Police attack and temporarily arrest a black man having medical episode in his own house as burglar suspect. three rivers tumblr (2010-08-07):

Police attack and temporarily arrest a black man having medical episode in his own house as burglar suspect: zuky: Wayne Burwell, a respected 34-year-old physical fitness trainer and a black resident of a 97% white area in Vermont, suffers from a blood-sugar-related medical condition which caused him to black out…

• Will It Optimize? John Gruber, Daring Fireball (2010-07-23). Another splendidly intricate post from Peter Ammon. Only of interest if you enjoy puzzles on GCC optimizations.  â˜…  (Linked Wednesday 2010-08-04.)

• !!!@@e2;2dc;2026; An Improved Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs. John Gruber, Daring Fireball (2010-07-27). Back in November, I posted a regex pattern for matching URLs. It seems to have proven quite useful for others, and, even better, based on feedback from those who've used it, I've since improved it in several ways. The problem the pattern attempts to solve: identify the URLs in an… (Linked Wednesday 2010-08-04.)

• On Broadway. Cat and Girl (2010-08-04). The joke only works under the Copenhagen Interpretation of QM. (Linked Wednesday 2010-08-04.)

• Speaking the Truth is for Losers and Egomaniacs. cherylcline, der Blaustrumpf (2010-08-05). In Savage Mules:  The Democrats and Endless War, Dennis Perrin writes that "Speaking the truth is for losers and egomaniacs."  Had I read that before Wikileaks gained much traction, I probably would have agreed without fully comprehending.  In light of the accusations hurled against Julian Assange, however, I see that… (Linked Thursday 2010-08-05.)

• anarchist action figures. orgtheory.net (2010-07-28). The kids are alright. (Linked Wednesday 2010-07-28.)

• University Website. xkcd.com (2010-07-29). (Linked Friday 2010-07-30.)

• feministhulk: HULK FIND COMPLICITY BETWEEN ALL SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION. RESULT: HULK HAVE VERY DIVERSE PORTFOLIO OF SMASH. Twitter / feministhulk (2010-07-30). Feminist Hulk has a thick conception of liberation. (Linked Friday 2010-07-30.)

• Tab Candy: Making Firefox Tabs Sweet. Aza Raskin, Aza on Design (2010-07-23). The power of the browser has grown substantially in the last ten years. We now use the Web to multi-task the activities we juggle every day, like vacation plans, purchases, sharing pictures, listening to music, reading email, and writing a blog post. It's hard to keep everything straight with dozens… (Linked Friday 2010-07-30.)

• Saving Our History Books For The Singularity. rechelon, Human Iterations (2010-07-26). Some noble soul has labored to put the two most important history books on Individualist Anarchism's first wave in America online — and in very accessible condition. Â  Anyway, I felt I had to pause in my projects and distractions to let you know.  This is the shit. Eunice Minette Schuster's… (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• What does it mean to love your enemies? Ryan, The Peaceable Kingdom (2010-07-26). A question many Christians aren't really asking. This moving video lays it out very simply. It is not wide-eyed optimism in the sense that it doesn't portray automatic world peace and love in the face of violence. It means that to truly love your enemies you might have to receive… (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• A squealing leftie writes. chris dillow, Stumbling and Mumbling (2010-07-23). Tim says something that puzzles me:Human beings really are status seeking beings. The method of ranking it, enforcing it, discovering it, may change, but that there will be a social hierarchy is a given. And that's the bit that our squealing lefties seem to forget....Simply because we are human beings… (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• Three from Vienna. Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-07-27). Including an excellent anthology from my teacher Kelly Jolley, also including essays by my other teacher Roderick Long; and a Tractarian musical number. About the latter, all I can say is that he would have been better off trying to whistle it. (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• Trail of Tears 2010. der Blaustrumpf (2010-07-27). Deportation is ethnic cleansing. Nothing more, nothing less. (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• Remember Furkan Dogan. Sheldon Richman, Free Association (2010-07-27). Furkan Dogan was the 19-year-old American fatally shot five times by Israeli commandos aboard the Mavi Marmara headed for Gaza — without a peep from the Obama administration, which has time to get involved with everything else happening in the world. Dogan was a bright young man with a promising… (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• Wikileaks releases classified Afghanistan war logs: “largest intelligence leak in history” Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing (2010-07-25). An archive of classified U.S. military logs spanning six years, more than 91,000 documents, and 200,000 pages, was today made available by WikiLeaks. The papers show a picture of the war in Afghanistan that is far more grim, and far less hopeful, than previously portrayed. The New York Times, London’s… (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• Guadec Day 2: In pursuit of critical mass. Ivanka Majic, Canonical Design (2010-07-27). Today I was reminded of this quote by Jane Goodall: If everyone could think a little bit about small choices they make every day: What do you eat, does it result in animal cruelty? What do you wear, how was it made, does it damage the environment? When people start… (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• Born in Flames Meets Gandhi Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-07-23). My kinda feminism: In March, the Indian upper parliament passed a historic affirmative-action bill. If approved by the lower house, the law would reserve 33 percent of all parliamentary seats for women. You might think this would be well-received by rural women in India. But they long ago gave up… (Linked Friday 2010-07-23.)

• “Capitalism,” It Fails Us Now. Jesse Walker, Hit & Run (2010-07-22). As Michael Moynihan notes below, there’s an effort afoot to rebrand “capitalism” as “free enterprise.” On the face of it, I like the idea. Capital is going to be a central part of any modern economic system, whether or not there’s a lot of government intervention. By contrast, the phrase… (Linked Saturday 2010-07-24.)

• you'd have to say that this approach to education reflects the. Captain Capitulation, eye of the storm (2010-07-21). you'd have to say that this approach to education reflects the basic strictures or canons of squishy totalitarianism; it's squishy in that it doesn't torture or exile you: it works to transform consciousness from the ground up so that actual physical coercion is redundant. not only that, but the approach… (Linked Sunday 2010-07-25.)

• But The Nice Officer Is Just Here To Help. s.e. smith, this ain't livin' (2010-07-22). Let me tell you about the time that I was presenting as male, was arrested, and was jailed with male prisoners. Actually, let me not. Let me talk, instead, about the widespread and rather touching belief that law enforcement officers are !!!@@e2;20ac;2dc;here to help,' and why it is that so… (Linked Sunday 2010-07-25.)