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LifestreamI just wanted to post 2 more links before the end of the day. Since I talked about blogs leading journalism earlier today I felt kind of stupid not mentioning THE SOURCE for war related news: THE AGONIST.
Who needs tired old CNN when you’ve got The Agonist? The deal is of course that again, the [...]
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Or free speech and common sense vs. US institutions. It seems that YellowTimes has been suspended for posting snapshots from the AlJazeera clip of American POWs held by Iraqi forces. Ah, this is sickening. The ISP claims that it was “adult content” .. yeah right. This is sure to create a ripple since many of [...]
I really must concur with the anonymous movie producer that followed US troops in Kuwait. Hopefully there will be another “Black Hawk Down” scenario.
People die. So what? People die every day. The question is just whether this is a worthy cause. Worthier than being run over by a car for example. But hey, if [...]
Phew! Almost everything turned out according to expectation. Spirited away won BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM and Bowling for Columbine grabbed BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE. I have nothing to object. Michael Moore’s acceptance speech was short and hilarious and at the same time very accurate. What he said took a lot of courage.
What about The Pianist? Roman [...]
For all you movie lovers out there, I would just like to note that CD-WOW has added the following genres: Anime and Criterion Collection
Ouch! This is going to cost me!
While looking thru the new and upcoming releases I came upon a couple of nuggets that I really must recommend. I will try to [...]
Which means that they will try to follow up on promising signals. Three days is spent analyzing the top 200 or so signal candidates from Phase I. The probability that a signal is confirmed is minute but as they point out, at least now they have places where they can begin to look for ET [...]
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic that has so far killed 16 people worldwide was apparently caused by a virus and not a secondary bacterial infection as I speculated about last week. Dang. Here is what NewScientist has to report:
[the illness] belongs to the paramyxovirus family, tests on patients in Germany, Hong Kong and [...]
iSONEWS is still going strong! So much for the efforts of the DOJ.
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Enclave
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
Source: openDemocracy
Should anyone own genes and genetic information, or should it be a public resource? Sir Isaac Newton couldn’t patent gravity - even if he was the first to describe it. What are the implications of ownership versus free access to genetic information? The Human Genome Project produced the first complete list of the genetic [...]
Excerpts via CDFreaks.com:
CD-WOW fights BPI over imported CDs (CDFreaks)
Music labels, lead by trade group the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), are seeking an injunction and claiming damages from Music Trading On-Line (HK) Ltd, the firm behind cd-wow, for the sale within the Europe of CDs imported from Hong Kong.
File Traders Feel Activities Are Not Wrong [...]
