If you're looking for some very different stuff, you should give The Bad Plus a listen. I'm wearing out the grooves on my copy of Never Stop, but I think my favorite album of theirs is These Are The Vistas. They have a way with teetering on the edge of cacaphony and coming back from the precipice that makes my brain happy.
I think Facebook is probably immune from the big-bang-death of Digg et al, but I do think it's in decline. More and more, my social group is leaving Facebook and falling back on a combination of email, instant messaging and Instagram to keep in touch. Everyone still has a Facebook account, but my news feed has come to be dominated by a small subset of my friends who still actively post; I myself barely ever sign on any more.
Just read the blog post you linked from Heinrichs, then immediately bought his book. And Jonah never lied, he just "borrowed" a bunch, so I'll take a look. Thanks so much!
I'm a little confused by this: Did the Human Rights Campaign say that in relation to Manning's case? What makes her gender reassignment surgery medically necessary?The Human Rights Campaign — an advocacy group for gays, lesbians and transgendered people — said there is “a clear legal consensus” that the U.S. government should cover the cost of sex-change operations for federal prisoners if the treatment is medically necessary.