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2002-12-09
"Speed is subsittute fo accurancy."
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Look at how the minority-opposition forces and media interests are
attempting to create a pretext for a coup using the deaths of protesters on
the streets:
http://narconews.com/Issue26/article555.html
The "strike" organised by the upper class was largely a failure:
http://narconews.com/Issue26/article549.html
The article has interesting quotes from reports from the various wire
services and news-sites. All admit that support for the strike was limited
to the wealthy. You can see a selection of articles around this story
here:
http://news.google.com/news?num=30&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=cluster:www%2esundayherald%2ecom%2f29807
It is very interesting to read the spin put on things, e.g.
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=1870671
Reading between lines, article admits that strike has little
popular support, but still associates a democratically and legally
elected president (not all presidents can claim as much) with
Castro
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1039366547552
Makes no effort to answer the question whether or not the strike is
a popular movement, or whether it is being orchestrated by an
elite.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/342/nation/Thousands_rally_in_Caracas_to_show_support_for_Chavez+.shtml
Is a better piece of writing, and at least uses some hard
statistics to back up points. Also gives light to both sides of
the debate.
###################### PALESTINE ########################################
UN workers in Palestine react to the killing of one of their colleagues by
the IDF. This page has links to the news reports on their petition, along
with the original material:
http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/un-petition.htm
###################### KAOS #############################################
http://members.madasafish.com/~joelbiroco/kaos.pdf
Like a magazine/book. Is good, has nice article about Lam. Lots of daft
correspondence. Very involved.
on pg 82:
I accidentally used the sign of Kosh to invoke the seal of the Worm
that Gnaws and now my dog Sparky is dead and I need to know how to send
the Worm that Gnaws back into the great abyss!
Oops!
###################### SCIENTOLOGY ######################################
Scientology could be taught in Canadian schools
http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/archived/2002/1122/news/asp/p1news.asp
###################### SCIENCE ##########################################
Questia:
http://www.questia.com/popularSearches/index.html
###################### ART ##############################################
US tightening of "security" causes problems for artists/musicians on tour:
Last weekend, the Afro-Cuban All Stars, one of Cuba's most famous
musical acts, was scheduled to perform in Berkeley in front of sold-out
audiences. But the new visa policy prevented them from entering the
United States.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/11/26/MN84255.DTL
###################### DOLE #############################################
Furnish your house on the dole:
http://www.kleqkleq.com/dole/
###################### ROOF #############################################
Open source housing. Discusses MIT's House_n project and related topics
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/02/2147223&mode=nested&tid=126
http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_1202/mit/index.html
http://architecture.mit.edu/house_n/
###################### WEB ##############################################
Predicting where the economy is going on the basis of web-usage:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/02/1219220&mode=nested&tid=95
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0211300201nov30,0,2341749.story
###################### REAL WEB #########################################
Spiders
http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/11/22/spiders021121
Brian Thair of the College of New Caledonia in Prince George said he
saw a silky, white web stretching 60 acres across a field.
Thair said it looked like the whole area was covered with an opaque,
white plastic grocery store bag
The thin, elastic coasting was not soft and fluffy like webs built by
individual spiders. There were about two spiders per square centimetre
laying the silk, which first appeared in early October.
Photos:
http://cbc.ca/news/features/spiderweb/#
I found the links didn't work well in my browser... the images are at
the following URL's:
http://cbc.ca/news/features/spiderweb/gfx/panorama.jpg
http://cbc.ca/news/features/spiderweb/gfx/brian_thair.jpg
http://cbc.ca/news/features/spiderweb/gfx/farmer_fence.jpg
http://cbc.ca/news/features/spiderweb/gfx/post_midshot.jpg
http://cbc.ca/news/features/spiderweb/gfx/post_closeup.jpg
###################### WORK #############################################
Some job hunting tips. Sort of specific to jobs in open source software,
but the advice on putting a CV online might be of more general usefulness.
http://www.theopenenterprise.com/story/TOE20021202S0001
###################### LAUGH ############################################
Thought this was good, from www.mightygirl.net:
A while ago, Paul Ford did a piece on Sex in the City for The Morning
News. It was funny. Observe:
http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/new_york_new_york/the_opposite_of_sex_and_the_city.shtml
"I prefer to imagine the show as a black-box play from the 1970s with
Beckettian overtones, three women on an empty stage, looking at the
audience, speaking in monotones:
1: I doubt I am fecund.
2: I have eaten so little.
3: Where are the men?
1: There are no men.
2: I will pay a woman $40 to caress and decorate my toes with varnish.
I will wear shoes that cost more than the weekly wages of a restaurant
worker, with tips.
3: What kind of tips?
2: Not on the shoes, for the restaurant workers.
1: I am hungry. I will not marry.
2: Talk about the shoes.
3: The shoes!
Unison: Shoes."
Also on mightygirl.net was this pretty funny link:
http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/
###################### CENSOR ###########################################
UTV Internet blocked subscribers' access to ebid.ie due to a commercial
falling out between the companies:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28392.html
Effectively, this is commercial censorship. In related news, Eircom no
longer allows phone calls to competitors' sales offices. There are links
to the original story from TheReg's report
###################### HELP #############################################
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/07/1431211&mode=nested&tid=98
"Broadband Reports is running a story about how several large ISP's have
reprimanded, even fired techs who offer support in BBR's forums in
their free time"
http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/24145
###################### DANGER ###########################################
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-brf-bush-threat1206dec06,0,4960262.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dnationworld%2Dheadlines
A man who made a remark about a "burning Bush" during the president's
March 2001 trip to Sioux Falls was sentenced Friday to 37 months in
prison.
"I said God might speak to the world through a burning Bush," Humphreys
testified during his trial. "I had said that before and I thought it
was funny."
http://www.2600.com/news/display/display.shtml?id=1441
...photographer named Mike Maginnis was arrested, for simply taking
pictures of buildings in an area where Vice President Cheney was
residing.
When Maginnis refused to admit to being any sort of terrorist, the
Secret Service agent called him a "raghead collaborator" and a "dirty
pinko faggot."
###################### FREE #############################################
The Open CD Project is an attempt to acquaint Windows users with the truly
free software which is available (as opposed to the pirated software they
get for no cost). Read an article about the project here:
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/12/06/2018253.shtml?tid=11
The project homepage is:
http://www.theopencd.org/mirrors.php
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