• i thought "everybody independently somehow" was kind of an awkward way to begin a sentence, so i did a google search and nobody had ever said it on the internet before! EVERYONE we are in UNCHARTED LINGUISTIC TERRITORY HERE. Dinosaur Comics (2011-06-10). archive - contact - sexy exciting merchandise - cute - search - about← previousJune 10th, 2011nextJune 10th, 2011: Haha, okay, so wanting to hang out with my awesome readers I thought I'd start a BRAND NEW FANCY FORUM for Dinosaur Comics! And to make it super awesome it's part of... (Linked Friday 2011-06-10.)

• How the state helps the most powerful. Jock, Anarchoblogs in English (2011-06-09). People moan lots about Tesco; about their seeming endless ability to land bank; their willingness to take over local businesses and "Tescopolise" whole towns.  But they rarely think about how it is in fact the very state apparatus that so many see as a bastion against the so called "excesses"... (Linked Friday 2011-06-10.)

• annarky’s blog. 2011-06-09 14:00:00. ann arky, Anarchoblogs in English (2011-06-09).    "EXTREMISTS" AND UNIVERSITIES.        Recently the Cameron/Clegg millionaire cabal have been shouting there mouths off about universities not doing enough to crack down on extremists. To most people in this country, this is interpreted as meaning violent Muslim extremists, but however that is not how it will unfold. It will encompass... (Linked Friday 2011-06-10.)

• Just to let you know, a few people (some of whom w... Anonymous, Two-Gun Mutualism & the Golden Rule (2011-06-02). Just to let you know, a few people (some of whom worked on "Property is Theft!") are working on the rest of "Confessions of a Revolutionary".Not much to report yet, but that's the plan.And if you want to publish bits of "Property is Theft!" as Corvus editions then that would... (Linked Saturday 2011-06-04.)

• Why Context Matters. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2011-06-05). “The true life, the life eternal has been found – it is not merely promised, it is here, it is in you …. Everyone is the child of God …. As the child of God each man is the equal of every other man.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist “There... (Linked Sunday 2011-06-05.)

• Change the world. Phil, philwilson.org (2011-05-27). I work in Higher Education in the UK. Every day I see enterprisey systems which are awful, terrible, unfriendly, unusable, behemoths. The market for each niche system is more or less a monopoly. The market is prime for smaller, more agile, more user-friendly systems to come in and destroy them.... (Linked Sunday 2011-06-05.)

• The Octothorpe, part 2 of 2. Keith Houston, Shady Characters (2011-05-22). Bell Telephone Laboratories, one-time research subsidiary of American telecoms giant AT&T, has produced some of the 20th century’s most influential developments in the worlds of science and technology. It boasts seven Nobel Prizes in Physics awarded for, among other things, a demonstration of the wave nature of matter, the invention... (Linked Sunday 2011-06-05.)

• 'Radical Mental Health Meetings' Address Problems at Grassroots. lilprole, Modesto Anarcho (2011-05-17). Stanislaus County Radical Mental Health is starting to organize weekly meetings for people looking to discuss mental health and depression issues in the Modesto area. The meetings are based off of the Icarus Project's framework. They describe themselves as such:"The Icarus Project envisions a new culture and language that resonates... (Linked Sunday 2011-06-05.)

• The Cloud. xkcd.com (2011-06-05). (Linked Sunday 2011-06-05.)

• Shocking FBI Discovery: Austin Is Weird. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-06-01). From a New York Times profile of Scott Crow, an Austin anarchist who recently FOIAed his files from the FBI: Mr. Crow, a lanky Texas native who works at a recycling center, is one of several Austin activists who asked the F.B.I. for their files, citing the Freedom of Information... (Linked Sunday 2011-06-05.)

• Planet Burma. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-06-03). "Around the globe, it is democratic meltdowns, not democratic revolutions, that are now the norm." Or so claims Joshua Kurlantzick, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations writing in the June 9 New Republic. From Venezuela to Russia, he argues, regimes are sliding toward autocratic rule. Polls show public opinion... (Linked Sunday 2011-06-05.)

• Support the Allied Media Conference & Shawty Got Skillz. inciteblog, INCITE! Blog (2011-06-02). Stacey & Mia from To The Other Side Of Dreaming break down why it’s critical to support the Allied Media Conference (June 23-26, 2011, Detroit), a movement building space for radical women of color/people of color organizing, disability justice, queer young people, and more!  They urge everyone to support Shawty Got... (Linked Sunday 2011-06-05.)

• Irrational, or responsive to incentives? Emily Washington, Market Urbanism (2011-06-04). In the Washington Post Brad Plumer editorializes on the choice of many Americans to accept longer commutes by car in exchange for larger homes far from their workplaces. He says that consumers are unable to accurately calculate the cost of their commutes, including time spent driving, leading them to make... (Linked Sunday 2011-06-05.)

• Freedom and School Choice in American Education. Free Association (2011-06-05). There's No Right Way to Manage a Subsidy (cont'd) (Linked Sunday 2011-06-05.)

• feministhulk: UNFORTUNATE THING ABOUT ALL-CAPS: HARDER TO ADD SPECIFIC EMPHASIS. HULK WORK TO FIND VERBAL NUANCE IN HULK-SIZE LETTERS. Twitter / feministhulk (2011-06-01). feministhulk: UNFORTUNATE THING ABOUT ALL-CAPS: HARDER TO ADD SPECIFIC EMPHASIS. HULK WORK TO FIND VERBAL NUANCE IN HULK-SIZE LETTERS. (Linked Sunday 2011-06-05.)

When Police Interrogate Children. The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty (2011-04-23):

On its surface, a case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court may seem to be legally trivial; it’s about a juvenile who stole from neighborhood houses. But J.D.B. v. North Carolina could redefine both the law’s “reasonable person” standard and what it means to be in custody. The case is...

My view is that if you are not free to leave, then you are in custody. Are students free to leave school? If not, they are always in custody. Let alone when there's an armed police officer in the room.

You might think that this standard would make it hard for police to interrogate children. Well, yes. Then police would interrogate fewer children. Or else they could try to get legislators to get rid of compulsory attendance laws. I'm OK with that. But perhaps I am not a Reasonable Person.

• The Book Surgeon (15 pieces) - My Modern Metropolis. www.mymodernmet.com (2011-03-14). This man is both insane and awesome at the same time. (Linked Monday 2011-03-14.)

• Comment on Cordial and Sanguine by JOR. JOR, Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire (2011-03-13). Liberaltarianism is certainly the least compelling and least interesting form of left-libertarianism. It’s like the Bob Barr/Wayne Allen Root wing of the libertarian left. (Linked Monday 2011-03-14.)

• <3. Human Iterations » <3 (2011-03-14). This is from a preface to a book I am editing with Gary Chartier. Appearing... soon? More anon. (Linked Monday 2011-03-14.)

• Modesto Junior College Passes Massive Cuts as Madison's Capitol is Retaken. lilprole, Modesto Anarcho (2011-03-12). Adam Golub, student rep on Board.Voted "yes" to budget cuts.On Wednesday night, the Board of Trustees of the YCCD system passed unanimously, (not even the 'student representative' voted no), sweeping budget cuts which will lay-off staff, gut departments, and shut down entire programs. At one point a veteran in full military garb, angry... (Linked Tuesday 2011-03-15.)

• I blame the plutocracy! Marja Erwin (2011-02-25). Conventional femininity injures, mutilates, and sometimes kills.Jill, at I Blame the Patriarchy ( http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2011/01/26/death-by-femininity-again/ ) considers who is to blame for the death of Carolin Berger, a German porn actress.It is only too easy for defenders of the status quo to blame those who die of plastic surgery. All too... (Linked Saturday 2011-02-26.)

• paul krugman/naomi klein statist leftism vs. right-wing. Captain Capitulation, eye of the storm (2011-02-25). paul krugman/naomi klein statist leftism vs. right-wing corporatism presents us with a horrendous dilemma: state or corporation? it articulates a stark choice between forms of subordination: state control of the economy (along with and backed by military or police coercion), welfare-state regimes of total surveillance and public housing vs. horrendous economic... (Linked Saturday 2011-02-26.)

• Paying for Bad Cops. Radley Balko, Radley Balko: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-02-09). Walter Olson points to a case in Colorado, where a police officer kneed a handcuffed woman in the face, breaking her eye socket. He also didn't bother to report her injuries. The Aurora police chief sensibly fired the officer, and the city paid the victim an $85,000 settlement. But then... (Linked Saturday 2011-02-26.)

• The Mind of a Police Dog. Radley Balko, Radley Balko: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-02-21). For the first few years I had her, I was impressed by my late dog Harper's uncanny ability to assess people's character. She hated every crappy landlord and bad roommate. Barked at them. Snarled at them. Wouldn't go near them. But if I brought home a date I liked, Harper,... (Linked Saturday 2011-02-26.)

• Teaching People Power. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-02-25). The Daily Beast calls Gene Sharp "The 83 Year Old Who Toppled Egypt." The New York Times reports that "for the world's despots, his ideas can be fatal." In the last month he's been praised in venues ranging from Scientific American to the BBC. It's an unprecedented level of attention for a scholar whose... (Linked Saturday 2011-02-26.)

• Making Sure Public Health Authorities Don't Say Anything That Might Help Public Health, Illegal Drug Edition. Brian Doherty, Brian Doherty: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-02-10). L.A. County Supervisor Michael Antonovich is angry that his county's Public Health Department is distributing a flyer that might actually improve public health by giving sensible advise about how not to get ill when using street ecstasy: Antonovich said the flier, created after a 15-year-old girl died of an Ecstasy overdose after... (Linked Saturday 2011-02-26.)

• The Coming American Insurrection. lilprole, Modesto Anarcho (2011-02-24). Rich scum - you're time has come!As we speak, tens of thousands of people are fighting back in Madison, Wisconsin. What began as an attempt by Republican governor Walker to implement sweeping austerity measures and take away the ability of unions to collectively bargain, has created a massive grassroots working class response.... (Linked Monday 2011-02-28.)