Watch the trailer for "Sir! No Sir!" -- the hidden history of the GI Movement against the War in Vietnam.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Impeachment Hearings for Bush & Co.? How about War Crimes Tribunals?. Tell your congressdroid to ammend the Military Commissions Act, to remove retroactive domestic protection from prosecution regarding prisoner abuse cases.
First cases of 'Wii elbow' reported:
a man in Indiana says he was "soaking wet with sweat, head to toe" after Wii Boxing.
Friday, November 24, 2006
Two U.S. men charged with broadcasting Hezbollah TV: "NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. authorities brought terrorism charges against two men for providing satellite broadcasts of Hezbollah television channel al-Manar to U.S. customers, according to an indictment unsealed on Monday." [...] "The channel provided wide coverage of the war between Hezbollah and Israel last summer, broadcasting exclusive footage shot by Hezbollah guerillas. It was attacked by Israeli airstrikes during the fighting."
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Sing with me now: It's Always Christmas Time... For VISA!
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
The ultimate microtonal music video. I guess that would be an infinite number of notes per octave. Be sure to listen to it at work with the volume turned way up.
Saturday, November 18, 2006
InfoQ: Agile Quality: A Canary in a Coal Mine: "Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber at Agile2006 on code quality as a corporate asset, and how a degrading codebase paralyses teams and increases corporate risk."
Your tax dollars at work: lecturing 20-somethings on abstinence until marriage:
[...]focusing on the needs of adolescents and/or adults within the age range of 12 through 29 years old, identify groups within the State whose members are most likely to bear children out-of-wedlock.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Blode and the Moon Meat Mine! -- "Like a demented Lord of the Rings, on the moon, with crabs."
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Model for Africa. US Trade Representative to Africa, Governor of Nigeria Central Bank weigh in at a Wharton Business School conference on business in Africa.
Monday, November 13, 2006
Want to see if your puny little computer has what it takes to run the mighty, resource-devouring Windows Vista? Just stand here and bend over.
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Rights group seeks charges against Rumsfeld. The latest meme from the chattering classes is that efforts to impeach Bush and Cheney, and to bring criminal charges against them (1) are being pushed by just the ultra-left, and (2)would be political suicide for the Democrats. I don't buy it. If there were any justice, all three would be standing in the dock at the International Criminal Court.




