Wired: Submission Guidelines. The following information regarding Wired was gathered from Writer's Market ( and Wired staff. "The purpose of Wired is to illuminate the roots, issues and possible destiny of the emerging digital culture. If you want to write for us, here are some things to keep in mind: Amaze us. We know a lot about digital computers and we are bored with them. Wired is a multimedia event on paper. We seek young and new voices -- voices that are passionate and involved. It shouldn't matter too much if someone rereads your piece next month or next year. If you care deeply about something that's inextricably tied to digital technologies, chances are we cover it. Write it well -- long, if the material demands. Sweep, color, scene, and strong character anecdotes are imperative. The piece must be definitive. We are re-inventing paper as a communication tool for the digital era. We don't want anything that duplicates what you can read elsewhere.
We print complaints. Alter: How Obama Can Fight the Lies. PostSecret. Abraham R. Wagner: Secrets Exposion. While the Pentagon is justifiably outraged by the massive leak of classified documents to the Wikileaks web site, it was an inevitable event. It is also a serious problem of the Government's own making. The individual responsible for the leaks to Wikileaks.com likely faces significant jail time. Responsibility for the damage, however, needs to be shared by those who created the situation in the first place. The problem comes in several parts. First, the sheer volume of classified materials has increased over the past decade by massive proportions. The second aspect of the problem lies in the adoption of new information technologies by the national security world. As the technology revolution marched, on the military and the intelligence agencies were compelled to change their ways. The third and most troublesome aspect of the problem has been the enormous increase in the sheer number of people with security clearances.
Wittgenstein's Ladder: Introduction. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value (1) In the autumn of 1939, Ludwig Wittgenstein and his young Cambridge student and friend Norman Malcolm were walking along the river when they saw a newspaper vendor's sign announcing that the Germans had accused the British government of instigating a recent attempt to assassinate Hitler. When Wittgenstein remarked that it wouldn't surprise him at all if it were true, Malcolm retorted that it was impossible because "the British were too civilized and decent to attempt anything so underhand, and . . . such an act was incompatible with the British 'national character'. " Wittgenstein was furious. Some five years later, he wrote to Malcolm: Whenever I thought of you I couldn't help thinking of a particular incident which seemed to me very important. . . . you made a remark about 'national character' that shocked me by its primitiveness.
One such set of "primitive" propositions has to do with poetry. That's all that happens. The Web Means the End of Forgetting. White House Apologizes to Fired Official. WASHINGTON — , the black Agriculture Department official whose firing and subsequent offer of rehiring by the Obama administration this week has sparked a national conversation about politics and race, said Thursday she believes she deserves a telephone call from — and the White House said Mr. Obama has not ruled it out. Ms. Sherrod, who until Monday was the rural development director for the Agriculture Department in Georgia, said she was inclined not to return to the agency. Secretary on Wednesday said he was asking her to return to use her expertise to help move the department past its checkered history in race relations, but she told the “Today” show on that she did not want the burden of solving the department’s racial problems to rest entirely on her.
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