May 2005

Street Fight DVDs – What’s Next?

May 13, 2005

Blacknews.com reports on the video capture and sale of ‘hood streetfights. The practice is denounced as self-inflicted injustice and compared to the postcards of lynched African-American males created and distributed by their abusers before the civil rights movement. The notion of videotaping street fights in “the ‘hood” and selling them for profit might seem light [...]

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And Once Again In Kuwait …

May 11, 2005

… the men have unfurled their peacock feathers (or their baboon asses) in a heady display of chauvinism. Lawmakers Block Women From Voting in Kuwait My initial incendiary reaction has given way to accepting that it is existing power which stays the hand of the conservative Kuwaiti man from granting voting rights to a group [...]

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Beyond Lists: Maitri Tests Grokker

May 10, 2005

From the NYT: “Supporters of non-text-based representations of Web search results got a boost this week as Groxis, the makers of Grokker, released a version of the software that runs as a Java plug-in for browsers. Previously, the software, which returns search results in a circular “map,” was only available as a separate, $49 application. [...]

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Folded Veins

May 9, 2005

Hello, dear rock. Do you care that I visited you this weekend and gazed on you with as much love as a geologist can have for a boulder? You may consider yourself an agglomeration of chemicals that operates on a time scale within which I am but a wink of one of your mineral eyes. [...]

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Misplaced Attention

May 9, 2005

This morning’s mailbox contents: “To learn how to learn, you have to love learning … Look at the attention Congress has focused on steroids in Major League Baseball, Mr. Barrett mused. And then look at the attention it has focused on science education in minor-league American schools.” — Thomas Friedman in Tuning in to Jon [...]

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“A Cow’s Tongue Is In My House”

May 4, 2005

Only in New Orleans will you find a grown woman on TV dressed in nothing but a black bikini while handling processed meat and uttering the words, “Cow’s tongue … I don’t even want to touch it … (picks it up) look, it weighs five pounds … chicken’s foot and pig’s lips. We do not [...]

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Big Brother Flies High and A New Apple Product

May 3, 2005

The Wright brothers would be proud. The latest incarnation of their invention is a cheap, battery-powered plane that carries a remote-control camera to spy on gatherings. Recently tested on a biker melee in Charles County, MD, the plane was evaluated as a tool “to watch for emergencies or troublemakers.” [I used "biker" and "melee" in [...]

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HG2G Hits America

May 2, 2005

Initial report from the New Orleans “premiere” of Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: Giggling at Page 1. Laughing out loud on reading some Vogon poetry and discovering that the worst kind was written by a lady from Sussex. Doubling over with full-blown laughter at the definition of a Babel fish. Suppressing all kinds of hysterics [...]

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