tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31455402011-09-20T02:51:04.807-04:00in lieu of radio ...a somewhat random collection of pages and thoughts started sept 16 2001. now that i'm not on the radio 6 hours every day, blogger allows all of us to harangue...mark zipnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-85537893481999509572008-12-10T14:12:00.000-05:002008-12-10T14:17:02.406-05:00Google To Take Chrome Out Of BetaWhy? It is half-baked. Awful cookie management, no way to deal with scripting, no extensions (yet). I have it on my desktop and it is labeled "Promiscuous Browsing". And Gmail is still beta?mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-9368771126279606072008-12-10T13:49:00.001-05:002008-12-10T14:35:47.825-05:00It might even get me back to Broadway...It's not over until the fat boy spins (BBC) Shane Warne is the subject of a new musical. Her is a declaration (Ha! That was a cricket joke!): If this makes it to Broadway, I WILL go!mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-77204579790728754012008-12-07T21:39:00.000-05:002008-12-07T21:39:03.024-05:00Watch search terms as they come in to a search engine... Automated Beacon, Thomson & Craighead 2005. Courtesy of Joanna Render Gallery (like looking at all website logs all at once ...)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-29174813760181565692008-11-13T23:55:00.000-05:002008-11-13T23:55:54.529-05:00Say it aint so, Joe........... FIRE JOE MORGAN: Post #1377: The Relatively Short Goodbye. Such a great place for affirmation. Affirmation that is, that those sports writers and broadcasters really ARE that stupid... and now it's gone. Feh.mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-18162055344183092932007-07-22T13:34:00.000-04:002007-07-22T14:04:45.957-04:00Go here, then print it out. Then take it around the local coffee shop and be seen to read it. Maybe you too can have a nice meeting with the police state, just like this guy..... UGGH!mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-77486786008627343102007-07-05T23:06:00.000-04:002007-07-05T23:10:33.607-04:00mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1143727586414092952006-03-30T09:06:00.000-05:002006-03-30T09:06:26.726-05:00Looong G 'n R saga. Telling us exactly why we do not need any more rock dinosaurs (are you listening, Radiohead?) The Most Expensive Album Never Made (repost from NY Times - March 06, 2005)Steve Albini from 1993 (make sure to check the figures at the end...) The Problem with Music (repro from The Baffler)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1140402424512378832006-02-19T21:27:00.000-05:002006-02-19T21:27:04.780-05:00A hero for our times? HENRY ROLLINS Cited As 'Possible Threat' By Australian Governmentmark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1140277868957970462006-02-18T10:51:00.000-05:002006-02-18T10:51:09.160-05:00A federal employee gets hassled by Homeland Security for antiwar stickers on his car. Is it a mistake, a new rule, or the part of a trend of the First Amendment being bullied out of existence? Read the transcript, read the rules and decide for yourself... Red State, Meet Police State (Boise Wekly)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1137649912539238112006-01-19T00:51:00.000-05:002006-01-19T00:51:52.596-05:00More videos ... Top 65 Music Videos of 2005 (via Good Weather for Airstrikes)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1137343688875575462006-01-15T11:48:00.000-05:002006-01-15T11:48:08.943-05:00Useful: SiteAdvisor blog (Especially if you know someone who like to download stuff willy-nilly)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1135262387320840882005-12-22T09:39:00.000-05:002005-12-22T09:39:47.376-05:00My yearly ACLU dues are worth it just for this! Pizza ordering of the future? (Flash)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1135260465875919242005-12-22T09:07:00.000-05:002005-12-22T09:10:39.913-05:00WTF?????????????? From 2006 Britain will be the first country where every journey by every car will be monitored ...the national data centre will also check whether each vehicle is lawfully licensed, insured and has a valid MoT test certificate." (Independent, UK)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1134158527686904192005-12-09T15:02:00.000-05:002005-12-09T15:02:07.733-05:00Ever tried to figure out the different ways different folks get paid, and by whom? here's a really useful chart. Revenue Streams for Artists, Songwriters and Copyright Owners based on the broadcast of their music (Future of Music Coalition) - Simply put, the thing is waaaaay tooo complicated.... mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1133797352967898902005-12-05T10:42:00.000-05:002005-12-05T10:42:33.033-05:00Front page of the Business section of Sunday New York Times.... and they STILL cannot make it clear! Let's get this straight, spear-fishing can snare anyone at any time. Trojans of the type they are describing target ONLY computers running Microsoft Windows. Not one mention of "Microsoft", "Windows", "Apple" or "Linux" in the whole article. Uggh! Online scammers go spear-phishin' (C-Net, from NYmark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1133793561165714462005-12-05T09:39:00.000-05:002005-12-05T09:39:21.216-05:00Released in 1979, the single "Rapper's Delight" launched hip-hop as a multi-billion-dollar phenomenon. Here is the definitive inside story - Hip-Hop Happens (Stephen Daley - Vanity Fair) - (printer friendly version with no popup) heremark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1133763537208196842005-12-05T01:18:00.000-05:002005-12-05T01:18:57.256-05:00OMIGOD! This needs to be set to music immediately!!!! Mark E Smith reads the footbal scores!mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1128811731963256372005-10-08T18:48:00.000-04:002005-10-08T18:48:51.963-04:00drivewayandstreetshrunk.JPG (JPEG Image, 205x153 pixels)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1128811632525078542005-10-08T18:47:00.000-04:002005-10-08T18:47:12.526-04:00side culvertshrunk.JPG (JPEG Image, 205x153 pixels)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1128811595828036412005-10-08T18:46:00.000-04:002005-10-08T18:47:35.986-04:00front yard and road culvert crossingshrunk.JPG (JPEG Image, 205x153 pixels)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1128555222723080532005-10-05T19:31:00.000-04:002005-10-05T19:33:42.730-04:00Utah Cops Squash Legal Rave with Teargas, Helicopters (video here)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1127741628494405642005-09-26T09:33:00.000-04:002005-09-26T09:33:48.566-04:00General Joseph Hall (who took over from Schwartzkopf) is unhappy with civilian incompetence in Iraq war: ust a couple of thoughts to kind of get things going. I can’t begin without once more saying that this was the wrong war at the wrong time fought with incredible incompetence on the part of the civilian leadership. And despite this, that our armed forces continue to serve with courage and mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1126874874800004652005-09-16T08:47:00.000-04:002005-09-16T08:47:54.806-04:00A.V. Club interviews Errol Morris. I'd like to have a bear with this guy.mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1126873779589651012005-09-16T08:29:00.000-04:002005-09-16T08:29:39.630-04:00Works for me ... Halliburton Gets Contract To Pry Gold Fillings From New Orleans Corpses' Teeth (thanks to s) mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1125287224491154552005-08-28T23:47:00.000-04:002005-08-28T23:47:04.540-04:00Clinical, to the point: Reuters soundman killed in Baghdad, police blame US not so clinical, perhaps even more to the point: Iraq: Too many appointments in Samarra mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1122991844829452312005-08-02T10:10:00.000-04:002005-08-02T10:10:44.883-04:00OMIGOD! Apple figures it out... right-clicking is a good thing! (but it's a hell of a leap to this nonetheless) I wonder if the single digit Mas fans will be able to handle it?mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1122645272507475612005-07-29T09:54:00.000-04:002005-07-29T09:54:32.596-04:00Want to know the definition of "a work of lunatic scholarship".... Alan W. Pollack's Notes on ... Series: " In 1989 the American musicologist Alan W. Pollack started to analyze the songs of the Beatles. He published his first results on internet. In 1991 — after he had finished the work on 28 songs — he bravely decided to do the whole lot of them. About ten years later, in 2000 he completed the mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1116562533077330322005-05-20T00:15:00.000-04:002005-05-20T00:15:33.123-04:00Swingeing, freewheeling, how come we don't hear American politicians speaking this way... the truth... George Galloway: Thusly, I Humiliated Norm Coleman (and Christopher Hitchens)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1116473251177626202005-05-18T23:27:00.000-04:002005-05-18T23:27:31.240-04:00FAQ Madness: New York Lottery Check the 8th question under the "Drawing" heading... !mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1116083719937873112005-05-14T11:15:00.000-04:002005-05-14T11:15:19.996-04:00Concise, to the point, examination of the "Social Security reform" scam. With interesting side-notes on the rise of the notional economy. >The $4.7 Trillion Pyramid (Harpers.org)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1115123393074517712005-05-03T08:29:00.000-04:002005-05-03T08:29:53.073-04:00Excellent comprehensive guide to tweaking Firfox. Covers all obvious and many non-obvious tweaks. Useful. TweakGuides.commark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1114711113216689132005-04-28T13:58:00.000-04:002005-04-28T13:58:33.216-04:00Just Letters - A browser based multi-user Flash game: "'Someone keeps stealing my letters...'"mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1113312998414816142005-04-12T09:36:00.000-04:002005-04-12T09:36:38.413-04:00Finally! Proof that "liberal media conspiracy" exists....
NBC 4 - News - Coroner: Overdose Caused Man's Death At Carrie Fisher's Home
Stevens served as co-chairman of the entertainment task force for the Bush/Cheney 2004 campaign. He was a San Clemente native and an associate with the Washington lobbying group Barbour Griffith and Rogers, where he specialized in foreign campaign consulting. mark zipnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1113170109177907502005-04-10T17:55:00.000-04:002005-04-10T17:55:09.176-04:00Funny, funny blog... I'm Stuck in Rehab with Pat O'Brienmark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1113153053095500632005-04-10T13:10:00.000-04:002005-04-10T13:10:53.096-04:00Leaders meeting in Washington affirm the sanctity of life, support the death penalty for minors, and advocate the assassination of judges. And the Verdict on Justice Kennedy Is: Guilty (Washington Post) (thanks to S for the link)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1112157460157135802005-03-29T23:37:00.000-05:002005-03-29T23:37:40.156-05:00But pastor and parent Ray Mummert, 54, explained their point... "We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture," he said ...Teaching Darwin splits Pennsylvania town (AP / Yahoo News)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1111672118509720672005-03-24T08:48:00.000-05:002005-03-24T08:48:38.510-05:00Very useful list. Check the (extensive) comments for even more.A Directory Of Programs Designed For USB Drives (Wagstaff)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1110912854276638672005-03-15T13:54:00.000-05:002005-03-15T13:54:14.276-05:00Cops And Tasers (funny)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1108704177711565622005-02-18T00:22:00.000-05:002005-02-18T00:22:57.710-05:00 Westminster Dog Show / Madison Square Garden / Feb. 15, 2005
Top Five Reasons Why The Westminster Dog Show Is Better Than Most Rock Concerts
1. Dogs don’t jam or play boring new songs.
2. Dogs are cuter than most members of rock bands.
3. No aching feet or ringing in the ears.
4. Seventeen corgis running in a circle brings more joy than an encore.
5. When you go backstage, you get to pet mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1107920525252686612005-02-08T22:42:00.000-05:002005-02-08T22:42:05.253-05:00 Kinky Friedman For Texas Governor!mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1105711047802300242005-01-14T08:57:00.000-05:002005-01-14T08:57:27.803-05:00Christgau (et al) A History of Rock Criticsim (.pdf) (via SFJ)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1105204973105774422005-01-08T12:22:00.000-05:002005-01-08T12:22:53.106-05:00The Other, Man-made Tsunami John Pilger, on fire. (via New Statesman). Pilger looks behind the facade of western governments' 'generosity' towards the victims of the tsunami and describes an enduring man-made tsunami far greater in scale and carnage than the natural disaster.mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1105164602544018172005-01-08T01:10:00.000-05:002005-01-08T01:10:02.543-05:00 Like the Grey Album? Seen the video? (quicktime + high bandwidth required)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1105054557852441122005-01-06T18:35:00.000-05:002005-01-08T12:13:15.733-05:00 Cool! Thanks to Slashdot for the link, also John Battell, also Search Engine Watch, also L, also Cool Site of the Day, also PC World, also Amazon API, SEM, Flux, and anyone else who has ever linked to it.mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1103905448821126942004-12-24T11:24:00.000-05:002004-12-24T11:25:05.433-05:00Nearly 900 children have lost a parent in Iraq
The sort of headline which leads weak leaders to say "we must stay in because otherwise those brave men and women will have died in vain" . Never once admitting their own vanity's complicity in the disaster. How many times must we learn that Democracy does not come at the point of a gun? Nearly 900 children have lost a parent in Iraq - CHILDREN mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1103076628556507092004-12-14T21:10:00.000-05:002004-12-14T21:10:28.556-05:00Eric Alterman: A Tale in Headlines - Simple and to the point. Over and over. mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1101858602530989752004-11-30T18:50:00.000-05:002004-11-30T18:50:02.530-05:00Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Strategic Communication (Sept. 2004)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1100987458504520962004-11-20T16:50:00.000-05:002004-11-20T16:50:58.503-05:00 Obvious, but funny...mark zipnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1099577438955639492004-11-04T09:10:00.000-05:002004-11-04T09:13:29.383-05:00 (Thanks to S)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1099463566120046292004-11-03T01:32:00.000-05:002004-11-03T01:32:46.120-05:00I don't know what "a crispy" is, but Sasha has it close to right ... S/FJ: I'M GONNA THROW A CRISPYmark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1099463050640685152004-11-03T01:24:00.000-05:002004-11-03T01:24:10.640-05:00They keep talking about how folks for whom "moral issues" are a big thing were going for Bush in large numbers. Remind me again... How is the evisceration of the 1st, 4th and 6th ammendments (the basis of our nation / notion) moral????mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1098935713459416892004-10-27T23:55:00.000-04:002004-10-27T23:55:13.460-04:00Bill James is Godmark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1098933550687588062004-10-27T23:19:00.000-04:002004-10-27T23:19:10.686-04:00Postal Experts Hunt for Missing Ballots in Florida U.S. Postal Service investigators on Wednesday were trying to find thousands of absentee ballots that should have been delivered to voters in one of Florida's most populous counties, officials said. (Reuters)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1098796386912037362004-10-26T09:13:00.000-04:002004-10-26T09:16:58.893-04:00FUCK! FUCK ! FUCK! Another light goes out. Un-fuckin-believable. BBC - Radio 1 - John Peelmark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1098763537041623602004-10-26T00:05:00.000-04:002004-10-26T00:05:37.040-04:00 "If you can listen to it without getting a chilly burst of immortality, there is a layer between you and the world." SFJ on The Clash + London Calling in the New Yorker (short-lived link)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1098451297676698162004-10-22T09:21:00.000-04:002004-10-22T09:21:37.676-04:00Fourth ammendment not dead? Judge: Guantanamo Detainees Can Meet Lawyers Alone (Reuters)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1098324143688894472004-10-20T22:02:00.000-04:002004-10-20T22:02:23.686-04:00Have you stopped beating your wife? Pat Robertson: Bush told him there would be no war casualties In a statement for the Kerry campaign, adviser Mike McCurry said Wednesday: "We believe President Bush should get the benefit of the doubt here, but he needs to come forward and answer a very simple question — was Pat Robertson telling the truth when he said he didn't think there'd be any mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1097982218320729422004-10-16T23:03:00.000-04:002004-10-17T13:34:16.980-04:00 Without a Doubt one of the most frightening articles I've read in a while. (NYT, registration required.)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1097762349933817772004-10-14T09:59:00.000-04:002004-10-14T09:59:09.933-04:00Wal-Mart Wants $10 CDsmark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1097623784955724062004-10-12T19:29:00.000-04:002004-10-12T19:29:44.956-04:00U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS ASSAILS BUSH ADMINISTRATION RECORD ON CIVIL RIGHTS U.S. Commission on Civil Rights - Press Release Was supposed to have been discussed on release, now the formal discussion is postponed until after the election. AP says Republican members attempted to surpress the report from the web too. Full PDF of report is here mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1097551710276092352004-10-11T23:28:00.000-04:002004-10-11T23:28:30.276-04:00There's a right way and a wrong way to do an obit on a "difficult" subject.mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1097531294786142512004-10-11T17:46:00.000-04:002004-10-11T18:01:12.706-04:00How do we grow up in Rock 'n Roll? Anne Powers: As I Get Oldmark zipnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1097427419751932632004-10-10T12:56:00.000-04:002004-10-10T12:56:59.750-04:00..... 'We don't give a crap. What are they going to do, send us to Iraq?'" For Marines, a Frustrating Fight " Asked if he was concerned that the Marines would be punished for speaking out, Autin responded: 'We don't give a crap. What are they going to do, send us to Iraq?'" (Washington Post)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1097029419878137032004-10-05T22:23:00.000-04:002004-10-05T22:23:39.880-04:00WTF!!!!!!!! Welcome to CarlLewis.com! - Video (Quicktime)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1096638817678029932004-10-01T09:53:00.000-04:002004-10-01T09:53:37.676-04:00And we expect these people to figure out current tech??
Patent: Method of concealing partial baldness
Abstract : A method of styling hair to cover partial baldness using only the hair on a person's head. The hair styling requires dividing a person's hair into three sections and carefully folding one section over another.
Applied for in 1975 granted in 1977 United States Patent: 4,022,227mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1096134375543165742004-09-25T13:46:00.000-04:002004-09-25T13:46:15.543-04:00 Dog with a 'sixth sense' saves her master's life (Scotsman)
ANGUS HOWARTH
FOR Mark Ryan, Meg the Border collie-cross is more than just man’s best friend - she is also his life-saver.
The two-year-old dog can sense when Mr Ryan is about to suffer an epileptic fit and lets him know by scurrying around his feet - even though Mr Ryan does not yet feel unwell.
When the 45-year-old from Stafford mark zipnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1096130646867687622004-09-25T13:44:00.000-04:002004-09-25T12:45:31.766-04:00How Takahiro Omori defied his family, flew to Texas, slept in a van and made his crazy dream come true Bass Fishing in America (Dallas Observer)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1096133589361512602004-09-25T13:33:00.000-04:002004-09-25T13:33:09.360-04:00US judge strikes down bootleg law (BBC)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1096132316531110382004-09-25T13:11:00.000-04:002004-09-25T13:11:56.530-04:00Here’s the piece that ‘60 Minutes’ killed for its report on the Bush Guard documents. What a waste! (Valerie Plame and the) "60 Minutes Story" that Didn't Run (Newsweek)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1096075510521059522004-09-24T21:25:00.000-04:002004-09-25T12:44:58.110-04:00Arthur, Ford, Zaphod, Marvin - HHGTTU is back with new episodes. Hear them over the web! BBC - Radio 4 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxymark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1096033752104986982004-09-24T09:49:00.000-04:002004-09-24T09:49:12.103-04:00The George W. Bush Public Domain Audio Archive - I cant' decide if the is an act of lunatic audio scholarship or just the best thing to happend for musical satirists in a while.mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1095648905698482362004-09-19T22:55:00.000-04:002004-09-19T22:55:05.696-04:00Bill Moyers - American Journalistic Hero
A long speech exploring the situation in American journalism, consolidation and all. Awful and brilliant. Our job remains essentially the same: to gather, weigh, organize, analyze, and present information people need to know in order to make sense of the world.
2004 National Convention: Bill Moyers (Society of Professional Journalists - SPJ National mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1095463073247501702004-09-17T19:17:00.000-04:002004-09-17T19:17:53.246-04:00The manner in which this story came to light is a lesson in modern journalism Scamming the Media, Parlock Style (TruthOut) Author's Note: The manner in which this story came to light is a lesson in modern journalism. The mainstream fellows simply reported the Parlock perspective, but it was an intrepid band of online newshounds - bloggers Rising Hegemon and Atrios, who picked up on the work of mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1095340618231963892004-09-16T09:16:00.000-04:002004-09-16T09:16:58.233-04:00Jeeze, now there are more Beatles than Ramones??? Johnny Ramone dies at 55 (AP / CNN)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1095310747776359822004-09-16T00:59:00.000-04:002004-09-16T00:59:07.776-04:00Iraq war was illegal and breached UN charter, says Annan (Guardian UK)
Mr Annan said that the invasion was not sanctioned by the UN security council or in accordance with the UN's founding charter. In an interview with the BBC World Service broadcast last night, he was asked outright if the war was illegal. He replied: "Yes, if you wish."
He then added unequivocally: "I have indicated it was mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1095288700663536912004-09-15T18:51:00.000-04:002004-09-15T18:51:40.663-04:00Will ruling on samples chill rap?
Last week, the biggest news in hip-hop didn't concern a concert tour, a hot new album, or a fresh beef between rappers looking for headlines and attention. Instead, it was a federal appeals court ruling that determined artists must pay for every sample they use, even those that are unrecognizable. Will ruling on samples chill rap? (Boston Globe)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1095137220259958272004-09-14T01:42:00.000-04:002004-09-14T00:48:37.166-04:00 On Sunday, 13 Iraqis were killed and dozens injured in Baghdad when US helicopters fired on a crowd of unarmed civilians. G2 columnist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, who was injured in the attack, describes the scene of carnage - and reveals just how lucky he was to walk away Long, harrowing tale (with only one picture) one in excruciating detail. Cannot be linked to enough ... He's just sleeping, I keptmark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1094789507899594542004-09-10T00:11:00.000-04:002004-09-10T00:11:47.900-04:00This time they get it right. USATODAY.com - Signs your PC's under siege, and what you can domark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1094789360474890772004-09-10T00:09:00.000-04:002004-09-10T00:09:20.476-04:00Interesting article. But they bury the lead, not mentioning Windows vulns until the penultimate paragraph. And no mention at all of the classic IE/OE vector...???!!! >USATODAY.com - Are hackers using your PC to spew spam and steal?mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1094604482412472052004-09-07T20:48:00.000-04:002004-09-07T20:48:02.413-04:00California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said on Tuesday he would sue electronic voting machine maker Diebold Inc. on charges it defrauded the state with false claims about its products. Calif. to Sue Diebold Over False Claims (Reuters)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1094474712761774162004-09-06T08:45:00.000-04:002004-09-06T08:45:12.760-04:00I have been using SkypeOut for months now, it rocks!! The more folks who join, the beter for everybody. Cannot recommend highly enough for broadband connected folks. Now the NY Times has a review: Skype in the lead of booming Net phone business -
The Scandinavian company is gaining converts from across the globe with its free and easy-to-use Internet phone service (Taipei Times, syndicated frommark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1093923800450639662004-08-30T23:43:00.000-04:002004-08-30T23:43:20.450-04:00 By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden location, a second set of votes is created. This set of votes can be changed, so that it no longer matches the correct votes. The voting system will then read the totals from the bogus vote set. It takes only seconds to change the votes, and to date not a single location in the U.S. has implemented security measures to fully mitigate the risks. The Dieboldmark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1093836159068978652004-08-29T23:22:00.000-04:002004-08-29T23:59:14.226-04:00
This guy.... again!!!!!????????mark zipnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1093749149689358642004-08-28T23:12:00.000-04:002004-08-28T23:12:29.690-04:00Bright, concise, damming, incomplete.... The real issue: Bush is incompetent (Richard Reeves UPI/IHT)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1093669172656293672004-08-28T00:59:00.000-04:002004-08-28T00:59:32.656-04:00Bob Barr, one of the most conservative congressmen there ever was: The FBI's Pre-Emptive Interrogations Of "Possible" Demonstrators - Chilling Political Speech (Findlaw)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1093567771630952122004-08-26T20:49:00.000-04:002004-08-26T20:49:31.630-04:00Independent 527 groups opposed to Bush have pumped far more cash into the race than the anti-Kerry groups and they, too, have made irresponsible assertions. And though two Bush campaign officials have now quit because of their ties to the swift boaters, Kerry's operation has all the same kind of ties to the anti-Bush groups.
What Kerry and the Democrats do not have is an explicitly ideological mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1093496311240168012004-08-26T00:58:00.000-04:002004-08-26T00:58:31.240-04:00group hug Not exactly what one would think...mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1093495236555113862004-08-26T00:40:00.000-04:002004-08-26T00:40:36.556-04:00SSSHHHHUUUUDDDDERRRRRR.... Dogpile - SearchSpy ( "Ever wonder what the rest of the world is searching for? )mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1093440380868042382004-08-25T09:26:00.000-04:002004-08-25T09:26:20.866-04:00Speaking for many, I suspect : Kill Microsoft Word (Dvorak, PC Magazine)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1093265739029278382004-08-23T08:55:00.000-04:002004-08-23T08:55:39.030-04:00 "You cannot speak about a team that represents freedom. We do not have freedom in Iraq, we have an occupying force. This is one of our most miserable times," he said. Olympics-Soccer-We're no symbol of freedom, Iraq coach says (Reuters)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1093219612359613562004-08-22T20:06:00.000-04:002004-08-22T20:06:52.360-04:00 Medical professionals in hospitals and facilities treating returning soldiers were threatened with $10,000 fines if they talked about the soldiers or their medical problems. They were also threatened with jail. Because this is more than just a privacy concern. The Pentagon is not telling us about DU. Is it because they don't know? Don't want to know? Depleted uranium: A Dirty bombs, dirty mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1093059555038840652004-08-20T23:39:00.000-04:002004-08-20T23:39:15.036-04:00 The CIA has taken much of the blame for the security lapses that led to 9/11 and the false intelligence on Iraq's WMDs. But now one spy has broken ranks to point the finger at the politicians - and warn that the war on terror could plunge the US into even greater danger. We could have stopped him Julian Borger - Guardian UKmark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1092976505719355992004-08-20T00:35:00.000-04:002004-08-20T00:35:05.720-04:00SANS Internet Storm Center says that the average time for an "out of the box" Windows XP installation to be infected once connected to the internet is... 20 minutes. Here is their useful paper: Windows XP: Surviving the First Daymark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1092972518895611842004-08-19T23:28:00.000-04:002004-08-19T23:28:38.896-04:00Wide-ranging interview: GrepLaw: John Gilmore on inflight activism, spam and sarongsmark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1092924574804312592004-08-19T10:09:00.000-04:002004-08-19T10:12:03.333-04:00Pretty good page about IM for parents: LADA Protecting Our Kids - Instant Messaging (LA County DA) but I'm not sure about the ComputerCop disc, I wonder what false positives that throws up.mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1092836027154783412004-08-18T09:33:00.000-04:002004-08-18T09:33:47.153-04:00 The President of the United States should be able to answer any question, or at least dance around one. At some time--early and often--he should submit to questioning and be held accountable, because if you don't have that then you only have one side of the story. The Presidential news conference is the only forum in our society, the only institution, where a President can be questioned. If a mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1092749831394441872004-08-17T09:37:00.000-04:002004-08-17T09:37:11.393-04:00"I'm not willing to show my passport to travel in my own country," Flight ID Fight Revived (Wired News)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1092700921805454252004-08-16T20:02:00.000-04:002004-08-16T20:02:01.806-04:00Companion piece to below. I bet the poor sucker is still running Outlook Express and IE! A Digital Doctor Treats Computer Contamination (washpost)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1092700769532600382004-08-16T19:59:00.000-04:002004-08-16T19:59:29.533-04:00Diverting essay on unecessary computer problems. Why is this happening to seemingly otherwise intelligent folks? What a Tangled Web Wove (washpost)mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145540.post-1091160935064530662004-07-30T00:15:00.000-04:002004-07-30T00:15:35.063-04:00Al[phabetical list of email "phishing" scams... Email Threat Advisories - MailFrontier, Inc.mark zipnoreply@blogger.com0