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« Friday « November 30, 2001
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Africa devastated by AIDS
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AIDS is the biggest threat to Africa's development, according to the United Nations. The reason is the large numbers of people in key roles who are dying: teachers; farmers; health-workers; civil servants and young professionals ... there were 3.4 million new HIV infections in Africa in 2001, almost 70% of the global total.70% of the global total. Staggering.
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HIV & AIDS Statistics
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AIDS In Africa
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"Death Stalks A Continent": This is a story about AIDS in Africa. Look at the pictures. Read the words. And then try not to care.
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HIV/AIDS Trends Around The World
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This is an PDF file with lots of stats on the spread of HIV/AIDS around the globe. (Acrobat Reader, or plug-in required.)
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don't get it original - get it right
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Tufte responded with a revelation: "Do no harm," he said. "Don't get it original - get it right."For all the IAs in the house.
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« Wednesday « November 28, 2001
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Jobless Blacks Face Steepest Challenge
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As the economy continued to falter this fall, blacks have felt the effects more keenly than other Americans. The rate of black unemployment--at 9.7 % nationally in October, up from 8.7 & in September--has for decades persisted at about twice the rate of whites.
Even in the best of times, African Americans suffer the nation's highest unemployment rates.
In bad times, they tend to fare worse still, losing jobs at disproportionate rates and remaining out of work longer than other Americans.
Again, with feeling: "Even in the best of times, African Americans suffer the nation's highest unemployment rates." Whoah, that's a load off of BoyCaught's mind. All this time, he thought that persistent Black under-employment was just because we're shiftless and lazy and kinda d-d-dim, and because only a tiny fraction of us have the musical or athletic skeelz necessary for full economic exploitation, er, participation.
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Transformers Personality Test
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Through the magic of advanced computer science, our supercomputer will tell you which Autobot you have the most in common with.Well, alright. But only for the cartoon-lovers. BoyCaught, your blogger-du-jour, would be: Prowl - logical, analytical and rational; the geeky autobot, prefers Linux to Windows. (b/w fasthack)
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Russia Checkmated Its New Best Friend
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By charging like an enraged bull into the South Asian china shop, the U.S. handed a stunning geopolitical victory to the Russians and severely damaged its own great power ambitions. Moscow is now free to continue plans to dominate South and Central Asia in concert with its strategic allies, India and Iran.
The Bush administration does not appear to understand its enormous blunder and keeps insisting that "the Russians are now our friends."
Back in the ... Back in the ... Back in the USSR! We've said a lot of things about Dubya, put we never said he was smart. We probably should expect more blunders along the way, eh? (b/w randomWalks)
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PHP? Angel Dust?
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PHP! Do you know what that does to kids, Louis? You crazy webheads better be careful. (b/w anodyne)
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« Tuesday « November 27, 2001
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Bush's Legal Changes Expand State Power
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As Pentagon officials begin designing military tribunals for suspected terrorists, they are considering the possibility of trials on ships at sea or on distant U.S. installations, like the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba..The proceedings promise to be swift and largely secret, with one military officer saying that the release of information might be limited to the barest facts, like the defendant's name and sentence. The military tribunals are the boldest initiative in a series of laws and rewritten federal regulations that, taken together, have created an alternate system of justice.Kangaroo Kourts for everyone! Sounds just like a scene right out of "Escape From New York"? Well, except it's real. Guilty! Finish Him! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaghhh! (b/w the eminently watchable unknown news)
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FBI software cracks encryption wall
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The virus can be sent to the suspect via e-mailIf the FBI is willing to use a computer virus as a ploy for tracking suspected criminals, then what does that say about their commitment to stopping computer viruses in the first place? (b/w Scripting News)
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« Saturday « November 24, 2001
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Al-Quaeda Terror Network
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Organizational chart.
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Rumsfeld Says He Would Prefer Bin Laden Dead
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Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said he would prefer that Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), hunted in Afghanistan (news - web sites) and accused of directing terrorist attacks, be killed rather than taken alive.Because dead men tell no (potentially damaging) tales.
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FDA Approves Contraceptive Skin Patch
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced approval of Ortho Evra, the first transdermal (skin) patch approved for birth control. The weekly prescription patch releases norelgestromin (a progestin hormone), and ethinyl estradiol (an estrogen hormone), through the skin into the blood stream to prevent pregnancy. Ortho Evra, an alternative to birth control pills, is a one-and-three-quarter inch square patch consisting of three layers. The hormones are embedded in the adhesive layer and are slowly released when the patch is applied to the skin.
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« Friday « November 23, 2001
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Taliban offer $50 million for Bush's capture
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Stating that all good Muslims would reject the opportunity to cash in on the bounty for bin Laden's capture, Mohammed Saeed Haqqani, security chief of Taliban at the border town of Spin Boldak in Kandahar instead offered a $50 m prize for President Bush's captureLOL! (b/w net.headlines)
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« Thursday « November 22, 2001
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Turducken
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Copy turkey looked a little saggy, as if it didn't have a backbone. It didn't. In fact, there were no bones in it at all. In fact, it wasn't just a turkey at all; it was a Turducken -- a turkey, stuffed with a duck, stuffed with a chicken, with oyster dressing inside the chicken, andouille dressing between the chicken and the duck, and cornbread dressing between the duck and the turkey. Wow.Even Chef Paul Prudhomme -- you know, the guy that looks like Dom DeLuise -- was impressed when he first heard of this rare Thanksgiving bird. But here's the catch: you have to cook it for 12-15 hours. This ain't no quick dish.
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« Wednesday « November 21, 2001
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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From the majority of reviews (and the TomatoMeter gives it a strong 79% approval rating) you'd think this was the best "children's story" ever told. But now that I've seen it, the reality doesn't live up to the hype. This movie wants to be counted in the class that included "The Wizard of Oz," "Willy Wonka ...," and "ET." But the fact is, it's more like "The Goonies," an enjoyable timewaster, no doubt, but hardly a classic. Great supporting cast of adults, but I'm not sure if all parts of this flick are really suitable for younger kids. Since I'm not a reader of the Potter books, nor a parent, I guess I see this movie a little differently than the majority of early ticket-buyers.
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Taliban Thwarted by Irreproducible Result
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To find these joke atomic bomb plans ...(b/w Ditherati)
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« Monday « November 19, 2001
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War Breaks Out ... Among Press Corps
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Two months into the war on terror, newspapers and the Pentagon are at loggerheads over the lack of access to U.S. troops abroad, and now, in frustration, journalists are jostling each other for any chance to get up close and personal.It's not a "War on< Terror." We're witnessing a "War of Propaganda." Choke off all media outlets that don't toe the party line. Silence them. Deny them access. Only allow one side of the story to be told. Your side. Sounds totalitarian, doesn't it? But then what can you expect from administration elected by fraud?
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US names the 'rogue states'
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Iraq(b/w net.Headlines)
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24
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Cool concept for a show, and they've wasted no time getting into it. After two fast-paced episodes, BoyCaught is completely hooked. It will be interesting to see how they handle sleep. Will some of the characters just disappear when they need to catch a few hours of shut-eye, since each episode comprise one hour in one really crazy day? Or is everyone going to pull an all-nighter? Also, you gotta love the kill-the-Black-presidential-candidate angle; that gives it the sense of verisimilitude that most shows lack. This is Amerikkka, after all. Cool site. (Flash player/plug-in required)
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« Saturday « November 17, 2001
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Mormon racism in perspective
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We are willing that the Negro have the highest education. I would be willing to let every Negro drive a Cadillac if they could afford it. I would be willing that they have all the advantages they can get out of life in the world. But let them enjoy these things among themselves. I think the Lord segregated the Negro and who is man to change that segregation? It reminds me of the scripture on marriage, "what God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."
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KKK cross a Fountain Square no-show
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A dubious holiday tradition in Cincinnati will be absent this year: There will be no Ku Klux Klan cross erected on Fountain Square downtown.Of course, it could be debated that white police officers are a much worse threat to Black folk than the Klan ever was.
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« Friday « November 16, 2001
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Pimpdaddy
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It's everything the aspiring pimp needs!BoyCaught really doesn't know what to make of this wickedly funny site, 'cept to say: pimpin' ain't easy. There's something in this site to offend just about everyone, especially members of Huggy Bear's family. Clearly, this site has a webmaster with a l'il (kim) too much time on the[y] hands.
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Digital Bruce Lee to Star in New Movie
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Twenty-eight years after he died, Bruce Lee is still alive and kickingMastering the (martial) art of movie acting without the actor. On the other hand, some might say that all of Lee's best movies were done with special effects and camera tricks anyway. Like, what about the "Hall of Mirrors" sequence in Enter the Dragon? Hello.
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Fake or Photo?
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Can you tell? Fake or Foto? The Challenge...Take a reality check... Today we're presented with images in movies, on TV and in the press that are of such good quality we don't even think to consider whether the picture is of something that exists in reality or if it was generated by computer software.Interesting.
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« Thursday « November 15, 2001
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Simplicity
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Throughout the United States, people are wondering whether what they have is what they want. On the heels of an unprecedented economic boom?now sinking, it seems, into a prolonged downturn exacerbated by the recent terrorist attack?there are signs that disillusionment is widespread, and that many people with the skills and options to do so are choosing lives outside the mainstream. Taking back their "free" time, buying less, emphasizing relationships over career trajectories, they may constitute a new group enforcing an ancient value?simplicity.Amen to that.
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« Wednesday « November 14, 2001
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White Boy Shuffle
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From the prologue:George tipped BoyCaught off to this book during a late-evening IM session. After reading just a couple of pages, I can't stop laughing. This book was collecting dust under a book of SQL and Java books. I was blind, but now I can see. I only missed this book by four or five years. Scratch that previous rant about books being "deader-than-a-doornail."
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Al Qaeda Nuclear Claim Questioned
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"I think it's unlikely that they have a nuclear weapon, but, on the other hand, with the determination they have, they may very well,"
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald RumsfeldIs it true, or should BoyCaught file that statement under 'Convenient Lies and Useful Fibs,' right in there next to "The check is in the mail," and "Yeah, I'll respect you if you let me sleep with you on the first date?"
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« Tuesday « November 13, 2001
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Protesters Clash Over CNN Coverage
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About 200 people rallied against CNN's coverage of the war in Afghanistan (news - web sites), leading to three arrests.BoyCaught's a little behind on this one, but you have to love the quote: “CNN, half the story, all the time&8221; And people fighting over media coverage. It's the "War on Propaganda."
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'I've got the world's longest tongue'
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German schoolgirl Annika Irmler has licked her way into the Guinness Book of Records with her whopping seven centimetre tongueJust getting in on a blogdex meme. Stretchin' out after a little bit of a layoff (from 'blogging, that is.)
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The Incredible Shrinking Woman Club
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Welcome to The Incredible Shrinking Woman Club, a daily Lifewise feature that's designed to jump-start your motivation and give you plenty of practical tips on winning the Battle of the Bulge.Wow. It's gotten this bad?
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« Sunday « November 11, 2001
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Ken Kesey
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Ken Kesey, who railed against authority in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and orchestrated an LSD-fueled bus ride that helped immortalize the psychedelic 1960s, died Saturday. He was 66.
"Famous isn't good for a writer. You don't observe well when you're being observed," he said.
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« Tuesday « November 6, 2001
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Auburn University site shows racist images
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The suspensions stem from sets of offensive Halloween party photos. White boys in blackface. A hooded Ku Klux Klansman holding a noose around the neck of a mock Negro. Some in the photos sported Afro wigs, stocking caps, bulky jewelry and jerseys of Omega Psi Phi, a prominent black fraternity.Gee, willikers. This is really a shocking story: young, white college boys, the leaders of tomorrow, acting like blithering idiot racists. Wow, like f*ckin-A man! Never seen that one before. They're just good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm. Beats all you ever say, they been in trouble with the law since the day they was born. Just what is becoming of this great and fair country of ours?
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Playing Politics With The War
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It was downright painful to see Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) being booed loudly as she came out on stage at the Oct. 21 New York City gala benefit for the victims of the Twin Towers disaster. Bill also received his taste of boos from the same beer-drinking crowd of blue-collar New York City fire and police department ''heroes'' being honored, many of them White men who Black communities know as some of the country's most demonstrated racists. Nevertheless, it confirmed the fact that the emotions being played out as patriotic gestures are also taking a political shape that favors Republicanism."Ism's" is the problem.
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« Monday « November 5, 2001
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NaNoWriMo !
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November is National Novel Writing Month.And apparently over 5,000 would-be Hemingways are participating. It will be interesting to see what comes out of all of this. BoyCaught, for one, applauds the effort, especially in a society that, it seems to him, reads less and less. Just let him know when National Screenplay Month comes along.
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« Sunday « November 4, 2001
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Four Kinds of Company Men
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BoyCaught snagged the tail-end of a CNBC interview today. It was Tim Russert interviewing Jack Welch, the legendary CEO's CEO, the guy who shows all other business leaders how to lead. He said something pretty interesting, it was this notion that there are four kinds of managers.
The first kind are people who have values and who make the numbers. For them, the sky is the limit. Onward and upward.
The second kind are people who had values but didn't make the numbers. For them, Welch said, they should get a second chance, even a third chance.
The third kind are people who don't have values and don't make the numbers. They won't last very long and are usually gone before anyone even knows it.
The fourth kind present the biggest problems for any organization. They make the numbers, but they have no values. These kinds of people need to be taken out of the mix as soon as possible, because they are like a cancer. These folks may be described by the term jerk.
You've got to respect a CEO who would be willing to get rid of people who bring in profits. But then, I have to wonder, can I respect a guy who plays golf, an elitist sport, typically played by arrogant men in country clubs, who like to pontificate from the top of a pyramid scheme called Corporate America? (Sorry Tiger.) They seem to think that only their ideas are worthwhile, but their vantage point distorts their perspective. It's the kind of perspective that allows them to layoff people who need jobs by the tens of thousands, and still take their management bonuses without batting an eye. I guess Welch's values aren't my values.
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« Friday « November 2, 2001
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Osama
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As U.S. intelligence agents strained to pick up conversations among Al Qaeda members gloating over their September 11 success, soldiers in America's racist underground gnashed their teeth over not having carried out the attack on "Jew York" themselves. "It's a DISGRACE that in a population of at least 150 MILLION White/Aryan Americans, we provide so FEW that are willing to do the same," bemoaned Rocky Suhayda, Nazi Party chairman from Eastpointe, Michigan. "[A] bunch of towel head/sand niggers put our great White Movement to SHAME."Is the "war on terrorism" going to go after all the terrorists, including inbred ones living right here among us?
Sometimes, it makes you wonder whether or not this country is worth it after all. Maybe we need to hit the "reset" button and just start over, so we can get rid of all the scum.
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Yankees Win. Yankees Win. Theeeeeeee Yankees Win!
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Another jolt of midnight magic, another stunning World Series win for the New York Yankees.Unbelievable stuff. Can't blog right now, because in a sea of strangeness, as these last few weeks and months have been, something pretty magical is happening in a silly little game called baseball.
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