found drama

• Why Washington needs Joe Biden
  Alex Seitz-Wald, writing at Salon.com:

  Regardless of whether you agree with him [Biden] or not, or if history has proven him right or wrong, he is one of the few figures in the most senior echelon of foreign policy thinking in Washington willing to give voice to unpopular views on the national security questions of the day that might otherwise be absent from the debate.

  (tagged: foreign policy politics )
• Chatting with Obama For America’s Director of Frontend Development: Daniel Ryan
  Fun little read over at Nettuts+. Title says it all.
  (tagged: front-end development )
• DIY Star Wars Snowflakes
  At Matters of Grey. These are just awesome.
  (tagged: DIY Star Wars )
• Backbone, local storage and server synchronization
  Neil Bevis, writing at the OCC Dev Camp blog, with a clever and detailed solution for syncing data between localStorage and the remote server in a Backbone.js-based application UI. (Via Wesley Hales' HTML5 and JavaScript Web Apps book (reviewed).)
  (tagged: localStorage JavaScript Backbone.js )
• A Year in Jail for Not Believing in God? How Kentucky is Persecuting Atheists
  Tom Riner, America's Newest Biggest Ignorant Asshole. (At Alternet.)
  (tagged: politics law atheism )

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