Thursday, April 28, 2005

European Antitrust Official Chastises Microsoft's Chief. Europe's top antitrust official told Microsoft's chief executive that the company must comply with Europe's antitrust ruling "urgently and in full." By PAUL MELLER. [NYT > Technology] 12:48:56 PM    comment []

Fired Santana aide blames guru's 'test'. On CNN [NewsIsFree: Popular Items] 12:48:32 PM    comment []

Photos of famous feet on stage Over two decades, Roland Owsnitzk has snapped an amazing number of photos depicting performers' feet, from A-Ha to Neil Young. Seen here, a Sonic Youth foot (presumably Kim Gordon's) from 1986. [MetaFilter] 11:48:22 AM    comment []

Ivory Billed Woodpecker Found. 'Extinct' Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Found in Arkansas This is almost hard to believe, but the reports seem credible. How these birds could have survived for sixty years in numbers too small to be identified reliably, but large enough to reproduce, is beyond me. Incredible. Like the man says, "This is like finding Elvis." The ivory-billed woodpecker, long feared extinct, has been rediscovered in a remote part of Arkansas some 60 years after the last confirmed U.S.... [The Politburo Diktat] 10:44:53 AM    comment []

Somewhere between BusinessWeek and Newsweek. Surprise! My picture on Business Week is bigger than the new pope. Even though there is only one brief paragraph about me in its story on blogs. However a casual interview that Stuart Hughes did with me while I was touring in the BBC headquarters in White City, London, can make up for the few words Business Week had about me and the situation in Iran. By the way, on my brief and first visit to Paris, I met Chris Dickey, Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Editor of the Newsweek, after about five years. He had interviewed me while he was last in Tehran during the peek of Khatami and reformist papers, while I was working for Apadana as their website editor and was writing that daily column about the Net in Asr-e Azadegan. Chris is a real gentleman, in the European sense of word. I also noticed that he is really into gadgets, especially that little video camera that he uses to record small videos. With his modest beard, he looks like an optometrist, especially when he is looking into that little cute camera with his right eye and start talking to you as his interview subject. [Editor: Myself (English)] 10:44:33 AM    comment []

Senator Franken?. He's good enough, he's smart enough, but doggone it, will people vote for him? To find out, Al Franken is moving his radio show back home to Minnesota to get ready to run against Sen. Norm Coleman. [Salon.com] 10:42:45 AM    comment []

Dim Sum Under Assault, and Devotees Say 'Hands Off'. A report suggesting that eating many kinds of dim sum regularly may be bad for your health angered many people in Hong Kong. By KEITH BRADSHER. [NYT > International] 10:42:38 AM    comment []

Broadband Slower than Pigeons; Pigeons Slower than Snails. After showing that Wi-Fly TCP (Transmission by Pigeons) protocol could be a faster data-transfer method than ADSL, Israeli geeks (their word, not mine) have now shown that snails can be better yet. (Thanks, Ami...) [Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc.] 10:12:33 AM    comment []

Howard Johnson's, Adieu. The idea that the Howard Johnson's restaurant in Times Square would probably close made me sad, since it was at Howard Johnson's that I completed my most valuable apprenticeship. By JACQUES PÉPIN. [NYT > Opinion] I remember it as the closest place you could get a drink after the APA smoker in the Marriot Marquis. 6:45:42 AM    comment []

THE FETED INNER CORE, REVEALED!. Many said Prokofy Neva was mad, and that his descriptions of a so-called "Feted Inner Core" (or FIC), a secret society of Second Life aristocrats, were little more than fevered rantings. How was it possible, after all, that a cabal of subscribers had become so powerful, they'd gained direct control over an entire world's future? There were intimations they existed, to be sure, but even those seemed like the glimmerings of a receding mirage, to most. Including, I confess, to me. Until last sunset, that is, when someone quietly and anonymously slipped a series of annotated screenshots into my... [New World Notes] 6:42:47 AM    comment []

'Exporting the American Dream:'. Five members of the faculty deconstructed the notion of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness April 21 in the UC Sunnen Lounge. Leonard Suransky, the Des Lee Visiting International Scholar on Global Awareness, organized the panel discussion titled "Exporting the American Dream" and was joined by English Professor Karla Armbruster, International Relations Lecturer Tamineh Entessar, Management Professor Jim Evans and Associate Professor Alan Mac Neill, History, Politics and Law. [The Journal] 1:44:18 AM    comment []