Read about this while in boston this weekend. From the boston globe: Boston police are launching a program that will call upon parents in high-crime neighborhoods to allow detectives into their homes, without a warrant, to search for guns in their children's bedrooms... Apparently, in order to save the children we must ...

Hello everyone - I ran into Sara Nelson Wright from the IMA/MFA program at Hunter and she invited me to an upcoming event of the “Electronic Social Club (ESC).” The ESC bills itself as a “network of NYC graduate students connected by the practice of creating social dialogue through projects ...

I was just reading through the Wired article on Facebook's role in the Burma protests. The marches, organized at a lightning pace by volunteers using Facebook, show the increasing power and reach of a social-networking site originally designed to help college students find drinking buddies. An interesting theme which runs through the ...