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- Early Evening Skies : Edenton, North Carolina USA : 1 August 2004 |
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- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities looks at the latest deficit projections. The Administration’s Efforts to Make Harmful Deficits Appear Benign OMB has projected the deficit to be $445 billion dollars in 2004. This is $70 Billion more... |
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- Pendant longtemps, Tom Cruise est restй discrиt sur son appartenance а la scientologie: il ne figurait pas sur la liste des cйlйbritйs scientologues sur le site de la secte et sa puissante publiciste, Pat Kingsley bloquait les questions des journalistes... |
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- My thoughts are with Apple CEO Steve Jobs this afternoon. He just had surgery for cancer, according to Reuters. Here's wishing Steve has a speedy and complete recovery. |
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- The rotten Apple Apple issued a statement according to which it will bring legal slander against Real Networks for the latter's re-engineering of Apple's DRM format "fairplay" in order to make it compatible with Real's store and Apple's iPod. Apple says: "We are stunned that RealNetworks has adopted the tactics and ethics of a hacker to break into the iPod and we are investigating the implications of its actions under the DMCA and other laws". As an Apple user, and one who has been constantly defending their products and organisational mindset to friends considering a migration to another platform, telling them the story of Jobs and Wozniak hacking and selling those legendary black boxes, and how the Macintosh is a superior os, and that it is inextricably linked to the counter-culture of the 60s, indeed the outcome of intense creative forces coming together to hack the world in the image of the original hippie culture, I was "stunned" to hear that Apple is opposed to such "hacking" practices and uses the worst choice of words it could to express its discontent. Shame to Apple: |
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- URL: Topix.net Unveils Major Overhaul |
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- Instapundit brings us yet another reason to vote against Kerry: Despite the Bush Administration's harsh stances on marijuana and drug law reform, it seems as though a Kerry Administration may be little better, and very possibly worse. If well-known... |
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- Source: HindustanTimes.com US President George W Bush and his Democratic challenger John Kerry shadowed each other, swapping barbs in vote-rich battleground states hit by severe job losses. Riding a modest bounce in the polls after his party's national convention in Boston, Kerry ripped into Bush's economic record and mocked the ... |
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- По меньшей мере 30 человек погибли и 15 получили ранения при падении в пропасть перуанского автобуса в Андах, сообщает РИА "Новости". Автобус, который направлялся в Лиму, перевозил 60 пассажиров. Катастрофа произошла около перуанского города Сан-Луис. В тех местах высота поверхности над уровнем моря варьируется от 1800 до более чем 4000 метров. |
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- The U.S. Marine once feared beheaded in Iraq said Sunday he was thankful to be home and asked people to pray for all hostages. Wassef Ali Hassoun returned to his brother's suburban home Saturday evening, but did not speak publicly. |
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- A computer glitch grounded American Airlines and US Airways flights from coast to coast Sunday morning, causing delays that lasted all day. A computer company official said human error was the likely cause for the problem, which involved departure preparations, such as flight scheduling, catering services and baggage processing. |
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- Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology right? Not with a kick-arse Class 1 Bluetooth adapter kit, Sony Ericsson T610, antenna and a Sony laptop. Mike Outmesguine, John Hering and James Burgess have successfully transfered a picture file over a 1... |
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- huge sunspot created huge display |
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- An anonymous reader writes "Ross Gittins at the Sydney Morning Herald has published an interesting insider view of software patents. This kind of thing is starting to be a hot issue down here with the US-Australia Free Trade deal about to be ratified and bring our intellectual property laws in line with Micros^D^D^D^D^D^D^D America's." |
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- An anonymous reader writes "Ross Gittins at the Sydney Morning Herald has published an interesting insider view of software patents. This kind of thing is starting to be a hot issue down here with the US-Australia Free Trade deal about to be ratified and bring our intellectual property laws in line with Micros^D^D^D^D^D^D^D America's." |
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- Worm Infested is cool as fook! |
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- President George Bush's senior strategists have vowed to use the month of August to mount derisive and personal attacks on the Democratic candidate John Kerry in what is becoming an increasingly bitter election campaign. ... But reports indicate they will also directly attack Mr Kerry, trying to divert attention from what they ... |
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Herculaneum (Aug 01 2004 23:54 GMT) - I visited Herculaneum from my home base in Sorrento. Like Pompeii, it was preserved by Vesuvius’ eruption, but is better preserved and smaller. |
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- A gubernatorial election Sunday that could affect Mexico's political future was nearly deadlocked with two contenders claiming the advantage, according to the preliminary results and the first independent exit polls. |
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- As promised, Jer and I dug our heels in and worked hard all weekend on our Tales of Symphonia Walkthrough and Strategy Guide. We're happy to report we put one heck of a dent into it, and I'm willing to... |
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- I still havent heard the Negation. I was waiting for my brother to buy it because I had no job at the time it came out, then I forgot about it. |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - |
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- The Village (idiot). Ouch! I can't think of one movie of his since Sixth Sense that hasn't been a major (box-office or critical) disappointment. I shall skip this as well. Ten bills saved.... |
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- The first tropical storm of the season developed Sunday afternoon off the coast of South Carolina, but few effects were being felt on shore. |
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- One of the byproducts of working as a book editor (or any other role in the entertainment industry, really) is that at any time you may find yourself being a bit player in someone else's sudden celebrity. Aside from thinking my last name is "Hayden," this piece in today's New York Times Magazine gets my part of Susanna Clarke's story pretty much right. Clarke is indeed one hell of an original writer. I've just started getting into Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, thanks to Bloomsbury for providing an advance reading copy, and so far it's as good I would have expected. |
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- One of the byproducts of working as a book editor (or any other role in the entertainment industry, really) is... |
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- I've spent the last couple days recuperating from the sleep deprivation during OSCON. While I had an absolute blast in Portland, it has been really nice sleeping in my own bed (as late as I want) the last couple nights. In any case, before I go back to work tomorrow I figured I'd better do the write-up for the final day (Friday) at OSCON. |
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- Carolyn Elefant has some comments over at My Shingle here and here about a proposal by a Committee for the ABA Board of Governors to delete all funding for the ABA Standing Committee on Solo and Small Firm Practitioners. This... |
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- Carolyn Elefant has some comments over at My Shingle here and here about a proposal by a Committee for the ABA Board of Governors to delete all funding for the ABA Standing Committee on Solo and Small Firm Practitioners. This... |
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- MAARIV: Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades threaten PA Intelligence Sources within the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades tonight warned Palestinian Authority Intelligence that if it harmed Brigades commander Zakaria Zubeidi, the ground would burn under its feet. The Brigades accuse PA Intelligence of collaborating... |
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- MAARIV: Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades threaten PA Intelligence Sources within the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades tonight warned Palestinian Authority Intelligence that if it harmed Brigades commander Zakaria Zubeidi, the ground would burn under its feet. The Brigades accuse PA Intelligence of collaborating... |
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Pompeii (Aug 01 2004 23:50 GMT) - My visit to Pompeii, a Roman visit buried in ash from the 79AD eruption of the Mt. Vesuvius volcano |
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- Cypress Trees and Sky : Edenton, North Carolina USA : 31 July 2004 |
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- Computer glitch grounds two airlines. Hundreds of flights delayed nationwide for hours due to "an internal technology problem." [CNET News.com] |
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- The Copyright Gap. Here's the hypothesis: Today's telecom and copyright laws often regulate similar subjects, but with a big difference. The telecom laws slightly favor market entrants, while the copyright laws favor the incumbent disseminators. The result is a "copyright gap" that grows larger every day.... |
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- MMORPGs, company towns, and free speech. A few weeks ago we blogged Yale Professor Jack Balkin's paper on free speech issues in the context of MMORPGs. Now attorney Peter Jenkins has... [The Second Life Herald] |
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- This just in from Daily Kos, the author of the DMCA came to the blogger party. I wonder if anyone from the RIAA was there. Oh the humanity. |
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- The California Legislative Black Caucus plans to hold statewide hearings on police abuse, a state senator and an assemblyman said at a town hall meeting in Leimert Park on Saturday. The event was organized by the Community Commission on Police Abuse, a coalition of activists assembled by publisher and community leader Danny Bakewell after the June 23 televised beating of Stanley Miller, who was tackled by officers after being pursued in a stolen car. The community commission plans to present the LAPD with an independent report on police abuse and urge the department to make changes, such as psychologically reviewing officers involved in violent incidents against blacks |
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- With the budget passed, the governor now turns his attention to Medi-Cal. With the state budget behind him, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is planning a fundamental overhaul of the public health insurance program that covers one in five Californians. The administration is considering profound changes in who gets Medi-Cal coverage, whether some recipients have to pay for it, whether recipients use managed-care plans, what services they get, and how the state funnels Medi-Cal money to hospitals. In one possible scenario, some low-income people who now get health care for free could be charged a monthly premium or a co-payment of a few dollars every time they visit the doctor. |
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- BOSTON, July 29 -- John F. Kerry staked his hopes for the White House Thursday night on a gamble that would have seemed almost unimaginable for a Democrat not so long ago, challenging President Bush to a debate on the twin pillars of Republican success: values and security. It is a challenge that has been building steadily along the campaign trail all year, as Kerry and his advisers confronted the political realities of the first presidential campaign since Sept. 11, 2001, and later the aggressive effort by the Bush team to define the Democrat as outside of the political mainstream. |
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- Duane Moore, chairman of the Kern County Democratic Central Committee, was hospitalized in serious condition Wednesday after a motorcycle accident in Castaic the night before, friends said. Moore was in the intensive care unit at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Valencia, family by his side. A specialist was to determine if Moore's arm needed to be reconstructed or amputated, said Candi Easter, secretary of the Central Committee. "It's heartbreaking," Easter said. "We're going to have to support him and keep his spirits up. |
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- This week I am going to Boston for the Society of American Archivists' Annual Meeting. I have no idea what kind of bacchanalia awaits me. I do have a list of yarn stores to visit, of course, and an old friend to look up. And speaking of archivists, what could be a better addition to my wardrobe than a Librarians Against Bush t-shirt? Kerry's speech was far better than I expected. |
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