How meta of me to pass this one along:
Finding Political News Online, the Young Pass It On

And how Obama may see social networking (although the article title unfairly presupposes he’ll be the one):
The Coming Digital Presidency

A cool talk about sort of moving paper sound waves into sound…
Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison

Looking at guided introduction into alcohol (something I think a lot about here):
Can Sips at Home Prevent Binges?

An Obama-like campaign, but a different background:
Early Dazzle, Then Tough Path for a Governor

…And an open-source software that claims to be like Microsoft Project (I’m still working on downloading it):
OpenProj

Obsolete Skills
As in, skills that most people in said country don’t do anymore. At a quick glance, between geekiness and Mongolia, they’re not so obsolete. Well, the geek ones include using PASCAL, Zmodem to transfer files, editing autoexec.bat files and the Mongolia ones include replace shoe heels, washing clothes (with a washboard), whipping cream (hah!) with a whisk, writing email whilst offline then going online to send.

Stuff White People Like
From what I gather, this site can be somewhat offensive, but I am more amused than anything else. There are similar, if not as overt, generalizations about minorities, women, gay people, etc., and while people sometimes call em out on it, generally it slides. Sucks to be stereotyped, doesn’t it?

Feynman on engineering and software design as relates to the Challenger explosion
Kinda lightweight for interest in coding, but can be a good “I-told-you-so” moment for that non-IT supervisor and why robustness and planning is a big-ass deal.

Requiem for a TV News Career
Ah, media.

Unrelated to these links, I went outside without my hat yesterday and only felt a slight radiating of heat loss rather than the heat being violently sucked away from my head. And I saw ice melting and some buds on trees. Woo!

First off, Zotero is a cool firefox addon that can be used for managing citations for research or just general webpages, especially for offline use, as it will store snapshots of pages and then let you add little annotations on them. Not to mention tags, notes, full-text searches, and more. I like it.

Then from a fellow PCV here, the sites FactCheck.org and PolitiFact. They take things politicians say and reference their facts/accuracy. Especially entertaining is the “Pants on Fire” rating under PolitiFact.

A Fullbright out here told me about Utne, which essentially compiles the best independent weeklies’ stories and reprints them in one spot. I just now remembered how to spell it (I was thinking Utney? Utni? Ulti?) and the site is awesome. Like many things, it is from Minneapolis. Minneapolis is becoming more and more intriguing.

Then of course, looking at aggregated independent weeklies, I checked out The Stranger, Seattle’s local version, which is as foul mouthed as a sailor and thus hilarious for the likes of me. My favorite section continues to be “Latter Days,” as “I, anonymous” somtimes hits too close to home (as in, I do think utility kilts are neat, as well as Dr. Who, sigh).

For learning about other women’s experiences, I’ve been pointed toward the beta site for Americans for UNFPA’s Lifelines. You can talk about your experiences growing up and what-not and read about others’ experiences around the world. A pretty neat concept.

Then, much to my envy, there’s a website/wiki devoted to hard ciders and its related beverages in the UK. It includes pub guides and festivals and makes me VERY jealous of Suzie’s trip…it’s called, originally enough, Ukcider.

I have a few other more work/health-related links, but most won’t be too interested in that. A final side note: I feel that in-text linking is most appropriate for most contexts, but is it so when the whole point of the text is to describe said link? Hmm.