MetaFilterThe past 24 hours of MetaFilterToday in History: The Battle of Gettysburg- July 1, 2008 The Battle of Gettysburg started on this day in 1863. Here are some essays on Gettysburg from MilitaryHistoryOnline. Here is a virtual tour with photos and maps.http://www.metafilter.com/72962/Today-in-History-The-Battle-of-Gettysburg Harshing your mellow- July 1, 2008 The environmental cost of large-scale pot farminghttp://www.metafilter.com/72961/Harshing-your-mellow ... --- ...- July 1, 2008 Happy 100th Birthday to SOS. Send SOS, one of the Titanics radio operators supposedly said to another after the famous ship struck that infamous iceberg. Its the new call and besides this may be your last chance to send it. That new call is 100 years old today... (via the J-Walk blog)http://www.metafilter.com/72960/ BREAKING NEWS: Americans Love War, Drugs, see War on Drugs as No-Brainer- July 1, 2008 A new WHO study finds that Americans by far lead the world in rates of illegal drug use, despite America's crusading role in prosecuting the Global War on Drugs. The study concludes, in part: "Globally, drug use is not distributed evenly and is not simply related to drug policy, since countries with stringent user-level illegal drug policies did not have lower levels of use than countries with liberal ones." A simple, stupid Reuters' summary of the results here.http://www.metafilter.com/72959/BREAKING-NEWS-Americans-Love-War-Drugs-see-War-on-Drugs-as... Wow-e: Malthusian Fear Mongering Can Be Annoying- July 1, 2008 While the latest PixarDisney animated film, Wall-E (teasers, trailers and clips) debuted as the No. 1 movie this past weekend and has been met with critical acclaim, including a 97% "Fresh Rating" at RottenTomatoes and a 93% ranking by critics and 90% by viewers at MetaCritic, the film has outraged the radical right. "My kids were bombarded with leftist propaganda about the evils of mankind..." "...I will do my part to avoid future environmental armageddon by boycotting.http://www.metafilter.com/72958/Wowe-Malthusian-Fear-Mongering-Can-Be-Annoying Old Parliament House- July 1, 2008 Billy Hughes at War As Australias prime minister for most of the First World War, he steered the nation through the horrors of the war and the debates of the peace settlement. You can enter the conscription debate and examine political cartoons from the era. Billy Hughes provided Australia an independent voice on the world stage. When reading Leon Uris' novel Redemption years ago, I was appalled to learn what the ANZAC forces endured at Gallipoli during WWI. Not being Australian, I was not...http://www.metafilter.com/72957/Old-Parliament-House My Gracious. Stingrays are migratious.- July 1, 2008 Stingrays Migrate, apparently.http://www.metafilter.com/72956/My-Gracious-Stingrays-are-migratious "W Extra Duck"- July 1, 2008 Paintings... with ducks added.http://www.metafilter.com/72955/W-Extra-Duck Massacre at Fort Pillow- July 1, 2008 "Nothing in the history of the Rebellion has equaled in inhumanity and atrocity the horrid butchery at Fort Pillow, on the 13th of April, 1864. In no other school than slavery could human beings have been trained to such readiness for cruelties like these. Accustomed to brutality and bestiality all their lives, it was easy for them to perpetrate the atrocities which will startle the civilized foreign world, as they have awakened the indignation of our own people."http://www.metafilter.com/72954/Massacre-at-Fort-Pillow Is it jazz Listen, bud...- July 1, 2008 The swingin' sounds of Spider-Man! After years of searching, Kliph Nesteroff found original reels of the incidental music to the classic Ralph Bakshi Spider-Man cartoon, and has included most of the masters in his podcast. This follows an exhaustive search by Nesteroff to find the music... and turned up some cover bands that tackle the background music themselves. There's even an active discussion group about the original Spider-Jazz.http://www.metafilter.com/72953/Is-it-jazz-Listen-bud |