I love that my email sp*m filter, Sp*mAssassin, has a category called “VANITY” which it defines as “Vanity or fake awards” and assigns 2.1 of the five points needed to be flagged.
And it seems to work. Although weirdly this test is not listed among the official tests performed. (Is it something special for the academic edition?)
Aporia, in The Politics of Frozen Pizza, says “All politics is pizza.”
The context is governance of online spaces (not therefore regions of, say, scarcity, war, or genocide), but in that realm it's a better metaphor then you might think.
Jalopnik: How The U.S. Government Killed The Safest Car Ever Built.
Not tin foil. It seems to be true.
Not looking so great right this minute:
BP’s renewed efforts at plugging the flow of oil from its runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico stalled again on Friday, as the company suspended pumping operations for the second time in two days before resuming the procedure Friday evening, according to a technician involved with the response effort.
I hope this cautious optimism about stopping the gushing oil in the Gulf is correct. Even so, it's “progress” only in the sense of “not making things even worse.”
The latest effort to plug a gushing underwater oil well in the Gulf of Mexico appeared to be working, officials and engineers said on Thursday morning, though definitive word on its success was still hours away.
Disaster junkies may enjoy the live blogging of the efforts to stop the spill.
Even if they stop it now, though, there's an awful lot of oil in the water.
At the same time, government experts said that the flow of oil from the well, which has been gushing since an explosion and fire wrecked a drilling rig in late April, was several times worse than the preliminary estimate by BP, the oil company responsible for the rig and the well. If these new estimates prove to be accurate, the spill would be far bigger than the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989 and the worst in United States history.
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