From commentary by American Lori Berenson being held as political prisoner in Peru.
“The details of what happened to me are irrelevant in the broader picture of the thousands of Peruvians who have been killed, disappeared, tortured and detained during the internal conflict. Since history has always been re-written by those who have the upper-hand, the [...]
Archive.org has been forced to take down over 1000 soundboard recordings of the Grateful Dead by Jerry’s wife and a few (perhaps one) remaining member of the band.
“For years, Archive.org has served as the repository for the Grateful Deads copious electronic recordings. Now, the site will be limited to streaming “audience-recorded” shows.
“The reaction [...]
Check out this article, it’s a little self-helpy but I liked it. It’s about something he calls “Local Max” and getting beyond it, but you’re not gonna know what that is till you read it. So read it. It’s brief.
Seth’s Blog: Understanding Local Max
from an April 2004 poll:
“Only a third of the Iraqi people now believe that the American-led occupation of their country is doing more good than harm, and a solid majority support an immediate military pullout even though they fear that could put them in greater danger”
more recently
only 1% of Iraqis believe coalition forces are [...]
Britain’s Tony Blair, now seems to be facing the full-scale parliamentary inquiry into the Iraq war — its justification, conduct and aftermath — that Bush has been able to avoid.
New crisis for Blair’s War
I loved Mark Morford’s response to Bill O’Reilly’s suggestion that Al Qaeda blow up San Francisco for, as Mark puts it, “[daring] to ban aggressive military recruiting in our high schools so disadvantaged 18-year-olds won’t be unwittingly sucked into the brutish military vortex so they can be shipped off to Iraq to die for appalling [...]
I ran across this new site called Vizu that’s all about creating polls. It’s very Web 2.0 with a bunch of Ajax submitting, RSS feeds of lots of useful information, and an easy copy/paste iframe to post the poll to your blog. If you sign up it makes anonymous use of your demographic information [...]
I just came across this picture from my trip to British Columbia in November 2001. Notice the headline under the picture.
Takes ya back, doesn’t it.
Sony BMG has configured some of its music CDs to install antipiracy software using techniques typically employed by hackers and virus writers to hide the program from users and to prevent them from ever uninstalling it.
Sony Raids Hacker Playbook