2.29.2000
North American Monarch butterflies undertake the longest migratory journey of any insect.So, what do we need a leap year for?
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Wondering who the oil & gas industry supports in the presidential race? George Bush... overwhelmingly.opensecrets.org gives the lowdown on whose money goes where in the presidential, congressional and even local races. I just found out my neighbors are contributing to Steve Forbes campaign! Holy moly.
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2.24.2000
I just finished a wonderful book by George R. R. Martin, called "Clash of the Kings". I guess I wasn't the only one who liked it. It's number one on the The SF Site: Readers' Choice Best Books of 1999! Yeah baby. The first book, "Game of Thrones" is also fabulous.
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2.22.2000
Sure, it looks funny, but for those of us who like to drag laptops around, it's a fabulous idea! What is it? A Computer Hood! Right on.
posted 2/22/2000 (link me, baby)
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Quick! Rush over to TidBITS and vote in their poll on next generation mac colors! Okay, I went for ice. Jim went for banana. I could go for midnight blue and ebony, too! But, brushed metal?! Woodgrain?! No way.
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2.20.2000
I don't get any television, so I missed the whole "Who Wants to marry a Millionaire?" debacle. I was pretty stunned when I heard about it. I have to agree with my coworker, who said, "It's wrong on so many levels, I hardly know where to begin!" I just ran across an interesting article about it. Apparently an escape clause was built in before the wedding. The women participating, as well as the groom-to-be, all signed statements agreeing to get the marriage annuled if either person wanted out. The annulment could be invoked only minutes after the wedding.
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A terrible thing happened recently. Bill Gates unveiled Windows 2000 with Patrick Stewart at his side!!! I am so bummed. Okay, well we've got John Delancie on our side! I saw him at MacWorld! Yes, the fabulous "Q".
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I guess we've all heard loads concerning the WTO meeting in Seattle last December. Just in case you were under the impression that the police were not brutalizing protesters during that debacle, here's one eyewitness account. It's only one of many similar reports."In one scene I witnessed this morning (at 8th Avenue and Seneca), police who had been standing behind a blockade line began marching in lock-step toward the line, swinging their batons forward, and when they reached the line they began striking the (nonviolent, seated) protestors repeatedly in the back. Then they ripped off the protestors' gas masks, and sprayed pepper spray at point-blank range into their eyes repeatedly. After spraying, they rubbed the protestors' eyes and pushed their fingers around on their lips to aggravate the effect of the spray. And after all THIS, they began striking them again with batons.... The police then were able to break up the line, and the protestors retreated to the steps of a nearby church for medical assistance."
Various mainstream media were praising the police for their restraint. That may be because many of these hard-hitting investigative journalist-types obtained their information from the Seattle Chief of Police! What's wrong with this picture? A Seattle physician, Richard DeAndrea, who was present at the protests paints a different picture, "The police were using concussion grenades. They were...shooting tear gas canisters directly at protesters' faces. They were using rubber bullets. Some of the damage I saw from these rubber bullets took off part of a person's jaw, smashed teeth.… There are people who have been...treated for plastic bullet wounds. Lots of tear gas injuries, lots of damage to [the] cornea, lots of damage to the eyes and skin." Coverage of the WTO/Seattle event was misrepresented in a variety of other ways as well. Shocking, isn't it?! Check it out in the latest edition of Extra!
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2.17.2000
Away back in May 1999, the U.S. bombed the hell out of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. A series of investigative articles were published in the London Observer and the Politiken (a Danish paper). But, none of the major U.S. papers would touch the story with the proverbial ten foot pole. Recently, the New York Times claimed that, dang, they'd love to do a story, but there's just nothing to report! Golly, they looked high and low and couldn't find any evidence to substantiate that investigation by those wacky European newspapers. Well, I guess they didn't look too hard, since they never even bothered to contact the journalists from the Observer and Politiken. Interestingly, the Washington Post's follow-up on the story exactly paraphrased the explanation given by the CIA. Gee, I guess that isn't so odd, since they only interviewed American military officers! As FAIR says, "...a curious approach to checking a story that has European officials pointing accusing fingers at the U.S. military".
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2.15.2000
Wow, there's an annual State of the Panda address. I am so there!
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So, just what will ants eat? The Mad Scientist Network is filled with fabulous information of this sort.Are you a mac user in sonoma county? Come to the NCMUG meeting tonight. I'll be there!
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2.14.2000
Finally! A steering committee that sounds interesting! And while you're at it, find out why meteorites in Antarctica are important to scientists at NASA.
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2.13.2000
Now that the y2k bug is gone we have this to look
forward to. Okay, maybe not.
Just trying to inject a little excitement into your day.
I was listening to KPFA this morning and I heard a
speech by Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. In it he mentioned
habeas corpus. Many hours later I was walking by a box
of gift books in our receiving area (here in the library)
and was attracted to some 1953 volumes of the "World
Book Encyclopedia". I picked one up to take a look at it
and when I flipped it open, I was looking at the entry
for.... you guessed it... habeas corpus! Weird, eh? Just
FYI, the writ of habeas corpus has been called, "the
great writ of personal liberty". The next page in the
encyclopedia had a picture of a haddock. Just so you
know.
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Okay, I know I'm always saying, "I love this site! I love that site! etc..." but, look I really mean it when I say, I just love this site!!! With comments like this, "You know, most guests really don’t like it when the dinner loaf has a spinal column". How can you go wrong?
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Okay, I'm going to try to reconstruct my posts from the 7th and 10th, since I can't seem to make the edit function work correctly.
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All this stuff that looks like it's posted during the 13th, was not. Some of it was posted on the 7th and a bunch of it was deleted. Christ, I can't believe it. I guess I trusted blogger too much. Now it's let me down, just like my bloody palm 3x. The thing is, when these fabulous utilities let you down and lose all your data, you reallly lose heart and just don't want to play anymore.
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Jesus, I can't believe it. Blogger is totally screwing up. It just deleted a couple of my posts and won't stop pasting part of an old post in, no matter what I do!!!
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Did you know that two of Henry VIII's wives Jane Seymour and Katherine Howard were barely literate? Henry composed some love this site!!! With comments like this, "You know, most guests really don’t like it when the dinner loaf has a spinal column". How can you go wrong?
posted 2/7/2000 (link me, baby)
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Wow, it's finally here, the hottest game of the year!! Can't wait to slip into my "fuzzy wuzzy kitten claws" and try it out!On a more tragic note... "A young man using the handle "flea" uploads a pornographic picture to an
Internet "newsgroup". It happens an estimated 2000 times a day, but this
time, it's different. The picture shows a naked six year old, who we will call
Kathy, helplessly tied in thin blue yarn... and what is perhaps even more
disturbing, the man distributing the picture is Kathy's legal guardian. To this
date, no legal action has been taken and Kathy is still in the custody of "flea".
Why has justice failed Kathy? Why has the law not intervened?
The answer is simple...
Kathy is a cat." Oh boy! A special message from cyberbear!
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2.6.2000
I love this poem by W.H Auden:
At last the secret is out, as it always must come in the end,
The delicious story is ripe to tell to the intimate friend;
Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire;
Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.
Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links,
Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks,
Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh
There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.
For the clear voice suddenly singing, high up in the convent wall,
The scent of elder bushes, the sporting prints in the hall,
The croquet matches in summer, the handshake, the cough, the kiss,
There is always a wicked secret, a private reason for this.
Twelve Songs VIII
W.H.Auden
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Find out which of the candidates was willing to jump into Michael Moore's portable mosh pit and which had him hauled off by the cops. Also discover the answer to the burning question, "Is Steve Forbes an alien?" on the Feb 4 episode of Democracy NOW!
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Tired of trying to figure out who to vote for?! Just take one of these handy quizzes!
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2.4.2000
I'm a big fan of Herbert Kornfeld, Accounts Receivable Supervisor AKA tha H-Dog, tha Mack Daddy Enforca of tha Accountz Reeceevable Department. Check out his autobiography over at The Onion. While you're there, you'd better read Thanks For Dedicating That Mediocre Sitcom Episode To My Memory. I love the ending... but don't skip ahead!So, while Jim and I were at our Chinese class wednesday night, Jim noticed something funny tacked to the wall.
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Interesting... a clothing company in South Carolina, NuSouth, has reinvented the look of the southern flag. They've changed the colors to red, black, and green; the colors of African-American liberation!
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Wow, it's been days since I've mentioned the pandacam. The best action is definitely at night, especially late at night... too bad about that work thingy I have to do in the morning.
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Well, it's lucky mark emailed me, so that I could blunder onto this. Unlike him, I do remember alot of these 70's kids shows. Boy, do I remember. There's really nothing quite like hearing the old Banana Splits and H.R. Pufnstuf theme songs again. Let's reach back a tad farther to one of my favorite cartoons, Beany & Cecil! I was pretty young at the time, but I loved that Cecil, the Seasick Sea Serpent. I've owned a stuffed Cecil from as far back as I can remember!
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2.3.2000
For some reason, I'm thinking about an incident that happened long ago... back before the web. I work at the Ruben Salazar Library at SSU and this very nice co-worker of mine just could not grasp the concept of the internet. I remember standing with him near one of our dumb terminals, which gave access to various library catalogs and gopher. He pointed to it and asked, "So, I could put a floppy disk in there and copy the internet onto it, take it home and put it on my own computer?" I just love that moment! Yep. Well, he was confused at so many different levels, it was tough to even know where to start. I guess the thing that makes me smile most is not so much the idea of downloading the internet to a floppy disk, but doing it on a dumb terminal without a cpu or disk drive! Heh, I'm laughing right now! Oh man.
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So, I popped over to eatonweb blog and bumped into this... it's mighty interesting... it's called PayPal.com and it allows you to send money to people online. You register at paypal and when you want to send someone money, you login, enter your credit card info and the receiver's email address. The receiver gets email with a link to an account at paypal. They follow the link and enter their name and address. Then they can get their cash through direct deposit at their bank or receive a check from paypal or they can forward the money via email to someone else. Money makes a lovely gift! Hmmm... I think online auctions just got alot easier. Gee, going broke is easier than ever before! I think I'll have to try it. Did I mention that this is a free service?
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I'm not sure exactly what this is... It's called IconTown and it's just so darn cute!I live in the land of no funding, so I have to pick up free fonts. There are many places to do this. Check out my bookmarks for links to several (look under "fonts"). Or visit my favorite, the Font Fairy. I hope you've got Goudy Sans on your machine. This is a versatile, clean, easy-to-read font.
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2.2.2000
These days I'm getting an up-close and personal look at the quality of health care in America. It's such a sad and terrible tragedy the way ill and injured people are treated by HMO's in our country. If you want to know more, I recommend Making a Killing - HMOs and the Threat to Your Health. This book was just recently published by Common Courage Press. They publish alot of other fab titles. Common Courage decided that this book is so important, they loaded the whole thing on the web, so you can read it for free. Of course, buying it helps ensure more of this type of investigative work will be published.Are you a commie-pinko-rat, like me? You might be interested in the Political Literacy E-Mail Course from Common Courage Press. Bet ya didn't know that corporations commit no crimes...
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