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 Our 2nd compilation of highlights from the Wider Angle Tumblog begins with our progress in Iraq, from the view of Misha Niskin. [TL] "73 percent of Americans said the country is pretty seriously on the wrong track, while 25 percent said things are going in the right direction." [TL] "Time Warner has announced the introduction of packet shaping technology to its network." [TL] Stefan Sagmeister on how design can make you happy, speaking at TED in 2004. [TL]  Stefan Sagmeister's desktop. [TL] "Goodbye wires... MIT experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer." [TL] "It was a short-lived but spectacular breach of security at the new US embassy in Baghdad." Web leak puts US embassy at risk [in reference to this] [TL] "An Ohio company has long been adding the industrial toxin melamine to animal feed ingredients, and those feeds have been consumed by livestock and fish meant for human consumption, according to the Food and Drug Administration..." [TL]  Bush and his beer. A new iconic photograph. [TL] Oceana has produced a printable mini-guide of what kinds of fish are safe to eat, for you and the ocean. [TL] Interactive Periodic Table [TL] "Yes. I am the founder of this movement." - Paul Oakenfold takes credit for creating the acid house generation. [via Jonty Skrufff] [TL] "What is Glyphs? Well it’s Adobe’s poorly-named character palette, while Glyphs is a nice 5-dollar word and fits within in the width of the menu, Fucked Up Characters Palette is far more descriptive and serves the user better." - STET [TL]  Three beautiful dolphins from Global Wanderer. [TL] The benefits of being home schooled: the completely awkward and inappropriate spelling bee winner. [TL] Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1969-79 at ICP in NYC May 11–September 9, 2007 [TL] "Blitzer tonight asked [Conservative candidates], 'Is there anyone here who believes gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve openly in the U.S. military? If you do, speak up now,' there was a deafening silence. No one raised their hands." Think Progress » Conservative Candidates All Support Banning Gays From The Military [TL]  Use Lastgraph to make spiffy graphs of your last.fm data. [via waxy] [TL] Attractors - Awesome Flash physics simulation slash game. [TL] "What the piece actually highlighted to me is people's relationship with their self-image, and perhaps even a mass(ive) desire to perform in public on several levels - both to be part of a crowd and to be individually reflexive." - cityofsound: The Weather Project [TL] "In a major victory for TV networks, a U.S. appeals court on Monday overruled federal regulators who decided that expletives uttered on broadcast television violated decency standards." [TL] "The economy keeps growing, as does the enormous largesse of the wealthy, while the average person makes less than they did when Bush took Office." [TL]  "First discovered by the U.S. Coast Guard in 1978, the Greenpoint spill has been estimated at anywhere between 17 million and 30 million gallons—three times more oil than the Exxon Valdez spill. That makes it the largest known oil spill in American history." - Exploring the Massive, Viscous Oil Blob That Lies Just Beneath the Streets of Greenpoint -- New York Magazine [TL] |
 
  
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