• 23rd August 1927 – the Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. Dorian, Dorian Cope presents On This Deity (2010-08-23).   Memorial to Sacco and Vanzetti Eighty-three years ago today, despite a long campaign of letters and petitions involving such world luminaries as HG Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Albert Einstein, Dorothy Parker and Upton Sinclair, two Italian anarchists died in the electric chair after losing their six-year battle to clear… (Linked Thursday 2010-08-26.)

• 2010 Is Just a Scrambled Remix of 1980. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-08-09). In 1980, the year I turned 10, it seemed like every kid I knew loved Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" — and not just because a bunch of us misheard one of the lyrics as "Dukes of Hazzard in the classroom." Here was a protest song against something… (Linked Thursday 2010-08-26.)

• Architecture Matters. Julian Sanchez, Cato Unbound (2010-08-16). In an astonishing New York Times op-ed last week, former homeland security advisor Richard Falkenrath greeted news of a technology ban announced by the rulers of the United Arab Emirates with "approval, admiration and perhaps even a touch of envy." In the name of national security, the UAE — soon… (Linked Monday 2010-08-23.)

• Tie Me to the Mast. Dorothy, Cat and Girl (2010-08-24). (Linked Tuesday 2010-08-24.)

• replace “conversation” with “convention” and the comic still totally works, but it does raise some questions as to how you got yourself into that sticky wicket in the first place. Dinosaur Comics (2010-08-24). archive – contact – sweet merchandise – forum – adventure – search – about!!!@@e2;2020;90; previousAugust 24th, 2010nextAugust 24th, 2010: Alright, if you didn’t nail having an excellent Monday, you can still have an excellent Tuesday. EVERYBODY, DON’T LET ME DOWN– Ryan (Linked Tuesday 2010-08-24.)

• BUSH NOSTALGIA WATCH: Every president looks better as soon as. Jesse, The Perpetual Three-Dot Column (2010-08-24). BUSH NOSTALGIA WATCH: Every president looks better as soon as he's out of office, if only because we can stop worrying then that he'll be the one who finally blows everything up. But real nostalgia doesn't kick in until later, when even members of the other party start to cast… (Linked Tuesday 2010-08-24.)

• Fannie and Freddie Want Their Allowance. Center for a Stateless Society (2010-08-24). But E. J. Dionne told me that a deregulated Wall Street caused the financial industry meltdown! (Linked Tuesday 2010-08-24.)

• Comment on Uoltajre! by Anna O. Morgenstern. Anna O. Morgenstern, Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-08-20). I'm glad you said "anarchronistic" because if you said "anachronistic" there was going to be an argument. Going back to the main topic, it seems more and more as I start to understand history and the state better, that religion has always been a bulwark for a state of some… (Linked Friday 2010-08-20.)

• Private buses make a comeback in NYC. rationalitate, Market Urbanism (2010-08-16). by Stephen Smith Transit activists have been bemoaning recent cuts in the MTA's bus routes throughout New York City, but the cuts may have a silver lining, in particular for market urbanists: they may usher in the return of private buses to the streets of New York City. Private buses… (Linked Friday 2010-08-20.)

• rabble: OH: “Ok. Te voy a let you saber si hay changes en the prioridades.” Ah spanglish. Twitter / rabble (2010-08-06). rabble: OH: “Ok. Te voy a let you saber si hay changes en the prioridades.” Ah spanglish. (Linked Friday 2010-08-20.)

• Introducing PIGPEN: Local Encounters with Police and Prisons. Modesto Anarcho!'s MySpace Blog (2010-08-07). ..Introducing PIGPEN: Local Encounters with Police and PrisonsHave you been brutalized, assulted, harassed, or abused by the Modesto or other local police departments? Modesto Anarcho Crew (MAC) is cu… (Linked Friday 2010-08-20.)

• IP in Cartoons. Peter G. Klein, Mises Economics Blog (2010-08-20). Thanks to Tim Castelle for the pointer to Nina Paley's great series of IP cartoons.Join the discussion and post a commentRelated posts:Iona College on IPThe Highway to Serfdom in CartoonsIP Comix (Linked Saturday 2010-08-21.)

• Street Slide. ignorethecode.net (2010-08-21). Usability research is awesome. (Linked Saturday 2010-08-21.)

• Diogenes' Barrel. James Tuttle, On ALLiance (2010-08-19). The always insightful and wonderful Broadsnark has asked an important question: So I guess what I'm wondering is:  Do you market anarchist types envision a world full of artisans trading labor with one another or actual employment relationships?  Do the majority of anarchists, who don't subscribe to capitalist or market… (Linked Sunday 2010-08-22.)

It’s Sunday. Everybody get Shameless.

You know what the day is; and you know that Shamelessness is the reason for the season. So, what have you been up to this week? Write anything? Leave a link and a short description for your post in the comments. Or fire away about anything else you might want to talk about.

• Net Neutrality: forcing companies to pay attention to their networks. Ian Bicking: a blog (2010-08-18). I absolutely reject any proposal that Net Neturality ought to be enforced through government regulations; but this is as good a short explanation as I’ve read of why it is a good ideal for us to insist on, non-coercively, as a basic requirement for acceptable service from a network operator. (Linked Wednesday 2010-08-18.)

• "Guys in Jail Are Going To Rape You" Radley Balko, The Agitator (2010-08-18). An undercover New York City cop threatens a man taking cell phone video with arrest for being disrespectful. He then explains that an arrest means a weekend in jail, where he'll probably be raped. The confrontation appears to have occurred during an undercover bust of a suspected "illegal social club,"… (Linked Wednesday 2010-08-18.)

• The Contradiction of a Conservative, continued. Sheldon Richman, Free Association (2010-08-18). News Corp. (Murdoch, WSJ, Fox) gave $1 million to the Republican Governors Association because the company “has always believed in the power of free markets and in organizations like the RGA, which have a pro-business agenda….”Not only are those not the same things, they are in conflict with each other…. (Linked Friday 2010-08-20.)