1-Aug-02

CBC.CA - The National: "Islamic clerics such as Abu Qatada and Abu Hamza are accused of being key recruiters for Al Qaeda, the terrorist group responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States. Both Qatada and Hamza are open about their moral support for the attacks but they say they have no connection with any group, that they are just religious leaders." Let's try to read some of these transcripts without swearing, crying and laughing at these monsters. comment [] 11:42:42 PM | permalink

Tres Producers: "Musicians In Need Via Glenn: No, we do not want to help these rapacious mothersuckers crush the recording proletariat: " comment [] 11:16:16 PM | permalink

lgf: booooring: "LGF can claim the dubious honor of the first weblog to be attacked in the Arab News." comment [] 11:10:49 PM | permalink

A fine mess: Every couple of weeks I renew my vow never to pay another library fine. The first such vow came about a thousand years ago when I had an actual visit by the library police... [Golf for cats] comment [] 10:48:41 PM | permalink

New PressPlay: 'Unlimited Downloads! Listen On Your MP3 Player!' Users: 'It Still Sucks!'. Plastic::Music::MP3: The Big Five get it wrong again, as the upgrade to PressPlay still doesn't even come close to anything that would combat piracy. [Plastic: Most Recent] Yes, but if the Big 5 would offer the same services as EMusic.com ($10/month independent artists, etc.) for maybe $20 or $30 a month they could stop the madness.  They won't listen of course.  We got to fight the powers that be comment [] 10:46:11 PM | permalink

Man, 103, told to bring parents for an eye test. (Daily Rotten) "British pensioner Joseph Dickinson, 103, had a shock when his local hospital called him in for an eye test and told him to bring his parents." [News Is Free: Offbeat] comment [] 10:39:34 PM | permalink

Spam filters: By and large, the best spam filter I have in place in my e-mail program is the exclamation mark. I almost never get any mail from anyone want to talk to with an ! in the subject line. [Golf for cats] That's a good one, unfortunately I needed more than techniques like this so I downloaded MailWasher -- the easiest way to check and manage your e-mails before you download them.  (my e-mail addy ended up in Asia so I receive a lot of oriental spam, oh, some people say it's only their business cards -- a sign of respect over there) comment [] 3:30:30 PM | permalink

LILEKS (James) The Bleat: "And today, of course, more horror. This time Americans were killed as well - and the name of the place, the Frank Sinatra Cafeteria, brings the event closer to home than previous attacks. All of a sudden itâ019s like they bombed Hoboken, or Palm Springs. It felt like there was a knock on the door: hello, your future has arrived; sign here please. " comment [] 3:12:47 PM | permalink

Out of Islam, into Christianity There are many places in the world, like possibly Saudi Arabia, where Ergun Mehmet Caner would be dead. His crime? He converted from Islam to Christianity. Caner had the good fortune, however, to open the door to Christ while in the United States. In the U.S., people change faiths every day... comment [] 3:11:18 PM | permalink

Sex Offenders In Massachusetts Told To Not Seek Treatment If They Want To Ever Get Out Of Prison. Plastic::Politics::Crime: Now, the question is whether, in its endeavor to remove sexual predators from the street, the state is not preventing them from getting the treatment which might keep them from being dangerous. [Plastic: Most Recent] comment [] 1:58:20 PM | permalink

Aung San Suu Kyi relates Buddhism to DemocracyThe .... Aung San Suu Kyi relates Buddhism to Democracy The following is from a chapter in Aung San Suu Kyi's book of essays on democracy and liberation from unhealthy and misguided notions of governance called "Freedom from Fear." This is another good book that might instruct us on how people in a community can focus themselves to achieve liberation and self-respect. "Despotic governments do not recognize the precious human component of the state, seeing its citizens only as a faceless, mindless--and helpless -- mass to be manipulated at will. It is as though people were incidental to a notion rather than its very life-blood. Patriotism, which should be the vital love and care of a people for their land, is debased into a smokescreen of hysteria to hide the injustices of authoritarian rulers who define the interests of the state in terms of their own limited interests." The above is especially true of Burma, where the military, going against the ideals of Suu Kyi's father, a famous Burmese general, or Boh, took over the leadership of the country and created the SLORC. The singlemost important purpose of this iniative was to create a voice and a power that strictly forbade true democracy. Check out the Washington Post today for an interesting article about a Brit who finds more excitement bringing ideas of Democracy to Burma than attending classes in University. Right here. James Mawlsey [randomWalks] comment [] 1:54:52 PM | permalink

Radio Static, Radio Silence. This morning Radio is stripping the headings off my posts (probably messing up the mirror too), and generating this error: [Macro error: The file "08" wasn't found.] Guessing that this has something to do with the change of month and the fact that Radio's been running continually on my desktop through several sleep cycles. I just quit and restarted the server to see if that will help. ...ok, that along didn't do it. I see that none of my posts today are streaming out to the Salon Blogs server. On a hunch I poked around my www/2002/ folder and saw that there is an 07 (month) folder, but no 08. I created an 08 folder (though I'm sure I shouldn't have to do that by hand), and now I'm going to see if posting works. If not, I'll restart the machine (maybe some handling component crashed overnight). If that fails, I'll have to get some technical support! [Radio Free Blogistan] Visit RFB if you can help -- even if you can't, visit his site anyway, I don't understand most of what's on his site but I seek knowledge and there's lots of it there. comment [] 1:52:59 PM | permalink

The Judge, the Dene, the Pipeline and the Premier. Straight Goods Aug 1 2002 4:54AM ET [Moreover - Canada news] comment [] 1:47:52 PM | permalink

What's It Like In Your Neck Of The Woods?. We live in a world full of different cultures and environments that just beg to be experienced. Sadly, many people never get the chance to leave their own country (or even their state/province) to see what the rest of the world has to offer. Did you ever wonder how life halfway around the world, or even just next door, is different from yours? Here is your chance to answer the question, "What's it like in your neck of the woods?" [kuro5hin.org] comment [] 1:45:59 PM | permalink

Democracy for the Middle East. A Gathering International Community [News Is Free: Recent Additions] You might want to add this one to your Blogroll, I just did.  comment [] 1:44:36 PM | permalink

My favourite tenor of all time is Jussi Björling (1911-1960) comment [] 12:48:48 PM | permalink

Glenn Reynolds acknowledges a factual error, then asks a poignant question. "What would things be like for Palestinians now, if Israelis or Americans thought like Arabs? They wouldn't be like anything at all, of course. There wouldn't be any Palestinians." Interesting. [Scripting News] comment [] 12:26:02 PM | permalink

I'm changing the name of this blog, I think I'll change it to "Tenorman.net" since I just purchased that domain from Go Daddy.  Special thanks goes to John H. Farr of FarrFeed fame.  His post here got me thinking about getting my own domain. comment [] 12:16:10 PM | permalink

Update: Dave Winer offers a correction on an earlier post: "I've seen this too often not to say something. I think Radio has a lot more features than Moveable Type. Sometimes people confuse difficulty with feature richness. MT is designed to run n Unix, which means that it can be difficult for average people, because Unix already presents a high barrier. Radio is designed for Mac and Windows users, not developers (although it has deep features when you lift the hood), so it has to be easy to set up and use to work." Thanks, Dave.  comment [] 11:50:16 AM | permalink

The Hate begins... A US attack on Iraq right now is the worst idea in the long sad history of bad US foreign policy ideas. [Hate Central] Go after Hamas instead, they killed five Americans yesterday and are quite proud of themselves, and will certainly do more damage.  I know, most of the world seems to love Hamas and other terrorist organizations, which is unfortunate, but America can still kick ass, will they do it, or just pander Ken Lay, etc.? comment [] 5:07:32 AM | permalink

One million pounds set to march on Ottawa. National Post Online Aug 1 2002 2:48AM ET [Moreover - Canada news] comment [] 4:58:58 AM | permalink

my favorite beethoven sonatas and what they make me think of Sonata no. 8 in C minor, op. 13 (Pathétique)  - Adagio: cantabile My favorite of his sonatas, to me it evokes the silent calm of the very pale, slightly bluish face of a young woman lying on a slab in the busy morgue of a large city - perhaps Cincinnati? Around her, people walk back and forth holding cups of... [people are stupid] comment [] 4:56:03 AM | permalink

Tres Producers: "The Roster Pt 3 Further FREE CDs for Bloggers participants. Read and visit. Please see Pts 1 and 2 of roster below, and Blogcritics.com announcement." Very cool, I've added "Blog Critics" to my Blogroll, visit Tres Producers and sax and sunshine while you await the birth.  comment [] 2:11:34 AM | permalink

::: wood s lot ::: August 1-15, 2002 ": "together, we can put the triumphs of the recent past behind us." comment [] 1:40:28 AM | permalink

Radio-Canada.ca - Nouvelles: Caféine : effets à long terme: "Caféine : effets à long terme" Translated into bad English here comment [] 12:26:08 AM | permalink