Links tagged with “america”
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American-on-American Action Abroad: Sorry For Travel Writing At You
“Watching two British people run into one another in America is a wholly different type of delight, like watching two grifters trying to run the same scam in a small town instantly clock one another and freeze during a game of high-stakes poker.”
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America, My New-Found-Land by Tony Judt | The New York Review of Books
I enjoyed this piece on how alluring America is to a European.
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The Revision Thing | The Texas Tribune
A fascinating view of what the Texas State Board of Education (which effectively determines what children across the US study) changed in the US History standards.
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A Great Conservationist, by Jingo - The New York Review of Books
Enjoyed this about Theodore Roosevelt. I didn’t know he was so involved with creating national parks etc. Subscribers only.
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Final edition: Twilight of the American newspaper—By Richard Rodriguez (Harper’s Magazine)
Lovely article that is more a reminiscence of a lost San Francisco and childhood than it is another “we must save newspapers” plea.
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Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right - NYTimes.com
interesting article on the “Tea Party” Right in America. Also scary. Hadn’t realised how much they had in common with crazy paranoid Patriots.
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That’s quite good. Off of 4chan.
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Photos of my models
Amazing photos… of *models*… keep watching until you see the little models to scale. (via The Online Photographer)
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New York Review of Ideas
Looks like rather a nice new online journal thing, marred only by having its articles split over several pages. Maddening. (via Kottke)
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Barack Obama: How He Did It | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com
A series of seven articles about the campaigns. Worth a long read. (via Kottke)
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Income Gap and Marginal Tax Rate 1917-2006 at Visualizing Economics
Ouch. Difference in income for rich and poor in the US over the past century, compared to the tax rate.
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Times Higher Education - All the privileged must have prizes
About teaching at Harvard and the sense of entitlement the kids there have. (via Kottke)
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The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz
Great measured rant about what Ivy League educated kids are missing out on. (via Kottke)
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“You Don’t Understand Our Audience” by John Hockenberry
“…a series of lessons I learned about how television news had lost its most basic journalistic instincts in its search for the audience-driven sweet spot, the ‘emotional center’ of the American people.” (via Oblinks)
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Soundtrack To War
Good 90 minute documentary on what music US troops in Iraq, and Iraqis, listen to and make. Mostly: white troops listen to metal, black troops to rap.
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Running the Numbers - An American Self-Portrait
Images showing the number of things used by Americans every day/week/month/etc. Amazing, scary, etc. (via Haddock)
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Cool Tool: Adventure Cycling
The woman cycling across the USA on the Saturday Guardian’s Travel section back page has got me intrigued…
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Analyst Equity: Mid-Atlantic reading on the English
I like the summary of American/English character differences (via ObLinks).
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The New York Review of Books: Jimmy Carter & the Culture of Death
Lots of bits in this review of Carter’s book ‘Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis’ that I circled.
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Mapping religion in America (regionsofmind.blog-city.com)
Fascinating and attractive maps showing the percentage of residents of all US counties that belong to different religions. (via Plasticbag)
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Panoramic photograph of suburban sprawl near San Ramon, California | Matt Jalbert
Unreal-looking. Would be great to see this animated over a decade or two. (via Kottke again. He has such good links.)
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Flight Patterns
Gorgeous animations of flights over the US. Better than it sounds. (via Kottke)
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LRB | letters from Vol. 27 No. 15
The first letter describes how US corruption in Iraq is a direct descendant of the US corruption in Vietnam.
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LRB | Ed Harriman : Where has all the money gone?
Excellent but despair-inducing article outlining some of the mind-boggling corruption in post-invasion Iraq.
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BBC - Radio 4 - Arthur Miller: The Accidental Music Collector
Miller on the time he spent in 1941 recording voices and songs in North Carolina for the Library of Congress (show includes some recordings).
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United States Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-21
Lovely public domain photos. Why do the old black and white ones look better than the new colour ones?
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Daily Mirror: How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?
Well, you have to wonder. Something in the water? Cosmic rays? 59,054,087 radio receivers embedded in fillings?
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Globalvote 2004 - where non-americans get to vote - have your say in the US election
New from those fabulous folks at Poke (and others).
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The Living Room Candidate
Awesomely comprehensive collection of US presidential campaign TV adverts from 1952 to 2004 (doesn’t seem to work in Firefox).
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The New York Times
And maybe, if you’re over there, you can print this out and take it with you when you go to vote.
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Microsoft TerraServer - University Forest Apartments, Bay Area Boulevard, Houston, TX
I didn’t realise quite how close those aerial photos got. Slightly spooky. I used to live in the right-most block.
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Kurt Vonnegut: Cold Turkey (at AlterNet)
Ramble about the state of America.
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Bush administration strips info on women’s issues from government web sites
Ridiculous wars are bad enough, but somehow the rewriting of science and history seems even more scary.
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I’ve been MetaFiltered
The MeFi comments simply re-hash the discussion on the page they link to.
