome looking grassroots blog-based initiative to respond to the dismantling of social security by the Bush administration and republican congress..

Baghdad Burning Blog Wins Battle —

Some interesting background on the “Baghdad Burning” blog.

Baghdad Burning —

An Iraqi chick blogger writing about events in Iraq from Iraq.

Iraq war bites into US business —

US product boycots in EU and CA due to Iraq war. Maybe people will start paying attention now that we’re losing money instead of just lives.

GovTrack.us: Track Federal Legislation —

Find out and track what’s going on in congress. We need more tools like this.

Death and Taxes —

A visual look at where your tax dollars go. (hint: DEFENSE DEFENSE DEFENSE)

Thomas P.M. Barnett: The Worldchanging Interview —

take 15 minutes to dramatically increase your understanding of the world we live in…

Bush's War —

Kos with a nice recap of the war effort thus far. Here’s to another year of dying a lot.

The Internet's biggest foe —

powell sucks

Teen pregnancy in the Red States —

oops..

Physicists Decry Bush's Mars Mission Plan —

43,000 of ‘em, in fact..

Inside The Election Fraud Battle - Think Kerry Is Not Involved In This Fight? —

Hmm.. Kerry is either a liar or a genious.

Knuth: Open Letter to Condolezza Rice —

Knuth and Rice were at Stanford together (as faculty). Interesting note: this is only the second letter Knuth has written to a gov. official. The other time was Vietnam.

New CIA Head Goss Sparks Agency Shakeups —

NPR covers The Purge.

No civilian deaths in Fallujah? —

let’s just count ‘em all under “insurgent”…

CIA plan to purge its agency —

“Goss was given instructions to get rid of those soft leakers and liberal Democrats. The CIA is looked on by the White House as a hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the president’s agenda.”

Ashcroft condemns judges who question Bush —

I just don’t understand how someone can make statements like this publicly and get away with it. there are a few gem quotes in the article.

Ohio Sit-In to protest unfair election —

On the steps of the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus on Saturday, Nov 13th to protest the use of e-voting machines with no paper-trail and for-profit corporations counting votes.

The Problem with Electronic Voting Machines —

Schneier takes a thorough look at the problems with electronic voting machines.

The Rise of Open-Source Politics —

A look at bottom-up communities and the 2004 political election.

Another North America Redesign —

Possibly more accurate model of reality.

New North America —

Tim Bray redesigns North America for efficiency.

How George Bush won the election —

I don’t even know how to summarize this.. honest and shaking!

The Gay Marriage Thing —

yep, gay marriage was the tipper in this election. I can’t believe we didn’t see it coming. Rove sure saw it!

Ashcroft likely to leave post —

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!

Four More Years —

Kerry concedes. Dan Gilmour gives a glimpse of the next four years..

CNN Election Watch 2004 —

so you can watch the votes come in..

A Tale of Two Osamas —

A comparison of translations of the Oct. 30, 2004 Bin Laden tape. CNN on one side and Aljazeera on the other. Who’s spinning?

Revealed: Blair's secret mission to woo Kerry —

Tony Blair freaking out because he’s going to be the only one still supporting what we’re doing in the war after Kerry gets elected on Tuesday.

Ending the Fantasy —

MSNBC says Kerry in landslide? Didn’t look that way in northeast ohio last weekend but hey I’ll latch onto anything at this point.

NASA photo analyst: Bush wore a device during debate —

liar! your not even a good liar, liar!

How Bin Laden Got Away —

this is just sad… a calendar of November 2001 with color coded major events related to Bin Laden and Iraq.

RNC fear-phrases video —

911, 911, 911, 911, terrorists, terrorists, terrorists, terrorists, weapons, nuclear weapons, weapons of mass destruction, weapons, terrorists, terrorists, terrorists, terrorists.. Vote Bush!

Free Fahrenheit 9/11 Download —

for the next two weeks only.

Digital Media Consumers Rights Act (DMCRA) —

Proposed amendments to the DMCA for limiting anti-circumvention, reaffirming the betamax standard, and ensuring proper labelling of copy-protected media.

Jon Stewart on CSPAN —

the day after his crossfire appearance.

MC Tim Ryan (D-OH) —

Wow! Beautiful wrap-up of everything that’s wrong with the Bush administration by my very own congressman Tim Ryan. Must watch..

100 Facts and 1 Opinion —

scary..

Jon "I'm not your Monkey" Stewart on 60 Minutes —

Stewart will be on 60 Minutes this Sunday talking about the same things he was talking about on Crossfire.

No Iraq Draft —

Go sign this.

Jon Stewart "Crossfire" feud ignites Net frenzy —

news.com covers the Jon Stewart on Crossfire phenomenon..

Crossfire responds to Jon Stewart (washingtonpost.com) —

Includes some quotes from Novak and Carville. Funny Carlson and Begala couldn’t make a single valid point while Stewart was on the show.

Google Search: "Miserable Failure" —

Bwwwaaahahahaaa.

The Toilet Online - Leave It To Bush! —

US Citizenship 101: Freedom of Expression :)

New York Times - Without a Doubt —

On Bush’s weird use of faith as tool. “Real faith leads us to deeper reflection and not to the thing we as humans so very much want: easy certainty.‘’

Karl Rove in a Corner —

A deep look at the career of Karl Rove. Seems biased but scary if even 10% is true.

Jon Stewart on Crossfire —

This is amazing. Jon Stewart is my hero. Bittorrent of the whole show or text transcript available. You have to watch it to get the full effect though.

Dems seek probes into Sinclair plan to air anti-Kerry film —

Sinclair has ordered its 62 stations to air “Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal” without commercials in prime time next week.

Hard Working George —

It’s hard work! hard hard hard!

The Onion's 2004 Election Guide —

“Bush Vows To Pay Closer Attention To Needs Of Non-Presidents”

youforgotpoland.com —

looks to be from the guys that brought you rockpapersadam.com.

NPR : Free Speech Landmark for Colleges —

Remembering the college free speech movement of the sixties. Some clips from Mario Savio’s speeches at Berkeley and how they spread through the country.

F*ck Big Media: Rolling Your Own Network —

just.. wow.

Is Bush Wired? —

That would be an improvement. I thought he was a robot.

Connie Rice: Top 10 Secrets They Don't Want You to Know About the Debates —

Mind-blowingly fucked up.

Ohio Kicks Nader Off Ballot —

Grrrr. This seems like a silly technicality to me.

ACLU and EFF strike down part of PATRIOT Act —

“BooYAH”

The Crusade Against Evolution —

Wired’s five page look into the “intelligent design” vs. darwinist evolution debate. Ohio seems to be the battleground.

$6000 Answer Bounty... —

It’s to the point where people have to pay people to ask politicians hard questions! $6,000 to the first person who can get Bush to answer how many times he’s been arrested. via:boingboing

No Joke: Daily Show Viewers Follow Presidential Race —

People who watch Daily Show know the issues better than those that don’t.

Final Warning. Vote for Bush, Feel the Wraith. —

“This is no longer an interesting coincidence. It is an unmistakable message from God.”

Their beliefs are bonkers, but they are at the heart of power —

“US Christian fundamentalists are driving Bush’s Middle East policy.”

Don't Mess With Librarians —

I’m convinced that there’s some kind of weird link between hackers and librarians.

Quicktime: John Kerry on Daily Show (whole show) —

I watched this clips on comedycentral.com last night and wasn’t all that blown away.

Jon Stewart and John Kerry Transcript —

Transcript from Aug 25, 2004 Daily Show with John Kerry

Copyright Bill Needs Big Changes —

Note: Follow and support Katie Dean (wired reporter). She has consistently and reputably covered every significant technological rights issue since 1999.

Seriously: Kerry on Comedy Central (washingtonpost.com) —

Kerry picks The Daily Show over 60 Minutes, Nightline, and NBC Nightly News for first interview since Swiftboatgate.

Ted Kennedy mistaken as terrorist, thrice denied flight —

Looks like John Gilmore just got a new pal.

Extreme Democracy —

Applying Extreme Programming (XP) techniques to government and politics.

Dear Media, my fake beheading video 0wn3d J00 —

“Our hearts go out not only to the families of those who have died as a result of international terrorism, but to the soldiers who have also bravely died for my right to speak freely.”

Turning The Tide - Noam Chomsky's Weblog —

One of my heros is now just another blogger like the rest of us. :)

Big Business Becoming Big Brother [wired]

NPR : Group's Ad Blitz Questions Kerry's War Stories —

“Kerry’s campaign has come under fire by a group of GOP-linked activists who question his wartime conduct in a television ad. NPR’s Mara Liasson reports.”

John Kerry's real tech agenda —

Damn, this is turning into a lesser of two evils race..

Dispatches From Fallujah —

Why would anyone volunteer to be an infantryman? By Owen West.

The Case Against George W. Bush —

By Ron Reagan

Nuclear Elephant: File Sharing Experiment

EFF's Letter to United States Senators on Induce Act —

“I write today to express the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)’s opposition to S. 2560, a measure premised on the misguided notion that the dilemmas currently facing the music industry can be solved by holding the threat of more lawsuits and more unce

Michael Moore/O'Reilly Showdown at Convention —

Transcript of a fat kid and moron on the playground (from the Drudge Report 2004).

The 9/11 Commission Report —

Full HTML Version.

The Induce Act Spells Trouble —

“No Matter What You Call It, the Inducing Infringement of Copyright Act Spells Trouble”

"My Beef With Big Media" by Ted Turner —

wow.

The 9/11 Commission Report —

HTML Version

Copyright Bill to Kill Tech? [wired.com] —

Hatch introduces bill to bring back telegraph, horse and buggie, and hoolahoop.

Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004 (Introduced in Senate) —

Add to beat up when seen in street list: Mr. Hatch, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Frist, Mr. Dashle, Mr. Graham, Mrs. Boxer