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« Monday « February 26, 2001
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Digital Schomburg
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An electronic reference and research resource on African, African American and African Diasporan history and culture from the Schomburg Center.
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Scene from a lynching
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Omaha, Nebraska, 1919. (Warning: extremely graphic violence is depicted here.)The people in this picture had children, and they in turn had children, most of whom are probably alive today. Where is the conclusive and overwhelming evidence that these people are truly different than their forebears?
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Swagga.com
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The Afrocentric Experience.
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The Voodoo Vault
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Existing beyond the realm of reality.
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Lynchings and Liberation
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Time has reminded us that lynchings and domestic terrorism have not disappeared. The people who committed hate crimes against our ancestors did not leave or evolve. They, instead, had children.Note to self: stay vigilant ... some things can take many forms.
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Malcolm X: A Research Site
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A resource for scholarship in Black Studies and the political development of activists in the Black Liberation Movement. Malcolm X: A Research Site has been developed in the spirit of Academic Excellence and Social Responsibility, intending to make a contribution toward preserving the radical Black tradition.
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« Sunday « February 25, 2001
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Brainbench
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The accepted standard for skills testing worldwide.
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« Saturday « February 24, 2001
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Snapshot: African American Leisure Activities
(Marketsegment.com)
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Tidbit One: African Americans are more involved in many leisure activities than non-African Americans. In fact, African Americans are more likely than non-African Americans to watch TV, listen to the radio, read newspapers and magazines, read for pleasure, go shopping, go to museums, concerts and theater, take pleasure trips, cook for pleasure, go to parties, go to the beach and attend sporting events. The most leisure-seeking African American market of all? Los Angeles.
Tidbit Two: Seeking to position their brands as "cool," marketers are increasingly relying upon hip African American celebrities. Look for more and more up-and-coming icons rather than the established names. Another trend: reliance on comedians and entertainers in addition to the traditionally featured athletes.
Sounds like a recipe for economic exploitation ... natch! Black people, you are the ultimate consumers and the perfect pitchmen.
(Those two tidbits are from a private newsletter BoyCaught receives weekly. Re-publishing it is not cool, but some of the information in that newsletter just begs to be shared with you, the few kind readers of [cIb]. Information wants to be free. Stay tuned.)
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Manifesto in Hypertext
(Dr. Menlo Blogs from Outer Space)
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Anyway--there has been one universal struggle going on--the power of man and his mind and his own, individual superb abilities to manage himself and his own affairs . . . against the tyranny of those who wish to control others solely for the purpose of furthering their own material advantage.Dr. Menlo calls it like he sees it.
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The Blue Flame Cafe
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Welcome to the new home of The Blue Flame Cafe! an interactive biographical encyclopedia of the great blues singers and singers of the blues.
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Ronnie Cramer's Cult Film Site
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Unusual and hard-to-find films on video.What can BoyCaught say, there are some really obscure films listed on this site. Whoah!
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NetRadio.com
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Choose from 120 channels of music.
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B.B. King: Lucille Speaks
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Perhaps B.B. King's most identifiable trademark is his guitar Lucille. Lucille has been with B.B. since 1949. The story has been told many times before, but for those of you not familiar with the details, here it is ...
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George Washington Carver
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Former Slave, Educator, Scientist, Businessperson, Service Industry Employee, Agriculturist, Medical Worker, Artist, Author, Lecturer, Domestic, Reformer, Performing Artist.
Some of the synthetic products developed by Dr. Carver:
- Adhesives
- Axle Grease
- Bleach
- Buttermilk
- Cheese
- Chili Sauce
- Cream
- Creosote
- Dyes
- Flour
- Fuel Briquettes
- Ink
- Instant Coffee
- Insulating Board
- Linoleum
- Mayonnaise
- Meal
- Meat Tenderizer
- Metal Polish
- Milk Flakes
- Mucilage
- Paper
- Rubbing Oils
- Salve
- Soil Conditioner
- Shampoo
- Shoe Polish
- Shaving Cream
- Sugar
- Synthetic Marble
- Synthetic Rubber
- Talcum Powder
- Vanishing Cream
- Wood Stains
- Wood Filler
- Worcestershire Sauce
And BoyCaught complains that there's never enough time to do all the things he needs to do. Sheesh!
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African American Biographical Database
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The Largest Electronic Collection of Biographical Information on African Americans. From the famous to the everyday person, database includes profiles and full-text sketches providing both biographical detail and illuminating narratives chronicling the lives of Black Americans.
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Black Radical Congress
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Forging a Black Liberation Agenda for the 21st Century.
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Black Panther Party Platform and Program
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What we want. What we believe.
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« Friday « February 23, 2001
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Middle Passage Monument Project
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Between the late 1600s and 1796, approximately five acres of land outside the walls of the Colonial City of New York were designated as the burial ground for the city's African population, then about 15% of the city's total population. (In Colonial New York City, not even the Christian-converted Africans were allowed to be buried in church cemeteries). It is estimated that 10,000-20,000 Africans were buried in the cemetery during its 100 years of active use. In the early 1800s, the African cemetery was land-filled and built-over by Dutch-Americans, their cisterns and privies being dug through the graves. And during the urban developments of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, human skeletons were periodically unearthed with little apparent concern for sanctity. Eventually, the African burial ground faded from memory.
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Californian patents thought process
(The Register)
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One Hugh Harlan of California, who is head of a company called The Brain, has patented the operation of code that mimics the human thought process.BoyCaught thinks that is pretty stupid. Ooops, thinking just violated this guy's patent. Dohhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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« Wednesday « February 21, 2001
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The Underground Railroad
(nationalgeographic.com)
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You are a slave. Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich. You have never tasted freedom. You never expect to. And yet . . . your soul lights up when you hear whispers of attempted escape. Freedom means a hard, dangerous trek. Do you try it?BoyCaught found this to be a very well-done, highly interactive resource, maybe a little bandwidth-intensive though. It paints a vivid picture of the harrowing yet triumphant experience of risking life in pursuit of freedom. On the other hand, it makes one wonder: are we not free, yet? (More on this, later.)
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Resolving the consultant clash
(RedHerring.com)
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Then there's the catch-22: clients have unrealistic expectations, which consultants are afraid to check for fear of losing the clients ... It's the tale of the unfortunate mating of a start-up company with a relatively young e-consultant, and how lack of communication, high turnover, and, quite simply, bad blood, turned what should have been a simple, seven-week task into a seven-month odyssey that made both sides lose money -- and accuse each other of misstating the truth.Liar, liar ... This is a great article that explains why so many of BoyCaught's friends and peers are now looking for new gigs. These are some of the same people who laughed and told BoyCaught he worked for an "old old school" consultancy. We've never been sued by our clients. So, laugh while you can, monkeyboys.
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GeorgeBushIsAPunk.com
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Ever wanted to put words in George W. Bush's mouth? Now's your chance! You've reached georgebushisapunk.com -- the one and only make-your-own-political-comic-strip-site where you get to fill in the blanks... complete with conveniently-placed speech bubbles, caption areas, and... of course... really funny pictures of your favorite politicians.
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This Dismissal (#10)
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while i don't particularly notice that television is overwhelmingly white, i do notice that it's overwhelmingly black & white. where is an asian who isn't the token immigrant running the corner store? my fuck, where are the brown people? why is race turned into black vs. white? where are the shades of grey (yellow brown red)?All BoyCaught can say is be careful what you wish for. Black people complain about lack of representation on TV and all we continue to see are your Martins, Parkers, and Cedric the Entertainers.
While a lot of it is entertaining on a surface level, and BoyCaught admits to watching some on the regular ReplayTV rotation, they're all just updated versions of the same old toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies, and bucks that have been seen for hundreds of years. After all, they were doing blackface minstrel shows back in the 1800s. And who didn't love that l'il old Stepin' Fetchit? Oh well, it's just to say that there's a long-standing history behind this black/white entertainment thing, and this sad phenemenon, this panoply of mannered derision, this entire costume drama is carefully documented and profiled in Donald Bogle's classic book, titled, interestingly enough: Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks.
Oh, and another theory on why everything on the boob tube seems to get boiled down to black people and white people: in America, other so-called minority groups assimilate into the dominant culture much easier, so much so that perhaps the current power brokers in TV-land hardly notice a difference between themselves and those others. The black/white issue seems to envelop the entire question of harmony between races, apparently rendering discussion of the finer forms of miscegenational conflict moot, at least on TV. Black vs White is the Porsche of interracial conflicts: there are no substitutes. (b/w allaboutgeorge)
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Aryan Beauty and the Threat of Contact Lenses
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A man told authorities he chose a plastic surgeon from the phone book and killed him because plastic surgeons, hairdressers and people who make blue-tinted contact lenses are 'diluting the Aryan beauty.'Of course, Bo Derek wearing braids, or Barbara Hershey getting her lipppps [sic] puffed up with collagen, or, uh, that whole multi-billion tanning industry don't have anything to do with this Aryan beauty thing. Natch!
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Gnarl2 cluster / Very Large Array
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Gnarl2 cluster / Very Large Array
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Check your Rep
(RedHerring.com)
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Los Angeles-based Repcheck Inc. is first to market with an online tool for assessing and quantifying personal reputation. While there are companies that rate the risk vs. benefit of involvement with companies, Repcheck is the only product that attempts to provide such information about individualsWhile this sounds interesting as a business prospect -- for instance, wouldn't it be nice to look up the reputation of that auto mechanic -- it's more than very creepy that some fools are going to be going around collecting questionable data about folks, and then selling it. Credit reporting is one thing, this is Big Brother to the max.
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« Tuesday « February 20, 2001
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Supertracks
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BridgePort 1.0 is a media delivery system that features a desktop Internet radio application that enables listeners to play CD-quality music-including the hottest contemporary music-directly from the PC. Listeners can select multiple channels with their favorite music always on tap, and blend channels to create a personalized mix. At the heart of BridgePort is a powerhouse rules engine that manages music in compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This engine not only dynamically manages song playlists in accordance with DMCA rules, but also enables meticulous tracking of all songs and advertising played.Yeah, this is just what BoyCaught wants: a digitized lawyer, installed on the local hard-drive, recording and reporting back to the home office. They say this technology will only track music played via the system, but who are they kidding, once it's on your box, who knows what else they're doing with your data, after all everything is encrypted and it's a safe bet you won't be getting a key. Maybe it's time to just make your own music.
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« Monday « February 19, 2001
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'The Web' is a poor metaphor
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From "Songlines of the Noosphere": Lacking understanding of their fundamental implications for society, it is worth remembering that automobiles were first referred to as "horseless carriages" -- and "wireless" was long used for radio. In a study by Stephen Talbott, the question is raised: "Will the 'information highway' really bring us closer together, or will it perform the same function as asphalt highways, encouraging us to seek the promise of better things in the distance?
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Jezebel - Women of the Bible
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Jezebel was an evil woman who fought against everything that represented God.
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Lopez Denies Her Body's Insured for $1 Billion
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American singer and actress Jennifer Lopez Monday denied news reports that her body is insured for $1 billion ... Things tend to be exaggerated a lot.Enough already, dayyyyamn! Exaggerated isn't the word, it's more like 'blow out of proportion, two times.' J-Lo is cool and all, but when she was just one of the Fly Girls on In Livin' Color, she wasn't even the finest one. See what a good publicist can do your (big) ass?
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American Visionaries: Frederick Douglass
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Committed to freedom, Douglass dedicated his life to achieving justice for all Americans, in particular African-Americans, women, and minority groups. He envisioned America as an inclusive nation strengthened by diversity and free of discrimination.
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NASCAR: Speed or safety?
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But there is nothing in the silly world of athletic competition that is worth a single life. Nothing. And I'd rather watch an entire sport disappear than one more athlete. The shallow, hollow cliche that these men died doing something they loved just won't cut it anymore.BoyCaught is not a NASCAR fan, but as a sports fan and a human being, he finds Earnhardt's passing sad and tragic. Is it worth having a sport where the spectre of death looms everytime people compete. Serious injury is a risk in most sports, but death?
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Friend of Jezebel's Mirror
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In 1986, I took a self-portrait along with my friend Nicole in a bathroom mirror. It wasn't until 1990, while sorting through my photographs, that I realized I was amassing quite a few of these "bathroom mirror" photographs and organized them into one album.BoyCaught was playing with the Canon S-10 and Photoshop today, and would have sent this shot into FOJM, but decided against it. If this weblog is about anything, then essence of being [caught In between] is ambivalence. FOJM is cool, though.
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