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How the Web Prevents Rape

First, porn. What happens when more people view more of it? The rise of the Internet offers a gigantic natural experiment. Better yet, because Internet usage caught on at different times in different states, it offers 50 natural experiments. (article in full) So sod off with the censorship crap.

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America's decent into fascism

"Criticizing Cheney to His Face Is Assault?" ... "“I didn’t even know he was in town,” Howards says. “He was walking through the area shaking hands. Initially, I walked past him. Then I said to myself, ‘I can’t in good conscience let this opportunity pass by.’ So I approached him, I got about two feet away, and I said in a very calm tone of voice, ‘Your policies in Iraq are reprehensible.’ And then I walked away.”" ... This guys is then arrested for "assault". I'd say shame but it wasn't long ago since that 80 yearold got roughed up at a Labour conference for shouting "shame on you" at Bliar.

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Cursive writing rapidly going the way of the dodo

This makes me feel really really old...

"The computer keyboard helped kill shorthand, and now it's threatening to finish off longhand. When handwritten essays were introduced on the SAT exams for the class of 2006, just 15 percent of the almost 1.5 million students wrote their answers in cursive. The rest? They printed. Block letters."

That's just... shocking... I make handwritten notes on paper when I'm designing stuff, and I write letters. Is that going to be alien in 20 years?

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