Links, 9/28/11
Back in the day we were watching cut submarine telecom cables pretty closely. Here’s a map of the global Toobz network. (h/t Global Guerrillas)
A Muslim Republican, Nezar Hamze, was denied a spot on Broward County Republican Party’s Executive Committee not because he is Muslim, the party claimed, but because he has ties to CAIR. The DOJ owns significant responsibility for this, as they have not rescinded a document in the Holy Land Foundation trial naming CAIR as an unindicted conspirator.
Hershey has gotten increasingly dickish in response to the foreign workers who they’ve been exploiting all summer. The latest? They’re pushing these kids out of housing and harassing their parents. (h/t Susie)
Among other things, Facebook includes a record of every event you’ve been invited to, and whether you’ve accepted, declined, or ignored that invitation. This must be why FB, on a seemingly daily basis at this point, spams me to tell me I’ve got notices I’m ignoring.
The Obama Administration has delayed implementation–from November to January–of the new fuel efficiency standards that it was bragging about back in July. I’m sure implementing them during an election year won’t be a problem.
Anthony (Tony Baloney) Bologna actually pepper-sprayed at least one other group of protestors over the weekend. Check out Bologna’s face as he engages in this kind of senseless brutality.
As hard as you New Yorkers think it is to find a parking space, take solace in knowing that it is far harder to find spaces in cities in China and India. This, btw, is one of the fundamental flaws to plans car companies have to keep expanding wildly in China. There’s simply not space to park all those cars.
I was going to write a post on how the Administration should be focusing is energy on Chinese currency manipulation rather than its jobs bill (or better yet, both). But DDay laid out what’s going on, with Harry Reid postponing Obama’s jobs bill for now to work on the currency bill. So go read his post.
That Submarine Cable Map is too cool. When you click on an individual cable, it gives you details such as owners, length, and landing points at both ends.
@MadDog: Hey EW, the Edit function just showed up!
I like the 2nd function “Request Deletion”. There probably needs to be a space between the “Click to Edit” and “Request Deletion” functions to provide clarity.
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And, until a few days ago …
http://nikcub-static02.appspot.com/logging-out-of-facebook-is-not-enough
OT. The mobile version of the site is coming in over the tubes quite nicely.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission launches another special inspection at Palisades Nuclear Plant after latest plant shutdown
Third “event” at the Covert Michigan plant since August 9
http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2011/09/nuclear_regulatory_commission_1.html
@jerryy: Good to hear!
@JohnT: Fixed now.
@JohnT:
It’s a good reason to not have Facebook. And probably also to avoid other ‘social networking’ sites.
Wow, what a lovely surprise: Valerie Plame Wilson on KO’s new digs at Current TV in an interview tonight.
http://current.com/shows/countdown/videos/valerie-plame-wilson-on-her-work-to-rid-the-world-of-nuclear-weapons
Cool.
Wow, so you can get that channel huh? Not on any available cable package here.