Wednesday, August 28, 2002
Crime Dog rebuke makes NYT's Quote of the Day: "Democracies die behind closed doors," said Judge Damon J. Keith in a ruling declaring that the Bush administration acted unlawfully in holding deportation hearings in secret. The story. (kcreader3/kcreader3) Could this be part of a new trend in doggie discipline? Last week's obedience trials.
Tuesday, August 27, 2002
I won't be asking twice. My year ahead according to the oracles at beliefnet.com.
The I-Ching: Hexagram 32, Endurance. "Two trees growing near each other adapt to enhance each other's survival. A strong image of durability is a stable marriage of intimate partners striking a dynamic balance between involvement in the outside world and nourishment in the home."
3-card Celtic Tarot: "At the moment, you possess everything you need to fulfill whatever plan or goal you have in mind. Nothing can be denied you. This is the time to move from idea to action. Set those things in motion that will please you and fulfill your desires for change and growth. You are the lord of the realm."
Absolute birthday. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. My romantic Hegel story: back in Fall '83, Val had to drop the class because he said it was impossible to read The Phenomenology of Mind and fall in love at the same time. Nineteen years later, he still hasn't read it.
What Google knows About my birthday. The Top 40 hits on WABC. On the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. On the cover of TV guide: the cast of 77 Sunset Strip. It was the last live broadcast of Louisiana Hayride. They swam the Men's 100m final at the Olympics in Rome. Sen. LBJ celebrated his 52nd birthday in Washingotn D.C. Vice President/presidential candidate Richard Nixon addressed the Annual Convention of the Zionist Organization of America. Prince Aga Kahn addressed a nursery school in Karachi. And there was a 5.5 earthquake in Delhi.
Monday, August 26, 2002
A blog in 5-7-5. Dayku from xowie. [a Me-Fi contributor]
Sunday, August 25, 2002
The Great Central Valley's Lost Tribe is the subject of Mark Arax's latest series in the Los Angeles Times. (registration req'd: readerk8/latimes)
The old migrants and their children, a lost tribe of Black Okies, pass their last days in some of the worst poverty in the nation. Their broken piece of the promised land sits in exile from the rest of the state, a scattering of country churches and crooked huts that seem lifted straight out of the plantation South ...
Bob the Angry Flower's apostrophe lesson. [via saimasays]
Saturday, August 24, 2002
Jeb's magic kingdom. How Jeb Bush's administration instantly cleaned up Florida's polluted waterways. They changed the definition of dirty.
Thursday, August 22, 2002
Really Beautiful. Public & Private: Portraits of Pedestrians Photographed at Marble Arch, London.
Wednesday, August 21, 2002
Bye Bye Bob. Gun totin' impeachment-meister Bob Barr won't be coming back to the House.
Tuesday, August 20, 2002
Sometimes we all feel like Oliver and the cat door.
Read something new. Done with the beach book? Check out the great new releases list at CaliforniaAuthors.com.
Saturday, August 17, 2002
Digested by Zem, our favorite cryptography, censorship, copyright and thoughtcrime site. (Zey should know vee luff zem.)
NYT: House Judiciary Committee rebuffed by Justice when they ask questions about the Crime Dog's Anti-Terror Powers
BBC: Home Office finds closed circuit surveillance of its citizens is 'not a crime deterrent,' but — hooked on candid camera — Britain spends three-quarters of its crime prevention budget on it anyway.
AP: Judge stays her own ruling on the release of 9/11 detainees' names.
O Heather! The Mirror Project and Harrumph's Hearther Champ are covered in O, The Oprah Magazine. Nice.
Friday, August 16, 2002
The Crime Dog and Sir Thomas. In the Los Angeles Times, a George Washington University professor explains why Attorney General John Ashcroft's proposed plan to declare some U.S. citizens "enemy combatants" — and by doing so, to "summarily strip them of their constitutional rights" — "has moved him from merely being a political embarrassment to being a constitutional menace." With helpful wisdom from Sir Thomas More.
Thursday, August 15, 2002
Once, Steve Jobs wanted to change my life. And he did. Hypercard took a liberal arts girl, showed her she could think like a programmer and gave her a rich career she never expected. Now, the software that changed it all for me languishes at Apple. It's brilliant creator Bill Atkinson says it got lost in Apple's box-think.
Let freedom read. Support the Banned Books Project.
Tuesday, August 13, 2002
Catholic Church declares Jews don't need Jesus.
Monday, August 12, 2002
Army of clone cows could fight bio-terror. Scientists clone cows to create factories for human antibodies. Researchers say the clones could produce large stockpiles of antibodies that "hold great potential as tools to fight anthrax, smallpox and other biological warfare agents."
Glow bunny goes dark. Genetically engineered flourescent rabbit — the center of a disputed art and science project — dies at 4 (or 2-1/2). [with links to flourescent mice video]
Sunday, August 11, 2002
BBC: Asteroid defense "Ready to tackle Armaggedon".
Saturday, August 10, 2002
A real gamble. Thais arrested when they try to send strontium-coated dice to the United States. [via nwd]
Visit the Cultural Hall of Mirrors. Enjoy Japanese/English language strangeness: Engrish. Also: See big American stars working to get Japanese people to buy things: Japander. [via fark]
Thursday, August 8, 2002
Professional hermiting. [via nwd]
Monday, August 5, 2002
From the cloister A dwindling Carmelite community finds the internet and prays the news. [thanks, Val]
Sunday, August 4, 2002
Don't Link to Us. An idea to love: a catalog of nimrod linking policies — complete with handy forbidden deep links.
Saturday, August 3, 2002
Jane's says Boeing wants to build an impulse gravity generator capable of focusing a pulverizing death beam of 1000g of instantaneous force of on any object. GRASP that. Oh yeah, they might also be able use fuelless propulsion to launch spacecraft.
Dog day: In a startling revelation of the obvious, a new study says dogs are smarter than scientists previously thought. The study's breakthrough findings: Barks are specific communication and dogs can tell when they are being shorted on treats. On the other hand: Human intelligence remains a mystery. Witness chihuahuas in kimonos.