 | 10:38 am
70 students arrested in protests in Tehran.
The intellectual underpinnings of the Obama code.
No wonder the DC Metro board makes lousy decisions about service -- they don't ride the trains. Shouldn't that be a *requirement* for serving on the board?
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is trying to get GOP attention by opposing Obama, but he's managing to grandstand against the stimulus and still get most of the money. It's one thing to start double talking, but this is a bit more than two faces he's showing here. Why am I thinking of Ethan and Janus from Buffy? Which ancient deities were represented as having several faces? Wasn't Hermes, god of thieves and tricksters, one of them?
A Field Guide to Military Urbanism looks at the reuse of prisons as residences for foreign contract labor in Britain.
Sean Penn's next movie may be about Valerie Plame and Ambassador Joseph Wilson, whom Penn resembles.
Transgender living in Santa Barbara.
Ritz Camera files for bankruptcy. And Circuit City's liquidator is pulling a scam.
Antibodies, possibly a new weapon against the flu. More from the NYTimes.
When the government doesn't respond, you do it yourself. Local Newfoundlanders free dolphins trapped by ice; one man gets into the water so the weakest dolphin can lean on him to breathe.
Is your drywall from China?
Buy a t-shirt, and a tree is planted.
Hmm. Growing teeth in a laboratory? Why isn't this already done?
First look at an endangered cheetah.
Very nice. No emissions, good brakes -- but no shelter from the sun, and no trunk for luggage or groceries. I think this needs more thinking before it's practical for people.
Margaret and Helen take down Bush, no holds barred.
Planes, trains and recycled hotels.
What's the true cost of chocolate? The museum of old techniques. 10 steps for sustainable design.
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 | 12:33 pm - FYI
Bankruptcies reported:
Let's start with the ones nearest my heart -- newspapers.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
The Journal Register Company, publisher of the New Haven (CT) Register, 19 other daily papers and 159 "other" (probably weekly) newspapers. More info on their Michigan papers And more here on their New York papers.
An overview here on what's left of the newspaper industry. ( it doesn't look good )
SFCG Co., a Japanese lender whose creditors include Citigroup Inc.
The German state of Schleswig-Holstein faces bankruptcy because of the public bank HSH Nordbank AG.
Delphi Corp., in Michigan, wants to stop paying salaried retirees' health and life insurance benefits.
Dynogen Pharma will liquidate. It was owned by a group of venture capital firms.
More info on Ritz Camera's filing.
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 | 10:35 pm - Obama's speech
I cannot begin to tell you how delightful it is to have a president who speaks in complete declarative sentences with active verbs -- in everyday English.
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