Bush proved in 2000 that it’s a great idea to bribe voters with some sort of tax refund. This year, Clinton’s trying the same tack. And she’s blowing her whole wad in West Virginia, where she’s already slated to win.
“Well, I gotta tell you, according to the Department of Energy, it will help you [save] [...]

Michael Hardt reviews Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine” at Upping the Anti, though it looks like the article is originally from an edition of the New Left Review published earlier this year. Hardt co-wrote Empire and Multitude with Antonio Negri, and is a very intelligent political philosopher. I’m always pleased to see new material from [...]

Saw this over on DesignNotes, a neat watch from Nooka called Zot. At first glance I thought it’d be a binary watch, and though it’s not, it’s still very cool. I really dig the alternative method of representing time.