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Posted on June 26, 2004 - Filed Under culture-society-history, science & technology | Leave a Comment
“Time makes more converts than reason.” –Tom Paine
Read More..>>Fahrenheit 9/11 Movie Reviews
Posted on June 25, 2004 - Filed Under government, movies/tv | Leave a Comment
With only 800 screens showing, 9/11 was still the first documentary to ever head Hollywood’s Top Ten … perhaps the first to even BE Top 10. Possibly more screens next week. Attention: These reviews contain spoilers!
Moore’s Magic: 9/11 Electrifies by Rex Reed
D attests that the NYTimes has a more balanced (not so “OMG I […]
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Posted on June 24, 2004 - Filed Under culture-society-history, government | Leave a Comment
“Terrorists and totalitarians have always been two sides of one coin; a totalitarian out of office is a terrorist.” –David Gelernter
Read More..>>900 Foot Jesus Towering Over New Delhi
Posted on June 23, 2004 - Filed Under culture-society-history, desi / india | 3 Comments
An American Christian organization wishes to “aggressively proselytize Indians now with the ruling Congress Party in power.” Thieves are selling India out from under the people’s feet in the name of “secularism.” What about the right to be free from the religious persecution of conversion? What about the right not to pay […]
Read More..>>Amerikaland, Amerikaland, Uber Alles
Posted on June 23, 2004 - Filed Under culture-society-history, government | Leave a Comment
From Noonday In The Shade by Paul Krugman of the NYTimes
In April 2003, John Ashcroft’s Justice Department disrupted what appears to have been a horrifying terrorist plot. In the small town of Noonday, Tex., F.B.I. agents discovered a weapons cache containing fully automatic machine guns, remote-controlled explosive devices disguised as briefcases, 60 pipe bombs and […]
Today’s News In Brief With Commentary
Posted on June 22, 2004 - Filed Under culture-society-history, government | Leave a Comment
U.S. Revises Up 2003 Terrorism Deaths to 625: The Bush administration on Tuesday will say terrorism killed 625 people in 2003, more than double the 307 deaths it cited in a faulty report used to argue it is winning the war on terrorism, a U.S. official said … The revisions to the April “Patterns of […]
Read More..>>I Am The First Mammal To Make Plans, Yeah
Posted on June 16, 2004 - Filed Under government | Leave a Comment
Poll of Iraqis Reveals Anger Toward U.S.
Read More..>>Place Of Learning?
Posted on June 9, 2004 - Filed Under culture-society-history, project gutenberg | Leave a Comment
u·ni·ver·si·ty (yn-vûrs-t)
n. pl. u·ni·ver·si·ties
An institution for higher learning with teaching and research facilities constituting a graduate school and professional schools that award master’s degrees and doctorates and an undergraduate division that awards bachelor’s degrees.
From the Project Gutenberg Newsletter:
The University of Illinois, after spending the better part of a million dollars lost its Illinois […]
Prototyping: A Public Radio Commentary by Bill Hammack
Posted on June 8, 2004 - Filed Under culture-society-history, project gutenberg, science & technology | Leave a Comment
A man after Project Gutenberg’s own heart:
When we think of the latest technological innovation we usually think of how it affects the industrial western world - but often it also affects all parts of the world. Here’s a story about its impact on the world’s poor.
One day a young engineer named Saul Griffith tried […]
An Unlikely Ambassador for Carnatic Music
Posted on June 8, 2004 - Filed Under culture-society-history, desi / india, music | Leave a Comment
From the Beeb:
When [South African Patrick Ngcobo] decided to learn southern Indian classical music, better known as Carnatic music, his African friends in Durban ridiculed him, and his Indian neighbours were sceptical.
For them, it was abnormal for a person from the warrior Zulu tribe in Natal province to take up Carnatic music … Ignoring […]
