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« Thursday « August 29, 2002
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E-mail marketers busy cultivating a penile colony
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"Gee, I'd be so much happier in my relationship with Mortimer if only his penis were the size of a large zucchini!"Be the man you always wanted to be ... eh?
b/w: net.Headlines
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FREE THE MOUSE
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The crux of Lessig's argument is that, by periodically extending existing copyrights, Congress is squirreling-around with it's Constitutional duty to limit them; The situation becomes dubiously close to de facto copyright-in-perpetuity, which ain't what the Constitution means by "limited." I don't know what the Nine Most Mysterious And Important People In America will think of this argument, but it makes good horse sense to me.
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Corruption 'Rampant' in Two-Thirds of Countries
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Businesses in top exporting countries were fueling corrupt politicians in the developing world.Well, you could move to Iceland.
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Study Finds Big Increase in Black Men as Inmates Since 1980
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The increase in the black male prison population coincides with the prison construction boom that began 1980. At that time, three times more black men were enrolled in institutions of higher learning than behind bars.At this rate, they're going to eventually run out of bruthas to imprison, as we'll all be in prison. What will they do then? (username/password may be required: use cibblog/cibcib)
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« Wednesday « August 28, 2002
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TARGET: Retailing White Supremacy
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Thanks to Target, the nationwide department-store chain, students across the country may be heading back to school in hip-looking white supremacist regalia. The retail giant is selling shorts and baseball caps splashed with "EIGHT EIGHT" and "88" - white-power code for "Heil Hitler," because "h" is the eighth letter of the alphabet.Well they know how to make a profit ... they're shooting for their "target" market, literally!
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« Tuesday « August 27, 2002
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The Death Clock
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Welcome to the Death Clock(TM), the Internet's friendly reminder that life is slipping away... second by second. Like the hourglass of the Net, the Death Clock will remind you just how short life is.Morbid.
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Long Bets
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The purpose of the Long Bets Foundation is to improve long-term thinking. Long Bets is a public arena for enjoyable competitive predictions, of interest to society, with philanthropic money at stake.
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« Monday « August 26, 2002
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We Will Not Live at the Mercy of Terrorists
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Vice President Dick Cheney: "But as Secretary Rumsfeld has put it, we are still closer to the beginning of this war than we are to its end. The United States has entered a struggle of years--a new kind of war against a new kind of enemy."This is the vision this administration has: one of endless war
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The Chickenhawk Database
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A chickenhawk is a term often applied to public persons - generally male - who (1) tend to advocate, or are fervent supporters of those who advocate, military solutions to political problems, and who have personally (2) declined to take advantage of a significant opportunity to serve in uniform during wartime.So, Dubya, if you're going to glorify war, then for goodness sake: be a warrior. Talk and walk.
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« Sunday « August 25, 2002
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar
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This directory gives you access to almost all of the contents of my evolving book, The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Enjoy -- but be aware that I have sold O'Reilly the exclusive commercial printing rights.The papers composing this book (like their topic) are still evolving as I get more feedback. I made extensive revisions and additions for the first edition of the book The Cathedral and the Bazaar, and expect to continue adding and revising in future editions. Even if you've heard me do the stand-up version, you may want to reread it.
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« Saturday « August 24, 2002
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Angry White Men
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By Eric Demby: The success of a handful of books that assail the Bush administration as hypocritical, incompetent, and corrupt has demarcated a groundswell of Americans who desire truth about their leaders amid the dearth of critical and official information that is today's mainstream media. It's a demographic large enough that any politician or pollster would identify it as pivotal in an election.
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Disposable planet
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The image shows the weekly waste output of the average US citizen. At 14.3kg it is the highest in the world.
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« Friday « August 23, 2002
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McDonald's sorry for burger blunder
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"Tasteless," is how charitable groups have branded a McDonald's burger in Norway that they claim ignores the starvation crisis in Africa. McDonald's is red-faced, and may donate proceeds from its controversial "McAfrika" burger.Good lord, there's a MickyDees in Norway? And what the hell were they thinking, if they were thinking? McAfrika? Burger? Because we all now that burgers, while invented by Western man, has been a staple of Afikans for century?
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Sexy Beasts
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There's potential good news for women who like to f*ck around, or who find monogamy as much or even more of a challenge than the men they know: You are not evolutionary freaks after all. As a matter of fact, in the right cultural circumstances, you would have been evolutionary heroines.Sounds cool to me. Less 'maintenance' issues to deal with.
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SlamBall
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It's non-stop, hard-hitting, human video game action played on a revolutionary trampoline and spring-loaded surface. The New TNN is proud to be the home of SlamBall, the first hybrid team sport that combines the fast-court action of basketball with elements of football, hockey, lacrosse, and gymnastics.Since baseball is about to go pffft! when they go on strike next week, it's time to jump on the slamball bandwagon, eh?
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Eminem: White America
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Exclusive world premiere of "White America!"I don't know, BoyCaught's not feeling it on this one. It's a little hard to listen to, not exactly beautiful music he made for you to just cherish. But as a social commentator, Slimy Shady makes some interesting points here, like when he talks about doing the "math" behind records sales, and since he looks like most of the suburban white kids his music speaks to -- but produced by "authentic" Dr. Dre -- he'll make at least twice as much as if he were a black rapper. So you mean to tell me, by Eminem logic, that a black man has to work at least twice as hard in America to get the same level of success? What happened to the "level playing field" and equal opportunity, and all that?
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Little hope for Talk City users
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Talk City customers are only the latest Net users to lose their data as a result of a site shutdown. Customers of Internet access company [email protected] and online photo site PhotoPoint also lost e-mail or photographs when those companies closed shop earlier this year.Talk City, and all of these other examples prove an obvious point: if you don't own the storage media for your own content, you own nothing. With the price of storage becoming really affordable, why trust anyone else with your precious data?
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Weblogs of the stars
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Hollywood personalities share their innermost thoughts, interesting or not, on the Internet.It's refreshing to see that many of these people whom we prop up as "stars" are just as banal as we are. They just have a lot more money, and more cameras pointed at them. Which begs the question: "Why do we prop some people up as stars?" Are they somehow better than us just because they can sing, or act or hit a baseball over a fence? Or is it just because more cameras are pointed at them?
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the blogger code
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Geeks have one. So do hairy gay men and their admirers.Isn't it time bloggers have a code to describe themselves as well?(OK, so maybe not, but we charge forward nonetheless).
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« Thursday « August 22, 2002
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Raid on Kmart lot leaves shock, anger
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Raid on Kmart lot leaves shock, angerTeenagers, parents question arrests of 425 outside store. A crowd of angry teenagers and their parents accused police Sunday of arresting many innocent bystanders during an overnight raid on a west Houston parking lot where youths apparently congregate. Scores of Houston police officers swarmed onto the Kmart parking lot in the 8400 block of Westheimer about 12:30 a.m. Sunday and arrested about 425 people for criminal trespassing, a misdemeanor. Houston Police Department spokesman Martin DeLeon said many cars were towed. DeLeon said business owners have been complaining about youths gathering on their parking lots on weekend nights and causing a commotion.But, of course, this isn't a police state, we just play one on TV.
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Women remember disturbing, emotional images more than men, study shows
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"That would suggest a potential physical mechanism in the brain where women incorporate emotional experience into their memory. Because different parts of the brain turned on in men, it seems there is more separation in their brains between emotional processes and memory formation processes." In other words, he said, memory in men included less emotional information. According to Gabrieli, researchers want to use the findings to check whether such neural mechanisms might be associated with people suffering from depression. According to statistics, twice as many women suffer from the illness as men.
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Curtis: Cosmetic surgery pointless
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"I've had a little lipo. I've had a little Botox. And you know what? None of it works. None of it," she said. The actress, who once played a shapely aerobics instructor in the film Perfect and showed her breasts in Trading Places, called her personal beauty "a fraud".Don't hate me for being beautiful ... I paid through the nose (had a job there too) for this muhf*ckin' face!
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U.N. report says racism on the rise worldwide
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The report did not identify any countries by name, but referred to frequent instances of racial profiling at airports and more than 200 racist propaganda internet sites as other examples of discrimination.Stock markets and economies falling, racism and intolerance rising. Connection? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
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How To Make Great Collard Greens
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Collard greens are a very nutitious and inexpensive treat. When I was growing up, my grandmother would buy about 50 cents worth of collard seeds and this would grow enough collard greens to feed us for the entire year.I do miss that 'home cookin', youknowimsayin?
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Natural Reality SuperWeed kit 1.0
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SuperWeed Kit 1.0 is a lowtech DIY kit capable of producing a genetically mutant superweed, designed to attack corporate monoculture.
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More black girls are crime victims
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Usually, itThe Anti-N*gga Propaganda Machine
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Diamonds are forever, and you could be too
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A Chicago company says it has developed a process for turning cremated human remains into diamonds that can be worn as jewelry. "We're building on the simple fact that all living creatures are carbon-based and diamonds are carbon-based," said Greg Herro, head of LifeGem Memorials. The blue diamonds are the answer to people who think a tombstone or an urn full of ashes is not personal enough.No, no, that's not a Cubic Zirconium, that's Grandpappy!
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Black Farmers to Rally at USDA
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Philip Haynie recalls walking into the agricultural loan office in Heathsville, Va., in the fall of 1998, seeking a loan that would enable him to keep farming. He was greeted by an account executive holding a handgun ... after his loan application was denied, Haynie filed a complaint with the Agriculture Department, claiming he was turned down because he is black. Haynie's appeal was denied, and he's now bankrupt. The agent's punishment was being suspended for a day without pay and given early retirement.The loan officer then said: "We don't pay you damn eggplants money to pick the crops, see! You just pick 'em ... and you'll like it! But jokes aside, this isn't a very funny story. Forget about reparations for crimes past, how about settling current debts? This line from the article is classic:
Black farmers "have been asked to be patient, but we're going to come up with ways to be held accountable and achieve some progress."
A tale oft-told.
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Close family smells worse than a stranger
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People can recognise the smell of their close family members - but surprisingly, they do not like it. This aversion may help prevent incest.
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« Wednesday « August 21, 2002
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Marsalis Launches New Indie Label
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Branford Marsalis: "The consolidation of the record industry into major conglomerates has turned the business into a mega-hit pop music machine with a very short term focus. Artists who want to be musicians, not marketing creations, have very few places to record anymore."This looks promising. You know, if the artists started taking more control of the business end, we wouldn't have to worry about the RIAA. I know, I know: but musicians aren't businessmen. The record execs sure know that.
b/w: Scripting News
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« Tuesday « August 20, 2002
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As Argentina faces record unemployment, game show contestants compete for jobs
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Contestants square off against each other for jobs as tour guides, cooks, waiters, window washers, engineers and anything else. Welcome to "Human Resources," one of the most highly watched shows in a country in crisis: one in five workers is now unemployed and half of the 36 million Argentine people have sunk into poverty as South America's second-largest economy, behind Brazil, unravels.Watch out Amerika, this show could be in our future.
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« Monday « August 19, 2002
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Abu Nidal 'found dead' in Baghdad
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The body of the militant leader was found with gunshot wounds in his residence in Baghdad, confirming a report in the Palestinian Al-Ayyam newspaper today that he had committed suicide three days ago, the sources told the Reuters news agency.Can we really buy this 'suicide' line, or was this a 'hit?' A hit with a message.
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« Sunday « August 18, 2002
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Blacks Rally D.C. for Reparations
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Hundreds of blacks rallied in front of the Capitol on Saturday to demand slavery reparations, saying that compensation is long overdue for the ills of that institution.BoyCaught has mixed feelings about this. The cast of characters leading the charge are problematic because they're not taken seriously. But on the other hand, there are some merits to the issue. After all, Japanese-Americans where compensated to the tune of $20,000 per person for five years of internment during WWII, where 120,000 people were incarcerated. And the American government has hosted talks with Germany on reparations for victims of the Holocaust. Something like 90,000 were considered slave laborers, and an estimated 6 million died. By comparison, American slave trade covered several hundred years, destroyed hundreds of millions of African lives in the process, and created immense wealth for the country. Other groups have placed a dollar value on their perceived timebound pain and anguish, so why not African Americans? You keep on being told that it's different today. That white people today didn't bolt chains around your neck. But what if all of those banks and businesses, that won't give you a job or a loan today, had their start by bolting chains around your forefather's neck. Any connection to the present? It's a complex issue, but everything's not black-and-white. Or is it? Related:
Japanese Internment History
U.S. hosts talks on Nazi slave reparations
Slavery Reparations Resource Page
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« Saturday « August 17, 2002
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The Naked Face
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"The face is like the penis!" and this is what he meant-that the face has, to a large extent, a mind of its own. This doesn't mean we have no control over our faces. We can use our voluntary muscular system to try to suppress those involuntary responses. But, often, some little part of that suppressed emotion-the sense that I' m really unhappy, even though I deny it-leaks out. Our voluntary expressive system is the way we intentionally signal our emotions. But our involuntary expressive system is in many ways even more important: it is the way we have been equipped by evolution to signal our authentic feelings.Incredible (but long) article by Gladwell (the "Tipping Point" guy) on how our faces give away everything we're thinking and feeling ... to the people who have the knack, or training, for noticing it.
b/w: emergic.org
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Cross-Race Facial Recognition
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Why do people of one racial group fail to recognize faces from another racial group? This so-called cross-race recognition deficit, a topic of debate within the social science community, is sometimes explained by suggesting that people have less experience seeing faces from other races.Well, I guess this one puts a dent in Gladwell's thesis of reading faces.
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« Thursday « August 15, 2002
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Memo to the Right Wing: It's Class Warfare Out There
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If Bush has his way, we are going to fight an unprovoked war with Iraq without the financial aid of any allies. The health-care system is falling apart in front of our eyes, school teachers should be paid at least twice what they make now, lack of low-income housing is making life hell for the working class and now the right wing wants to cut taxes for the rich yet again?
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The purpose of this web site is to provide general information on MAZAVA. MAZAVA is a knowledge sharing network linking Hot Zones with knowledge hubs. Hot Zones are areas where infectious diseases originate; knowledge hubs are places where solutions are developed. MAZAVA is a work in progress.
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fyuze is here to solve that problem by making it easy for you collect all the information you want from other sites and smash it together into something that's easy to view and super customizeable.
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« Wednesday « August 14, 2002
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Brand names really do stick in brain
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Researchers at UCLAOH SH*T!
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Homeland Dept. Could Take Years
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It may take Congress only a few months to create a Homeland Security Department, but it probably will take years to get the huge new Cabinet agency fully up and running. The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, estimates it could take five to 10 years before the new department can "provide meaningful and sustainable results."One of the great things our government is it's so complex and full of checks, balances, and inertia that it takes years for things to really change. One good outcome of this effect is that ideas which are potentially wacko -- like creating a 'stormtrooper' agency that's only accountable to the president -- can be examined more closely instead of simply getting the casual rubber-stamp. Or we can only hope.
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Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision
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Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft's announced desire for camps for U.S. citizens he deems to be "enemy combatants" has moved him from merely being a political embarrassment to being a constitutional menace.Ashcroft's plan, disclosed last week but little publicized, would allow him to order the indefinite incarceration of U.S. citizens and summarily strip them of their constitutional rights and access to the courts by declaring them enemy combatants.Finally, someone in the media pointing out just how dangerous this guy really is. We need more big voices to step up on this one. (Registration required.)
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« Tuesday « August 13, 2002
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Blogging for Dollars
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Giving Rise to the Professional Blogger: By paying great bloggers to produce Weblogs, we remove economic constraints and enable them to devote their energies full-time to producing compelling content and creating outstanding Weblogs.My question: have weblogs really reached a point in there development where this kind of idea can be taken seriously? Or are we really just talking about a new kind of magazine? And moreover, in these economic times, where does the money come from to pay pro-bloggers in the first place?
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Hunt and Peck
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It is thus incumbent upon any book reviewer to grasp the multifaceted broadening of what was once simply summarized as "The Black Experience," and it is the duty of the African-American reviewer to accurately portray, critically assess and convey this to potential readers. The ironic complexity of this task, no matter how savvy the reviewer, is best illustrated when the quality of the work produced by black writers is measured against that of whites using the criteria of excellence governing standard English and its genre, Ebonics aside.An African American reviewer slams a book by Maya Angelou; in turn, for giving her honest opinion, gets slammed by the AA book-buying public. WTF? Just because an African American author publishes a book shouldn't exempt it from being judged on its merits. On the other hand, in my opinion, a writer like Terry McMillan has a career to thank for this practice.
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Three Strikes
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Professional sports often reflect, and sometimes shape, important currents in American life. For example, the indignities of racial discrimination were easily ignored by white Americans until Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier. Only when racial segregation was dramatized by the national pastime did the demand for racial justice become a visible national issue. And so it is with major-league baseball and corporate economics. The greed that fueled the stock-market bubble and crash is mirrored in major-league baseball. And now, greed threatens to cause a walkout (one dare not dignify it by calling it a "strike") by baseball players that would abort the season just when the pennant races are heating up. The dynamics of the baseball dispute shed light on the current corporate scandals. As Yogi Berra once said, "You can observe a lot just by watching."Yes, we've covered this before, but still: greed is good.
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Asian Brown Cloud poses global threat
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A dense blanket of pollution, dubbed the "Asian Brown Cloud," is hovering over South Asia, with scientists warning it could kill millions of people in the region, and pose a global threat.But we'll be safe inside of our SUVs, right?
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« Thursday « August 8, 2002
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TV viewing after 9/11 is linked to distress
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[T]he paper breaks ground in a theory some of them have long believed: that televised depictions of disasters can be psychologically harmful to the public, and especially to small children.Yet another reason to watch as little TV as possible.
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Knicks pass on Mutombo, want Mourning
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After reportedly turning down a deal for Dikembe Mutombo, the New York Knicks are apparently setting their sights on Miami Heat center Alonzo Mourning. A Knicks' offer for Mourning would likely include Latrell Sprewell and either Kurt Thomas or Clarence Weatherspoon, according to the Daily News.As much as I love Latrell's game, the Knicks have sorely missed a big presence in the middle since the decline of Patrick Ewing. I think Zo's still got more than a few good years ahead. Do the deal.
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TiVo Might Rue Arrival of DTV
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Digital signals create perfect copies that won't degrade. Executives fear they would deliver perfect copies to millions of viewers.Since they're not delivering "perfect" copies to consumers today, it's safe to assume that they're delivering "crap" copies. You have to ask yourself this question: do you really need any more of Hollywood's crap?
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Stupefyingly vacuous ... Summer rages on, and as untold thousands of restaurant dumpsters simmer in unison under a fierce Brooklyn sun, CHICKENHEAD thrills to revel in the fragrant glory of their collective putrescence.Funny stuff.
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Site lists hundreds of streaming audio feeds that work especially well with WinAmp. All music genres, styles, and bandwidths.This is a cool streaming music resource.
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« Tuesday « August 6, 2002
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In an article written in 1995: "The first targets in any FEMA emergency would be Hispanics and Blacks; the FEMA orders call for them to be rounded up and detained. Tax protesters, demonstrators against government military intervention outside U.S. borders, and people who maintain weapons in their homes are also targets."Paging Mssrs. Ashcroft and Ridge. In the event of an "emergency" FEMA has the power to actually suspend the Constitution? In 2002, FEMA requested a federal budget outlay of $6.4 billion. One of their pet projects is the Citizen Corps, but it's not clear if the dress shirts (or Tees) that come with membership are red-white-and-blue, or gestapo brown.
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BlogVoices.com will be closing indefinitely
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At 10:53PM on Monday, January 22: I received an email from the billing department of Hostrocket.com informing me that the BlogVoices.com account was in violation of the Hostrocket Terms of Service. Regardless of whether or not I agree with the reasoning, the decision has been made. BlogVoices.com will be closing indefinitely.[cIb] isn't a Blogger-powered blog, so BlogVoices was never an option, but it's sad that a pretty useful service, albeit a personal skunks-works, is about to die because of some ISP-reseller's "terms." What this country needs is a T1 for every citizen.
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Play!(Fazed.net)
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Osama meets the Peace Lovahs ...La-la-laaaaaaaaah, My Lord! Kumbayah! (Aside: is that how you really spell "koom-buy-ahh?" Also, fazed.net is a lil' bit of a blog-type t'ing ... a discovery. Gotta love a website that can roll with hedz like "Pimpin' Ain't Easy." Hey, you know, it's Friday night, ain't a damn thing funny; da b*tch betta have my money! BoyCaught's been flowin' with all varieties of knowledge since Link Number One. (Flash plug-in or player required; b/w KickerX, the bro)
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Can't Understand It? Don't Worry
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Whenever somebody gives you a spec for some new technology, if you can't understand the spec, don't worry too much. Nobody else is going to understand it, either, and it's probably not going to be important.So true. And while Spolsky is talking about computing, his concept really applies to just about everything: keep it simple, stoooopid!
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« Sunday « August 4, 2002
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Remote Control redefined: program your ReplayTV server over the Web.
BoyCaught is a weblogger who, while deeply-versed in many web technologies, is hardly a geek. Witness the fact that most bloggers (who have a personal video server) seem to have TiVo. Witness them as they write about their TiVo boxes, about how cool they are, about how TiVo runs Linux, blah, blah, blah ... all for a monthly service charge. Well, about eight months ago, BoyCaught purchased a ReplayTV unit instead. Personally, it seemed cooler. And it didn't come with a monthly fee for the channel guide, which is the cornerstone of the box, when you think about it. It also didn't have any geek street-cred (and it's really just a damn shame that fools won't be talking about it on Slashdot.)
To BoyCaught, it just looked great on top of the set, and the software upgrades continued to make it an easier-to-use, increasingly valuable device. And then bad news came in the Fall, when the ReplayTV company announced it was going to stop selling boxes, and instead focus on OEM deals, backend technology and services. The spectre of having a soon-to-be-orphaned piece of hardware loomed large. Well, MyReplayTV is one of their first services, and it is muhf*ckin' cool. It allows remote-recording, program editing, and video server management directly over the web. It tells you how much disk space is left. It lets you search for shows. It provides detailed summaries of shows you've recorded. It lets you erase shows you've already seen.
Discounting the non-trivial, possibly privacy-broaching fact that BoyCaught's viewing patterns and preferences are now out there, the promise is immense. If you can program your video server from just about anywhere, you could share it with others, and of course, marketers must just be drooling over that prospect. And what if you used your Internet-ready PDA? Or think about this: programming your own channel, and then syndicating it with a data format like RSS.
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Monkey cloned from jellyfish?
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Oregon researchers have inserted a bit of jellyfish DNA into a monkey embryo, a first-of-its-kind primate experiment that produced a healthy offspring and nudges science closer to the day when it might be possible to tinker with human genetics.
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911 Things To Hate About America
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Among the many fine snippets:
- Victoria Secrets is considered sexy
- New 500-channel digital TV which still only has 2 tolerable shows a day
- White guys with dreadlocks
- Black people who talk like white people
- Female gangsta rappers
- Prison-building among nation
Go for the view, stay for the irony. (b/w the whole internet, because it's, like, a viral meme, yo!)
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« Saturday « August 3, 2002
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Translucent databases provide better, deeper protection by scrambling the data with encryption algorithms. The solutions use the minimal amount of encryption to ensure that the database is still functional. In the best applications, the personal and sensitive information is protected but the database still delivers the information
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Homebuying: What I Learned
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Have fun! This should be fun. Make sure it is. If it is not fun, re-examine why you are looking to buy a home in the first place and decide if now is really the right time for you.
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