The Tea Party grew from a grassroots group of both Conservatives and
Liberals and others who had gotten tired of having their
Constitutional rights trampled upon. It didn’t rise overnight but was
a slow accumulation of people that gathered information about
government and banking and groups and individuals who didn’t have
America’s best interests at heart.

Whistleblowers on corruption have died to bring the information the
Tea Party has based itself on and unfortunately the Tea Party might
have become the victim of what befalls any group that tries to make
change for the better: psychopaths.

It seems that no matter what group is formed to bring about good, the
psychopaths and sociopaths of society just sneak on in and manipulate
things with uncanny precision. They do their dirty work and when
disaster and misery follow, they slip away in the shadows leaving the
victims and betrayed to point fingers in the wrong direction.

When the Tea Party became more than just a group of so-called
conspiracy theorists because the pointed out the discrepancies of the
Federal Reserve or the IRS and the criminal pursuits of lobbyists for
big business, the party attracted these people of ill will whose only
purpose was to give it a bad name. Soon charges of sexism and racism
were bandied about and when knee-jerk conservatives, people who didn’t
check facts before shooting off their mouths stepped in front of the
movement, the unfair charges started to gain a foothold.

Here, when just a few years ago at that the Tea Party movement was
mocked by the media, scowled at by both Conservatives and Liberals.
Now it’s a movement that has gained respect but is still vulnerable to
the twisted and evil minds that would usurp it and undermine it. Not
because it’s a movement for the Right or the Left, but because
something good, a force for uncovering the sinister deeds of psychotic
people might be in the offering.

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GrahamYou had better clear a block of time before you read this book, because you won't be able to put it down very easily. 

First, just a little bit about how I first became aware of Graham Hancock through his work 'Fingerprints of the Gods', which looks at the idea of an antediluvian civilisation of some sophistication that existed during the last Ice age.  His more recent work 'Supernatural' is an account of how primitive societies used various techniques, including the ingestion of psychedelic plants to achieve altered states of consciousness.  After laying a solid foundation 'Supernatural' goes on to examine some of the strange myths and legends present in all societies, such as the presence of 'little people', and 'alien abduction' experiences.  In 'Supernatural', he seriously entertains the possibility that the perceptions of people in altered states are actually of independently-standing realities in other 'dimensions'.

Much of the knowledge he has amassed in his previous scholarly and investigative works, has been put to good use in Entangled and the result is a captivating and fantastic tale that is filled with action, as well as being thoughtful and philosophical. 

From the Entangled website:

Time is not what it seems...
When a drug overdose causes Leoni, a troubled teen from twenty-first-century Los Angeles, to have a near-death experience, her soul is lifted from the modern world and flung into a parallel time 24,000 years in the past. There her fate becomes entangled with that of Ria, a young Stone Age woman fighting for her life against the ferocious Illimani, an army of evil led by the vicious Sulpa, a powerful demon determined to destroy humanity.

As the invaders annihilate Ria's people, inflicting torture and human sacrifice, Sulpa moves ever closer to his ultimate goal: to manifest physically in the twenty-first century and condemn all of mankind to perpetual slavery. The hour is late and any chance of stopping him seems lost. But there is still hope, if Leoni and Ria can rise to the challenge fate has set them. Uniting outside the flow of earth time, they must venture forth into regions of wonder, master their own deepest fears, and fight battles they could never have prepared for, if Sulpa is to be defeated... 

I am looking forward to the sequel, which is already being written.

Blacklight is a free and open source ruby-on-rails based discovery interface (a.k.a. “next-generation catalog”) especially optimized for heterogeneous collections. You can use it as a library catalog, as a front end for a digital repository, or as a single-search interface to aggregate digital content that would otherwise be siloed.

See: http://projectblacklight.org/

Freebase Gridworks - soon to be released open source:

See: http://blog.freebase.com/2010/03/26/preview-freebase-gridworks/

"As the open data juggernaut picks up steam, a lot of folks are going to discover what some of us have known all along. Much of the data that’s lying around is a mess. That’s partly because nobody has ever really looked at it. As a new wave of visualization tools arrives, there will be more eyeballs on more data, and that’s a great thing. But we’ll also need to be able to lay hands on the data and clean up the messes we can begin to see. As we do, we’ll want to be using tools that do the kinds of things shown in the Gridworks screencasts."

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