Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Project: The Game!

Project: The Game!

Our best and brightest at play.

Project: The Game!

Project: The Game!

Our best and brightest at play.

The Globe and Mail: Is it final Jeopardy for Jennings?

The Globe and Mail: Is it final Jeopardy for Jennings?: "With $2.5-million in his back pocket, the 30-year-old Jennings has earned the title of highest-earning player ever on a syndicated quiz show.

Yesterday, a two-minute audio clip was circulated on the Web, including the question that is reported to have stumped this king of quiz. Sudbury, Ont.-native Alex Trebek, Jeopardy!'s host, can be heard saying, 'The category is business and industry, and here is the clue, ladies and gentlemen: Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal, white-collar employees work only four months a year?'"

The King has fallen.

Monday, November 29, 2004

BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN plan demands more intervention

BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN plan demands more intervention: "The UN should be reformed to make intervention in failing states easier, a commission is set to recommend.

The panel, which has examined how the UN could respond better to global threats, also calls for the Security Council to be enlarged, the BBC has learned."

The blueprints for the NWO.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN plan demands more intervention

BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN plan demands more intervention: "The UN should be reformed to make intervention in failing states easier, a commission is set to recommend.

The panel, which has examined how the UN could respond better to global threats, also calls for the Security Council to be enlarged, the BBC has learned."

The blueprints for the NWO.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN plan demands more intervention

BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN plan demands more intervention: "The UN should be reformed to make intervention in failing states easier, a commission is set to recommend.

The panel, which has examined how the UN could respond better to global threats, also calls for the Security Council to be enlarged, the BBC has learned."

The blueprints for the NWO.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN plan demands more intervention

BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN plan demands more intervention: "The UN should be reformed to make intervention in failing states easier, a commission is set to recommend.

The panel, which has examined how the UN could respond better to global threats, also calls for the Security Council to be enlarged, the BBC has learned. "

Saturday, November 27, 2004

Burning Cross Left at Home of Interracial Couple on Long Island

The New York Times > New York Region > Burning Cross Left at Home of Interracial Couple on L.I.: "wakened by a loud bang and the ring of their doorbell, an interracial couple peered out the front window of their Long Island home at 3 a.m. yesterday and saw a cross burning on the front lawn.

They said they immediately called the Suffolk County police, but by the time officers arrived, rain had doused the fire. The police removed the cross, which was three feet tall and made from the slats of a picket fence. By yesterday afternoon, the only remaining trace was a charred circle of grass outside the building, a two-family house in the southwest corner of Lake Grove."

Dang liberals.

BAGnewsNotes: Bush's Crusade (Or: Aren't the Metaphor's Getting a Little Obvious?)

BAGnewsNotes: Bush's Crusade (Or: Aren't the Metaphor's Getting a Little Obvious?): "I wish this was a joke. "

oy. vey.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraqi parties request poll delay

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraqi parties request poll delay: "A group of leading Iraqi political parties has called for the 30 January national elections to be delayed.

More than 15 groups - representing mostly Sunnis, Kurds and secular Iraqis - urged a six-month postponement for the planned vote. "

Yea, well, there ya go.

Hobbits locked away as scientists argue - Science - www.theage.com.au

Hobbits locked away as scientists argue - Science - www.theage.com.au: "They may be tiny, but the hobbits - the extinct one-metre-high human species whose discovery rocked the palaeontology world last month - are provoking a giant barney among Australian and Indonesian scientists.

One of Indonesia's leading palaeontologists, Professor Teuku Jacob of Gadjah Mada University in Jakarta, has grabbed the hobbit remains and locked them away in his safe, refusing to let other scientists study them."

I think this is going to be curious when they find out *why* he is hiding them...

Tuesday, November 23, 2004

The Volokh Conspiracy - Sokal is an Id10t

The Volokh Conspiracy -: "Alan Sokal and the Social Text Parody:In 1996, physics professor Alan Sokal published a parody article on the social construction of physics in the journal Social Text. It turns out that Sokal's website has copies of the original article, the Lingua Franca article in which he came clean about his spoof, and other writings about the controversy both by Sokal and others."

This is the reason, a big part of it, why our society is so lost. Those 'in the know' about the closest details of the nature of the Universe, absolutely refuse to speak on it in any concrete terms. This allows the charlatans to step in and make all sorts of whacky claims while the physicists scratch their heads and say, "Hmm, I guess it is all energy...but that doesn't mean anything."

Ugh, and thus the need for people like myslef to do a bit of metaphor drawing.

EPIC 2014

EPIC 2014

The actual future of media. Neal Stephensen nailed it in "Diamond Age."

Kevin Sites Blog

Kevin Sites Blog: "Since the shooting in the Mosque, I've been haunted that I have not been able to tell you directly what I saw or explain the process by which the world came to see it as well. As you know, I'm not some war zone tourist with a camera who doesn't understand that ugly things happen in combat. I've spent most of the last five years covering global conflict. But I have never in my career been a 'gotcha' reporter -- hoping for people to commit wrongdoings so I can catch them at it. "

This is the future of media folks.

International News Article | Reuters.com

International News Article | Reuters.com: "KIEV (Reuters) - Up to 200,000 protesters rallied outside an emergency session of Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday demanding authorities admit they cheated in a presidential poll which showed the country's Moscow-backed prime minister had won.

Parliamentary deputies began the session in response to calls from supporters of West-leaning liberal challenger Viktor Yushchenko, who says he was robbed of victory in Sunday's second-round run-off. "

This is what MoW is all about.

Saturday, November 06, 2004

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Rebel attacks in Samarra kill 33

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Rebel attacks in Samarra kill 33: "The BBC's Claire Marshall in Baghdad says that on the eve of an attack on Falluja, events in Samarra seem to demonstrate that it takes more than a large scale military assault to bring a town fully under control."

Re-making the world with require more that just the 'ism' of the military.