Internet Readalong
Jan. 13th, 2011 02:42 pmLet's start with disaster relief:
* The flooding in Australia is still bad, bad, bad, but you probably know that already. Both the Australian Red Cross and the Queensland Government homepage are good places to donate (via![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
copperbadge).
* There's also flooding in Brazil, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Sri Lanka. And Columbia is still recovering from flooding in early December. Googling gets me the Brazilian Red Cross (in Portuguese), the Philippine Red Cross, the Malaysian Red Crescent, the Thai Red Cross, the Sri Lanka Red Cross, and the Columbian Red Cross (in Spanish). Anyone know of other repudiable organizations?
* It's been a year since the earthquake in Haiti and they're still rebuilding (while fighting a malaria outbreak) -![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
help_haiti has a roundup of organizations still operating in the country.
( Opinions go under a cut )
Enough opinionating, on with the links:
* Why is nobody calling Jared Loughner a terrorist?
* On Tiger Beatdown - The Arizona Shooting: An FAQ
* On Slacktivist - Only a crazy person would take what we say seriously
* From Ta-Nehisi Coates - On Loughner
Comments were good reading on all of these last time I checked.
Other things:
* From Sara Mayeux, one of Ta-Nehisi Coates' recent guest bloggers Fun with numbers, high school student drug use edition
* From Jamelle Bouie, also a guest blogger - A brief history of welfare for middle class Americans
* On boingboing - US orders Twitter to hand over account data on Wikileaks and multiple Wikileaks supporters
* You've heard about the 'Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior' article on the Wall Street Journal, yes? Turns out it had been edited without [Chua's] input, and by the time she saw the version they intended to run, she was limited in what she could do to alter it.
"I was very surprised," [Chua] says. "The Journal basically strung together the most controversial sections of the book. And I had no idea they'd put that kind of a title on it. But the worst thing was, they didn't even hint that the book is about a journey, and that the person at the beginning of the book is different from the person at the end -- that I get my comeuppance and retreat from this very strict Chinese parenting model."
Good job, WSJ.
( Fun shiny things go under a cut )
( Videos go under a cut. Wow, this post is long. )
* The flooding in Australia is still bad, bad, bad, but you probably know that already. Both the Australian Red Cross and the Queensland Government homepage are good places to donate (via
copperbadge).* There's also flooding in Brazil, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Sri Lanka. And Columbia is still recovering from flooding in early December. Googling gets me the Brazilian Red Cross (in Portuguese), the Philippine Red Cross, the Malaysian Red Crescent, the Thai Red Cross, the Sri Lanka Red Cross, and the Columbian Red Cross (in Spanish). Anyone know of other repudiable organizations?
* It's been a year since the earthquake in Haiti and they're still rebuilding (while fighting a malaria outbreak) -
help_haiti has a roundup of organizations still operating in the country.( Opinions go under a cut )
Enough opinionating, on with the links:
* Why is nobody calling Jared Loughner a terrorist?
* On Tiger Beatdown - The Arizona Shooting: An FAQ
* On Slacktivist - Only a crazy person would take what we say seriously
* From Ta-Nehisi Coates - On Loughner
Comments were good reading on all of these last time I checked.
Other things:
* From Sara Mayeux, one of Ta-Nehisi Coates' recent guest bloggers Fun with numbers, high school student drug use edition
* From Jamelle Bouie, also a guest blogger - A brief history of welfare for middle class Americans
* On boingboing - US orders Twitter to hand over account data on Wikileaks and multiple Wikileaks supporters
* You've heard about the 'Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior' article on the Wall Street Journal, yes? Turns out it had been edited without [Chua's] input, and by the time she saw the version they intended to run, she was limited in what she could do to alter it.
"I was very surprised," [Chua] says. "The Journal basically strung together the most controversial sections of the book. And I had no idea they'd put that kind of a title on it. But the worst thing was, they didn't even hint that the book is about a journey, and that the person at the beginning of the book is different from the person at the end -- that I get my comeuppance and retreat from this very strict Chinese parenting model."
Good job, WSJ.
( Fun shiny things go under a cut )
( Videos go under a cut. Wow, this post is long. )
