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- It's a Detroit dance party, baby! Michael McDonald's new collection of Motown hits is one of the best I've ever heard. In the two weeks since I've gotten it, I've probably listened to the whole thing 100 times. Of the 14 songs, half are by either Marvin Gaye or Stevie Wonder, including a |
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- "Porn Pawns: The kings of smut escape while the feds cook up small fry like former Dallas cop Garry Ragsdale." This article appears in the August 7, 2003 issue of The Dallas Observer. |
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- In the latest bizarre and hubristic corporate effort to privatize what used to be our common heritage, the Fox News Channel has sued to stop a humorist and his publisher from using the term "fair and balanced" (as reported by AP). Fox claims that by registering this term as a trademark it gained the right to block others from using it in public discourse. My question is, why isn't Fox prohibited from using the term "fair and balanced" under fraud and truth-in-advertising laws? |
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- The Evening Standard apologises to Orlando Figes. |
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- Steve Aylett recently came out with a CD, Staring Is Its Own Reward. |
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Mock Draft (Aug 13 2003 03:17 GMT) - To get you fantasy footballers ready for next week's draft here's a mock draft from NFL.com. Based on it, lots... |
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- S.F. slugger 10 behind Mays on career homer list |
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- I took my self a long 3-4 hour nap this afternoon. My goal is to stay up and try to catch some of the meteor shower tonight. As look would have it , the forecast for tonight is rain and thunder *sigh*Comments (1) |
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- "Michael A Ledeen, resident scholar in the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he works closely with the better-known former chairman of the Defense Policy Board, Richard Perle, has been a fixture of Washington's neo-conservative community for more than 20 years. But he is now out front, in a public campaign for the United States to confront Iran, warning that Tehran will cause Washington problems in both Iraq and Afghanistan and that 'the mullahs are determined to obliterate Israel'. " Asia Times [props to walker] Ledeen is apparently the international affairs analyst Karl Rove consults when he wants a 'fresh idea', and he increasingly sees his fax transmittals to Rove turned into official policy statements. |
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- An AP article in the August 11 Washington Post reports that the OYEZ Project at Northwestern University has begun to post MP3 files of the sound recordings which have been made of the oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court since 1955. |
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- This is a link to a business specializing in the sale of used amusement park rides: bumper cars, flume rides, rollercoasters, pirate ships, etc. Kinda cool if you really wanna max out your credit cards. |
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- The Planetary Society wants to send Ray Bradbury your birthday wishes: To celebrate the opposition of Mars on August 27 and Bradbury's 83rd birthday on August 22, The Planetary Society is gathering... |
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- Although sociology and human development can be a slippery science, with ill-defined objective goals, Ms. Sommers has written a book of surpassingly convincing evidence that boys are being shortchanged in our American educational system. |
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Good Work! (Aug 13 2003 03:15 GMT) - The FBI scored a big win, as they foiled an attempt to sell a surface-to-air missle on US soil, reported (pic and all!) at Secular Blasphemy. |
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- LabourStart headline - Source: ETFO |
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- LabourStart headline - Source: FOX23 |
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- LabourStart headline - Source: Pioneer Press |
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- LabourStart headline - Source: Star-Tribune |
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- LabourStart headline - Source: AP |
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- LabourStart headline - Source: New Haven Register |
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1879 in art (Aug 13 2003 03:15 GMT) - George Caleb Bingham |
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Qarshi (Aug 13 2003 03:15 GMT) |
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Sonata (Aug 13 2003 03:15 GMT) |
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- An August 1 AP article in the Guardian reports that the Nuremberg Trials Project at Harvard Law School is making available "more than a million documents" from the post-World War II trials at Nuremberg of Nazi war criminals, including transcripts of trials, briefs and other documents. The documents had been held at the University in 690 "musty basement boxes." The project was launched with funding from an alumnus, and the school is seeking additional support for an anticipated cost of seven to eight million dollars. |
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- The Dodgers and Marlins are tied going into the tenth. After each starter allowed four runs each, the bullpens have been nearly unhittable. Each has given up just one hit in relief, the Dodgers in four innings and the Marlins... |
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- "Death Row inmate strikes rare plea deal": The Associated Press has this report from Texas. Final meal averted. |
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- Via Doc Searls, I learned about Earth Station 5, a new P2P application and network. In general, like the approach, though the UI needs work (or perhaps just a cleaner skin). One of the interesting things about ES5 is that the search options go beyond typical file-sharing options. For example, you can use ES5 to find people. At first, this made me think of GlobeAlive - a search engine that returns live people - but I then realized ES5's person search is intended as a dating application. |
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- As revealed by the ending of the last episode of the Osbournes, it was all a scripted show. I wish I could say I wasn't surprised, but I actually was. They had actually gotten me to believe that it was... |
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- Of course, the American authorities regret this 'serious' mistake. But, of course, no one will be held culpable for this war crime [and I will be flamed for even calling it so.] "``I wish Saddam (Hussein) would return and kill all Americans,'' Anwaar Kawaz said. Under Saddam, ``we used to go out at one in the morning. We went out at 9 now and they killed us. |
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- Remember the Body Massage GI Joe videos, found a couple of more today. The first is the funniest. Find them here.... |
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- The highly-respected polling firm, Zogby International, recently conducted a survey of the attitudes of ordinary Saudi Arabian citizens about terrorism, Bin Laden, American culture, and American policy: In July 2003, working with our Lebanese partner Information International, SAL, ZI began a nationwide study of Saudis from four principal areas of the country (Riyadh, Jeddah, Damman, and Abha). In all, a random sampling of 600 Saudis was surveyed in face-to-face interviews. The margin of error for the study is ± 4.1 %. |
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- I was thinking today of how people have affected my life. The good and the bad, but I was especially... |
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- JAKARTA, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Mahendradatta is an intellectual property lawyer, but these days he spends less time on patent piracy than on trying to save ... |
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- JAKARTA, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Mahendradatta is an intellectual property lawyer, but these days he spends less time on patent piracy than on trying to save ... |
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- JAKARTA, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Mahendradatta is an intellectual property lawyer, but these days he spends less time on patent piracy than on trying to save ... |
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