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- Josh Marshall is doing real reporting on his weblog, connecting the dots between assertions of Iraq's attempts to procure uranium from Africa, and the appearance of the now infamous fake Niger documents. The short version is that shortly after the CIA demanded that references to the uranium from Africa be expunged from a Bush speech, an Italian journalist recieved the fake Niger documents from one of her sources and then was instructed by her editor to deliver them to the US embassy. The speculation is that the documents (which are now known to be fake) were produced by either pro-war elements in the the US itself or Israel. Obviously this is a real conspiracy theory, but given that the documents are certainly fake, and the timing, it looks like conspiracy might be the right answer here. |
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- I've been paying attention to the SCO case, but haven't been writing about it much. In recent days, SCO appears to have gone completely over the edge, and has basically decided that the GPL is invalid and furthermore has been behaving as though that's the case. Groklaw has the best continuing coverage. |
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- I want this prediction to be accurate so badly that it hurts. |
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- I have lots of comments to reply to. There are still some animal mania-y ones that I want to respond to, I just gave it a rest for a while because it was making me kinda depressed and I didnt want to give a whole day of my life over to answering LJ... |
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- Found on the Washington Post web site. They do a story like this every year on halloween. Typical Witch at... |
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- Witches League for Public Awareness Why I never posted this one I dont know. Ive got to post more to... |
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- This hasn't been covered much, to my knowledge. In the Developer Tools install for Panther, there is a new application called Repeat After Me (in the /Developer/Applications/Utilit folder). Kim S often told me about this program, and that they couldn't find the source to the original version. It looks like they've overcome that issue and created an OS X version. Basically, Repeat After Me allows you to enter a string of text, generate a phoneme list, then speak the string and apply your cadence and pitch to the phoneme list... |
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- Effort to impeach the Chief Justice of the Philippines threatens to throw that country into a constitutional crisis: Today's edition of The Manila Bulletin reports here that "Gov't will strike hard at any group that tries to destabilize it amid impeach i |
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- Name: Mark Alexander Email: marka@cp10. es. xeroxSTOPSPAM. |
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- A judge appointed a University of South Florida professor on Friday to independently investigate the case of a severely brain-damaged woman at the center of a right-to-die battle. |
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- Die iranische Regierung will nach den Worten ihres Vertreters bei der Internationalen Atomenergiebehörde (IAEA), Ali Akbar Salehi, jegliche Unklarheit im Atomstreit beseitigen. Noch sind indes einige Fragen offen. |
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- Sam Gentile: writing your first Longhorn application. |
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- Sam Gentile: writing your first Longhorn application. |
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- Vuitton, the handbag maker which made news recently for suing the search engine Google for selling its trademarked name as a keyword to competitors for sponsored text ads, may have opened a virtual Pandora's box of litigation. [More] |
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- Operating systems take center stage, as Microsoft trots out Longhorn, Apple fends off some OS X criticism and Linux gets a boost. |
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- The unveling of Whidbey, Yukon, Indigo, and all things Longhorn this past week has me excited about whats to come. Although I couldn't experience the PDC first hand, all the blog crazy attendees made me feel as if I was there. They did an amzing job covering many of the sessions, providing pictures, videos, and random thoughts on the overall experience. |
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Boo! (Oct 31 2003 19:57 GMT) - Happy Halloween from ridey.net!... |
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- Vuitton, the handbag maker which made news recently for suing the search engine Google for selling its trademarked name as a keyword to competitors for sponsored text ads, may have opened a virtual Pandora's box of litigation. [More] |
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- Early this morning, in what investigators are calling "the biggest crime sweep in athletic history", authorities arrested the entire NBA on charges of Grand Theft Auto, First, Second and Third Degree Murder, Manslaughter, Solicitation of Prostitution, Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol, Failure to Pay Alimony, Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Breaking and Entering, Wire Fraud, Racketeering, Conspiracy, Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor, Leaving the Scene of a Crime, Drug Possession, Drug Trafficking, Statutory Rape, Sexual Assault, Perjury, Tampering with a Witness and Ripping the Tag off of a Mattress. [More] |
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- Responding to a flurry of prayers from Boston and Chicago, God reasserted his steadfast position that he is still ignoring all sports-related prayers through the 2003-2004 seasons. [More] |
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- Protestors are blocking forestry roads, hoping to prevent fur-traders from cutting down one of the last stands of virgin Douglas Furs in the province. The protestors, naturalists, and activists who are opposed to fur-trading, say they are prepared to go to jail if necessary. Many block the road singing hymns, while others have climbed the majestic fur-coated trees setting up cozy camps high in their warm, furry branches. They say they won't leave until the forest is declared a natural sanctuary, safe from the saw and knife of commerce. [More] |
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- Due in large part to the encouragement of her so-called friends, 34-year-old Karen Sabin quit her steady job to make and sell homemade gourmet dog biscuits out of her home, the former hospital receptionist told reporters Monday. [More] |
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- Confronted with an armed intruder in their home, two women plied him with a ham sandwich and rum until he became groggy and passed out. [More] |
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- The raging fires that have been wreaking havoc on the people of California entered a dangerous new phase late last night, when the Pacific Ocean caught on fire. Rescuers have been working through the early hours evacuating swimmers from the sea, but diehard surfers remain. [More] |
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- Thousands of commuters were left stranded in New York after a man got his hand stuck down a train toilet trying to retrieve his mobile phone. [More] |
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- A group of Brazilian doctors are offering free penis enlargment surgery on the internet. [More] |
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- Quote van de dag: "The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we make it". Michelangelo |
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- Just in time for Halloween, a vampire-killing kit complete with a wooden stake and 10 silver bullets sold for $12,000 US at auction Thursday. [More] |
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- Tijdens de Business review meeting van vandaag kwam de naam ineens weer naarboven van een oud collega. Deze oud collega was een assistent manager in mijn team en heeft op een nogal rottige manier afscheid genomen. Aangezien hij niet in teamverband functioneerde besloten we zijn contract niet te verlengen. Aangezien ik op zich geen hekel aan hem had en het nooit leuk is om je baan te verliezen besloot ik mijn contacten binnen Burger King aan te spreken om te kijken of ik binnen BK company wellicht een vergelijkbare functie voor hem kon regelen. Toen dit geregeld was en ik hem dit voorstel deed werd ik zo ongeveer uitgelachen. |
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- (2003-10-31) -- Presidential candidate Howard Dean has charged rival Sen. John Kerry, D-MA, with "metrosexual discrimination" claiming Mr. Kerry is trying to deprive him of employment. The charge comes despite the fact that Mr. Dean appears conflicted about his sexual... |
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- Is there an aggregator in the house? I love the RSS aggregator in Radio Userland and I use it all the time. But it's on a desktop computer that is not conveniently accessible outside the Salon network. So I'm looking for an aggregator that I can install on my laptop (it's a Windows machine) to take my feeds with me wherever I go. I like the "all on one page" format of Radio rather than the multipane, RSS-headlines-like-emails-in-O approach of so many popular aggregators. |
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- FAIR said that calling the raids terrorizing was wrong. |
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- Native-born Americans of all racial and ethnic backgrounds left Cook County, which includes the city of Chicago |
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- Most of you are too jaded to get worked up over the specter of a well-sponsored bus, packed with illegal workers and their fans. |
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- National Review Senior Editor Ramesh Ponnuru says opponents of the measure aren't on solid ground. |
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- A manager of a Gulf Shores cleaning company pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Mobile to failing to pay $51,160 in income taxes |
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- Any scorecard they give has got to say these problems are adversely impacted by current immigration policy. |
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- Co-author of USA Patriot Act Speaks in Austin |
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- James Bigelow Sr. loved race cars so much that he bought a Chevrolet Malibu and got it into racing shape. |
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- Okay, it's still early. You haven't carved the jack o'lantern. What to do? Don't panic, use one of these rock... |
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- I haven't done this in a while, but since today's Friday Five is about Halloween, I thought I'd give it... |
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- I know, I know, the calendar says it is the season of autumn, but it surely does not feel like... |
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- You don't have to smell my feet! Hehe. I do wish you all a very safe and happy Halloween. May... |
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- The new issue of Zeek is live, and features the poetry of my dear friend Raphael Cohen. A pleasant and unexpected surprise... |
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Bogeymen (Oct 31 2003 19:55 GMT) - CocoWeb (trans) is a project which has assembled 516 manifestations of the Bogeyman in Latin America. The list includes the well-known Coco or Cucuy, a dark figure who makes an appearance in the art world as the subject of one of Goya's Caprichos. Any Hispanic child can tell you about La Llorona, a grieving woman who walks in the night (familiar enough to be used in a controversial got milk? ad). In South America they can tell you about the Sack-Man, on of the original bogeymen, who walks in the darkness, looking for children to throw into his sack. |
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