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Trusting the News
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"One of these days, someone is going to change the online news pages of the Wall Street Journal or New York Time or CNN or other major news organization, in a way that does severe damage. Maybe the false story will set off a financial panic. Or maybe it'll simply cause one company's stock to tank, enriching whoever was behind the hack. Whatever the cause, and whatever the outcome, it will damage trust. In the Digital Age, the public trust in running a prominent news operation involves more than solid reporting and editing."Ooh, starting a financial panic, based on false pretenses. That would be cool. Here, "professional" journalist Dan Gillmor sounds off in the wake of a security breach at the NY Times. He surmises the ramifications of someone getting into a major paper and actually rewriting the news, and frets that trust in the media would be lost. Wait a minute? You mean, we should trust the media? But why? Because they tell us the truths that the rich and powerful want us to hear? Where was this guy when Enron was forcing me shut off my computers last summer? Was he giving us the real story? Where was he when Dubya was ascending to the White House via voter fraud? Did he go deeper, and tell us the authentic truths? Really, now, what do journalists and the media , circa 2002, deliver that remotely demands our trust? From your silences, BoyCaught can guess your answer: nothing.
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« Sunday « February 24, 2002
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The Wait Is Over
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Photoshop for Mac OS X Arrives.Not yeah. Hell yeah!
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« Saturday « February 23, 2002
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Teenage Research Unlimited
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TRU-ly scary. The website says: "We Understand Teens. Do you?" But underneath the veneer, all they're interested in is exploiting unformed young minds for the sole purpose of selling them things they don't need. And making them feel bad if they don't have those things.
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« Friday « February 22, 2002
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How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
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So long ... and thanks for all the fish.
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How to Write a Better Weblog
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After posting my own short list of things that ought to be banned from weblogs, I realized that a list of things to be encouraged would be more useful.This is a good article.
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Moodstats T { A Kaliber10000 T Production }
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Hello and welcome to MoodstatsLooks interesting. BTW, what's up with everyone starting to call their projects "joints." Spike Lee has been using that since way back in his "She's Gotta Have It" days, and now every wannabe-hip-med-suburbanite is jumping on that bandwagon. Yet again, the bruthas create, and then the uthas misappropriate.
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« Thursday « February 21, 2002
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U.S. Troops in the Philippines
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War on Terrorism or Retaking a Choice Outpost?A Bush in the White House. An economy that sucks. An American guns forcing their way into lands all over the world. No connections.
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War Riddles: Ten Questions the Media Can't Answer
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- Where is Osama bin Laden?
- How many civilians did they kill in New York?
- How many civilians have we killed in Afghanistan?
- Is the air safe to breathe in Lower Manhattan?
- Who's to blame for the kidnapping of Danny Pearl?
- Would the U.S. kill a journalist during wartime?
- Do the terrorists hate us because we're gay?
- Who's to blame for Al Qaeda drug profits?
- Is Indonesia a terrorist state?
- Should the U.S. continue to support Israel?
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Okay, make that fourteen questions.
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« Wednesday « February 20, 2002
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How to Tell Japs From the Chinese
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"In the first discharge of emotions touched off by the Japanese assaults on their nation, U.S. citizens have been demonstrating a distressing ignorance on the delicate question of how to tell a Chinese from a Jap ..."That quote's from the December 1941 issue of Life Magazine. And the article even comes with not-so-flattering pictures of your basic Japanese and Chinese phenotypes: for example, the photo annotations tell us that the Japanese sometimes have "rosy cheeks." Of course, in 1941, and in 2002, the bruthas don't have these kinds of problems: we all jus' look alike. Nor, apparently, do Muslims: anyone with brown skin and a turban is worthy of some good [ol' boy] natured harassment. (b/w gmtPlus9)
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A Whitewashing of History
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Some say only the dead in this town can speak the truth about how a virtually all-black settlement in Canada turned virtually all-white. "We as Canadians trot around and say, 'Americans are so racist. Look at the segregation down South. Look at the lynchings.' But it was just as bad in Canada."Blame Canada. BoyCaught knows that this probably isn't the first time that the accomplishments and very existence of Afrikans was erased for socio-political reasons known only to white folk -- and taking what we know about history, which isn't much if you consider that maybe all of it was whitewashed too -- it probably won't be the last. In one part of this article, we meet a white farmer who is happy to explain that he plowed over a black cemetary on land he purchases in order to plant pototoes, and they were very good taters at that. Would you be, could you be, won't you be my neighbor! | b/w Plastic
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The Enron Voice Mail System, 2002
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We called Enron. This is what we heard.The biggest swindle in the history of American business: now joke fodder from every corner. Story at 11. Flash player/plug-in required. | b/w CurryDotCom
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Booklist 2002
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What's Cecily Reading?Cool. One of my favorite webloggers has a "book blog."
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Video games raise concerns over racism
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"Ethnic Cleansing," a computer game sold by Resistance Records, a small underground label that specializes in bands spouting racist and Nazi messages. The game requires players to wander through urban streets and subway tunnels and to attack African-American, Hispanic and Jewish characters.Wow! Violent racists! That's a new one in this kinger, gentler nation. Never seen that one before.
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« Tuesday « February 19, 2002
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Should Black Folks Care About Enron?
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African Americans ought to care about Enron because their lobbying for energy deregulation was perhaps directly responsible for higher energy prices in California in the last few years, and because these high prices hit people at the bottom most heavily. And black folks ought to care about Enron because, as a community, we can't buy the kind of legislative cooperation Enron bought once upon a time (if we could we might have reparations). The Enron story is a story of the concentration of power and the consolidation of power relationships; something African American people can stand to learn a bit more about.
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« Sunday « February 17, 2002
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Nina Hartley
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BoyCaught will give this porn queen some credit: she comes off as a pretty smart woman, with, obviously, a wealth of knowledge and experience about all things sexual. Not your average spinner. When she talks dirty, it's probably worth a listen.
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Blog Control
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This site is a place for everyday weblog people to post links to other people's weblog posts. Specifically one's that you found interesting or that made you think. The other aspect is to find out about things that are going on in the weblog community. If a new commenting tool comes out, there will be a post about it. If a new blogging tool comes out, there will be a post about it. If anything comes out that can benefit the weblogers, it will be posted.Okay.
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The Weblog Review
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"A Peer-to-Peer Review of Weblogs." This page has been made so that people can find weblogs that interest them. Rather than just a bunch of links like other weblog portal pages, this one will actually include reviews of weblogs. These will be written by many people."Peer-to-Peer?" How academic.
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Black Facts Online
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Black Facts Online is the world's largest online database of Black History information.
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« Saturday « February 16, 2002
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FEMA In New York The Night Before?
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RealAudio recording of a statement made by FEMA spokesman Tom Kenney to Dan Rather, reportedly on Wednesday, September 12th. In this interview, Tom states that Fema was deployed to New York on Monday night, September 10th, to be ready to go into action on Tuesday morning, September 11th.Interesting. They knew something was going to happen?
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Gates, Bono, unveil 'DATA Agenda' for Africa
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Bono, lead singer for the rock band U2, announced at the World Economic Forum here Saturday their plan to focus the world's attention on issues confronting Africa.WTF? Meds trying to solve Mother Afrika's problems ... and no mention of any Afrikans? Talk about speaking with forked tongues. A rocker from Ireland, and a software mogul from the Pacific Northwest: nope ... t'aint the answer.
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Samuel L. Jackson Soundboard
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BoyCaught loves "soundboards," and for BHM 2002, who better than the hardest-working Afrikan-American actor in mainstream movies? Flash required. (b/w AfroFuturism)
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DREAMS Foundation
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A non-profit resource on dreams, dream interpretation, lucid dreaming, nightmares, sleep research.
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The Quantitative Study of Dreams
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This Web site contains everything needed to conduct scientific studies of dream meaning using a system of content analysis.
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The Semantic Web
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A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities.Original URL: http://www.sciam.com/2001/0501issue/0501berners-lee.html
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Combat Missions
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It is a competition exclusively for America's Elite -- teams of Special Operations veterans from the ranks of such organizations as the Navy SEALs, Delta Force, SWAT, and Army Rangers -- just to name a few.Survivor -- a show which BoyCaught's evil corporate twin, call him "Larry," loves -- now has a companion. Real veterans play a hyped-up version of "Capture the Flag." And seriously, reading the bios of the cast, there are some real bad*sses on board. What a great way to push the hoi-polloi mindset into accepting that: "War is cool. War is fun. War is entertaining. Let's go to war!"
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The allure of older men? They're past their peak
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It is touching and not a little sad that while vain old men such as Michael Douglas are congratulating themselves on having the sex appeal to pull a gorgeous babe, the said babe is probably with him largely because, unlike young men, he doesn't want sex very much!If you could put the mind of this author into the body of a 20-something woman, you might have the perfect woman. The problem with older women is, well, they're older. (b/w allaboutgeorge)
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american porn
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It's a multibillion dollar business - and growing. In a wired world, can anything stop it?BoyCaught finally caught this show on the ReplayTV unit, and other than the segment where the Frontline crew walks off the set during the taping of a rape-fantasy scene where the porn starlet is really beaten, nothing was really surprising. In that scene, the female director actually says, and I'm paraphrasing: "Sometimes getting hit makes the sex hotter." Paging Andrea Dworkin, yo. This med-culture can take something pure, natural and beautiful like sex, and twist it up into all kinds of perverse shapes ... for money. Also called: exploitation. And those who can't get it, they prosecute. Nothing really informative here.
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Team USA: Speed and Chemistry
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Nagano was a disaster on and off the ice. The Olympics are on U.S. soil and the United States hasn't come close to gold since 1980.BoyCaught hasn't been too interested in the Winter Olympics so far. He's only been looking forward to the Jamaican bobsled team competing (in the 2002 version of "Cool Runnings") and the men's ice hockey. It's nice to see familiar names on Team USA like Roenick, Weight, and Tkachuk: weren't these some of the millionaire morons who went around busting up furniture in the Olympic Village at Nagano? The Ugly American as international athletic hero ... love it or leave it.
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« Thursday « February 14, 2002
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Driven to Distraction
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Sport utility vehicles, which once formed a relatively small part of the automotive market, are wildly popular with city dwellers and suburbanites alike, even if they play an outsized role in our gluttonous addiction to oil. Indeed, although we compose just five percent of the world's population, Americans consume 25 percent of the world's oil -- 60 percent of it from foreign sources.The Smirking Chimp sez: "Oil is good. Oil made my family rich. Oil's well that ends well."
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Snake Kills Owner
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A 10-foot, 80-pound Burmese python wrapped itself around the neck of its owner Sunday so tightly he couldn't breathe, police said. The 43-year-old man apparently died of asphyxiation, said Medical Center of Aurora spokeswoman Bev Husted-Petry. The snake, named Monty, was taken to Aurora Animal Control. Officials will decide what to do with him today.BoyCaught has a friend who used to have a pet python ... its name was Monty too. It got so fat from all the rabbits it was being fed that it slithered under the house, got stuck in a tiny crawlspace and eventually froze to death. Doh!
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Jetliner Lust Attracts F-16s
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A randy, drug-fueled romp in a New York-bound jet's rest room sparked a midair terror scare that sent a pair of F-16 fighter jets scrambling, authorities revealed yesterday. But the red alert aboard American Airlines Flight 101 from London on Friday gave way to red faces when authorities discovered all the fuss was over two amorous British men. Police said the passengers, whose names were not released, admitted smoking crack cocaine and having sex in the cramped rest room.Limeys.
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« Wednesday « February 13, 2002
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HYPE
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A newsletter and webzine monitoring the Black image in the media.
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Black Think Tank
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On the cutting edge of black social change and progress.
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The Global African Presence
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Articles by Runoko Rashidi.This is an incredible page of resources from an African historian and research who's main scholorship focuses on the African presence globally and the African foundations of world civilizations.
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74th Annual Academy Awards
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And Denzel Washington and Will Smith both up for Best Actor. So, theoretically, there's a 40% chance of an African-American man winning that award. Ha, ha, ha. Yeah right. This America, fool! Grits, dummy. Russell Crowe will win running away for "A Beautiful Mind," and once and for all, we'll establish how incredi-f*ckingly brilliant MED* are, because, after all, where would this cruel, savage world be without these guys? They gave you television. They gave you eyes of blue. They give you [a] men who want to rule the world. And when they get excited, their little China girl say: "Aw baybee, just yoo a shut yoo mouf." Hollywood, it's all about the propaganda, baby.
*MED: men of European descent; as opposed to MAD: Men of Afrikan descent ... coined by me, which, actually, is a med-kinda way to do things.
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Television doesn't accept new machine that can warp time
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It works by going through these programs frame-by-frame, and when two identical frames appear side-by-side, one is removed. Usually, this can be done enough in a 22-minute program, the actual length of most sitcoms without commercials, to add 30 seconds of time.All the more reason for investing in a DVR like Replay-TV, TiVO, or maybe even MOXI (though you'll only be able to get that through a provider.) You can skip the commercials. True, advertisers "pay" for the TV you see for "free" but how much of it do you really care about? Come on, Friends, man, punt that sh*t! We need to change the economics, and then maybe they'll air shows we actually want to see and may even pay for. Case in point: most of the original programming that's on HBO these days: it's worth every penny!
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« Sunday « February 10, 2002
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Employment laws assistance for workers and small businesses: The elaws Advisors are interactive tools that provide information about Federal employment laws. Each Advisor simulates an interaction between you and an employment law expert. It asks questions and provides answers based on your responses. Begin by making a selection below.
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The Everyday Law Series is a series of self help guides on areas of law that commonly confront most people. From doing your own legal research to estate planning, each guide helps you understand the law without the legalese.
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« Friday « February 8, 2002
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Linguistic Profiling
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Discrimination on the basis of voice? BoyCaught has heard it all. Take the test and see if you can tell, um, guess, the speakers ethnicity.
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When Voice Recognition Leads to Bias
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When Rosa Rice, an African-American in her 20s, placed a call to inquire about a room for her nephew to rent in Belleville, Ill., she says she was met with hostility. Since the owner had gone through the trouble to advertise the room in the local newspaper, thought Rice, why would she talk to a prospective renter with a bad attitude and rush her off the phone? The answer, Rice believes, was simple. "I'm quite sure she picked up that I was black from my voice," she said.
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« Wednesday « February 6, 2002
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Super Bowl Ads
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Super Bowl Ads 2002. We've got 'em all!
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« Tuesday « February 5, 2002
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The Blog Phenomenon
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Generally speaking, these postings are fascinating, since they often have serious elements of Hyde Park corner blather, besides blatant exhibitionism and obvious self-indulgence. And whatever you think of them, you'll admit that they are much more interesting than the static vanity site from years ago.Dvorak jumps on a "trend"? What?
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Patriots Win!
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That drive to set up the winning field will rank among the most famous in the history of the game. A 24-year-old QB named Brady has f*cking icewater in his veins. And Vinatieri ... it was just his year. Amazing. Congrats Pats. Job well done. And BoyCaught ain't even a Patriots fan.
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