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Bush flies over disaster area - "It's Bad..."
Bush, who may visit the area later in the week, cut short his working vacation in Texas by two days...
Vice President Dick Cheney participated in the video conference from Wyoming, and White House chief of staff Andy Card was on line from Maine.
Nice to know they're on the job.
All about "Still Hunt," the panther sculpture that encourages runners up Cedar "cat" Hill, and her sculptor Edwared Kemeys:
Kemey’s smaller bronze castings of animals gained the attention of the Art Institute of Chicago, which in May 1885 mounted a special exhibition of his work entitled “Wild Animals and Indians.” Through his affiliation with the Institute, he received the commission to sculpt the lions that flank the entrance of the museum; they were unveiled on May 10, 1894. The bronze statues were based on earlier models Kemeys displayed at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago the previous year.
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Racism
Originally uploaded by dustin3000.
Here someone took two screenshots of Yahoo! and juxtaposed them on Flickr (a Yahoo! property) and they've already been seen 13,000 times. Say what you will about those companies, but that's a lot of conversation.
UPDATE: Here's my copy of the image, since the original user took it down. The image was viewed on flickr well over 50,000 times. Of course this is contreversial, but this would be worth it if someone was inspired take an inventory of all the images and captions that went over the AP wire.
"Jesus Park" asks "What strange world are we living in?"
camron's pink as cute, "street art" trumping graf, ashton kutcher as cool, japanese fashionistas, art rags, racing for originality in ring tones (?!), complex magazines, williamsburg (and gentrification spreading like cancer), fiction about cripplingly nerdy awkward white guys at play with language yet engaged with nothing. hipsters, wtf.
Link: Downhill Battle - DJ Z-Trip Interview.
When youy are a year late on linking to a story, it's new again.
I've been enjoying Henry Abott's True Hoop basketball weblog, mostly because he's a Blazers fan and a stats head both. Before I read True Hoop I was stuck trolling around the abysmal oregon"live" web site for Blazers news.
I've also been enjoying Susan's nutrition weblog. Susan is a vegan dietitian (two ts!) in New York City who gets twice her daily recommended dosage of protein. She is taking nutrition questions from friends and enemies. I've got one!
Susan mentions that it's important to eat carbs within a half hour of finishing strenuous exercise. I've heard this about carbs and proteins both. On True Hoop, Abbott wrote a series of posts investigating the nutritional value of gatorade as a recovery drink. Also, how to clean it up.
So my question for Susan is: what is the best food or drink to have after a run or workout? I personally love Gatorade, but I'm ready to be convinced otherwise.
Sat 27/08/2005 21:30
Caption contest! Oh yeah, Movable Type 3.2 is out.
I've found the recent "ethical" discussion around selling spammy ads frustrating. Loosening the definition of what is and isn't spam is an extremely slippery slope. Jason hits the nail on the head in his post "These are the people in my (Web) neighborhood":
Me? I tend to think I need Google to be as good a search engine as it can be and if I can help in some small way, I'm going to. As corny as it sounds, I tend to think of the sites I frequent as my neighborhood
When you build a business or a community on the principles of Open Source and "Web 2.0" style ethics and then turn around and sell page rank to the highest bidder, it's a bait and switch. Nothing more, nothing less. People need to stop it.
Sam Wants a Home
Originally uploaded by Lady Macabea.
We're trying to find a home for "Sam" before the cold weather comes. (I'm allergic, otherwise we'd keep her ourselves).
If you don't want a cat, you can still check out these cute cat pictures.
Brad and Ben's comments on Six Apart's atom-inspired infinite XML stream of blog posts set off a great discussion about the limits and architecture: If you want "Fat Pings" just use Atom!.
Participating in emerging technologies often means, among other things, subscribing to many e-mail lists. The volume of traffic and commitment needed to meaningfully participate in these lists is often a reasonable barrier to entry to separate out the wheat from the chaff. For the newbie, or even the non-expert, the reward for this long term investment of time is usually an understanding of programming that is as timely as blogs but as in-depth as a book or college course.
The "Fat Pings" discussion, while occaionsally pedantic and off-topic, is one such learning opportunity. And that's funny, right? "Fat Pings?"
Wangmato lives
Originally uploaded by david.
Yard Work : Way to Fucking Go. Deputy Rawls, from the Wire, finally makes his long awaited guest appearance on Yard Work, my favorite sports blog. This takes the sting out of the V for Vendetta delay.
V for Vendetta delayed until March 17, 2006:
The spokesperson, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, denied that the delay had anything to do with the movie's subject matter or the current political climate. V for Vendetta has come under scrutiny for the coincidence of its subject matter and the recent terrorist bombings in London.
Since when is a "spokesperson" allowed to speak only on the condition of anonymity? It's all very Karl Rove. This gives you a few more months to read the original graphic novel, if you haven't already.
I'm really more upset about this than I should be.
Thu 18/08/2005 13:33
The unofficial fruit of New York in the summer.
I heard that NYC Indymedia relaunched with a new home grown publishing platform that was pretty impressive, and as I was browning around the site I happened upon new that at People's Co-op in Portland they've deployed the world's first open-source point Of sale system. My friend Elihu works over there, and he's been talking about this kind of systems for years, so I'm happy to see that it's finally come to fruition.
I am ready to crown The Wire the greatest crime drama of all time. Rewatching Middle Ground, from the third season, is as satisfying as The Godfather Part II or any Sopranos episode.
Erik Benson on naming the moon:
I know that there are tons of science people out there that want to be immortalized on the canvas of the universe... why look deep into the telescopes naming specks of dust in your eye when you can name the bloody MOON? Until someone challenges me and kills me, I'm naming it Wisky.
This reminds me of the time I tried to name the google browser waggle. I like Wisky, too. My guess is I have roughly equal chances of setting foot on Wisky and browsing the world on Waggle.
I have enjoyed Face/Off several times, maybe more than ten. At the end, after they fix John Travolta's face and repair the bullet scar near his heart, they put those 40 pounds of weight back on as well. That's filmmaking.
Link: An Anniversary to Forget, by Joi Ito.
For my generation, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and the war in general now represent the equivalent of a cultural "game over" or "reset" button.
Wow, not what I expected from Joi Ito's op-ed about Hiroshima and Nagasaki in today's New York Times. I'm still thinking about it.
Arianna Huffington is still on Judith Miller's trail. Go Arianna, go!
"... and what's more, a tiny speaker inside Mighty Mouse produces button-clicking and Scroll Ball-rolling sound effects.""Very impressive demonstration, you've done well. Now, the day after the DRM story breaks, we're gonna release this thing to distract the bloggers."
"Thank you, Mr. Jobs, thank you."
Gizmodo (I know) breaks the news that hackers more or less had their way with AIM screen names this weekend, hijacking many high profile AIM and AOL screen names and accounts. A gizmodo reader writes: "There’s really no countermeasures when these holes are found, other than to stop using AIM."
Arianna Huffington has a fan in me if for no other reason than her ongoing investigation of the Judith Miller connections to the Bush administration. Since we are reasonably sure the source is Karl Rove, why is Judith Miller still in prison?
I'm too cynical to think the New York Times allows one of their top writers to remain in prison simply to prove a point about freedom of the press. And, surprisingly, I find myself wondering whether or not Freedom of the Press has limits. Judith Miller is not a whistle blower, and she is protecting a law breaker who presents a clear and present danger to our national security. If a second well placed source (again, assuming Rove's guilt) can get away with selling out an international agent, solely because they don't fall in line politically, what else can they get away with? Who is Judith Miller to keep this under her hat? Why is Arianna the only member of the press driving this?
TeacherTalk: Bullies in the Schoolhouse.
Aren’t principals supposed to be our “pals”? That’s the way I was taught to spell “princiPAL”. Perhaps I should have been told that “principals don’t necessarily have principles” in that spelling lesson.
Yet principals are most often supportive. Of my nine principals in twenty years, two have been abusive. The first, at the beginning of my career, harassed female teachers so extensively that he was arrested and criminally charged.
After reading stories like this from my mom, a small depression settles over me. To state the obvious bullying doesn't exist solely in schools - it exists from vigilante "justice" on street corners to the highest levels of our government.
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