Wednesday, July 14, 2004
FREELANCE BAGHDAD: NOW I'M JEALOUS [Paul]
Good interview today in Black Table with one Charles Crain, a 26-year-old freelance journalist working in BAGHDAD.BT: Aside from the career opportunity of a lifetime, what's the best part about living in Iraq? CC: I enjoy the social life with other Americans and Westerners, even though it can get a bit claustrophobic. There are a lot of very interesting, very smart, very well-traveled people here, people with a lot of experience doing the kind of work I want to do. It makes for great conversation. And being in Baghdad makes everything seem a bit cooler. Even when things aren't so much fun you can think to yourself, "I'm not just at a mediocre party -- I'm at a mediocre party in Baghdad."
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004
BASHING MOORE-BASHING LEFTIES [Paul]
Leave it to the eXile boys to pull the plug on the American Left's callow denunciation of Michael Moore. Yes, 9/11 is propaganda, and yes it's bad journalism, but it's also got the Bushies on the run, and that's something the failure-addicted Left (from Nader to Salon.com to the LA Weekly) can't stand. Says Mark Ames in this issue's feature story "Backstabbers!":This story of how the elite of the intellectual Left was roused out of their slumber and turned into a Vichy-uniformed mob out to lynch the one Leftist who made it out of the ghetto is the best illustration of why the Left is so marginalized and ineffective in America: the Left likes being exactly where it is, and it will destroy anyone who messes with this convenient set-up in the safe corners of the opposition, where it can play petty-Christ to pay its mortgages until the day Medicare kicks in. There is no real fight, just a lot of fist-waving at C-SPAN from the safety of one's home office, where reading buzzflash.com and getting angry are as far as anyone on the Left wants to go.
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Monday, July 12, 2004
THE NEXT ENERGY REVOLUTION? [Chris]
Some days I find hope. How about a nuclear reactor that is completely controllable, i.e. now endless chain reactions that can lead to Chernobyl type consequences, and that actually uses radio-active waste as its main input? That means it would be cleaning up our existing 50 years of radioactive waste, recycle its own and produce energy safely... Interested? If you care for humanity's future, you should be VERY excited! Okay, well at least I am;) Read more...
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CHIEF SEATTLE'S 1854 ORATION [coolmel]
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man whose God walked and talked with him as friend to friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny. We may be brothers after all. We will see.
version 1, found here. distance is dead.
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Sunday, July 11, 2004
A THRILLA NAMED MOZILLA [coolmel]
glad i made the switch -- Downloads of the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser have been increasing since version 0.8 of Firefox was released in February, said Mozilla spokesman Bart Decrem, but the open source project saw a major spike in downloads at the end of June, following reports of the so-called Download.Ject vulnerability in Internet Explorer that could allow attackers to trick users into loading insecure content.
rip, mix, and burn, with compassion.
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