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« Saturday « November 30, 2002
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Allies strive for Arab hearts and minds
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Britain is to step up its propaganda battle in the Arab and wider Muslim world next week as part of preparations for the potentially decisive Iraqi declaration on weapons of mass destruction. The US is dropping leaflets across southern Iraq in an effort to demoralise the population.Forget about the so-called forthcoming war for a moment. Let's talk about propaganda: dropping leaflets ... in an effort to demoralise the population. Next time leaflets start falling out of the sky in the Bay Area at least we'll know what's going on. They'll tell us on TV.
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Digital image stored in single molecule
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19 hydrogen atoms in a lone liquid crystal molecule can store at least 1024 bits of information. The data are stored in the complex interaction of the protons' magnetic moments.Gives a whole new meaning to the term pixel-pusher.
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Why Are Black Students Lagging?
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[M]iddle-class black parents in general spent no more time on homework or tracking their children's schooling than poor white parents. And he said that while black students talked in detail about what efforts were needed to get an A and about their desire to achieve, too many nonetheless failed to put forth that effort.We've seen the enemy, and the enemy be us. (Registration required.)
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« Thursday « November 28, 2002
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AIDS in Africa
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Just as the bubonic plague upturned the social order in medieval Europe, AIDS will reshape Africa. Most children would rather stay at home than go to granny, criminal gangs or warlords. But without massive foreign aid, Africa cannot afford much in the way of drugs, food or nursing.Happy Thanksgiving. Stuff your fat face with turkey and cranberry sauce, and act like this problem doesn't exist. Give thanks that it's not you. That's their problem. Not yours.
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« Tuesday « November 26, 2002
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Reality Check - Eminem Is Not "Fresh"
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Ice Cube and everyone else was rapping about beating up "bitchez" and kicking pregnant women in the belly. But back then it was "dangerous." Now its "original" and "artsy." Back then it was a black ghetto - oooh - that's not good. Now its a trailer park. Oh yeah! Now we can relate to that!Whew! And for a second there I thought BoyCaught was the only one who thought Eminem was just a harder-edged Vanilla Ice with legit flow.
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« Monday « November 25, 2002
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BushCartoon.com
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Some very funny cartoons, pictures, Flash movies, and plenty of other stuff, featuring our favorite idiot POTUS.
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« Sunday « November 24, 2002
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Osama issues new call to arms
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A chilling new message from Osama bin Laden is being circulated among British Islamic extremists, calling for attacks on civilians and describing the 'Islamic nation' as 'eager for martyrdom'.Osama is the ghost in the machine: he can appear out of nowhere, yet he cannot be found. How can you defeat a something you cannot catch?
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Study finds whites still fear integration - 11/22/02
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The researchers found that 38 percent of the respondents said they would leave their neighborhood if more blacks moved in. "It is embarrassing for many whites who have these opinions and it obviously comes from their insecurities and the fact that their experiences are so limited with people from other racial and ethnic groups."Classic chicken-and-egg situation, no? The white folks surveyed fear black people because they've never lived with them, but the notion of living with them makes them want to leave, insuring that they'll never have the experience of living with them, while retaining the original fer. What did I just say?
b/w: allaboutgeorge
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« Saturday « November 23, 2002
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Michael Moore Caught At Own Game?
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Liar, liar, pants on fire. Is there no integrity in punditry?
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« Thursday « November 21, 2002
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Fines for mobile use in NY cinemas
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[If] a new law does come into being in December - the very act of talking into a mobile phone in a cinema or any other place of public performance could become illegal and result in a $50 (I personally think it's pretty stupid to pull out a celly while at the flicks. But I found it more interesting to eavesdrop on blog-conversation that Anil Dash and Nick Denton (of Moreover.com) are having on this situation, exposing a sordid racist underbelly that apparently undergirds the entire moviegoing experience in America. All the more reason for investing in a home theater, if you can afford it. And by the way, I'm not one of those bruthas who talks to the screen when I'm at the movies ... unless it talks to me first.
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« Wednesday « November 20, 2002
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Nothing compares to The Play
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I have seen college football played indoors and out, in stadiums that no longer exist, in Honolulu and College Station and Blacksburg and Corvallis and points between. All of it amounts to a backyard game of touch compared to what I saw from the stands of Memorial Stadium in Strawberry Canyon twenty years ago today.
2002 has been a bad season for Stanford Cardinal football. But it can be redeemed with a nice big win up in Berzerkeley: Beat Cal (again)!
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'Scared' Iverson says Philly police are targeting him
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This is some really heavy sh*t for a superstar athlete to be saying, especially through the megaphone of the media. If a guy like Iverson, who can afford to insulate his life from all outside contact, feels this way, think about how your average brutha walking down the street feels.
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« Tuesday « November 19, 2002
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'Iron' will paying off for Schwarzenegger
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Arnold Schwarzenegger encouraged the director of Pumping Iron, the documentary that launched him in Hollywood 25 years ago, to re-release it unedited - including a marijuana-smoking scene.Ahnold wants to
pumppuff you up. Girly man.
b/w: adam curry
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Economists' No. 1 nightmare: a downward spiral
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The 'd' word is back. 'Deflation,' that is.
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Got a sticky problem? Don't worry, you can always dump it on Africa
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Europe's biggest environmental headache for a decade appeared to have been solved yesterday by the simple, if cynical, ruse of towing the stricken oil tanker Prestige from Spain to Africa.Europeans dumping on Africans ... a tale told over, and over, and over, and over. One day all debts will be settled. And there'll be hell to pay.
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« Monday « November 18, 2002
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Secret Court OKs Broad Wiretap Powers
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In a victory for the Bush administration, a secretive appeals court Monday ruled the U.S. government has the right to use expanded powers to wiretap terrorism suspects under a law adopted after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The ruling was a blow to civil libertarians who say the expanded powers, which allow greater leeway in conducting electronic surveillance and in using information obtained from the wiretaps and searches, jeopardize constitutional rights.Orwell's 1984 is a few decades late ... but it's here now. Welcome to the transparent society folks. Big Brother is watching.
b/w: anil dash
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Black People Love Us!
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We are well-liked by Black people so we're psyched (since lots of Black people don't like lots of White people)!! We thought it'd be cool to honor our exceptional status with a ROCKIN' domain name and a killer website!
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Encyclopedia Mythica
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An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend.
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« Sunday « November 17, 2002
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Sidekick
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The T-Mobile Sidekick is the only device that satisfies all of your personal communication and information needs. It's your wireless everything, it includes Internet browsing, e-mail, AOL Instant MessengerI don't know, but this is much cooler and more useful than my BlackBerry. I might have to switch.
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How High (2001)
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I caught this movie for the first time on StarZ cable yesterday. What a stupid movie: ghetto-fabulous homeboys get into Harvard by smoking some magic weed, and then they avoid academic expulsion by smoking more, a lot more. So the message is clear: young bruthas and sistas, if you want to succeed in school, smoke dope. Method Man and Redman are straight-up fools. At least the Cheech & Chong movies -- which this movie seeks to emuluate -- were funny. What an embarrassment.
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« Saturday « November 16, 2002
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Racism Defied
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Craig David says he will not replace his white guitarist just to sell more CDs even though Black executives at urban radio networks in America have advised him that the presence of his white guitarist Fraser T. Smith will hamper his potential for a bigger fanbase.Craig David says he was told an all-black support band would maximise sales among an African-American audience.Can't we all just sing along?
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Surplus to requirements?
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If 99.9 percent of the world's men were wiped out tomorrow, would the human race become extinct? It would not. The fact is, women can live without men. The truth is out. Men are much more trouble than they're worth.Biology is such a harsh mistress. But I'd argue it's much more fun to be a guy.
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Screenwriters: Cut to the Web
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In Hollywood, an unsolicited screenplay by an unknown writer has almost no chance of getting into a producer's hands, let alone making it to the big screen. But on the Web, that same script can reach a wider audience than ever before, including some producers, agents and even studio executives.
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Larry David, a Rough-Edged Cultural Touchstone
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Larry is a truth seeker who gets in trouble for saying out loud what most people think privately. The show's distorted comic lens, Larry is the victim of everyone else's insensitivity.By far the funniest show on air, but it's definitely an acquired taste. (username/password required)
b/w: marc's voice
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« Friday « November 15, 2002
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City Creator
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Build a city while surfing the Net.
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« Thursday « November 14, 2002
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Singlefile
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Singlefile is an easy-to-use web-based service that helps you organize the books you own, the books you are reading, the books you've read and the books you want to read.Potentially very useful for a reader, book buyer, and book loaner like me.
b/w: maganda.org
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« Wednesday « November 13, 2002
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Jump The Shark
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REPOST: Chronicling the moments of when TV shows go downhill. It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now on ... it's all downhill. Some call it the climax. We call it jumping the shark.Has your blog jumped the shark when you start re-posting links you scrounged more than a year ago? I dunno, because I think first you have to peak before you can go downhill. Oh sh*t, maybe it's been going downhill from the start.
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« Monday « November 11, 2002
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Search for America's Next Supermodel
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The series will feature an intensive modeling boot camp where participants learn to master complicated cat walks, intense physical fitness and fashion photos shoots as well as perfect publicity skills, all under 24-hour-a-day surveillance.You can never have too many supermodels, yo. As a die-hard fan of 'Survivor' -- and 'Playmate Search' too -- you know I have to tune it for this. One interesting qualification is that (You can never have too many supermodels, yo. As a die-hard fan of 'Survivor' -- and 'Playmate Search' too -- you know I have to tune it for this. One interesting qualification is that is that "applicants need to be a minimum of at least 5-foot-7 tall." So what do all of the beautiful women under 5-foot-7, who are aspiring models, have to look forward to? Oh yeah ... I know. Porno.
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MNF's Greatest Games: Miami-New York Jets 2000
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On Nov. 11, the Raiders and Broncos will play in the 500th regular season telecast of Monday Night Football. To celebrate, ABC is allowing fans to vote for the greatest MNF game of all-time. One of those games took place on Oct. 23, 2000 when the Miami Dolphins visited the New York Jets.I have to admit, I've seen lots of Monday Night Games, but this game, I turned that sh*t off when it was 23-7 Dolphins in the third quarter. It wasn't the first mistkake I made in my life ... and I'm sure it won't be the last.
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Bill Moyers on Election 2002
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How ironic: a nation started by religious outcasts now lurches into the future on an agenda that seeks to make outcasts of anyone who doesn't espouse their narrow views. What comes around goes around, indeed.
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RhymeZone
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Rhyming dictionary and thesaurus.Rappers delight?
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Modart Keep A Breast 2002
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Bust Mold Gallery + Auction Site. [These] breast casts will be auctioned online with proceeds benefiting The Breast Cancer Fund, and the Asha Kilgallen McGee fund.Gives the term
b/w: GoodSh*t
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How Much is Too Much?
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Assess your own drinking, learn about alcohol and health issues, and find resources for additional help.
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Study: Even one drink can impair thinking
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Even a single drink of alcohol is enough to impair someone's ability to reason quickly and detect errors.That can't be good.
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« Sunday « November 10, 2002
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Racism Solutions Rumour
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There is a rumour that a new anti-racism unit is to be set up at the Home Office following the report on Thursday 07 November 2002 that black people are eight times more likely to be stopped and searched by police than whites.Racial profiling. Different country. Same problems. See the pattern?
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« Saturday « November 9, 2002
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Priming the Pump of War
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The Foundation's video spots, billboards and web site are all clearly aimed, in the words of one famous propagandist, to "develop [a] crisp, clear idea into a system of thought that includes all human drives, wishes and actions [into a coherent] worldview."
b/w: allaboutgeorge
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« Tuesday « November 5, 2002
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Knicks fall short in front of non-sellout MSG crowd
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The Knicks are off to an 0-4 start, their worst in 15 years, and plenty of seats are available for anyone wishing to witness the ugliness.It's hard to believe that the NBA season is already here. And even harder to believe that after just one week, the Knicks are already in big trouble.
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Card fraudsters prey on high class diners
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An unscrupulous restaurant waiter processes a transaction but then, out of sight of the customers, separately records the card's data on tiny devices that can be fitted on to a trouser belt. He or she then sells the data to criminal gangs who use it to mass produce counterfeit credit and debit cards.Live by the technology sword, die by it. And another reason to limit the number of credit cards you have.
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« Monday « November 4, 2002
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Black leaders hit Belafonte for slur
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Two leading black liberals distanced themselves from entertainer Harry Belafonte's description of Secretary of State Colin L. Powell as a "house slave."Dirty laundry. Dirty laundry.
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The Scribbler
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Tagline:Translation: Very Expensive
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« Sunday « November 3, 2002
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Irish Wise
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Tyrone Willingham forever altered my perceptions of what a football coach could be.
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