Here’s the AP today: High-deductible health insurance plans favored by many employers often wind up being an unfair burden to women, a new study says, largely because women need many routine medical exams that quickly add up. [….] “High-deductible plans punish women for having breasts and uteruses and having babies,” said Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, the […]

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Also, Jonathan Coulton covers the original.

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Tim Lee links an essay on the fretting over the “business model” for music distribution online when so much content is being given away free: This is your worst nightmare. People who can follow their dream on sweat equity. Who with their computer and the money from their day job or mommy and daddy can […]

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Big ups to Tom for pointing me toward Mojiti, which allows you to to all sorts of nifty overlays atop preexisting Web video. Among other things, that enables the functionality I’d pleaded for in the vlog below to provide hyperlinks within a video, much as a textual blog post would have. But what’s actually even […]

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Verbal Hyperlinks “Matt Yglesias’ recent vlog about vlogging” — The March of Time — “D.W. Griffith” — Everything Bad is Good for You — An Inconvenient Truth — “Larry Lessig” — The Wealth of Networks — “clip from Sesame Street” — “podsafe music” UPDATE: Now with internal hyperlinks–watch the top right corner bottom of the […]

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London’s Evening Standard looks at the proliferation of closed circuit cameras in the city by focusing on the former home of George Orwell, where there are now some 32 cameras within 200 yards of the apartment where the author once lived. Citywide, there’s a camera for every fourteen people.

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Last week’s squib on net neutrality provoked replies from Ezra and my two favorite Caucasian Lees: Tom and Tim (no relation). First, I want to concur strongly with Tim’s general point: As Robert Frost reminded us, all metaphor breaks down somewhere. (Otherwise, one supposes, we’d call it “literal description.”) Certainly the history of common carrier […]

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Today’s strangely hypnotic timewasting widget: AIMFight. It’s stupidly simple. You type in two AOL Instant Messenger buddy names. The site then checks the population of users currently signed in to see who has been buddy-listed by the most people, out to three degrees, so you get more juice out of being listed by people who […]

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Via 27B Stroke 6, The Washington Post reports on documents uncovered in a civil suit brought by some anti-war protesters that confirm their claims, which police and the FBI had denied, that the protesters had been detained for wearing black (anarchists wear black!) and interrogated about their political views by FBI agents. (The official rationale […]

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Mike Pence has always struck me as one of the handful of members of Congress who generally have their heads in the right place on the role of government, but his normal skepticism about the efficacy of state power has not been much in evidence when it comes to Iraq, from which he’s now blogging. […]

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