Bad design improved

The online shopping cart

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Getting one right

Why Twitter Was the Only Company to Challenge the Secret WikiLeaks Subpoena

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An important point about the Arizona shooting

Loughner was disarmed by an unarmed 61-year-old-woman, enabling him to be knocked down. This was noticed by communicator, who called the post "The Women Men Don't See."

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Mycroft's Plan

Mysteries of the Diogenes Club, by Kim Newman, is delightful, like its two predecessors. I particularly enjoyed the first story.

Choose one or both

Andrew Leonard explains what's wrong with the gold standard. Amanda Marcotte laughs at the people who believe in it.

In the sights

"They think I'm a rape-monger, but I'm actually here to talk about...female orgasm, and who gets to control women's sex lives."

"Female WHAT?" the sergeant said.

Susie Bright on being a target

That's settled

In the One Simple Explanation Derby for the Arizona shootings, we've seen lots of arguments for HATE RHETORIC and GUNS. Now E. Fuller Torrey weighs in for the MENTAL ILLNESS panchreston. Torrey started out almost Laingian (see The Mind Game or The Death of Psychiatry, if you can find them) but then decided that schizophrenia is a real illness caused by (I am not making this up) cat poop. So much for all those people who've pointed out that mental illness is much more likely to incapacitate people than make them do Bad Things.

Whitewashing

Fashion rag caucasianizes cover model.

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You can't be too careful

A further corrected Huck Finn.

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