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Wael Abbas talks about the Egyptian democracy movement, the involvement of bloggers, and asks Americans about Mubarak: “Is this the kind of regime you want your tax money to support?” via:Akwe
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Stark indictment of hiphop culture as damaging to African American progress and identity: “Like neurotics obsessed with amputating their own healthy limbs, middle-class blacks concerned with “keeping it real” are engaging in gratuitously self-destructive
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Berkshire baseball kicks it old school – the Pittsfield Elms play by the 1886 rule book, with seven balls for a walk and a strike zone chosen by the batter. Cannot wait to catch a game at Waconah later this summer
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Gordon Bell is archiving every aspect of his existence, recording everything he sees, says and does. Is he a new form of archivist or an exhibitionist? Brilliant or a little nuts?
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Interesting – but sometimes overblown and exaggerated – stories that researchers believe were undercovered by mainstream media in 2007
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Clay does a great job of taking Cult of the Amateur just seriously enough to figure out what points are worth supporting and which are worth ignoring