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Saturday, May 03, 2003
Doonesbury on the looting [May 3]
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Orion-oriented pyramids discovered buried in Italy
Largest one is 500' high.
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Frank Rich on the looting [Global Beat]The tragedy for America is not just the loss itself but the naked revelation of our worst instincts at the very dawn of our grandiose project to bring democratic values to the Middle East. By protecting Iraq's oil but not its cultural motherlode, we echo the values of no one more than Saddam, who in 1995 cut off funds to the Baghdad museum, pleading the impact of sanctions, yet nonetheless found plenty of money to pour into his own palaces and their opulent hordes of kitsch. We may have been unable to protect tablets containing missing pieces of the Gilgamesh epic. But somehow we did manage to secure the lavish homes of Saddam's hierarchy, where the cultural gems ranged from videos of old James Bond movies to the collected novels of Danielle Steel.
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Why I'm careful walking on the street in Arizona:
AZ is 2nd in pedestrian fatalities (after New Mexico) [Undernews]
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Western homeowners replacing grass with astroturf
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Lifestyle model
Douglass College lifesize proportional model of Barbie is 7' tall and weighs 110 lbs.
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QuoteI'd rather be known for this instead of being smart or something. There's a million people who are smart. There's only 16 of us who were in Cancun together. - Roxanne, who performed in the reality movie Cancun [Undernews]
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Friday, May 02, 2003
TVEyes will apparently send you an email if you tell it to watch for a word or phrase spoken on any TV channel, with a brief transcript [onfocus]
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Canadian appeals court overturns lower court ruling, says same-sex marriage ban is discriminatory
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Oscar campaigning to be "curbed"
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Thursday, May 01, 2003
onfocus
This neat blog I found through a search referral (for my other site) from Paul's link-to-this-book page, which also has a link to other books the related blog links to, and the page of books Paul is reading, some of which he found at those blogs
He takes good pictures, too.
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Tomb of Gilgamesh may have been found in Iraq
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Voodoo finally recognized as "official religion" like Catholicism in Haiti
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Melbourne bordello floats stock
Prostitution has been decriminalized in Sydney, where the company plans to open a "sex Disneyland.".
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Wednesday, April 30, 2003
Grooves review of notype's The Freest of Radicals comp
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Grooves review of Janek Schaefer's Pulled UnderWhereas contemporaries such as Martin Tetreault construct violent sonic pile-ups, Janek Schaefer has always coaxed more balmy textures from his drone-based vinyl and sampling experiments. As with this record's predecessor, Above Buildings, the music on Pulled Under is true to the title, a linked series of murky soundscapes and tidal flows akin to the sounds heard from within a diving bell. As such, it's a bit low-key. But it is still eminently approachable -- more Kevin Shields than John Cage. Tellingly, it is dedicated to Schaefer's girlfriend, immediately steering it away from studied minimalism or random generative guff. For an artist working entirely with abstraction, it gives the lie to the notion that experimentalism is a cold façade.
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This Italian label (Kathodik) site has a great background
Looking for Luca Confusione I stumbled. . .
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What would Jesus share?
MusicMafia Christian MusicMafia IM warnings to Kazaa & Grokster users, trying to offset Grokster/Morpheus verdict in favor of file-sharers last week
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Tuesday, April 29, 2003
SwarmSurfing
I'll let you know if I try it.
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USB keyring drives or whatever they morph into will likely become the storage of choice for everything from backups to movies
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Monday, April 28, 2003
Free e-books: [STARE]
John F X Sundman's Acts of the Apostles & Cheap Complex Devices (Geeknoia?)
Ong's Hat (Montauk Project with Tantric Interdimensional Sex?)
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Apple to offer 99¢ downloads, unrestricted
Kbps?
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Sunday, April 27, 2003
Actually I think it was Dennis Hopper's Blue Velvet endorsement
Pabst Blue Ribbon making a comeback [u]Melissa Brown, a 28-year-old New York artist, recently served PBR at the opening of her art show at the Bellwether Gallery, located in the fashionable and hip Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg. She explains her choice by saying that "it's time to get back to the basics."The article sums up by saying -- essentially -- that because PBR has no advertising budget and was originally marketed as the beer of "the common man," it has accrued a patina of authenticity with the 18-34 male demographic.
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The increase comes the way a populist trend should: from the ground up. Pabst is Consumer Lite, a refreshing blend of economy and Americana, without all the heavy marketing campaigns, the greasy reinvention, the paid celebrity endorsements. It represents simpler times -- how nice in a world of corporate scandals and missing persons, 24-hour news, terrorism and burst economies.
Pabst sells its image of plainness -- its look of regular-guy health, its artless presence among the racks of imports and million-dollar household names -- in part because Pabst has no other choice.
[...]
The Pabst product line, which includes almost the entire stable of retiring American front-runners -- Stroh's, Schlitz, Old Style, Old Milwaukee, Schaefer and Blatz -- is now produced under contract by Miller, the last of the big Milwaukee brewers (but owned by South African interests).
Today Pabst Brewing exists in little more than name only. It maintains executive offices in San Antonio but continues to print on its PBR cans and labels a post office box in Milwaukee -- perhaps misleadingly, perhaps nostalgically.
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