links for 2009-07-17

  • This flycatcher has two populations that are physically separated, and they're starting to fork, with the two populations no longer willing to mate with each other. To be fair, this also highlights the arbitrariness of the definition of a species.
  • "A trap street is a fictitious street included on a map, often outside the area the map covers, for the purpose of 'trapping' potential copyright violators of the map, who will be unable to justify the inclusion of the 'trap street' on their map."
    (tags: map)
  • There's something for everybody, isn't there?
    (tags: weird)
  • SWACtivists want to nominate a woman with the IQ of a house plant to run for Chris Saxman's seat. Where do I send the check? I'm good for $25. Seriously.
    (tags: virginia hod)
  • Dick Cheney claimed that Bush's illegal eavesdropping program saved thousands of lives. Now an FBI investigation has found that this is a lie—the program was of no value whatsoever. And we're to believe that Bush's assassination program was never put to work? It's time for a truth and reconciliation commission to be formed and get to work.
    (tags: bush privacy)

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Waldo Jaquith (JAKE-with) is an open government technologist who lives near Char­lottes­­ville, VA, USA. more »

4 replies on “links for 2009-07-17”

  1. Cute. An op-ed piece that starts out with “We’ve known for years that the Bush administration ignored and broke the law repeatedly in the name of national security” is to be taken at face value?

    But since it’s in the NYT, it must be true.

  2. “SWACtivists want to nominate a woman with the IQ of a house plant to run for Chris Saxman’s seat.”

    That’s ad hominem…and not true. You’re better than this, Waldo.

  3. Lynn Mitchell for 20th District Delegate

    Virginia already has the embarrassment of Crabill, we don’t need another.

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