links for 2008-01-31

January 31, 2008

  • Subprime Obama - The Nation

    “There’s been less emphasis from the Obama campaign on the really dysfunctional role of the financial industry in the subprime mess,” says Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute. “Edwards and Clinton talk much more about regulation of the financial industry going forward, and to the extent that blame is placed, they tend to place it on the lenders for steering people into loans they couldn’t afford.”
  • John Edwards exits with honor - Salon News
    “Edwards’ second run for the White House was different, because he had substituted boldness for blandness — and ran as an unabashed heart-on-his-sleeve, union-windbreaker-on-his-back old-fashioned populist. As the most liberal (whoops, progressive) major Democratic presidential contender in more than two decades, Edwards walked the picket lines and spoke passionately of poverty and injustice.”
  • The battle of the literary endorsements - Salon Books
    “very campaign has its theme song, and now, apparently, every Democratic candidate must also have his or her own dowager African-American literary icon.”
  • Wesley Snipess Anti-Tax Manifesto - The Lede
    “Although Mr. Snipes’s own lawyers admit that his views are ‘kooky,’ ‘crazy’ and ‘dead wrong,’ one of them argues that ‘no merit does not equal fraud.’ ”
  • Fly the Friendly Skies - Nude. - Autopia from Wired.com
    “A German travel agency, citing ‘a gap in the market,’ offers nude flights to a Baltic resort. The crew will remain clothed ‘for safety reasons.’”
  • Pentax planning higher-end digital SLR - Electronista
    “Few details are available, though the camera’s sensor depth is expected to slot in between the 14.6 megapixels of the K20D and the full-frame sensors of cameras such as the 21.1-megapixel Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III. The unnamed DSLR should also offer at least the ISO 6400 sensitivity and hardware image stabilization of the current range leader. Pricing should sit above $1,300.”
  • Sigma announces DP1 to be available spring 2008: Digital Photography Review
    “The DP1 has a sensor around the size of those found in most DLSRs - although it is greatly different in terms of design - and aims to offer equivalent image-quality and specification in a compact format.” (And it shoots RAW!)

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