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LifestreamI haven’t recommended a new album in quite some time, but Axxis’s latest Paradise In Flames is one that just blew me away. Especially so considering I didn’t have a single album of theirs and as far as I can recall never heard a single one of their songs. It’s not often one trips over […]
Archive for January, 2006
But what makes Hansen unique is that he has been trying to disseminate his wealth of knowledge, to inform the people of sorry state of the global climate. It is correct that Hansen wasn’t specifically targeted insofar as the restrictions apply to everyone. I mean golly, we wouldn’t want the public to catch on to […]
Vigilance committees seem to be on the rise (DN, Swedish) and are cheered on unilaterally by the right side of the political continuum. Be they “liberals” or “liberal conservatives.” It is hard to see the logic here, even if one is fully versed in the political ideologies that fester in their ranks. Supposedly, in the […]
At least someone is bringing the issue into focus, albeit in a starstruck fashion. Again, the US doesn’t seem to have much luck selecting their goodwill ambassadors in terms of picking good mouthpieces that will relay official state propaganda. And the Rights of the Child convention is of course only one among gazillions that the […]
Also once said that “640 K ought to be enough for anybody” .. even if that is disputed. Most likely, in 10 years, immaterial law will be revised. Or as Ars Technica points out …
Ars Technica - Gates is enthusiastic about the prospect of local Asian competition tightening up IP protection, but he should be […]
Unsettling. And perhaps no wonder when you consider the British government’s lax handling of private and public sectarian schools. If they are to be allowed at all.
BBC - Just under half of Britons accept the theory of evolution as the best description for the development of life, according to an opinion poll.
Furthermore, more than 40% […]
Corny and obfuscating metaphors aside, there is a real issue here. Apparently, in Neo-con/lib but old-school-racist America, “low intensity ethnic cleansing” is on the menu. Same result, just less messy.
Sploid - ‘Chocolate City’ losing 80 percent of Blacks - Despite Mayor Ray Nagin’s call for New Orleans to come back as a majority-black “Chocolate City,” […]
Perpetrated by the US government …
It turns out that Meehan and his staffers are not alone. In fact abuse of editing privileges got so bad on the Hill last fall that Wikipedia blocked some House IPs from posting.
The reason was a “deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia.”
Some were engaging in childish cyber-vandalism, […]
The Department of Fatherland Security deemed a 2003 vegan picket to be a threat to national security. Attending picketeer on file as “hostile, uncooperative and boisterous toward the officers” after being harassed.
AP - The ACLU of Georgia released copies of government files on Wednesday that illustrate the extent to which the FBI, the DeKalb County […]
At least someone is doing something constructive.
News.com.au - “We are planning to build a permanent base on the moon by 2015 and by 2020 we can begin the industrial-scale delivery … of the rare isotope Helium-3,” Nikolai Sevastyanov, head of the Energia space corporation, was quoted by ITAR-TASS news agency as saying at an academic […]
