From the New York Times, “Leaders Gather to Mark Liberation of Auschwitz”: The presidents of Russia, Poland, Israel and Ukraine, as well as Vice President Dick Cheney and other world leaders, joined about 500 invited guests in a theater here today to commemorate the freeing of thousands of people from the nearby Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp 60 years ago. Each of the leaders spoke in turn, at a forum sponsored by
January 2005
January 27, 2005
Odds, ends (from this morning’s protein wisdom mailbag)
1. Good day, Jeff. I admit I took federal money, and if you did, too, you better explain yourself. As you know, the Maggie Gallagher artifiscandal means that all of us bloggers should disclose our revenue from the Federal Government. I disclose on my blog that I took the Pell Grant in college and became a paid lackey of the powers that be. If you did, I’d recommend you disclose,
January 27, 2005
blog placeholder: a bit of prose excerpted from a piece of fiction
You won’t know who is who, or why any of this is happening; and the formatting is a bit off, and I haven’t italicized where appropriate…but there’s gratuitous sex and drugs. So read it if you want to… Three shots, maybe four, and then . . . what? All Jake knows is that he’s outside now, walking through the near-empty commons, past a boisterous snarl of shabbily-dressed, fatly-dredded teens—trying to
January 27, 2005
Computer Audio Bleg
Anyone know how to record both ends of a Yahoo Messenger (or other) voice chat conversation?—or, alternately, how to record both ends of an internet telephone conversation with very clear quality? (Both parties are using a USB headset mic to input sound.) Please let me know, in the comments or via email. And be advised: THE FUTURE OF CITIZEN JOURNALISM DEPENDS UPON YOU AND YOUR EXPERTISE! CHARGE!
January 26, 2005
“The obsessive-compulsive dissociative disorder post” (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)
Me: “Stop that!” Me: “I can’t!”
January 26, 2005
Red state values?
Received this little anecdote via email: T. Bubba Bechtol, part-time City Councilman from Midland, TX, was asked on a local live radio talk show the other day just what he thought of the allegations of torture of the Iraqi prisoners. His reply prompted his ejection from the studio, but to thunderous applause from the audience. His reply: “If hooking up an Iraqi prisoner’s scrotum to a car’s battery cables will
January 26, 2005
Thirty-fifth in a series of real-time empirical observations
In the time it takes you to read this post, Dr. Condoleeza Rice will have been the new Secretary of State (as confirmed by the Senate) for roughly 66 minutes. By way of comparison, former Ted Kennedy dalliance and long-dead campaign staffer Mary Jo Kopechne will NOT have been Secretary of State for 64 years, 5 months, 30 day, and 14 hours. Give or take a few minutes.
January 26, 2005
“I felt it…move, Ellen. By God, I felt it move.”
I think I’m going to be sick. First Saddam, then Jimmy Carter, and now….this.
January 26, 2005
9 Killed As Suburban L.A. Trains Derail
From ABC News: [In Glendale], a Metrolink commuter train struck a vehicle, derailed and sideswiped another train early Wednesday, killing nine people and injuring more than 100 others, authorities said. Firefighters picked through twisted wreckage scattered across the tracks and carried wounded passengers from the trains to a triage center set up in a nearby parking lot. “At this time, we believe we have nine fatilities,” Fire Chief William Battmare