The Best of the Churn, Issue #3

Interesting, funny, quirky, and always eclectic links have graced the pages of the Daily Churn on a regular, one might say daily, basis. It's been four months since the previous installment of the Best of the Churn, making this one a beast to compile. Due to the number of URLs collected, I've split them into categories, making it easier to find stuff. Within categories, links are presented chronologically, which makes for something of a highly subjective four-month retrospective.

Sites

- Politics.yahoo.com (kendall)
- The real Survivors (kendall)
- Africa World Press (kendall)
- feminist media watch, a weblog (dru)
- Howard Zinn Online (kendall)
- Voices in the Wilderness (eBijan)
- All About George, a weblog (kendall)
- Complete Bush-isms (dru)
- Institute for Community Economics (kendall)
- GreenBoffin (dru)
- Indymedia coverage of Israel/Palestine (dru)
- Bartleby.com is cool. (kendall)
- Infoshop.org News Kiosk: anarchist, activist, and alternative news (kubrick)
- BlackElectorate.com (eBijan)

Activism

- Canada's "Security and Intelligence Service" Scared of the Movement (kendall)
- Report on the Aussie protest of the World Economic Forum meeting. (eBijan)
- Survival without rent; or, How to squat a building (kendall)
- "I'm changing the climate, ask me how" (dru)
- All about affinity groups (dru)

News

- Sydney Olympics bans non-sponsor clothing?(niel)
- Israel hits back after killings (edd)
- The beginning of the end for the evil Plan Columbia? (eBijan)
- Bill Gates discovers poverty. (eBijan)
- Amazon.com's Customer Service proles want to unionize (kubrick)
- McDonald's UK won't be selling any more GM-fed meat (niel)
- Atlanta IMC for SOA coverage (kubrick)
- Monsanto's chief pledges environmental responsibility (niel)

Articles

- Institutional Design for the Networked University (dru)
- Salon: What happened to the women's web? (dru)
- "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness," Edward Said on Ralph Nader (kendall)
- Zero-cost online journals urged for 3rd world (sbomb)
- Salon: Data Mining Human Rights Abuses (niel)
- Cheney's Iraqi War Crimes. (eBijan)
- Interview with 'heckler' whom Oprah censored re: Iraq (kendall)
- Libertarianism makes you stupid (kendall)
- Chomsky interview about Iran (and other stuff) (eBijan)
- Yet another anti-Iraqi seige (I refuse to call what we're doing "sanctions") article. (eBijan)
- Linda Martin Alcoff "What should white people do?" (eBijan)
- I'm so glad I didn't go to Yale after all! (kendall)
- A Cure for "Dubyaphobia" (eBijan)
- Africa Offers To Send 'Observers' To Help US End Poll Confusion (eBijan)
- "Here come the media activists" (dru)
- Journalism, Democracy, and Class Struggle, by Bob McChesney (kendall)
- How the Justice Department uses voter fraud investigations to restrict the Black vote. (eBijan)

Art & Music

- Steve Earle (kendall)
- Very cool computer artist (kendall)
- Artists who get famous, sell lots of records, but run outta money quick (dru)
- Godspeed You Black Emperor (kendall)
- Sylvia's Math Art (dru)
- Very cool graphic novel (kendall)
- Propaganda Art (dru)

Books

- The Guilt of Nations (eBijan)
- The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks (eBijan)
- The Selling of Free Trade, John MacArthur (kendall)
- Grokking the Gimp (kendall)
- Rites of Men: Manhood, Politics, and the Culture of Sport (kendall)
- Encyclopedia of the American Left (kendall)

Tech

- Lying With Pixels (bitsko)
- A new systems paradigm (bitsko)
- "You want to be a technology journalist? Follow these steps" (kendall)
- Screenshots of the Salon CMS (gavin)
- Very cool, Smalltalk based bibliography management tool. (eBijan)
- Blogspace (nivag)

Eclectic Miscellany

- Sex shop videos in York not 'hardcore enough' (edd)
- Study on the "link" between sex and heart attacks. (eBijan)
- This is must-read stuff. (kendall)
- Strap-on personal helicopter (niel)
- Large Numbers (kendall)
- Calculate your eco-footprint (kendall)
- Slime mold solves a maze (gavin)
- Anti-Everything.com (niel)
- It's ok to use flash if your animated logo is really cool. (dru)
- Police overcome by cannabis plant odour (Giskard)
- Official True Christian Nonpartisan Voter Guide (niel)
- The Cricket Dictionary (hector)
- A forged RSS-DEV message from "Ken MacLeod" (bitsko)