- October 28, 2003
Last November, in my GoogObit for Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren, I had no links to his actual paintings. I couldn't find any. Now here's a bunch:
http://blogs.salon.com/0001604/2003/10/28.html#a167
- October 24, 2003
James Marshall Wiley: Fantastik developer, 75
Associated Press TULSA, Okla. James Marshall Wiley, the developer of Fantastik household cleaner, has died. He was 75. The family didn't release a cause of death.
Born March 29, 1928, in Tulsa, Mr. Wiley attended Central High School and joined the Army as a paratrooper after leaving school.
In the 1960s, he developed Fantastik in a bathtub in his home. Mr. Wiley marketed the product (warning: adult content) door-to-door in Tulsa and eventually...
http://blogs.salon.com/0001604/2003/10/24.html#a166
- October 21, 2003
Sometimes I don't feel safe
in my
own neighborhood. By "neighborhood", I mean the United
States of America, home of 3,000
dead agnates. Reading Alija
Izetbegovic's obituary can give you some pretty good insight into the source
of my anxiety. He was a waffler, a Muslim, a good man.
Like all nationalists, he
wanted a place to call "home". To be safe there. He made the mistake
of trusting a United States Ambassador.
He hosted Usama
bin Laden. He was...
http://blogs.salon.com/0001604/2003/10/20.html#a165
- October 16, 2003
In the very first installment of
GoogOgraphy,
we take a look at the text of Steve Bartman, the Cub fan who did something he
probably shouldn't have:
"There are few
words to describe how awful
I feel and what I have experienced within these last 24
hours. I've been a Cubs
fan all my life and fully understand the relationship between my
actions and the outcome
of the game. I had my eyes glued
on the approaching ball the entire time and was so caught up in the moment..
http://blogs.salon.com/0001604/2003/10/16.html#a164
- October 16, 2003
It's easy to forget France's colonial past. Let's not.
Moktar Ould Daddah, 78, Who Led Mauritania to Independence in 1961, DiesBy AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania, Oct. 15 - Moktar Ould Daddah, who led Mauritania to independence, died Tuesday in a Paris hospital, his family announced here on Wednesday. He was 78 and had been in the hospital for several weeks.
Mr. Ould Daddah became Mauritania's first president in 1961 and was re-elected three times, governing 17 years before being...
http://blogs.salon.com/0001604/2003/10/16.html#a163
- October 14, 2003
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Good riddance.
Otto Günsche, 86, Dies; Helped to Burn Hitler's BodyBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BERLIN, Oct. 13 (AP) Otto Günsche, an aide to Hitler who took part in burning the Nazi dictator's body to keep it from the advancing Soviets in the final days of World War II, died on Oct. 2 in Lohmar, near Bonn. He was 86.
The cause of death was heart failure, said a son, Kai.
An SS major and a member of Hitler's inner circle, Mr. Günsche spent the last...
http://blogs.salon.com/0001604/2003/10/14.html#a162
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