November 2008

I’m beginning to enjoy the TUC Touchstone blog, especially in the light of this must-read article from Politico about the unions’ role in the Obama campaign and specifically their efforts to dispel racism. “Many voters have never voted for an African-American candidate for any position,” said AFL-CIO political director Karen Ackerman. “It’s a proud moment…

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It seems to be “Blogging Stuff I Studied At University” Day. Here’s an interesting story via the Armchair Generalist concerning the Proliferation Security Initiative, and the case of a North Korean Ilyushin-62 that was apparently prevented from transiting Indian airspace out of suspicion that it was carrying “something” from there to Iran. I’ve always thought…

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ID cards sliding right again. This time it’s the airport workers – they’ve been downscaled from all the airport workers to just London City and Manchester, and from a production deployment to an “18-month trial”. This comes after the planned issue of cards last month went from “actually issuing the cards” to “announcing it again”.…

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As I said here, much as I love ManyEyes, it would be drastically better if it accepted data in the same format (tab-separated columns of values) that it expects to be submitted as a form from a URL, so your visualisation could be based on a source of regularly updated information. If you can parse…

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