CNN.com:

Because hydroponic farming requires less water and less land than traditional field farming, Fujimoto and researchers-turned-growers in other U.S. cities see it as ideal to bring agriculture to apartment buildings, rooftops and vacant lots.

"The goal here is to look at growing food crops in small spaces," he said.

Long a niche technology existing in the shadow of conventional growing methods, hydroponics is getting a second look from university researchers and public health advocates.

I know its a week old but the problem still isn't solved (imagine that). The title speaks for itself. I found it through the email I rcvd from The Drum Major Institute.

Oh well, the title's all I got for disciplinary action over the local Interior Deparment scandals. Remember: the party of personal responsibility and ethics is the Republican Party.

"Kids' Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures" "is a three-year collaborative project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Carried out by researchers at the University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley, the digital youth project explores how kids use digital media in their everyday lives."

FYI, I wrote an article about teh blogz.

CNN carries Stevens' concession statement. So much for God.  

An essay at the Milwaukee Magazine from a former program director for right-wing yakkers. (h/t WaMo)

To begin with, talk show hosts such as Charlie Sykes - one of the best in the business - are popular and powerful because they appeal to a segment of the population that feels disenfranchised and even victimized by the media. These people believe the media are predominantly staffed by and consistently reflect the views of social liberals. This view is by now so long-held and deep-rooted, it has evolved into part of virtually every conservative's DNA.

To succeed, a talk show host must perpetuate the notion that his or her listeners are victims, and the host is the vehicle by which they can become empowered. The host frames virtually every issue in us-versus-them terms. There has to be a bad guy against whom the host will emphatically defend those loyal listeners.

 

We can't revel in the facts enough.

psst... facts are what science is made of!

They tried it to keep  secret.

Dave Neiwert - huzzah! Americans spoke loud and clear, embraced progressivism and rejected the failed conservative rule of the last generation.

Yahoo News
"Naked Pumpkin Runners Ticketed in Colorado"
I wonder if that is going to raise their naked pumpkin insurance rates.

Via Josh Marshall, the blatant appeal to racism of the McCain for President campaign.  

But not as bad as the rest of the country.  Here's the graph from Calculated Risk.

of all counts even.  Boy he's sure going to missed. linky

HuffPo:

John McCain, who has harshly criticized the idea of sitting down with dictators without pre-conditions, appears to have done just that. In 1985, McCain traveled to Chile for a friendly meeting with Chile's military ruler, General Augusto Pinochet, one of the world's most notorious violators of human rights credited with killing more than 3,000 civilians and jailing tens of thousands of others.

The private meeting between McCain and dictator Pinochet has gone previously un-reported anywhere.

Aaron got the good quotes

Associated Press:

Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.

The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for three daughters to join Palin to watch their father in a snowmobile race, and a trip to New York, where the governor attended a five-hour conference and stayed with 17-year-old Bristol for five days and four nights in a luxury hotel.

 

LA Times:

The owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired to register tens of thousands of voters this year was arrested in Ontario over the weekend on suspicion of voter registration fraud.

 

The American people - using what little money they have left - have invested heavily in the Obama Presidency. Main Street will be in good hands this next four years.

Check it out, mang - D's everywhere!