Around the Tubes: Thank God for Antibiotics Edition

Thanks to the miracles of modern medicine I'm starting to recover. Here's a whole bunch of stuff I missed while laid-up in bed:

• Over at It's Getting Hot in Here. Julianna Williams has an excellent run down on what has bene a busy 6 weeks in the youth climate movement. If you're looking to find out what young people have been doing to stop global warming and contribute to the international movement to halt climate change, read this piece.
• Hang around in lefty campus politics long enough, and you'll hear stories about liberal bias among professors and probably encounter the work of David Horowitz. Well, apparently unable to find any real discrimination against conservative thought on campus, one student at Princeton just decided to make some shit up, going so far as to fabricate an assault and threatening emails. Police are now investigating. You've got to admire the intellectual honesty of campus conservatives.
• Rock the Vote and AT&T have announced a plan to register 2 million young adults, in part through text messaging.
• There was an attempt in Maryland to disenfranchise (from the primary) 17 year olds who will by 18 by November 2008. Opposition from Fair Vote and both the Democratic and Republican Parties has caused the state to reverse its decision. Kat Barr at Rock the Vote Blog has the story.
• Ron Paul is encouraging Iowa students to come back to the state for the caucus, and he's putting up some of his new-found cash to help them make the trip.
• The Des Moines Register reported on the work of Rock the Caucus - a partnership of Rock the Vote, the Iowa PIRGs, and the Iowa Secretary of State's office - to prepare high school students for participation in their first caucus.
• WireTap runs down the 10 biggest victories in 2007 for youth actvists on issues ranging from climate change to Jena and college affordability.
• We're Going International. The UK's Liberal Democrat Party has hired Brian Eno to help the party reach young voters.
• The Nation ran an excellent piece about privacy and activism on Facebook.
• Finally your moment(s) of Zen via Mike Gravel's latest ads. The first mixes schoolhouse rock and 60's acid culture to create a video that is tele-tubby-esque in its mesmerizing capabilities. The second, Mike Gravel raps. 'nuf said.