August 2009
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It Takes 1,000 CCTV Cameras to Solve One Crime Per... →
This probably won’t come as much of a shock to anybody with half a brain in their head, but blanketing a city in surveiliance gear doesn’t actually do much to fight crime. London has about one million CCTV cameras watching its citizens, yet last year London law enforcement was only able to use those cameras to help solve about one crime per thousand cameras.
Not a great return on a...
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I ♥ Audiobooks →
I’ve long known of Project Gutenberg - it’s one of the oldest large-scale projects on the internet. I didn’t know there was an audio equivalent. LibriVox attempts to do for audiobooks what Project Gutenberg did for ebooks: create a repository where anybody can download any public-domain audiobook for free. I’ve been a huge fan of audiobooks for several years. Finding...
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In America, Crazy Is a Preexisting Condition →
With all the news stories about birthers, town hall teabaggers, and willfully ignorant lunatics whipped into a frothy rage against affordable healthcare, you might be tempted to think that a sizable portion of the country has suddenly gone batshit bonkers. As it turns out, there’s nothing “sudden” about it. Staunch conservatives have a long and colorful history of being...
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