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• Flickr: The Official White House Photostream
  The White House is on Flickr with great photos.

• kottke: The country's new robots.txt file
  The new whitehouse.gov robots.txt file lets search engines and other bots roam free. This is a fantastic change, but I can't help wondering what they're hiding in the /includes/ directory. I want an open government with no disallows!
• Ask Metafilter: Does the president need to take the oath of office?
  Fun discussion overthinking the timing of the President's oath of office with some nice historic trivia thrown in for good measure.

• National Park Service Interpretive Development Program
  internal documents from the National Park Service that detail how to develop National Park activities, interpretive media, and "informal" dialogue. [via sterling via IDEA]
  filed under: design, education, government

Update: Removed! I knew I should have mirrored it as soon as I saw it. I guess the National Park system doesn't want to share their methods with other competing park systems? I'd love to know more about how our National Parks are put together, and their methods could probably influence other fields. This decision is disappointing.

Update 2: huh, maybe it's just me. MojoMark was able to grab a copy of the site for me.

• Craigslist: An ideal model for Internet Governance
  paper suggesting "decentralized governance and user accountability as a means of governing the Internet." [via craigblog]
  filed under: academy, government, internet, psychology, community

• NASA - Strange Moonlight
  "The Harvest Moon of 2006 rises on October 6th, and if you pay attention, you may notice a few puzzling things."
  filed under: astronomy
• Schneier on Security: Faulty Data and the Arar Case
  Judicial oversight is a security mechanism. It prevents the police from incarcerating the wrong person. The point of habeas corpus is that the police need to present their evidence in front of a neutral third party, and not indefinitely detain or torture
  filed under: government

• Glenn Greenwald: The legalization of torture and permanent detention
  "...we are now about to vest in the President the power to order anyone -- U.S. citizen, resident alien or foreign national -- detained indefinitely in a military prison regardless of where they are -- U.S. soil or outside of the country." [via MeFi]
  filed under: government, history, law, life
• This Old Network: Ze Frank is manipulating our lizard brains
  how new media stars like Ze Frank might be using media theory to connect with (manipulate?) audiences [via kottke]
  filed under: academy, media
• HoboCopy
  looks like an interesting backup program that doesn't require you to shut down apps
  filed under: software, productivity
• The Bulletin: Media have retreated from political coverage
  the Bend Bulletin reports that local political coverage is all but dead in Oregon. [via OMI]
  filed under: media, politics, oregon