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- What Really Matters I'm just poking my head up after two weeks of not doing much of anything except taking care of my wife, who is recovering from major surgery. The doctors said her problem was Pseudomyxoma Peritonei, which I've never heard of before. The doctors said it's a rare condition that's not really malignant but not really benign. |
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- An article in the Wall Street Journal this week talked about the dignity of B. Joseph White, the former interim President of the University of Michigan and former Dean of the U of M Business School. Perhaps because my degrees are from the university, the article caught my attention. It was a study in how one leaves and moves on with dignity and grace. |
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- Some unfortunate news, everybody. Ghyslain, aka the "Star Wars Kid," and his family may be pursuing legal action against the individual(s) who originally posted his video on the Internet. (Randy_Thomas) |
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- tagesschau.de : Siggy Pop Der niedersächsische SPD-Fraktionschef Sigmar Gabriel wird "Beauftragter für Popkultur und Popdiskurs" seiner Partei. Der ehemalige Ministerpräsident solle in dieser Funktion als Bindeglied zwischen der Partei und Prominenten fungieren, sagte ein SPD-Sprecher in Berlin. Kein Kommentar. |
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- Here's the deal. Go to blogjam and watch every one of the 32 Japanese flash animations he's found. Then go back to blogjam to find out what it all means. Sorta. People ask if I miss the internet. |
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- Morale Reportedly Flagging in Iraq Guardian/UK |
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- A Thanks to Adam for this: swarm of more than 12,000 honeybees turned a downtown electronic walk/don't walk sign into a makeshift beehive before the owner of a beekeeping equipment company coaxed the bees into a hive box below the traffic light. Coincidentally, the bees had camped out Thursday just below the sixth-floor offices of Gary Johnson, the owner of Minnesota Package Bees, who was called on to help capture and remove the bees from the busy intersection. Decked out head-to-toe in a white bee suit and mask, Johnson carried honeycomb frames up a ladder near the sign. Within minutes, thousands of bees flocked to the frames, while others hovered nearby. |
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- ! a collection of gutteral moans from comics. |
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- Here's John Dvorak's take on things. Usually prescient, he's really behind the curve here, isn't he? Blogging is beginning to sound like the CB Radio of the '00's to me. |
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'Duh' Dept: (May 31 2003 19:57 GMT) - Research funded by drug companies is 'biased': "Research funded by drug companies is more likely to produce results that favour the sponsor's product, reveals a new study. Researchers analysed 30 previous reports examining pharmaceutical industry-backed research and found the conclusions of such research were four times more likely to be positive than research backed by other sponsors." New Scientist And let us not forget a more fundamental bias in the reporting of research findings — that positive results (confirming a research hypothesis) are more likely to be reported than negative (disconfirmatory) ones. |
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- Why the President Had to Show His Balls: "In the annals of infotainment, few moments match the sight of George Bush leaping from the cockpit of a fighter jet and striding across the deck of a carrier at sea. Top Gun: The Pseudo Event enchanted the public, horrified liberals, and galvanized the press. Suddenly media mavens noticed that Bush's handlers have elevated the photo-op to pure cinema. |
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- Discerning commentator EJ Dionne writes in the Washington Post: "Bush promised to change the ways of Washington. He has succeeded brilliantly, but not by creating the "new tone of respect and bipartisanship" he promised in 2000. The new tone in Washington is not bipartisan but hyperpartisan. "Bipartisanship is another name for date rape," said White House ally Norquist, according to the Denver Post this week, as he promised to bring Washington's new ferocity to the state capitals. |
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- The Bush administration focused on alleged weapons of mass destruction as the primary justification for toppling Saddam Hussein by force because it was politically convenient, a top-level official at the Pentagon has acknowledged. The extraordinary admission comes in an interview with Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Defence Secretary, in the July issue of the magazine Vanity Fair. It increasingly emerges not only that we are lied to — no surprise — but that it is an explicit instrument of policy to do so. |
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- Since Starbucks has sunken to the mass-market level of Dunkin' Donuts, why shouldn't DD mimic Starbucks offerings? But with one twist — Fair-Trade certified beans. Forbes |
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- A British soldier is today being questioned by Ministry of Defence war crimes investigators after the emergence of photographs showing disturbing scenes of alleged "torture" of Iraqi PoWs. One of the photographs is reported to show an Iraqi PoW gagged and bound, hanging in netting from a fork-lift truck. Others allegedly depict soldiers committing sex acts near captured Iraqis. This Is London |
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- Official, Histrionic, Account of White House response to 9-11: Trapped on the other side of the country aboard Air Force One, the President has lost his cool: "If some tinhorn terrorist wants me, tell him to come and get me! I'll be at home! Waiting for the bastard! |
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guu (May 31 2003 19:57 GMT) - chocolate: yeah right! |
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- Vodalian writes "Distinction as the last surviving Aircraft Carrier built in England for WW II and commissioned as the HMS Vengeance in late 1944, this unique ... |
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- hey guys, my weblog's a little bit more famous. i went to eat w/ my dad, brother, and his fiance hallie at mother's in liverpool, ny on thursday and when i walked in, deb and pattie, the waitresses, were telling me i was famous and in the newspaper. i had no clue what they were talking about but it turns out the syracuse newspaper, the post standard, has this section where they print stuff they find online. so they printed part of one of my posts and said where they found it. it just sucks cause this was the snippit: |
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