New FGI Discussions: November 19, 2007

This week was a light one for the Free Government Information(http://freegovinfo.info) volunteers, but we did manage to post a fewstories this week:
+Give a $100 laptop, get a $100 laptop – James R.+Pimps and Ferrets: Copyright and Culture in the United States,1831-1891 – James R.+2007 Fall FDLP/DLC proceedings, audio recordings, and uneditedtranscripts available! – James R.+1.8 [...]

Ann Coulter Needs Your Love and Prayers

The other day I was in Costco, when I saw Ann Coulter’s new book “If Democrats had any brains, they’d be Republicans.” Since I don’t consider myself a Democrat, the title didn’t bother me. In fact, considering the Dem’s leadership’s accommodation of the President on eavesdropping, Iraq, Mukasey, and so forth, I think the title [...]

New FGI Discussions: November 12, 2007

This week November BOTM and frequent govdoc-l contributor Carlos Diazposted a great conversation starter, “Reinventing Ourselves” to FreeGovernment Information (http://freegovinfo.info). Even if you are not aregular visitor to FGI, check out what Carlos has to say. Is he right?What should we do?
Carlos, and the Free Government Information volunteers posted otherstories in the past week as [...]

Dumb Person Trick from 1943

While working on an unrelated reference question, I came across this short item from the April 22, 1943 issue of the Daily Alaskan Empire:
Barbara Brown, 22, angered because her soldier boyfriend failed to appear for a date, phoned Detroit police to have all men in uniform return at once to their camps. The fake “alert” [...]

The War on the Unexpected

Bruce Schneier explains the latest front on the War on Terror, which has been visible to me since 2002:

The War on the Unexpected

via Schneier on Security on 11/1/07
“We’ve opened up a new front on the war on terror. It’s an attack on the unique, the unorthodox, the unexpected; it’s a war on [...]

Geopolitical Intelligence Report – War Plans: United States and Iran

What could the United States accomplish if we attacked Iran? The private intelligence group Stratfor looks at the possibilities.

GEOPOLITICAL INTELLIGENCE REPORT
10.30.2007

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War Plans: United States and Iran
By George Friedman
A possible U.S. attack against Iran has been a hot topic in the news for many [...]

Solider-Statesmen of the Constitution

Did you know that some of the Constitutional Convention delegates besides George Washington were military veterans? Here are two items from the Catalog of Government Publications that highlight these veteran statesmen:
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Title Soldier-statesmen of the Constitution [...]

Wyoming Libraries Mudflap and Idea Judo

The non-librarian authors of Made to Stick have some interesting commentary on the recent Wyoming Libraries Mudflap campaign:

Wyoming Libraries Mudflap and Idea Judo
Check out this very clever campaign for Wyoming’s libraries. (One bumper sticker offers a more literate twist on a classic: “You can have my book when you pry it from my cold dead [...]

Why We Fight – Writers make it clear

Leave to writers to have an articulate explanation of why they’re on strike. Watch the video and then tell me their case doesn’t make sense.
Since it wasn’t credited, I do have to wonder where the music came from. Hopefully it was podsafe.

A comet worth waiting for!

I’m sure that I’ve mentioned comet Holmes a few times in the past few days. (Just not here) Usually connected with a whine about our overcast skies here in Juneau Alaska.
Last night the clouds cleared up for about an hour or so. I had already gone to bed when I decided to get up [...]