Miasma in the House of Bite MeGrassroots journalism & current events, cyberculture, technology, privacy, with a little new criticism, feminism, postmodernism, radical pedagogy, & new media theory thrown in.All these incentives to fly the friendly skies...- June 29, 2003 Makes you wonder why the government can spend billions to bail out the airline industry, but can't even gasp any kind of a commitment to Amtrak. A common carrier is a common carrier, if you ask me. But no, we pay to bail out these monopolistic fuckwads, we bend over for those searches to fly, we are soon to get X-ray scanned so all the screeners will soon be able to see us naked, we leave our bags unlocked so the unscreened and no-criminal-history-check brand new federal screeners can find...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45823-2003Jun28.html Take this link: still shots of Bush on 911, or the 5 minute video- June 29, 2003 "The Memory Hole 5-Minute Video of George W. Bush on the Morning of 911" Daypop Top 40 At 9:03 AM on 11 September 2001, the second airplane hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center. President Bush was in Florida, at the Emma T. Booker Elementary School, listening to children read. Chief of Staff Andrew Card came over and whispered in Bush's ear, "A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack." What did the Commander in Chief do Nothing. He sat there. He sat for well over.http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/bush-911.htm Unspeakable Political Corruption of Democracy- June 29, 2003 The most amazing part if it, if this is true, is the clearly unvarnished interest in subverting any semblance of democracy in exchange for what some undoubtably presume is permanent political power. As in, the kind that corrupts absolutely. Lest anyone think the Republicans have even the slightest interest in maintaining the heritage of the US Constitution and the intentions of the founders. Welcome to the Age of US Empire. Say goodbye to the Roman Republic. Miasma K street antics. Welcome...http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0307.confessore.html Chips on Euro Passports- June 24, 2003 Soon I must decide what nation to become an expatriot in, as eventually all travel will be impossible without being chipped. Oh oh, the mark of the beast! Miasma Europe Moves Toward Issuing Passports With Data Chips By THOMAS FULLER International Herald Tribune ORTO CARRAS, Greece, June 20 European Union governments may soon issue passports containing computer chips embedded with digital fingerprints or eye scans, according to a plan approved by European leaders today. The "biometric"...http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/20/international/20CND-PASS.html?ex=1371528000&en=1ab2a... Candidate Dennis Kucinich gets a blog- June 24, 2003 And to think, of all the candidates, he has the least in assets and investments, as reported a week ago or so. Does this correlate Are more middle class candidates likely to understand blogland Is John Edward's blog any less of a joke these days (I haven't looked in on it lately). And more importantly, where does Howard Dean stand on this CRUCIAL CAMPAIGN ISSUE! Miasma Candidate Kucinich gets a blog.. Candidate Kucinich gets a blog. Dennis Kucinich has jumped into the weblog arena, making..http://www.denniskucinich.us/ Blogs, how do we count thee- June 24, 2003 Blogging Blog Stats. "Dave Sifry says Technorati's now keeping tabs on more than 400,000 blogs: 'We hit 100,000 back on March 5, and 200,000 on April 6.' Andrew Acker on that news: 'At this rate, there will be more than 6 million blogs by the end of the year.' Phil Wolff: 'I expect Technorati's growth to accelerate until the blogosphere is mostly mapped; then we'll see periodic bursts as new clusters are discovered or services come online.' Corante on Blogging Reputation in NewsMonster and...http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/2003/06/23.html#a4180 Shifted Librarian compiles a bit on classroom blogs- June 24, 2003 Real Life Implementation of Weblogs in the Classroom. A Place to Be Heard "Anne Davis remembers how she reacted the first time she saw a weblog being used in the classroom. 'I thought, 'This is all about possibilities,' she recalls. 'It's about listening, talking, collaborating, having a dialog. And it can work for any subject....' Working with the group for two hours every Thursday, Davis set out to make writing more enjoyable. She offered ideas for different ways to open stories and...http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/2003/06/23.html#a4183 Too bad the US House will kill this bill- June 20, 2003 A pity, but I think the House of Representatives is more coopted by money pressures and lobbyists than the millionaire Senate. Thanks to Michael Powell and the FCC, we will find ourselves living under corporate PRAVDA. Miasma Senate Begins Process to Reverse New F.C.C. Rules on Media. A broadly bipartisan group of the Senate Commerce Committee today approved legislation by voice vote to restore the limits on media ownership. By Stephen Labaton. New York Times: NYT HomePagehttp://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/business/media/19CND-RULE.html?ex=1371441600&en=00f4... Next step, US military press censorship and reprisals in the "new" Iraq- June 15, 2003 I'm hearing it's already in the works, cuz the new "free" press isn't reporting what the US govt wants it to. There also seems to be a "problem" with Shiite imams speaking too freely, not saying stuff the US likes... Miasma You report, we kill you. Turning the tanks on the reporters The Observer's Phillip Knightley writes that Iraq will go down as the war when journalists seemed to become a target. Predicted here, discussed "in progress" here. The BBC, Al-Jazeera, and the US Committee to..http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,977702,00.html Oh cum on! Here's to wondering if it is anything like those GU Energy Gels...- June 15, 2003 yumm. US Patent 6,485,773: "This invention regards a dietary supplement formulation that significantly improves the taste of the male ejaculate. Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Webloghttp://www.blognewsnetwork.com/members/0000001/2003/06/14.html#a3835 |