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Public Radio is reporting this morning that border agents on the US Canadian border are looking way back into people’s past to find ways to deny them entry to one country or the other. Border agents are even using Google. One case mentioned in the story was of a Canadian Psychoanalyst who was denied entry after agents found an article he wrote in 2001 about his use of LSD in the 1960s. I imagine the day is not far off when border agents use facebook or myspace!
Paul Krugman has had two great columns recently in the NYT. Unfortunately they are buried behind a pay-wall. In “Authentic?
I guess it is video week here at CivicActions… Visit ImpeachGonzales.org .
TechPresident features a few posts from Micah Sifry on the recent Obama MySpace snafu. The short of it is this: volunteer makes a Barak Obama MySpace profile in 2004. Over time that profile grows to 160k friends. The volunteer gives freely of his time doing it (by his account 5 to 10 hours a day since the beginning of the year). The Obama campaign decides they want control, ask the volunteer how much he’d like to be compensated.
John Edwards is the first presidential candidate to go carbon neutral . Not only has the campaign taken steps to offset its carbon footprint and conserve energy, they have also launched ReduceYourCarbon.com a site that lets people pledge to reduce carbon emissions through concrete steps like changing incandescents to fluorescents, adjust the thermostat, improve fuel economy through reducing driving or keeping tires inflated.
President Rafael Correa ordered his government ministers to meet urgently to discuss ways of preventing environmental degradation in Ecuador’s famed Galapagos Islands. CNN has a story about environmental problems on the Galapagos and the steps that Equador is taking to preserve this unique place on earth. The turtles will be on their way there shortly!
NetSquared has created a Technology Innovation Fund . About 150 projects have been submitted on the site, and NetSquared is asking people to vote for 5 to 10 of the projects. They will then select 20 projects based upon the votes to focus on during the 2007 NetSquared conference in May.
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A last check of the RSS reader brought sad news tonight, Kurt Vonnegut died today at 84. I spent 2 weeks in the summer before my 14th birthday laid up in bed with an unexplained sickness that led to, or followed a spinal tap, depending on how you look at it. Standing was unbearable. I read probably half a dozen of Vonnegut’s books while sick.