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- The Minnesota Timberwolves played the whole 82 game season to get home-court advantage for the first time in franchise history, and promptly lost it in game 1 of their first round playoff series against the Lakers.The Lakers won behind 39 from Kobe, dominance from Shaq whenever he did manage to touch the ball, and to top it off fantastic outside shooting from Rick Fox and Derek Fisher in the first half. All told, the Lakers shot about 65% in the first half to take a 16 point lead.Turnovers and sloppy offense nearly gave away the lead in the third quarter, but Shaq powered the lead back up after three, and the Lakers never looked back.15 games left to win for the Lakers to win their fourth consecutive championship. |
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- The May 2003 issue of Discover Magazine has an amazing article on thermal depolymerization entitled "Anything into Oil." The upcoming waste disposal procedure can convert virtually anything into "high-quality oil, clean-burning gas, and purified minerals." Thermal depolymerization won't solve the... |
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- surfacearea writes "The New York Times [free reg] is running an article that, without sounding like over-the-top blatant product placement discusses the ... |
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- For some reason RFB's market cap and incoming/outgoing link tallies are frozen at March 20 levels over at BlogShares. On the other hand the share price is updated dynamically (and, gratifyingly, I suppose, has been on a pleasing upward curve lately). One interesting thing is that the people who've acquired shares of RFB frequently belong to blogs that I don't recognize, meaning they either haven't linked to me or haven't sent any traffic my way. It's apparently another subset of my readership, so BS is doing me a service by helping me find more of my extended community. Another thing is that in the last week or so I've received gifts of shares from three different people. |
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Easter!! (Apr 20 2003 21:57 GMT) - Today is easter......Hope it was a good holiday for all of you! Off to work, hopefully it will be busier... |
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- full credit given to tacosaurus over in the Designologue 'Lounge. i post it here to preserve it cause its just so damn catchy and funny. The Manic Feast of Duper Super Futuristicism. Founded: 2001. |
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- Full article at: http://ens-news. com/ens/apr2003/2003-04-17-10. aspThe House energy bill passed last week contains some $20 billion in tax credits for oil, gas and nuclear power, and offers little to bolster the nation's development of renewable energy. |
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- by Shari A. BuieIntroductionEthical Veganism should be protected under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the US Constitution. Ethical Veganism, as opposed to veganism,[i] sets forth beliefs that justify the practice. These beliefs are moral or ethical in nature, not social or political. Because this ethical way of life is based on the belief in the equality of all animals, and because it creates a moral duty to eradicate unnecessary suffering through personal actions, which encompass the entire scope of human existence, from what to eat to what to use to what to wear, Ethical Veganism meets the US Supreme Court’s jurisprudential determinations of religious practice. |
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- James Taranto, Editor of the Wall Street Journal's Opinionjournal.com blog, recently posted this in his Today's Best of the Web:PETA's Ox Is Gored Al-Jazeera is refusing to run an ad from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the Associated Press reports: PETA specifically targeted Al-Jazeera because the news network was in the news early in the war for airing pictures of bloody American bodies. The ad shows cows hanging upside down in a slaughterhouse after their throats had been slit, goats being killed and a chicken thrown violently at a box. |
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- This article from ENS points out some of the horrors that have befallen the Iraqi zoo animal population from the war, as is little talked about in major media (especially pro-war US media), animals are always amongst the major innocents claimed by such human brutality...this because there is a constant war against them regardless, and so they hold the lowest rung amidst prioritizing relief efforts. As I have documented previously, the stories of the animals like Marjan the Lion in the zoos in recent US wars in Kosovo and Afghanistan are amongst the most haunting and truly sad that I have ever heard. The crying wails 30 minutes prior to the bombing runs -- the animals often pick up on the jets and incoming missles long before the human population can -- the stories of insanity and disease, animals starved to death, and nervously biting off their own feet they are so terrorized...only to become target practice for locals if they do survive the tremendous agression of the bombs, or to become a starving person's dinner as the local zoo is transformed in a post-war atmosphere into a supermarket. |
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- Generally speaking, such red tides are caused by agricultural or industrial run-off into streams that feed into the ocean, or by the direct dumping of sewage and related organics (or organic stimulants) into the coastal sea (Boston harbor of the 1980s comes to mind). Florida has repeatedly had this problem, as the state, that is properly a freshwater/salt marsh everglades throughout its entire southern half, has drained and retrograded those wetlands for a farmland that washes its fertilizer, etc., directly into the Gulf. Sadly, Florida is not the only coastal region in America with siginficant toxicity, with a majority of the US coastal waters dangerously polluted. Here's an archived post that links some of this from Florida's Black Tide catastrophe of last year. |
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- The following was released 4/17 by the National Environmental Trust:Are you a member of the Republican leadership or even, possibly, the President of the United States? Is your record on the environment terrible? Is that terrible record making you dread the fast approaching Earth Day like a visit to the dentist? Then maybe it's time you visited LUNTZSPEAK. |
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- What is EURCA?EURCA actively promotes the use of alternatives to using animals in higher education (HE). We aim to provide a mechanism for effective dissemination of information about alternatives to using animals in HE.Their database of alternative approaches (which is in the building stages) won't please people who object to animal lab science, etc., not just on humane grounds but at the level of the entire worldview which produces and supports it. |
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- At Ft Detrick in Frederick Maryland, 4000 monkeys were sacrificed in 1 weaponized anthrax experiment alone, said an employee who was interviewed on Walter Cronkite's PBS Armageddon series.The experiment was geared to what level of weaponized anthrax needed to be used to kill 50% of test monkeys.Experimentation upon primates (vivisection and experimentation in general!) needs to be abolished immediately -- to not take a stand on this clear moral and ethical wrong is akin to turning one's back on such modern abuses as the slave trade and the denial of rights to women.The following photos -- taken from recent Russian tests upon monkeys -- serve to highlight the cruel barbarism to this practice: |
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- It's hard to tell whether New Urbanism best fits the definition of a cult or a conspiracy. It has elements of both. Either way, my advice is not to drink the Kool-Aid. Embracing a politically correct excuse for growth is suicide for the West's small towns. New Urbanism is the name given to a collection of ideas about land-use planning and architectural design as exemplified by a book called Suburban Nation: |
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- Surfing around I came across this list put together by the Federal Government -- the USDA to be exact -- on vegan/vegetarian nutrition. They claim it is updated to May 2002. I would be interested if anyone spots anything that is clearly biased or outdated...At: http: |
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- The Republican staff of the US Senate's environment committee have taken it into their own hands to combat what they see as a threat to the US military: environmental regulations.They have even given their efforts a militaristic moniker: the catchy "Operation End Extremism". The five-week-old campaign - whose main weapon is e-mail - underscores the controversy surrounding efforts to insulate the US military from environmental lawsuits. |
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- Malaysia is worried about the economic impact of a campaign by Western non-governmental organisations seeking protection for orangutans whose habitat, they say, is being threatened by oil palm plantations.The groups claim that forests in the region are being cleared to make way for bigger palm plantations, thus reducing the orangutans' habitat. While the campaign's main focus is Indonesia, Malaysia is affected as its territory includes the orangutans' habitat on the Malaysian part of Borneo, and local firms are expanding plantations into Indonesian territory.The Malaysian government has decided that the campaign could affect consumer perception on palm oil.Primary Industries Minister Datuk Seri Lim Keng Yaik sees the campaign to save orangutans as a "smear campaign" that is being waged against the palm oil industry and Malaysia would oppose any move linking trade with environmental issues. |
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- Listed below are the estimates of people needing emergency food aid in Africa, according to the World Food Programme.Ethiopia: Food is short because of prolonged drought; 14 million people need food aid to avoid starvation.Eritrea: |
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- Two California poultry farmers who fed some 30,000 live chickens into wood chippers will not face criminal charges because they had permission from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, prosecutors said on Friday. But a spokesman for the Humane Society of the United States called the farmers "callous and barbaric" and disagreed with the decision not to prosecute them. The farmers needed to destroy the chickens because they were "spent" -- or no longer able to produce eggs -- and could not make chicken soup out of them because the farms were under quarantine for the poultry virus Exotic Newcastle Disease, District Attorney's spokeswoman Gayle Stewart said. |
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- In this era of "permanent war," the U.S. war machine bombards civilians in places like Serbia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. It also makes "war on the Earth," both at home and abroad. The U. |
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- There will be a conversation in San Francisco on April 30 w/ McKibben and other leading experts in trans-genetics and social life on the dangers of a genetically-modified future. McKibben is apparently on a press tour for his new book (blurb below)...I like Bill McKibben and it goes without saying that what is happening right now with the state and corporate implementation of trans-genes in plants and animals -- much of which goes on virtually (or actually) in secret and beyond democratic discussion or ethical mandate -- is one of the chief dangers of our danger-ridden age. However, as we read below, that ecologists and environmentalists will respond to this danger by voicing "the human" as a territory to defend is both reactionary and wrong-headed. What is this "human" that is being defended, we might wonder? |
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- Starbucks expansion continues. Are corporate giants like Starbucks and Clear Channel Communications limiting consumer choice as they saturate the marketplace? Starbucks Corp. bought Seattle's Best Coffee last week for $72 million. |
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- The first blog in today's installment is pumpkin patch by sister Arshe. She posts Islamic information and personal reflections. In a recent post (second of April 19), she reports on the progress of a project by Muslim elementary school students to prepare relief kits for people in Iraq. If that one doesn't make you smile, I don't know what will. Second, we have sammerz blog. |
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Seabiscuit (Apr 20 2003 21:55 GMT) - Seabiscuit airs on PBS Monday Night as part of American Experience. It draws on the best selling book by Laura Hillenbrand and she is among those interviewed. While the hour long documentary can't go into the fascinating detail of the book, it does show Seabiscuit racing. Though R.D. |
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- Music reporter Kate Sullivan on New York rock: "...right now rock culture and New York street fashion is about paying... |
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- Yuanzhe (Michael) Cai has written a short article (the PDF version, of which I have a copy, prints out as... |
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- Alive and well - but the Easter Bunny seems to have taken my cable away. When the cable goes, the cable internet goes too! Oops! So no internet access for me at home. I'm at my Mom's house for Easter dinner though, so I decided to borrow her computer to check my e-mail and pop in here. |
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- Alive and well - but the Easter Bunny seems to have taken my cable away. When the cable goes, the cable internet goes too! Oops! So no internet access for me at home. I'm at my Mom's house for Easter dinner though, so I decided to borrow her computer to check my e-mail and pop in here. |
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POGE (Apr 20 2003 21:54 GMT) - The good doctor on SIMPLE and XMPP. |
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CopyCatSkin (Apr 20 2003 21:54 GMT) - the Copy Cat Skin ...is not really a skin per se, rather it is (will be) a collection of partially built skins modelled after other popular sites on the net. TOC ... |
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- Sean swinging it up at Live Oak Park in Manhattan Beach! With Aunt Kelly, Momo and a picture of... |
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- We refer to this toy, affectionately, as the "A.D.D. Maker". The first time we put him inside of it... |
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- Shannon and Justin had a fun bbq on Saturday, but this is the only pic I can find of the... |
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- Sean crosses the six-month mark today. He is seriously contemplating crawling and drooling over the thought of having teeth!... |
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First Swim! (Apr 20 2003 21:53 GMT) - Sean getting dried off by Momo after his first swim!... |
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- Sean with Auntie Ames... Too much to report and tons of pictures. Sean met all kinds of great people this... |
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