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Fouad Ajami wrote the opinion piece below for the Wall Street Journal back in June. It’s still timely a couple months later as Palestine seeks a declaration of statehood from the United Nations this week. While it’s high time that the Palestinian people join the international community and adopt the responsibilities of statehood, Ajami . . . → Read More: Fouad Ajami on the U.N. and a Palestinian State  FILED UNDER: Learn, Read  TAGGED: current events, Israel, middle east, news, politics  COMMENTS: Comments are closedThe Economist presents a thorough primer on what’s going on at Japan’s failed nuclear energy facilities–the science, technology, obstacles, crises, and solutions are all explained well. A good read if you want a high-level overview of the terrible situation there. >> Link: The post-earthquake nuclear crisis: The Japan syndrome | The Economist . . . → Read More: Japan’s Post-Quake Nuclear Energy Troubles Explained FILED UNDER: Articles, Learn, Read TAGGED: current events, news, science, technology COMMENTS: One comment - (Comments are closed)While the news media has been brining us incredible and sad accounts of what’s happened in Japan, the response from Google has been different–and incredible in its own right. Within hours of the earthquake and tsunami, Google had compiled a special site with information about local municipalities, a person finder that you can embed on . . . → Read More: Google’s response to Japan’s earthquake and tsunami FILED UNDER: Feedback, Read, Salvo's Thoughts TAGGED: current events, Google, news COMMENTS: 15 comments - (Comments are closed)President Obama dines with Silicon Valley leaders including Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Oracle chief Larry Ellison, and a bunch of others.
Remember the disgraced city manager of Bell, CA? The guy who was accused of bilking the city out of hundreds of thousands of dollars that went into his own inflated salary? Seems he found a new day job. And as usual, truth is better than fiction here. >> Link: Steve Lopez: Robert . . . → Read More: From city manager to parking attendant Headlines from today’s L.A. Times include the story of mummified remains of two babies found in a trunk in the basement of an apartment complex in mid-city. Grim–yet also fascinating, considering the remains are perhaps 80 years old. They were found along with newspapers from the 1930s and a ticket to the 1932 Olympic Games . . . → Read More: A Vintage L.A. Crime Novel in Real Life From everything I read online and hear on the radio, supplies of food, water, and basic shelter are in dire need for rescue operations in Haiti. With the extreme interconnectedness of communications online today, I feel that there’s a duty to use the internet not only to stay informed but to play a contributing part . . . → Read More: Donate to Haiti earthquake relief |
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