Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed

• BREACHING THE POLITICAL BINARY

March 28, 2009 – brain food

• Friday Blogaround

March 28, 2009 – more linky-links

• Bilerico goes dark: What happened?

March 28, 2009 – another progressive political website hacked and taken down

• Study finds gender bias on transplant waiting lists

March 28, 2009 – yet another example of ASS-UME-ING based on gender stereotypes that actual evidence debunks

• Ugly Loans

March 28, 2009 – Quote: “When I read blog posts or comments complaining about people who should have known better than to sign up for mortgages they couldn’t afford, I’m always of two minds.”

• Mark Haines Doesn't Get It

March 28, 2009 – “Getting it” means understanding that the entire story that some people on Wall Street have told themselves about why they got such obscene levels of compensation is false. As a group, they were not uniquely talented. They did not make a lot more money for their company than they earned, at least not in the long run. Their salaries were not fair compensation for the value they produced. It would not have been worse if they had been replaced by people chosen at random.

• Tom Slee on monopoly populism and cultural niches

March 28, 2009 – Does the Net promote diversity? Or push towards monoculture?

• What do y’all comment on and why?

March 28, 2009 – meta to the max

Categories: linkfest

Tags: blogging, Read-ems