from Washington Post, via Slashdot
This has interesting implications. For example, as it catches on -- and I'm sure it will --, it will contribute to the 'realities' of people of differing political position getting even more apart from each other than they already are (cue the famed PIPA study: Misperceptions, the Media and the Iraq War).
On another side -- and not entirely unrelatedly -- this kind of classification in a crowd-sourced website is one of the few ways people of irreconcilable beliefs can peacefully coëxist in the "same" website. One of the major problems with Wikipedia is that its Founding Crowd did not realise this, instead opting for an unattainable "consensus" concept.
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