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Great shots on Flickr of the incredible effect that the transit strike is having on New York City. Beautiful and I imagine, so frustrating to get around the city today. But [...]

Here we go with this week’s Friday Random Ten. Added some good music to the iPod this week so let’s see what we get:

Notorious BIG – Juicy
Squarepusher – Fat Controller
Patty Griffin – Nobody’s Crying
Phish – Train Song (8.17.1996)
The Thorns – I Told You
Valery Gergiev – Lever du jour
David Bowie – Oh! You Pretty Things
Sublime [...]

The world’s largest encyclopedia, and one of my favorite online resources, Wikipedia, has been in the news a lot recently. The first issue of note was the recent edit war over the Swiftboating entry with bloggers on both the left and right side of the aisle unleashing their readers on the page. Next [...]

To follow up on the Matt’s post, public health experts from the US and Iraq said last year (this CNN article is over a year old) that approximately 100,000 Iraqi civilians had died at that point in the war. In a paper in the Lancet medical journal, researchs from Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University [...]

I just read a Washington Post article about Bush’s speech today in Philly. It says:

After the speech ended early, Bush — in a rare move — took questions from the audience. When the president was asked about the number of Iraqi deaths in the war, he estimated 30,000 people have been killed [...]

It is now being reported that Governor elect Corzine will tap…
Congressman Robert Menendez to fill his seat in the state of New Jersey. Menendez is the highest-ranking Hispanic in Congressional history. You can read more here.

Is it bad that this abolutely delights me?
This month, as in every December since he took office, President Bush sent out cards with a generic end-of-the-year message, wishing 1.4 million of his close friends and supporters a happy “holiday season.”
Many people are thrilled to get a White House Christmas card, no matter what the greeting [...]

Reading Memeorandum this morning, I’m surprised to see no mention of the newly unveiled (and still quite beta) Rhapsody.com service. I’ve raved about Real’s Rhapsody service for a while now, so it’s great to see them taking at least tentative steps to broaden their platform and widen their appeal with this new web based [...]

In May 2003, Dr. Clifford Pickover, an author and editor with a PhD from Yale offered to his discussion group a fascinating concept regarding Pi.
“Somewhere inside the digits of pi is a representation for all of us — the atomic coordinates of all our atoms, our genetic code, all our thoughts, all our memories. Given [...]

It’s the day we all wish was just a little bit shorter. Friday. And that means I’m breaking out the player and firing off a round of random (yeah, too much Colbert recently).

Res – How I Do
Curtis Mayfield – Mr. Welfare Man
Dr. Dre – The Car Bomb
Cat Stevens – Father and Son
Bjork – [...]