Tuesday, July 27, 2004

Monday, July 26, 2004

Boo - FAQ "A wrist friendly langauge for the CLI"

Boo is a new object oriented statically typed programming language for the Common Language Infrastructure with a python inspired syntax and a special focus on language and compiler extensibility.
Human Development Index stats by country including life expectancy, literacy, GDP, etc...

Wednesday, July 21, 2004

tns media intelligence/cmag Politics on TV.
News Hounds: We watch FOX so you don't have to. I may have linked this before, but it's important not to miss this site.

Monday, July 19, 2004

JibJab.com - This Land very, very funny. "Captures the tone of current political discourse pretty well" - Garrett

Sunday, July 18, 2004

spinsanity.org research:

http://blogdex.net/blog.asp?id=14334&action=popular

http://www.baader-meinhof.com/bbs1/_disc2/000006b2.htm

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/8707615.htm?1c

http://www.randomdrivel.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=26
Scoobie Davis Online

Scoobie Davis: LA Surfer, Pundit, and Party Crasher - likes to make prank calls to Right Radio shows.
Ann Coulter's Slander: An Analysis

Articles and links that uncover the lies and misrepresentations in Ann Coulter's book, Slander: Liberal Lies about the American Right.
MikeHersh.com Hard Left Liberal politial commentary and analysis.

Friday, July 16, 2004

Free-Market.Net ... Information on Free Enterprise, Individual Liberty, and Libertarian Ideas ... The Freedom Network
EWR: U.S. &World Early Warning Report - Contents
Most Serious Warning Ever

A secret Department of Justice (DOJ) report recently leaked to the press gives the government's view on its legal duties in this war. It turns out, unsurprisingly, that the US government is superior to the rest of mankind, it's not required to obey any laws. When officials declare a national security emergency, the DOJ report claims, the US government is no longer bound by the Geneva Conventions, which it agreed to, or the Nuremberg decision, which it led and endorsed.
Further, asserts this report, US troops who do as they are told when directed to commit a war crime are protected by the Nazi defense of "just following orders."

What On Earth Were They Thinking?" THE ECONOMIST 19 June 04, p.31.

WALL STREET JOURNAL, 7 June 04, p.1. by Jess Bravin
OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion Home Page DrudgeReport from the Left.

Wednesday, July 14, 2004

Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Purple House Press Classic Books for Kids
:: paulrieckhoff.com ::

Operation Truth will educate the American public about the truth of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the perspective of the soldiers who have experienced them first-hand. We will provide returning veterans with national, regional, and local podiums from which they will expose the preventable hardships that they endured as a result of failures at the top levels of leadership. We intend to publicize how poorly-planned policies and approaches have manifested themselves as problems on the front lines and back at home. We will act domestically to protect our troops and to aid them in their fight to protect us.
Operation Truth - Dissent with style Anti-Bush site.

"Dissent with style"
Kelly Anne Conway right spinner, pollster, company of Anne Coulture.

Sunday, July 11, 2004

Project for the New American Century

The group states that when diplomacy has failed, military action is an acceptable and necessary resort. PNAC advocates the installation of permanent military bases around the world for the establishment of a United States Global Constabulary. This global police force would have the power to keep law and order around the world in accordance with rules that the United States would establish as being proper and just. It also advocates the United States government should capitalize on its military and economic superiority to gain unchallengeable superiority through all means necessary, including military force.
ChoicePoint aka Database Technologies, John Poindexter, Florida voter rolls scrubing...
Version 1.0 of Mono, the open source implementation of .NET, has been released. Mono allows developers to build cross-platform .NET applications on Linux or other UNIX-like systems.
Nigeria In Crisis privatization, IMF, what has been US policy?

Friday, July 09, 2004

Moscow-based alternative newspaper
Operation Mockingbird --> Cato Instititute with Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch (Fox, NY Post, TV Guide) on the Board with ATT/TCI's Malone [10] . Another big contributor to Cato is Viacom, which recently acquired CBS. Consequently, CBS/Viacom is now headed by Sumner Redstone, who is yet another powerful right wing figure with a WWII intelligence background [11] and apparent ties to OSS/CIA figures [12] . Cato serves the purpose of infusing the Media with Right Wing Propaganda, along with such organizations as Accuracy in Media (AIM), the Independent Women's Forum, the Western Journalism Center and -- of course -- the Heritage Foundation (See Main Page for Details).

"The difference between the days of Operation Mockingbird and the present situation is that, instead of actually placing network executives, publishers, editors, reporters and pundits on the CIA payroll, their contemporary counterparts are now members of the Right Wing Think Tanks*. In addition to Cato's Murdoch, some high profile examples are MSNBC's Laura Ingraham (a notorious 'Scaifette' from the Independent Women's Forum [13] ) and ABC's John Stossel [14] . CNN's Kate O'Beirne is a Heritage fellow (and previous VP) who is a regular columnist for the National Review. Also, old Bonesman/CIA hand William F. Buckley, Jr. is the Editor of the arch-conservative Review. The National Review's President and Chairman is none other than Thomas Rhodes, who was recently a Heritage Board member. Other right wing journals financed by these sugar-daddies (and mommies) include the American Spectator, Human Events and Murdoch's Weekly Standard
Back to Iraq 3.0
WarBlogs.cc - "One source for war news"

Media Industry Data -- Top 20 Station Groups
Who owns what meadia from Columbia Journalism Review
TheyRule.net

They Rule allows you to create maps of the interlocking directories of the top companies in the US in 2004. The data was collected from their websites and SEC filings in early 2004, so it may not be completely accurate - companies merge and disappear and directors shift boards.
Progressives in Republican locked states should vote Nader.

Thursday, July 08, 2004

TerraServer.com - Black Rock City, NV aka BurningMan, The Playa, Mecca...

This picture was taken about a week before BM2k3 started.

Wednesday, July 07, 2004

Average Daily Water Usage We average 180 gal a day!
More Evidence that Bush Is a "Dry Drunk"?

also The Damaged Mind of George W. Bush - The Madness in His Method

Katherine van Wormer, MSSW, PhD, is a professor of social work at the University of Northern Iowa and co-author of 'Addiction Treatment: A Strengths Perspective'.

PollingReport.com - Public Opinion Online
Poll of Polls
CBS News | Poll: Polarization In America | July 6, 2004�10:31:30

Bush’s evaluation on Iraq turned negative as the situation there worsened, but it may also have declined because most Americans think he has been less than forthright about Iraq; only 18 percent believe he has told the public the entire truth. 59 percent think Bush has been mostly telling the truth but also hiding something, and another one in five thinks he has been mostly lying about it.

ON WAR IN IRAQ, BUSH HAS BEEN:

Telling entire truth: 18%
Hiding something: 59%
Mostly lying: 20%

The Bush Administration receives similar criticism for its handling of the events at Abu Ghraib prison. 52 percent think members of the administration have been hiding information about the treatment of prisoners there, and another 27 percent think they are mostly lying. Only 15 percent think they have told the entire truth about the prison abuse.
Air America Place - Air America Radio mp3 Archive
Air America Radio - Ogg Vorbis Archive and Live Stream
OldVersion.com Looking for that older version of your favorite software? Want a version of RealPlayer that is less EVIL?
Salon.com News | The gospel according to Karl
Four Tet: News mmm groovey music.

Tuesday, July 06, 2004

Salon.com News | Hail to the Moon king WTF?!

"...members of Congress hosted a crowning ritual for an ex-convict and multibillionaire who dressed up in maroon robes and declared himself the Second Coming"

"Moon told his bipartisan audience of Washington power players he would save everyone on Earth as he had saved the souls of Hitler and Stalin"

"Moon preaches that gays are "dung-eating dogs," Jews brought on the Holocaust by betraying Jesus, and the U.S. Constitution should be scrapped in favor of a system he calls "Godism" -- with him in charge"

"By the Unification Church's estimate, 81 congressmen attended, although that number is probably high"

"Moonification tour, intended to remove Christian crosses from almost 300 churches in poor neighborhoods -- the idea being that the cross was an obstacle to uniting religions under Moon. Yet the Dirksen ceremony was sold as a celebration of world peace. "

Moon owns the Washington Times and UPI. (Helen Thomas quit after the purchase)
Fifty-nine Deceits in Fahrenheit 911, Dave Kopel, Independence Institute

This is the best write-up I've seen to date that attempts to refute F9/11.

It's full of the classic "out of context" complaints and "Whether you agree with the staff report or the critics, there is no dispute that Saddam Hussein had a relationship with al Qaeda" conjecture.

One of the deceits is having the wrong toll-free number listed...

If you read the whole thing, you'll see about 1/3 of the way down that deceits include using images of people reacting to the attacks on the WTC. This is considered deceitful because it "involves the contradiction between Moore's purported feelings about a topic in the movie and what appear to be his actual feelings about that topic."

The very same tactics that Kopel finds deceitful about Moore are found throughout the article.

Since "this is a preliminary version of an article to be published", I'll be curious to read the final, and read the response from Moore's war room. As it stands, I read nothing here that makes me think that the fundamental premise of the movie is off.

The Bush Administration was predetermined to fight a war with Iraq. The justification for this war came from the events of 9/11 combined with a systematic use of fear, uncertainty and doubt to build it's case. And that Osama bin Laden was not then, nor is he now, a priority.

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."

- George W. Bush, 3/13/02

Thursday, July 01, 2004

{ R E D L I N E R A N T S } Unofficial transcript of F9-11.

Wednesday, June 23, 2004

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Wednesday, June 02, 2004

Monday, May 31, 2004

Tuesday, May 25, 2004

InformationWeek > Linux Vs. Windows > Defection: Microsoft Proponent Moves To Linux > May 24, 2004

Whil has been a high-profile member of the VFP community for many, many years.

Monday, May 24, 2004

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

I believe that the president's leadership in the actions taken in Iraq demonstrate an incompetence in terms of knowledge, judgment and experience in making the decisions that would have been necessary to truly accomplish the mission without the deaths to our troops and the cost to our taxpayers."
--House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi

House Majority leader Tom DeLay, responded:
"Nancy Pelosi should apologize for her irresponsible, dangerous rhetoric. She apparently is so caught up in partisan hatred for President Bush that her words are putting American lives at risk."
(Source: CNN)

That's right, folks, it's now official: criticize our the President and you are endangering American lives.

Friday, May 21, 2004

The official real-illions.

Billion: 9 zeros
Trillion: 12 zeros
Quadrillion: 15 zeros
Quintillion: 18 zeros
Sextillion: 21 zeros
Septillion: 24 zeros
Octillion: 27 zeros
Nonillion: 30 zeros
Decillion: 33 zeros
Undecillion: 36 zeros
Duodecillion: 39 zeros
Tredecillion: 42 zeros
Quattuordecillion: 45 zeros
Quindecillion: 48 zeros
Sexdecillion: 51 zeros
Septendecillion: 54 zeros
Octodecillion: 57 zeros
Novemdecillion: 60 zeros
Vigintillion: 63 zeros
Centillion: 303 zeros


... and then across the pond...

Thursday, May 20, 2004

The Avalon Project : Document CollectionsYale Law School has an extensive listing of documents that lead up to various "minor" US wars like 1812 and the Quasi war.
Truth about Bowling for Columbine I enjoyed the movie, and still think it's pretty much on target, but the points made here are interesting.

Wednesday, May 19, 2004

SOAP Toolkit support extended! Looks like WebServices with Visual FoxPro Lives!
War Profiteers Last one for today... it must be a combination of todays Palestine and Iraq disasters...
Open The Government - Welcome Americans for Less Secrecy, More Democracy....

From the front page:

The Problem
Our leaders are closing the doors of government. The government detains hundreds in secret, writes an energy policy behind closed doors, allows secret Patriot Act searches OK'd by secret courts, withholds data about chemical contamination in our drinking water, and keeps too much information classified and out of the public eye.

What OpenTheGovernment.org Will Do
We'll highlight alerts, reports and analyses from dozens of groups. This coalition includes librarians, journalists, good government and environmental groups, and labor. We are advocates defending the First Amendment, promoting free expression, strengthening national security and fighting censorship.
The Memory Hole [rescuing knowledge, freeing information] lots of stuff you can't find at traditional news sites. Submitted by users, so caveat emptor...

Ananova - www.ananova.com New site -- WAP friendly.

Friday, May 14, 2004

School House Rocky

Rocky Horror fans UNITE!

Also check out the 404:

http://dammitja.net/toon/whateva.html

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Saturday, May 08, 2004

Welcome To ZNet A community of people commited to social change.

Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Something Awful - The Internet Makes You Stupid
newsmap Graphical depiction of headlines, and the number of related articles.

Thursday, April 22, 2004

Son Of Al Qaeda This guy grew up with Osama Bin Ladin's kids, worked for the CIA, spent 6 months "under cover" at Guantanamo as part of the “general population” – and is now living on the streets of Toronto. Amazing…

Thursday, April 15, 2004

Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Stroke the rich / IRS has become a subsidy system for super-wealthy Americans IRS winks at rich deadbeats

"
...
In the late '90s, a crooked banker gave the IRS records on 1,600 criminal tax cheats who used his Cayman Islands bank. The Justice Department prosecuted 49 of them, but the other 1,551 were not even asked to pay, lawyers for some of them say.

Two billionaires in New York, the art dealer Alec Wildenstein and his former wife, Jocelyn, testified under oath in their divorce that for 30 years they never filed a tax return. They have not been prosecuted.

There are now seminars that show business owners how to drop out of the tax system with virtually no risk of detection by the IRS, which relies on a computer system installed when John F. Kennedy was president
..."

Monday, April 12, 2004

Emma Goldman
The contents of my VFP9 startup program at work:

_VFP.Caption = VERSION(1)
DO CASE
CASE VERSION(5)=700
_screen.picture="f:\dev\vfp7picture.bmp"
CASE VERSION(5)=800
_screen.picture="f:\dev\vfp8picture.bmp"
CASE VERSION(5)=900
_screen.picture="f:\dev\vfp9picture.bmp"
ENDCASE
IF VARTYPE(_oFoxCodeTips) = "O"
_oFoxCodeTips.Dockable = 1
ENDIF
IF VARTYPE(_oTaskPane) = "O"
_oTaskPane.dockable = 1
ENDIF
IF VARTYPE(_oToolBox) = "O"
_otoolbox.dockable = 1
ENDIF
IF VARTYPE(m._otasklist)="O"
_oTaskList.tASKUI.Dockable= 1
ENDIF

CD f:\dev
? FULLPATH("")
rightwingeye.com "... we have been thwarted..."

Friday, April 09, 2004

PBS | I, Cringely "...Bill Gates (it will still be Bill, because this will happen in the next decade I am sure) will again turn his corporate supertanker and add full power, but this time the competing ship will not only have a head start, it will be able to accelerate faster than Microsoft.

It has happened before. In fact it ALWAYS happens."

Monday, April 05, 2004

Sunday, April 04, 2004

AlterSlash ~ the unofficial SlashDot digest.
Four Corners is life and its many facets. Food, technology, music, politics, culture, games, language: interrelated and intertwined. What we want to create is a place to provoke thinking, spawn creation, inspire adventure. Much time is spent in modern media discussing how separate and different everything is -- we want to fuse it all back together into the greater whole. Location doesn't matter: it's all about vectors.
21 Days Later

The "21 Days Later Contest" is designed to motivate and educate Mac game developers. The contest also aims to harness the power of the community to help promote Mac gaming and iDevGames. The contest is open to developers from around the globe and the source code from all entries are released as open-source. Be sure to spread the word, the more people entering, and playing the better!

Saturday, April 03, 2004

http://showcase.netins.net/web/ankh/gardiner.html
Numerals and constants tell the creations of numbers and world

Hieroglyph number in Gardiner's Sign List: 
Numerical value:  10
Symbolic meaning:  B
vault of heaven


n : the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected

Thursday, April 01, 2004

World O'Crap:

bottom of the page...

[Ann Coulter

"Ann, whose gimmick is being a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man, details how 9/11 was the fault of Democrats -- as proven by her totally factual timeline. From it you can see that Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton didn't take any real action against our swarthy, Muslim enemies, while Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush killed people every chance they got -- so obviously no blame for 9/11 can be attributed to them. George H. Bush was a sissy Republican, so he's kind of a wash."

A. Guns are our friends. God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal

B. It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted

... ]
Air America Radio:

"Drug-Free Radio Liars beware: Al Franken, co-host Katherine Lanpher and Team O'Franken invite you to spend three hours a day in the Zero Spin Zone. "

and


"The Right has had its say for the last three years. Now, on 'The Majority Report', co-hosts Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder have theirs. Our side just got a little bit louder"

Thanks jMM'
Google Job Opportunities: Google Copernicus Center is hiring:

"Google is interviewing candidates for engineering positions at our lunar hosting and research center, opening late in the spring of 2007. This unique opportunity is available only to highly-qualified individuals who are willing to relocate for an extended period of time, are in top physical condition and are capable of surviving with limited access to such modern conveniences as soy low-fat lattes, The Sopranos and a steady supply of oxygen"
Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: "Anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh computer, and the people who created it."
Past Winners of M-LAW's Wacky Warning Label Contests

samples:

A CD player carries this unusual warning: “Do not use the Ultradisc2000 as a projectile in a catapult.”

A 13-inch wheel on a wheelbarrow warns: “Not intended for highway use”

A warning on a pair of shin guards manufactured for bicyclists says: “Shin pads cannot protect any part of the body they do not cover.”

Thanks Diane via Garrett.