Warblogs
Monday, March 31st, 2003Washington Post’s guide to warblogs.
Archive for March, 2003
Man gets jail for pig-stabbing
Thursday, March 27th, 2003Edwin “Louie” Deason got 90 days in jail for stabbing a pet Vietnamese pot-bellied pig.
Prosecutors pinned the crime on Deason solely based on his drunken, belligerent comments to sheriff’s deputies. One deputy testified Deason was covered in blood and had pig feces all over him when he said, “I cut it, so what?” Assistant State Attorney Cynthia Simpson emphasized that even if slaughtering the pig for a meal, it was not being done quickly and painlessly.If you think farm animals are slaughtered quickly and painlessly, think again.
Aarrgghh!
Thursday, March 27th, 2003Well, there is turmoil here in PlasticLand. On Tuesday I got laid off, then the next day I discovered that my car had been stolen. It’s okay though because I got it back (the car not the job). Anyway, I should have more time to blog when I get my life back into some semblance of order.
Block Flash
Monday, March 24th, 2003From Mozilla bug 94035 I found this innovative way to block Flash ads. [Update: Fixed the link.]
Desert Hawk
Monday, March 24th, 2003The Air Force is using slingshot-launched flying security cameras to patrol the boundaries of airbases in the Middle East.
NWN for Linux
Thursday, March 20th, 2003Oooo, Neverwinter Nights Linux Client Beta is finally out. Now, if only I had a chunk of free time to play with it.
War Still Sucks
Thursday, March 20th, 2003The Arrogance of Power
Senator Robert Byrd again speaks out against war.
What is happening to this country? When did we become a nation which ignores and berates our friends? When did we decide to risk undermining international order by adopting a radical and doctrinaire approach to using our awesome military might? How can we abandon diplomatic efforts when the turmoil in the world cries out for diplomacy? Why can this President not seem to see that America’s true power lies not in its will to intimidate, but in its ability to inspire?
OSS
Tuesday, March 18th, 2003Boston Consulting Group is studying how to apply the general lessons of open source software to other businesses.
And what have they discovered? So far the group is focusing on three areas: the way open source takes advantages of networks like the Internet, the influence of the lowered transaction costs that come with these electronic networks, and the motivational factors that inspire thousands of programmers to work on projects for free.
Stop SEVIS
Monday, March 17th, 2003A group at the University of Hawaii have put together a campaign to stop SEVIS.
Save Farscape!
Thursday, March 13th, 2003Can Farscape fans reinvent TV?
On the one hand, it’s heartening to see the do-it-yourself ethic of the Internet applied to the sick-unto-death broadcasting industry. It’s also sad to reflect that no one even considers involving government agencies — like the Federal Communications Commission or the Federal Trade Commission — that once upon a time were meant to help safeguard the rights of consumers and the public interest in broadcasting.To me, the most interesting thing about the save Farscape campaign is The Viewer Consortium’s effort to fund an episode of the series with viewer donations. I pledged $50, and I encourage you to pledge something and see what happens.
Live longer
Thursday, March 13th, 2003No, it’s not the Onion
Wednesday, March 12th, 2003What a headline: Girl Emerges from Coma During Bryan Adams Concert.
Cassini
Tuesday, March 11th, 2003MSNBC has an awesome slideshow of photos taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft of Jupiter and its moons. I especially like the one of the lava flow on Io.
Bix Beiderbecke Birthday
Monday, March 10th, 2003Today is the 100th anniversary of Bix Beiderbecke’s birthday. NPR had a pretty good tribute to Bix this morning.
BCIS nee INS
Thursday, March 6th, 2003In case you missed it as I did, the Immigration and Naturalization Service is no more and is now part of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services under the Department of Homeland Security. Now how are we supposed to say that? “Bee-sis”? “Bee-see-eye-ess”? I like “Bee-sis”.
