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« Tuesday « December 31, 2002
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Yahoo! Web Beacons
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Yahoo! agents spy on visitors across the whole Net, Neo
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What Should I Do With My Life?
([email protected] Company)
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It's not too late to change career tracks ... and that's good
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« Friday « December 27, 2002
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3 Consonants And a Disavowal
(Institute for the Study of Academic Racism)
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Nice guy Trent Lott voted against remembrance of lynching victims
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« Thursday « December 26, 2002
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My All Pro Team
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NFL guru Dr. Z has spoken for 2002
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Beyonce Knowles Bounces Britney
(AdAge.com)
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More pop stars selling soda pop
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Lousy Service Cripples United, McDonalds
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Hey, do fries go with that shake? Muthaf*cka!
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Scrooge Is Haunting Wall Street
(Business Week Online)
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Economy can only get better; but not until Summer 2003
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« Tuesday « December 24, 2002
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Lakers' biggest games come after Christmas
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Proof that the Lakers are overrated and overhyped in overlong NBA season
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Murder, revenge, rage ... and
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Scathing review of Scorsese's Gangs flick about brawlin' white guys
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LOTR: The Two Towers
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Overly-gushing praise for epic sequel about little white guys
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Europe sheds crocodile tears for Africa
(allAfrica.com)
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European hypocrisy helps plunder African natural resources
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« Thursday « December 19, 2002
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How Iraq may react
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U.S. intelligence officials warned that President Saddam Hussein of Iraq planned to pursue a "scorched earth" strategy in the event of war with the United States and would destroy his country's oil fields, electrical power plants, food storage sites and other facilities while blaming U.S. military forces for the damage.If you back a rat into a corner it will fight back. The "scorched earth" strategy is certainly one Saddam's dwindling options, but if he destroys the oil fields, then isn't this whole charade moot? Is oil the point of this exercise?
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Girl talk
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Women really do lead men on for the first few minutes after they meet... "You can predict male behaviour from female behaviour but not the other way round."Too bad most guys don't pick up on these facts.
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Centrefold models getting more androgynous
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"This means more recent models have a more skinny and tubular-shaped appearance."I love the part where mention they this body type in the same sentence with the phrase 'stick insects.' Aren't pop scientists great? They take a limited sampling of men who read Playboy -- Playboy -- and conclude that the standard for female beauty is defined by one narrowly-focused magazine. Who TF reads Playboy anyway? It sure as hell ain't relevant to me. Puh-leeeze!
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After 5 seasons, 'Survivor' still defying the odds
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By now, the title of Survivor refers not so much to the game or its players, but to the series itself. In its fifth installment, the show isn't the water-cooler topic it used to be. But Survivor, which airs its two-hour finale and one-hour reunion show tonight, is still a consistent top-10 performer for CBS -- and the rare "reality" show that has a shelf life longer than a loaf of bread.For diehard fans like yours truly, it's still the best reality show out there, and always a great study in social mores. The problems highlighted in the article are all fixable. They just need to make the casting more even, so there are no real mismatches in physical and mental abilities, which probably means casting younger across-the-board. The show has legs for at least 2-3 more editions.
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« Tuesday « December 17, 2002
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BET founder Johnson awarded Charlotte franchise
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Robert Johnson, the billionaire founder of Black Entertainment Television, has been chosen as owner of the NBA's new Charlotte expansion franchise.The 56-year-old Johnson will become the league's first black majority owner.It's about time. While most of the fare on BET turns this dark-skinned brutha pale, and it's doubtful Johnson will break any new ground -- after all, he's a businessman and he'll probably just repeat his BET formula, playing to the lowest common Black denominator -- this move does set a hopeful precedent. Bruthas can exploit, and profit off of Black talent too, right? Your name's not Kunte, it's Toby! Grits! Dummy!
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giftworx
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I'm having real trouble with Christmas this year ... all this money money everywhere and a homeless man sat in front of the mini-mart sitting on the concrete eating cheetos and drinking a Pepsi in a tattered green coat and no shoes on. No shoes on. I sat in my car staring at the scene. I watched as people ignored him, turned their noses up at him, refused to assist him in any way.
Man, you never know someone's deal. Just because they're homeless doesn't mean they need or want your help.
Once, a couple of years ago, I got up on an unseasonably cold Saturday morning during the Holiday season, and went to the Wells Fargo ATM, in downtown Palo Alto, to pull out some cash for errands I had to run. There was this homeless woman, with a big, overstuffed shopping cart, wrapped over with dark plastic bags. She was wearing a dirty vinyl poncho for her coat, and she had no shoes -- which is where my story intersects with Jason's on NegroPlease. She was situated right next to the walkway that led up to the ATM, and to each person that passed on their way to the money machine, she'd say, "Can I have some money, I want something to eat." She never made eye contact, just said the same words as folks passed her. Her words flowed in a steady, monotone rhythm.
Can I have some moneyI want something to eat.
Everyone, including me, tried to ignore her.
I got $60 out of the ATM and pocketed it, but when I went back past her, for some reason she was looking up, and we made eye contact. This time, she was asking me directly, "Can I have some money? I want something to eat." The thing that was most troubling to me was she looked a little like my mother. A strange bond.
I asked her, "What do you want to eat?"
"Sandwich, soup, something like that."
I said, "OK. We'll see about that." And I left, fully intending at that moment to get something for her. I went on my errands -- coffee, post office, Lotto, a little shopping for stuff like toothpaste and laundry detergent, picking up dry cleaning. I also ran into a few friends along the way and had the necessary "stop-and-chat." Long story short, I started making my way back home. And then I remembered the homeless lady, and my unspoken promise. My last errand.
I went to this deli along the way, ordered a big hot cup of split-pea soup (the soup-of-the-day), a large roast-beef sandwich, a small salad, and a couple of canned iced teas. It was a substantial meal, I thought.
I took all of this back to the ATM at the bank, and the lady was still there, still making her same monotone plea, and I said, "Excuse me, Ma'am ... I just went to the deli and got you some food, a sandwich, soup, salad, some soft drinks. All fresh and all for you."
And she looked up at me with the same eyes that looked like my mother's, only they seemed less so at that moment, and in the most annoyed tone I've ever heard said, "I DON'T WANT THAT!"
I didn't really know what to say. Maybe it was my fault for thinking that I could give food to someone asking to eat. I don't really know what was going on there. But I walked away a little stunned. It wasn't that big a deal but it taught me a lesson. Oh, and I had the lunch myself. It was substantial.
But because of that incident, I don't really deal with the homeless on the street anymore. Each of them has their own story, and their own monster set of problems, but then, don't we all? The fact that I was concerned about this person, and then went out of my way to address a request made of me, only to get completely rejected, told me that I don't have enough time in the day to worry about everyone's sad story. I'll donate to charities, and hope that most of the people who really need help will get if from those venues. Sometimes the world hardens your heart, and I hate that.
In the meantime, I have family, and friends, and associates, and at least those folks who'll appreciate when I give them a gift ... or at least act like that way. And just to have those relationships, I am blessed! Maybe the problem with giving gifts is that the giver wants to feel appreciated for giving. I don't know, but that part feels as good as getting gifts, in my opinion.
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« Monday « December 16, 2002
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When technology attacks
(Gary Marshall - Freelance hack)
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RSI isn't a disease as such: it's a catch-all term for a number of work related injuries such as tennis elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome, trigger finger and so on. Then I learned a number of strategies that help keep it at bay, and I've been pretty much OK for a few years now.
b/w: Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka
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Creative Commons: Licensing Project
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On December 16, 2002, Creative Commons released version 1.0 of its Licensing Project, and the first release of content under its Founders' Copyright. These are the first two projects in a series that Creative Commons will launch, all designed to help expand the amount of intellectual work, whether owned or free, available for creative re-use.In a word: HUGE!
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Newgrounds Presents: Christmas
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It's rude, it's crude! Here at Newgrounds, we put the "X" in X-Mas!With titles like Kill Santa, Bin Laden's Christmas, and Christmas B*tch you know this site is sick, sick, sick! You'll need the Flash plug-in installed on your web browser to enjoy these twisted time-wasters. Happy Holidays! Warning: don't go here if you can't take potentially rude, lewd, and/or crude humor.
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« Thursday « December 12, 2002
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'Jimmy Crow' lives in racial/ethnic theme houses
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You might call him Jimmy Crow (or in some places, Jaime Crow). Whatever you call him, he's the new big man on campus. Administrators have freshened up the label, and their dorms are not segregated houses, but "ethnic theme houses." Nevertheless, these are living accommodations determined by race, the latest trend in the soft bigotry of campus paternalism.This article seems to blame the victims for seeking environments where they may find more comfort. . Who wrote this, Trent Lott's speechwriter?
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Spam king lives large off others' e-mail troubles
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"This is even better," he said. "You don't have to be on a Web site at all. You can just have your computer on, connected to the Internet, reading e-mail or just idling and, bam, this program detects your presence and up pops the message on your screen, past firewalls, past anti-spam programs, past anything. "Isn't technology great?"Cyber-scum.
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« Friday « December 6, 2002
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Racism alive and well in the Union
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kottke: "In the past two days, in dealings with a cab driver and the cable guy, both non-Caucasian (and non-black), I've heard a diatribe beginning with "those n*ggers, man..." and accusations of a wrong cable in the kit because "those blacks" aren't doing their jobs..."Two observations: 1) Where do you think these non-Caucasians picked up their vocabulary? Don't most people in Rome do as the Romans do? 2) If you let people say racist things in your presence, and you don't check them for it, isn't that essentially the same as condoning their behavior? If you don't fight it, especially in the small ways, then it will never stop. But boy, it's sure convenient and easy to pass the onus of racism off onto non-Caucasians and skate by without taking any responsibility for fighting bias, unless you aren't really troubled by it.
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« Sunday « December 1, 2002
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Link and Think: 2002
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AIDS. HIV. Little words. Big problems. Just to understate things. Perhaps no group has been devastated more by the so-called AIDS epidemic than people of African descent. And while I hope that we all hope that this problem will be solved, my greatest interest in this problem is to understand how and why it disproportionally destroys people who share my phenotype. The sources I've found today range from possibly crackpot theory to scholarly clinical trial. The wide and contentious range of opinion and fact suggest that the elusive threshold to a solution is not only scientific, but political, social, and economic. The cure will therefore remain elusive. So at this point, as thinking individuals, all we can do is arm ourselves with information.
"While African Americans account for an estimated 13 percent of the U.S. population, the CDC reports that 38 percent of all people diagnosed with AIDS through June 2001 in the United States are African Americans."
-- American Red Cross
» 1-Minute-AIDS-Test
» The 1972 U.S. HIV/AIDS Antidotes
» Abstinence and Safer Sex HIV Risk-Reduction Interventions for African American Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial (AMA)
» AEGIS HIV Daily Briefing
» African American HIV/AIDS Program (Red Cross)
"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."
The Economist, AIDS in Africa
» African Americans' Views of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic at 20 Years: Findings from a National Survey (Kaiser)
» AIDS and Africa: A Case of Racism Vs Science?
» AIDS at 20 (Kaiser)
» AIDS Epidemic Update 2002 (UNAIDS)
» AIDS fuels southern Africa famine (SF Gate)
"Now I believe the smallpox vaccine theory is the explanation for the explosion of African AIDS. The link between the WHO program and the epidemic is an interesting and important hypothesis."
Robert Gallo, World Health Organization, and the scientist credited co-discovering the virus
» AIDS in Africa
» AIDS in Africa is Caused by Starvation and Medications
» Black and Hispanic HIV Patients Are Less Likely to Get Experimental Medications (HHS)
» BlackAIDS.org
» Closing the Health Gap (HHS)
"If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There is no such document."
-- Dr. Kary Mullis, Biochemist, 1993 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
» Daily HIV/AIDS Report (Kaiser)
» Discreet HIV Test
» Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention (CDC)
» The Fear of Losing HIV
» The History of the Development of AIDS
"At present the population of the world is increasing at about 58,000 per diem. War, so far, has had no very great effect on this increase, which continued throughout each of the world wars.. War has hitherto been disappointing in this respect.but perhaps bacteriological war may prove effective. If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. The state of affairs might be unpleasant, but what of it?"
--Lord Bertrand Russell, "The Impact of Science On Society" (1951)
» The HIV/AIDS Search Engine
» Race/Ethnicity and HIV/AIDS (TheBody.com)
» Racism 'helping spread of AIDS' (Guardian UK)
» Special Report: AIDS (Guardian UK)
» Top 10 Ten Things Everyone Should Know About HIV (About.com)
"AIDS is not a malediction, but the welcome and natural remedy to reduce the population on the planet.... Should human beings disappear, I surely wouldn't mind.... Just as the Black Plague ended the feudal era, so AIDS will end the industrial era of progress. This is a good thing, since industrial progress brings population growth."
--David Foreman, founder of Earth First!, writing in the Nov. 8, 1987 issue of {Earth First! Journal}
» Virusmyth: A Re-Thinking AID$ Website
» The Yin & Yang of HIV
AIDS links posted on this weblog exactly one year ago:
» Africa devastated by Aids (BBC)
» AIDS & HIV Statistics
» AIDS in Africa (PBS)
» Death Stalks A Continent (Time.com)
» The AIDS Memorial Quilt
» HIV/AIDS Among African Americans (CDC)
» HIV/AIDS Positive Stories
» Looking for the Light
» The Origin of AIDS? (ABCNEWS)
» Stories from Young People with HIV (UCSF)
» Targeting AIDS (PBS)
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