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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - "The ads really aren't worth complaining about since they are interweaved with their standard ads for GNU and their own operating system..."... |
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- We don't have to go the Third World, as my friend Pepe suggests, to find examples of profound human misery. How about the Central Valley of California or the Florida panhandle? In the latter, a situation of virtual slavery exists, with regards to tomato farm workers in Immokalee. From the Coalition of Immokalee Workers website: |
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- The inequity is sickening. And it's not just propaganda: it really is modern-day, 21st century slavery (link to a National Geographic feature by Andrew Cockburn and Jodi Cobb: HIGHLY recommended). |
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- Do something about it: check out the Immokalee workers' website and inform yourself about the issue. Then, boycott Taco Bell and all the rest of the YUCK! restaurants, and tell your family and friends about it, too. Genuine, radical change does begin down here, in the grassroots. |
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- Patents: One thing that gets pretty confusing when one investigates the whole patents/open-source/copyright protection field, is the nature of the term Intellectual Property. What's called 'IP' consists of three parts: copyright, patents, and ... |
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- Patents: One thing that gets pretty confusing when one investigates the whole patents/open-source/copyright protection field, is the nature of the term Intellectual Property. What's called 'IP' consists of three parts: copyright, patents, and trademarks. This extract from Harvard's 'Intellectual Property in Cyberspace' series notes: |
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- This article by Monbiot in the Guardian is from the Pat Buchanan/Paul Craig Roberts school of economics. I never spent the time to debunk the Buchanan piece a while back ("The Death of Manufacturing"), but I see a lot of... |
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- From the anchor desk... Democratic and Republican lawmakers argue that the Patriot Act has been the subject of much undeserved criticism. Recently, nearly 200 cities and three states have passed resolutions contending that the Act tramples on civil liber |
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- That Jason Vest of the American Prospect is no particular fan of Wesley Clark makes his "fair and balanced" analysis of the general's potential strength in red states all the more encouraging.". . . if his campaign gets its act... |
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- Helsingin Sanomat: Muumioiden säilyvyyden salaisuus selvisi. "Tübingenin yliopiston ja Dö |
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- A new message was posted: Address: http://radio. userland. |
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- Oct. 22 - While visiting Indonesia, President Bush reiterated his pledge to continue to fight terror, saying that the war was against evildoers, not Islam. |
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- Oct. 22 - High temperatures helped spur four wildfires in Southern California, including a fast-moving arson blaze that destroyed six homes in Reche Canyon. |
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- Oct. 22 - Madonna seduces Britney Spears in Spears' new hot music video 'Me Against The Music'. Take a peek. |
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- From an article on HIV/AIDS in Uganda. ...Proud of his country's achievement, Museveni rejects the Western priority on condom distribution--as... |
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- "Muhammad Stops Representing Himself; Original Counsel to Resume Defense of Sniper Suspect": The Washington Post provides this news update. |
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Common Good (Oct 22 2003 17:52 GMT) - Philip Howard writes an insightful article about the responsibility of the judiciary in keeping the rif raff out of courts. I very much like the article, but I stop short of jumping entirely on his soapbox. I think I will just have a seat on the edge |
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- aSh brings up a good point for conversation in the centralmx forums (as well as his own blog) about Central applications for iTunes. An interesting subject - what would you like to see? On a similar note, do you think... |
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- Excellent article on MSDN.Just a detail: why it's coming dated as October 21 on MSDN homepage and the article itself dated from May 2003 ;-)) |
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- Another day, another public enemy. The campaign to add so-called 'junk food' to the tobacco-alcohol 'axis of evil' has been fulminating for quite a while. There is nothing on the Statute books yet but I think we all know that it is only a matter of time. In the not-too-distant future, the Samizdata will be reporting the police raids on clandestine onion-ring factories and publishing underground recipes for 'academic and research purposes only'. By that... |
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- http://www. grandcentralterminal. com/pdf/calendar90thann. htm... |
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- He may not have been living here anymore (in fact, he left Portland the same year I moved here), but today still counts as a dark day for the Portland music scene. Elliott Smith, dead... |
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- This is a table about N.Y. Fresh Vegetable Market Update |
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- This is a table about U.S. Fruit Consumption Post Strong Growth |
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- This is a table about Boston Edible Nut Terminal Market Update |
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- Free speech HAS been dead all along right? Internet video expresses frustrations of Norht Korea. Uses Quicktime. |
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- "I have an idea. Timothy McVeigh and John Allen Muhammad - one of the accused D.C. snipers - both served in the military. I think we need to put all U. |
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- Among the men & groups in black hats: David Duchovny Mary Lou Retton |
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- Cafe Press.com, the online distributor which allows people to design their own T-shirts has banned a Propaganda Matrix.com T-shirt which lists evidence that the US government was involved in the 9/11 attacks. The images were censored due to 'offensive content'. |
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- Sweet Maria's would like to be your information source and green coffee supplier for your home coffee roasting adventures. Home roasting is easy! It only takes 5 to 15 minutes and your reward is the freshest coffee around. It requires no fancy equipment and green coffee from Sweet Maria's is half the price of roasted coffee from a retailer. We have a huge selection of green coffees, each carefully cupped and rated for quality. |
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- ...An apparent suicide.RIP, ElliotSmith grew up in Dallas, TX and was physically and emotionally tormented by insensitive schoolmates before moving west. Smith went to high school in Portland, OR and attended college in Massachusetts. In 1992, Smith formed Heatmiser with bandmates Neil Gust, Tony Lash, and later Sam Coomes. Heatmiser released three albums and an EP, but it was Smith's self-recorded 1994 effort Roman Candle that drew attention to Smith's spare, confessional songwriting and innovative guitar work. |
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- A new spin on WWI and WWII American propaganda posters have been reworked into a satiric take on current events. Many of the messages have a decidely Orwellian-feel. These posters are from the book "You Back the Attack, We'll Bomb Who We Want" by former Army Ranger turned antiwar comic book artist Micah Ian Wright. |
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SIPphone (Oct 22 2003 17:51 GMT) - Michael Robertson, of Lindows and MP3.com fame, has turned his attention to VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) phones, starting a company called SIPphone. The first product – a VoIP broadband unit that uses SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), connects to your broadband and can dial up any other SIP device in the world. |
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- The Vampire Church (VC) acts as a haven and resource for real vampirism. Vampirism is not a religion and therefore the VC is not a religious institution. The VC offers a place where real vampires may learn and share the experience of real vampirism. In as such, we desire to bridge the miles between people thru an online community where others may find and contact other people. Through online forums and meetings The VC will provide a resource of information to address the misconceptions about vampirism by the film industry and the media. |
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- Washington-area sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad won the right to defend himself Monday in his trial on murder, terrorism, conspiracy and firearms charges. Muhammad faces the death penalty if convicted of the murder or terrorism charge. Here is Muhammad's opening statement to the jury... |
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- A Japanese corporation wants to thrust the Interior community of Galena into international limelight by donating a new, unconventional electricity-generating plant that would light and heat the Yukon River village pollution-free for 30 years. There's a catch, of course. It's a nuclear reactor. |
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- A $246 million lawsuit has been filed against the designer, marketer and a retailer of the video game series "Grand Theft Auto" by the families of two people shot by teenagers apparently inspired by the game. The suit claims marketer Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc., designers Take-Two Interactive Software and Rockstar Games, and Wal-Mart, are liable for $46 million in compensatory damages and $200 million in punitive damages. |
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- The Stop RIAA Lawsuits Coalition is a group of 142 websites (and growing) that have come together to denounce the record industry's filesharing lawsuits and to call for a one week boycott of major label music beginning October 20, 2003. Read our press release (PDF) announcing the boycott. |
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- Just hours after Roy Horn was mauled by one of his tigers, doctors reportedly removed a portion of the Las Vegas illusionist's skull. Recent reports note that the fragment was implanted in a pouch in Horn's abdomen. Why place a piece of skull in someone's stomach? |
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