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- Odd coincidence: the day after my first mention of the Altamont Pass windmills, today's Contra Costa Times has a report on birds killed by those turbines. |
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- zygmunt bauman, in one of his commentaries on the liquid modernity in which we now live, commented on the way news sets an agenda for today, dissects it in detail and then, tomorrow, moves on to a new agenda, shoving aside all that was discussed previously. afghanistan is one such issue that has been pushed aside in the head rush for new news. it's only two and a half years since the us began their attacks on afghanistan, but in that time other events - the current adventures in the middle east - have pushed afghanistan off the news agenda, save for the occasional minor report on us casualties in the country. siddiq barmak's film - the first film to be wholly made in post-taliban afghanistan, though with outside funding - is set in post-russian and pre-american afghanistan, with the taliban enforcing their strict reading of islamic beliefs. osama tells the story of twleve-year-old osama-who-was-a-girl. |
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- In 1984, at the Whitney Museum in New York, the modern met the postmodern. In his performance of Muoyce, composer John Cage -- most famous for 4'33", his 1952 work in which a musician stays utterly silent for precisely four minutes and 33 seconds -- "wrote through" Finnegans Wake by chanting letters and word-fragments that had been systematically separated from their original syntax and context. As interpreted by Cage and his computer, James Joyce's text was reduced to sequences of meaningless pseudo-words: "permienting hi himself then pass ahs c." A cathedral of literature was presented as a confused pile of masonry and stained glass. |
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- Those who virulently criticized Mel Gibsons The Passion even before its release seem unassailable: Are they not justified to worry that the film, made by a fanatic Catholic known for occasional anti-Semitic outbursts, may ignite anti-Semitic sentiments? More generally, is The Passion not a manifesto of our own (Western, Christian) fundamentalists? Is it then not the duty of every Western secularist to reject it, to make it clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the fundamentalism of other (Muslim) cultures? The Popes ambiguous reaction to the film is well known: |
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- ANTIAMERICANISM HASN'T BEEN ENOUGH to save Gerhard Schroeder from an electorate that's unhappy with him for many reasons: German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats were trounced in a regional election in the city-state of Hamburg seen as a key test for his center-left government, exit polls said. I think it's... |
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- ANTIAMERICANISM HASN'T BEEN ENOUGH to save Gerhard Schroeder from an electorate that's unhappy with him for many reasons: German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats were trounced in a regional election in the city-state of Hamburg seen as a key test for his center-left government, exit polls said. I think it's... |
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- Slashdot, the uber-site for techies, as an interesting thread on RSS as the Next Big Thing. The summary, below, isn't nearly as interesting as the threaded comments from (at this time) more than 100 readers. "Yahoo! carries an Associated Press editorial about RSS-based news feeds, and how they are pushing the spam-ridden e-mail and advertising-ridden web-pages aside and consolidate information from multiple sites. Slashdot itself is mentioned by the author as one of his sources. |
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- Sharpreader is what I use for blogging. New version out today. Adds Atom support, which is a very good thing. |
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- Organized Objectivism and intellectual organizations. -- Last night, Diana Hsieh spoke at a local Objectivist group regarding her statement of disassociation from The Objectivist Center (formerly the Institute for Objectivist Studies). Since I'm persona non grata at gatherings of this local group (that's another story) and since I prefer to spend my Saturday nights doing some good cooking and a little blogging rather than arguing about Ayn Rand, I didn't attend Diana's talk. But naturally I do have opinions in the matter. In fact, as one of my email correspondents pointed out, I've been expressing those opinions for quite a while now. |
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- "If you have a girlfriend and another one comes along, should you put your girlfriend down because the next girl... |
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Blair (Feb 29 2004 18:26 GMT) - Vi ricordate la famosa balla dell'analisi sull'Iraq, raccontata da Blair e poi risultata la scopiazzatura di una tesi? Ecco la documentazione della bufala (in inglese) e la storia curiosa di come attraverso una caratteristica di Windows, tutto il modno possa sapere esattamente CHI ci mise le mani sopra. Ovviamente il Governo britannico, non usa più windows per le proprie attività :))) da questa sequenza: Rev. |
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- با عنوان زندگی در تبعيد |
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- [N24 - Sport] - Finale in Heerenveen: Friesinger ließ 5000m aus |
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- Hey all:) Kimi and Soul are here with me. We had a nice evening last night together. We met at... |
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- Elfmeter in 83. Minute bringt die Entscheidung |
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- AllHeadlineNews.com - Feb 29 2004 23:19:0 GMT |
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- news.yahoo.com - Feb 29 2004 22:55:55 GMT |
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- news.yahoo.com - Feb 29 2004 22:45:55 GMT |
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- news.yahoo.com - Feb 29 2004 22:5:55 GMT |
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- news.yahoo.com - Feb 29 2004 21:55:55 GMT |
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- Open Source CMS Powers African NGO Websites. The Finnish government has funded Ungana-Afrika to support Southern African NGOs, which will include the recommendation of appropriate web-site and content management solutions using the Open Source Midgard Content Management System (CMS). Ungana-Afrika... |
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- As I mentioned a few days ago I put out a call for some help with purchasing a rackmount server to host the OI websites, demo websites, CVS, downloads, etc. I only received two responses so far (many, many thanks) but they were more than enough to make up the difference for the following: AOpen Fortress 9100: AOpen DX3R-1U motherboard with dual P3, onboard SCSI, 1U case with hotplug mounts, case fans, CPU fans, CD-ROM + FDD and all that; also a set of rails (both from a reputable ebay dealer) 512 MB registered ECC PC 133 from MemoryX 2 P3 600EB FC-PGA CPUs from Star Micro And unless some SCSI drives fall from heaven I'll just put my own in there, making this a pretty decent machine. |
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- Maybe the inclusion of magic word "Linux" in the announcement calmed them down, but I'm still a bit surprised that neither the opposition nor the wild-eyed crazies of the decentralisation lobby have yet cried foul over the government's surprise announcement,... |
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- L'aparador de les piscines de Miami |
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- Le retour sa vie monotone aprs une super semaine de vacances est vraiment quelque chose d'"horrible" mais d'invitable. Ainsi tous les amis qu'on a rencontrs, avec qui on s'est clat ne sont plus avec nous et trs loin pour certains. Malgr quelques photos qui rapellent les bons souvenirs, nous ne vivons plus la nouvelle vie que nous avons eu en l'espace d'une semaine, sans les parents et avec des nouvelles amitis qui se crent de jour en jour. Alors bien sur on essaye de garder le contact, chose particulirement difficile avec la distance. Mais j'imagine que le rve de tout le monde est de pouvoir se revoir tous ensemble le plus rapidement possible. |
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- Dimanche. 29 Fvrier. En plus. Ce jour-l n'arrive que tous les quatre ans, mais qu'est ce qu'on peut se faire chier. Comme un dimanche. |
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- Lu sur Samizdat.net : "Voici le tmoignage d une des 4 arrts et brutaliss par la BAC de Troyes dans la nuit de samedi 14/02 au environs de 3h du mat. Deux sont accuss violence sur personne dpositaire de l autorit publique, la personne dont voici le tmoignage est accus d outrage et rebellion. Ils passent tous les 3 en procs le 2 juin au TGI de Troyes. |
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- Il fait plus froid que froid ici, mais je peux pas m'empcher de penser l't. D'une part parce que mon souhaite le plus grand est que la temprature remonte un peu parce qu'en l'espace de quelques jours ( ef fait les jours qui suivaient Carnaval...) je me suis attrape un ruhme et un mal de cou. Bref, je prfre l't. D'autre part, parce que c'est cette priode que je ferais mon stage au CHU de ma rgion. |
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- Il fait plus froid que froid ici, mais je peux pas m'empcher de penser l't. D'une part parce que mon souhaite le plus grand est que la temprature remonte un peu parce qu'en l'espace de quelques jours ( ef fait les jours qui suivaient Carnaval...) je me suis attrape un ruhme et un mal de cou. Bref, je prfre l't. D'autre part, parce que c'est cette priode que je ferais mon stage au CHU de ma rgion. |
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- Il fait plus froid que froid ici, mais je peux pas m'empcher de penser l't. D'une part parce que mon souhaite le plus grand est que la temprature remonte un peu parce qu'en l'espace de quelques jours ( ef fait les jours qui suivaient Carnaval...) je me suis attrape un ruhme et un mal de cou. Bref, je prfre l't. D'autre part, parce que c'est cette priode que je ferais mon stage au CHU de ma rgion. |
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