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WashPost.: South Carolina’s Republican Party will move its 2008 presidential primary forward to Jan. 19, sources said yesterday, a decision almost certain to spark a cascade of calendar changes that could push the start of voting to New Year’s Day or even to before Christmas. The move, set to be announced today, is likely to cause the New Hampshire primary and Iowa caucuses to be shifted at least to early January, and other states are actively angling to stake out…

The three final selections for the new Transbay Terminal have been unveiled at a ceremony earlier this week. Pictured: The proposal: An 82-story tower topped by a wind turbine that includes offices, housing and a hotel next to a transit center that would have fresh food markets and cultural facilities. The architects: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. The London firm’s current projects include a tower for the World Trade Center site in New York City. Founder Richard Rogers is the…

Universities Install Footbaths to Benefit Muslims, and Not Everyone Is Pleased The New York Times August 7, 2007 But as a legal and political matter, that solution has not been quite so simple. When word of the plan got out this spring, it created instant controversy, with bloggers going on about the Islamification of the university, students divided on the use of their building-maintenance fees, and tricky legal questions about whether the plan is a legitimate accommodation of students’ right…

The powers that be have told me that my piece updating the Estonian cyberattack situation will air today on The World (and of course on the Internet on any of these stations’ streams.) New York – 3 pm Eastern – WNYC – 820 AM – www.wnyc.org Washington, DC – 3 pm Eastern – WAMU – 88.5 FM – www.wamu.org Los Angeles – 12 pm Pacific – KPCC – 89.3 FM – www.kpcc.opg Boston – 4 pm Eastern – WGBH –…

The New York Times: Like most of her neighbors, Ms. Baranski splurged most on a house in a community studded with some of the most expensive real estate in the country. Early in 2001, when Ms. Baranski seemed richer than she was, they paid $1.95 million for a dilapidated house in Menlo Park, knowing they would tear it down. They spent $1 million over the next few years building their dream house. Ms. Baranski recognizes, of course, that she is…

Or, The Izzard Doctrine shows how history repeats itself. LA Times: The flag-planting ritual and the thinking behind the Russians’ audacious territorial claims have their roots in the development and use of the Doctrine of Discovery by European and American explorers from the 15th through the 20th centuries. Starting with Pope Nicholas V in 1455, the Europeans conveniently declared their divine right to empty land or to land occupied by “pagans and enemies of Christ.” The main requirement was just…

Canoe.ca New Pornographers battle Internet leaks on their own terms July 30 2007 “Personally, I don’t have a huge problem with leaks, I’m of the belief that if people get your record for free but they come to your show and buy a T-shirt or whatever, well, it’s the same difference. You’re not really losing much money. It’s better than them not taking the record for free and not coming to your show,” [New Pornographers singer/guitarist/songwriter Carl] Newman says during…

Many of my favorite acts/bands are playing shows in San Francisco in the coming weeks and months: Eddie Izzard Marines Memorial Theater – August 6 The New Pornographers Warfield – September 17 Arctic Monkeys Bill Graham Civic – September 27 They Might Be Giants Fillmore – September 30 Also of note: Youssou N’Dour at the Masonic – November 30 Ira Glass & David Rakoff at Zellerbach (Berkeley) – February 23

Nick Freilich, aka Epicte, has re-mixed my photo of Meta-Che to advertise his new CD:

Longtime readers of this blog may remember that I did a piece on MobMov, a “guerilla drive-in” last summer for The World. Today, the Chronicle decided to do a piece on it as well. I suppose I should have pitched it to the Chronicle myself. A year ago.