Valleywag: Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales Out of a Job

His board term expired, and another board member has created a bureaucratic logjam that make it difficult to re-appoint him or appoint a new member.

The Big Picture photo blog is almost always worthwhile, but today’s post of images of the 2008 Greek riots is particularly interesting. In particular, check out photo #7, it shows a stylish young woman in designer jeans next to a guy in a Zapatista (EZLN) t-shirt. It’s interesting to know that the Zapatistas would have mindshare half a world away – Anarchism is certainly a transnational movement.

These images are really dramatic, but, as with all protest porn, I have to wonder if the editorial and shot selection distorts the extent and violence of the riots.

Oliver Reichenstein argues Web Design is 95% Typography and points to some resources on Web typography.

In These Times has an intereresting interview with Ian MacKaye, the former frontman for Fugazi and Minor Threat. In the interview he discusses political activism and fatherhood.

I don’t want to appear too cynical, but when I first saw the ‘Yes We Can’ rock video that Will.I.Am made, my first response was ‘Wow, finally a politician is making ads that are as good as Nike’s.’

-Naomi Klein

Profiles: Outside Agitator: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker.

But what I will always remember is as I was leaving that party in 2003, I was approached by another guest, an established author. He asked about the man I had been talking to. Sheepishly he told me he didn’t know that Obama was a guest at the party, and had asked him to fetch him a drink. In less than six years, Obama has gone from being mistaken for a waiter among the New York media elite, to the president-elect.

WSJ.com: Before He Was President, Mistaken for a Waiter: a 2003 Obama Meeting

logging a 10% victory over McCain in George W. Bush’s home state of Texas.

The results of the Weekly Reader Presidential Election Poll are in, and Barack Obama won the poll of US K-12 students. One interesting tidbit is that Obama won the great state of Texas by a ten percent margin over McCain, which may point to a profound political shift here in the years to come.

The fact that Bill Ayers can be a fully rehabilitated, functioning member of the Chicago political scene after his 1960s antics is exactly the sort of outcome we should be striving for with the angry young men who get swept up in the jihadist movement.

-Blake Hounshell in “Old terrorists fade away”  from FP Passport.