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| Netroots Nation thoughts Arriving at the David Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, I was on the escalator behind Duncan Black. David Neiwert introduced us in the registration line.
Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com is explaining polling to us now, as Charlie Cook (dean of the polling community), Pollster.com authors Max Blumenthal and Charles Franklin, and Greg Dworkin (DemFromCT) nod in agreement. Sho [..] |
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Big Dog at Netroots Nation  Bill Clinton spoke to the Netroots Nation conference last night. It's an inspired speech, done without notes and with extemporaneous digressions based on a heckler's call.
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Netroots Nation 2009 ![Click here to read Voltron Movie Goes Back To The Drawing Board - Voltron Movie Goes Back To The Drawing Board [Hollywood]](http://cache-02.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/04/160x120_voltron.jpg) Have you registered to attend Netroots Nation yet? It's going to be pretty awesome. There will be dozens of panels, touching on political process and political practice, science, civil liberties, climate change, healthcare, and future of just about any topic you care about. And it won't be out of touch pundits taking on these topics. Valerie Jarrett, President Obama's right hand, will be th [..] |
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Netroots Nation 2009  Have you registered to attend Netroots Nation yet? It's going to be pretty awesome. There will be dozens of panels, touching on political process and political practice, science, civil liberties, climate change, healthcare, and future of just about any topic you care about. And it won't be out of touch pundits taking on these topics. Valerie Jarrett, President Obama's right hand, will be th [..] |
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| Netroots Nation recap I know it's been a week since I got back from Netroots Nation, so this is a rather belated report, but I have a good excuse. I was on the road for 4 weeks before NrN, and it's taken me a little while to get caught up again.
Netroots Nation was awesome. It'll be in Las Vegas next year, and should be even better. It'll be the 5th year, returning to the scene of the first convention, ba [..] |
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| Gearing up for my Netroots Nation Panel Netroots Nation is rolling out their panels for the next meeting (August 13-16, Pittsburgh, PA). It's an interesting mix, with more than any one person can handle. If my experience last year is any guide, it'll be a struggle just to keep up, and there will be lots of times when I'll have two or more simultaneous panels I want to attend. I just hope my panel isn't scheduled opposite anything r [..] |
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| Random moment in Netroots Nation Governor Mayor Gavin Newsom (I slipped up and made that verbal premonition yesterday) is sitting here in the airport with me. I may chat with him in a moment.
This morning, he introduced the capstone speech by Van Jones. Let it be said that Van Jones Rocks, and his Ella Baker Center is just down the street from NCSE's offices, and I c [..] |
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Thoughts on MLK Day ![Click here to read Comic Book Series Helps Make Sense Of Nier - Comic Book Series Helps Make Sense Of Nier [Square Enix]](http://cache-02.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/03/160x120_neir.jpg) For once I tried to think ahead about a major anniversary, and I'm still casting about for original thoughts on what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.'s 80th birthday.
Obviously, there's the significance of MLK Day being followed by President Obama's inauguration. That's a connection so obvious that it needs to commentary. King had a dream, and while little white boys and little [..] |
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| TAM Thoughts From last Thursday through Sunday, I was in Las Vegas at The Amazing Meeting!, a gathering of skeptics hosted by James "The Amazing" Randi. Randi, for those of you unschooled in these matters, was a stage magician who got involved in debunking the claims of psychics and other flimflam artists. He orchestrated a rather famous debunking of psychic Uri Geller on the Carson show (you can find it [..] |
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| Some thoughts on programming Janet Stemwedel brings her expertise in science and science ethics to bear on the contents of the emails stolen from the University of East Anglia. As with all of her work, the whole thing is worth reading, but I want to pick up on this claim:
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Thoughts on Texas  Berlanga and Nuñez voted against the final TEKS, the other 13 voted to approve them. Texas has new science standards. Those standards are better than the old ones, but those old standards really did suck. As the Fordham Institute put it, giving the standards an F in 2005, "Thematic unities, so persuasively urged in the national guides, have an effect here opposite to that advertised. Th [..] |
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| Brief thoughts on analogies Apologies for the unusually crappy blogging this week. With the arrival of a replacement from my lost/stolen laptop, I should catch up on the 12,000 unread items in NetNewsWire soon, and return to normal crappy blogging.
In any event, Chad Orzel replies to last week's ruckus over "ways of knowing" by observing that "Using Analogies on the Internet Is Like Doing a Really Futile Thing": [..] |
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Deep Thoughts ![Click here to read The Saboteur Is A Lot Less Chesty On The iPhone - The Saboteur Is A Lot Less Chesty On The iPhone [IPhone]](http://cache-09.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/03/160x120_saboteur.jpg) Legislative conferences have better swag in the exhibits hall than do science conferences.
To whit: free beer in the hall itself. Also free condoms, free chocolate (including both M&Ms and chocolate Pill dispensers), toys from Toy Manufacturers of America, and no fewer than five versions of the US Constitution.
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| Deep thoughts for the day Sir Charles has a Question for the Class:
Do you think if Barack Obama had left his seriously ill wife after having had multiple affairs, had been a member of the "Keating Five," had had a relationship with a much younger lobbyist that his staff felt the need to try and block, had intervened on behalf of the client of said young lobbyist with a federal agency, had denounced th [..] |
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