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Martin Fowler on OOPSLA. (more)

Peter Orszag, who ran Barack Obama's OMB until this past August, joined CitiGroup’s investment banking group as a vice chairman... Mr. Orszag was the youngest member of Mr. Obama’s cabinet before resigning in July after a year and a half as budget director, a post in which he shaped the Economic Stimulus package and Healthcare Reform legislation. (more)

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Series of novels by Ramez Naam. http://rameznaam.com/ (more)

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Director of OMB under Barack Obama 2008-2010, after running CBO 2007-2008. (more)

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Colour revolutions is a term used to describe related movements that developed in several societies in the CIS (former USSR) and Balkan states during the early 2000s. Some observers[who?] have called the events a revolutionary wave. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_revolution (more)

John Ratey: A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain ISBN:0375701079 (more)

GitHub co-founder Chris Wanstrath announced in a blog post Sunday that an unidentified co-founder and an engineer has been put on leave as part of an investigation into allegations of gender-based “harassment” at the open-source coding platform. On Friday, Julie Ann Horvath, a prominent engineer who spearheaded women’s initiatives at GitHub, took to Twitter to write about the harassment and intimidation she claimed she suffered from leadership at the company. Horvath was not immediately reachable for further comment.

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Glenn Greenwald writes a mind-blowing piece on Ron Paul and his Progressive critics. It’s perfectly rational and reasonable for progressives to decide that the evils of their candidate are outweighed by the evils of the GOP candidate, whether Ron Paul or anyone else. An honest line of reasoning in this regard would go as follows: "Yes, I’m willing to continue to have Muslim children slaughtered by covert drones and cluster bombs, and America’s minorities imprisoned by the hundreds of thousands for no good reason, and the CIA able to run rampant with no checks or transparency, and privacy eroded further by the unchecked Surveillance State, and American citizens targeted by the President for assassination with no due process, and whistleblowers threatened with life imprisonment for “espionage,” and the Fed able to dole out trillions to bankers in secret, and a substantially higher risk of war with Iran (fought by the U.S. or by Israel with U.S. support) in exchange for less severe cuts to Social Security, Medicare and other entitlement programs, the preservation of the Education and Energy Departments, more stringent environmental regulations, broader health care coverage, defense of reproductive rights for women, stronger enforcement of civil rights for America’s minorities, a President with no associations with racist views in a newsletter, and a more progressive Supreme Court." Without my adopting it, that is at least an honest, candid, and rational way to defend one’s choice.

Ramez Naam on fighting the growth of the Surveillance State. I'm convinced that, if we're sufficiently motivated and sufficiently clever, the future can be one of more Freedom rather than less... There are three trends in digital technology that are relevant to the current issues with state surveillance and state overreach... 1) Cheap Cameras - SousVeillance... 2) Crypto and Anonymity Blunt Surveillance Tools... 3) Information is Ever More Viral... We still need the Law.

Glenn Greenwald takes Joseph Lieberman's likely ascendancy to the chairmanship of Homeland Security as proof that the US Senate is really still a One Party System. We know there are going to be major wars - not with Republicans, but among Democrats, and especially the party's leaders - over things like closing Guantanamo, imposing an absolute ban on torture, restoring habeas corpus, withdrawing from Iraq, reducing executive secrecy and increasing transparency, imposing mild limits and oversight on the Surveillance State, returning the Congress to its proper role, and especially investigating prior crimes of high government officials. More generally, there's going to be immense pressure for Barack Obama to prove that he's "centrist" by making only minor modifications, not major changes, to prevailing Bush policies - a view that is a principal motivating belief of the Democratic Party. (more)

Todd Purdum (husband of DeeDeeMyers) wrote an article critical about Bill Clinton. (more)

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When your local Nation-State decides you have no more de-facto right to Privacy. (more)

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