20-Aug-02

Read People's Thoughts Just by Looking at Them[MetaFilter] [Ye Olde Phart] comment [] 10:00:22 PM | permalink

EMUSIC OFFERS TWO NEW FRANK BLACK ALBUMS IN MP3 Former Pixies Leader was the First Artist to Partner with Pioneer Downloadable Music Service Wow, Eric Olsen also mentions this: Tuesday on Fresh Air, Rock musician Wayne Kramer talks to Terry Gross for one hour about his life and songwriting. In the late 1960s Wayne founded the revolutionary group MC5 -- a forerunner of punk rock and heavy metal. After a stint in federal prison, Wayne dove head first into a prolific solo career. Seven solo albums and numerous projects later he discusses it all. He's launched a new record label...more Robin Williams -- for robinwilliams@audible.com -- did an interview with Sharon Stone Blog of the day: a klog apart From small acorns, mighty ecosystems grow. Blue Sky Radio Thinking about the next generation of Radio UserLand and Manila. Exercises in Distributed Product Management and Collective wish list fulfillment. Next commentary may piss some of us off, I have yet to read it, but saw Charles Johnson link to it. Mark Steyn Multiculturalists are the real racists Last Thursday, in Sydney, the pack leader of a group of Lebanese Muslim gang-rapists was sentenced to 55 years in jail. I suppose I ought to say "Lebanese-Australian" Muslim gang-rapists, since the accused were Australian citizens. But, identity-wise, the rambunctious young lads considered themselves heavy on the Lebanese, light on the Australian. During their gang rapes, the lucky lady would be told she was about to be "f---ed Leb style" and that she deserved it because she was an "Australian pig."  comment [] 4:57:20 PM | permalink

CS Monitor on Digital Copying. In a few years, Americans may not be able to copy a song off a CD, watch a recorded DVD... [Blogcritics] comment [] 12:52:57 PM | permalink

Couple Arrested for Sex in Cathedral Excerpt: Another man, Paul Mercurio, 42, of New York, who allegedly engaged in a live radio commentary on the sex act, also was arraigned on a charge of acting in concert with the couple. comment [] 8:31:56 AM | permalink

From: Seth Stevenson Subject: Ladakhis, Germans, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama comment [] 8:25:20 AM | permalink

Novel Approach : Joe O’Connor explains how he organised 15 leading Irish writers to produce a book for Amnesty. I just listened to a sample of the audio book version for this book -- Yeats Is Dead! A Mystery by 15 Irish Writers -- and after checking out Google I've decided to buy it as part of my monthly subscription at Audible.com.  I get two audio books a month so the other book I've decided on is The Hobbit.  I still have ten hours left of The Talisman -- Laura Miller doesn't understand why many like this one -- and thirty-five hours of  The Company A Novel of the CIA: 1951-91 left so there's no shortage. comment [] 1:57:22 AM | permalink

Quote of the day: "In the future, we won't show you ammunition and guns," Gov. Gul Agha Sherzai proclaimed from a large dais erected outside his house along the parade route. "We will show you the development of the country. We will show you open doors to schools. We will show you peace in the country." Taken from this: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Thousands of people waved Afghan flags and cheered as soldiers, tanks and armoured vehicles paraded by Monday to mark this former Taliban stronghold's first Independence Day celebration in two decades. comment [] 1:04:30 AM | permalink

Charles Taylor offers a review on Heat Wave which I linked on this blog a few days ago, after hearing an interview with the author on Fresh Air. Update: Letters Readers respond to a review of "Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago" and an interview about perpetrators of genocide comment [] 12:55:27 AM | permalink