I think there has been a dramatic increase in the popularity of Disorientation Guides.

These date back to the Sixties, when activists started handing out an alternative guide to the university and community to counter the propaganda of the administration (and the regular student manual).

They continued to be popular in the 80s and 90s due to the efforts of the Progressive Student Network and later the Movement for Democracy and Education.

Canada has a federal election scheduled for May 2, 2011.

I'm not sure what the opposition was thinking, but they decided to vote down the government even though the government has been doing well in the polls - so well that they might turn their minority into a majority. Last time they voted it down, the government was returned with a larger minority.

Recommended Websites
308 - predictions with poll averaging.
Democratic Space - another prediction site.

The EPA has a program that monitors radiation.
You can now view it without getting an account!
EPA Radiation Map

EPA Japan 2011 Disaster Page

Due to the precarious situation the nuclear plant in Japan, I did some research into finding online maps of radiation. I found two. I wonder if there are others?

RadMap

Check out my new website:
Indicators of Revolution

(Now new url - www.revolutiontrends.org)

I have several ideas on how to follow the revolutions sweeping North Africa.

Al Jazeera
Their english service is the best form of news. I watch it online for hours.
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

Intrade.com
A prediction market which has markets on whether the presidents of Libya, Bahrain, Iran, Algeria, and Yemen will still be in office at the end of 2011. Within the past 24 hours Gadhafi has gone from a 40% to 88% chance of losing office.

Twitter

You can download a Software Defined Radio (SDR) tuner software from Sdr-Radio.com (I got the beta release 1.1) then go to their list of online tuners and tune a powerful radio for free!

If your browser tells you that you are doing something risky, ignore the warning (if you want this to work).

You can see a waterfall/spectrum view of the radio dial, tune it around, and listen to stations!

It is great to see people collaboratively writing materials for liberals, like the Progressive Strategy Handbook that recently came out. I like how you can print it out yourself, write comments, and users have essentially invested in it.

On January 23 I started to get very excited. The Tunisian revolution was in full swing and related demonstrations broke out in Yemen, Algeria, and Jordan. In Saudi Arabia a man set himself on fire.

Then on January 25, Egypt had its largest anti-government protest, reportedly since food protests in 1977. Egypt's protests have continued and we're waiting to see if Friday turns into a big day with the people gathering in mosques to pray and the mobilize.

Protests have continued in Yemen.

Jordan activists are organizing protests for Friday.

My site got blacklisted by hotmail and several other major email providers because my blog requires email verification for new users!

I get hundreds of requests (from spammers) per year to be blog users. So the website was emailing them and it was bouncing. This got me on a black list (and 300+ emails that I sent yesterday bounced).

The solution is to turn off email verification. I tell user applicants that they need to manually email me when they apply, so the automated email verification is unnecessary.

My roommate has been working on a documentary on these crazy tiles with obscure messages that appear in streets in Philadelphia (I've seen many in West Philadelphia) and all around the world. He has been doing it without any funding for five years, and now it is in the biggest film festival (for independent documentaries): Sundance!

You can Donate money and also watch the short interview of the director: Jon Foy.