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Sunday, November 30, 2003
Did you hear about Stanley Kubrick and Apollo 11?
Roger Ebert answers a question about the "documentary" film Dark Side of the Moon. As entertaining as this sounds -- I wish I had seen this, because we do get the CBC here in Detroit -- the problem is that people will end up actually believing this stuff. After all, there are still people arguing that we never even went to the moon. Friday, November 28, 2003
So much for the glorious trip to Baghdad.
Unfortunately, I expect that History Professor Juan Cole's take on Bush's secret Baghdad trip is the minority view. (via rc3.org) Monday, November 24, 2003
Pay no attention to the producer behind the curtain!
Ever wonder at how articulate NPR correspondents and their interview subjects are? Well, they have a little help. (via TVBarn)
How the Democratic Party's move to primaries changed everything.
The Boston Globe explains how a little-known task force helped create Red State/Blue State America:
If region and culture divide the parties, it is not simply the legacy of the upheavals of the 1960s. It is also the legacy of a forgotten 28-member body called the Commission on Party Structure and Delegate Selection (1969 -- 72), better known as the McGovern or McGovern-Fraser commission. (via New Media Musings)
So, what's changed?
Hint: look up.
I've wanted to make my domain a "real" address for awhile now, but several things held me back: a desire not to screw up something that already worked, uncertainty over what to get in the way of a hosting service, and (of course) plain old inertia. When I read about an offer of free hosting for three years, with no ads and good reviews from people using it, I decided to bite. So here we are. Next I'd like to tinker with the Recently Consumed Media sidebar. It looks seamless in Mozilla/Firebird but ugly in IE, I've discovered. Monday, November 17, 2003
Attention readers:
If things get a little goofy here -- like you can't access this page for some reason -- it's because there are changes in the works. Please be patient, any outages should be temporary.
Too much H2O.
I honestly never thought that it was possible to die from drinking too much water (and I don't mean drowning), but apparently it is, according to this news story about a different kind of college drinking contest:
Excessive consumption of water can be fatal, causing pulmonary edema, a condition where water enters the lungs, and hyponatremia, a sodium imbalance brought on by excess fluid consumption. Yikes. And while we're on the subject, the widely claimed "you need to drink 8-10 glasses of water a day" advice doesn't hold up. Tuesday, November 11, 2003
And speaking of people...
You may have heard the assertion that 75% of all the people who have ever lived are alive. Is this plausible? (via kottke)
Who and where is giving to whom?
Check out this interesting map that shows how US residents are donating to the current presidential candidates. (via kottke) Friday, November 07, 2003
Bush to Congressional Democrats: Drop Dead!
The arrogance is simply breathtaking, but there it is:
The Bush White House, irritated by pesky questions from congressional Democrats about how the administration is using taxpayer money, has developed an efficient solution: It will not entertain any more questions from opposition lawmakers. Tuesday, November 04, 2003
Yet another web page the Bush Administration doesn't want you to see.
Many administrations like keeping things secret, of course, but this one is notorious for it, and there are numerous examples of them yanking pages from public web sites. The latest example is the deletion of an April 23, 2003 appearance on Nightline by the administrator of the Agency for International Development, the lead agency responsible for rebuilding the infrastructure of Iraq. As you can see in this Google cache, USAID had proudly posted a transcript of the interview. It's gone now, almost certainly because of this claim:
TED KOPPEL If you haven't been paying attention, that estimate is somewhat off. (via Dan Gillmor)
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