My new address is http://blog.zog.org.
Not because I was immensely dissatisfied with Radio, just because TypePad is the better service. That, and Robb's Law: I don't want to have a weblog (any website really) on a domain that I don't own.
Ik ben verhuisd
Mijn nieuw adres is http://blog.zog.org.
Niet omdat ik heel erg ontevreden was van Radio, maar gewoon omdat TypePad beter is. En omdat ik er een website kan hebben op mijn eigen domeinnaam.
zondag 31 augustus 2003Lees Time Magazine, leer eens iets nieuws
When questioning stalled, according to Posner, cia men flew Zubaydah to an Afghan complex fitted out as a fake Saudi jail chamber, where "two Arab-Americans, now with Special Forces," pretending to be Saudi inquisitors, used drugs and threats to scare him into more confessions.
Yet when Zubaydah was confronted by the false Saudis, writes Posner, "his reaction was not fear, but utter relief." Happy to see them, he reeled off telephone numbers for a senior member of the royal family who would, said Zubaydah, "tell you what to do." The man at the other end would be Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz, a Westernized nephew of King Fahd's and a publisher better known as a racehorse owner. His horse War Emblem won the Kentucky Derby in 2002. To the amazement of the U.S., the numbers proved valid. When the fake inquisitors accused Zubaydah of lying, he responded with a 10-minute monologue laying out the Saudi-Pakistani-bin Laden triangle.
Zubaydah, writes Posner, said the Saudi connection ran through Prince Turki al-Faisal bin Abdul Aziz, the kingdom's longtime intelligence chief. Zubaydah said bin Laden "personally" told him of a 1991 meeting at which Turki agreed to let bin Laden leave Saudi Arabia and to provide him with secret funds as long as al-Qaeda refrained from promoting jihad in the kingdom. The Pakistani contact, high-ranking air force officer Mushaf Ali Mir, entered the equation, Zubaydah said, at a 1996 meeting in Pakistan also attended by Zubaydah. Bin Laden struck a deal with Mir, then in the military but tied closely to Islamists in Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (isi), to get protection, arms and supplies for al-Qaeda. Zubaydah told interrogators bin Laden said the arrangement was "blessed by the Saudis."
Waarom wordt zoiets niet over de hele media uitgesmeerd?
Het was schaamtelijk slecht. Niet gewoon slecht, niet een beetje slecht, maar echt beschamend slecht.
Dominique, de gerre, mag al naar huis. En vergis ik mij of heeft die Jeroen zijn mond voorbijgepraat toen hij zei dat het maar drie weken ging duren?
Ah feck. Kijken zeker?
A NICE TOUCH: I mentioned liking the new Simpsons Third Season DVD earlier -- but here's something I like about it that's relevant to all sorts of other things: the DVD menu design. The temptation in setting up DVDs is to create fancy, creative menus. (And it's a temptation I'm...
[Instapundit.com]
Jazeker. En misschien wel het beste aan de hele DVD is het audiocommentaar van BRuce Campbell en de mannen.
Ik vraag mij af of Free ondertussen al gekeken heeft :)
(...) if allegations made about Schwarzenegger in a 2001 piece in Premiere are true, his over-the-top and up-the-skirt attitudes about women translate to actions as well.
San Francisco-based journalist Connie Matthiessen got a hot blast of Schwarzenegger raunch when she happened across the actor in the mid-1980s. In an interview Friday with Salon, she recalled that she didn't know who Schwarzenegger was and had never seen him before. When a friend pointed him out to her in a Santa Monica, Calif., cafe, Matthiessen couldn't help but stare at his massive, muscle-bound physique. Schwarzenegger shot a look back her, and snarled: "The dildo convention is next door."
"He said it in such a mean way," Matthiessen says. "I was across the room, and it was such a brutal conversation. It felt like he had just slapped me, it was so contemptuous and dismissive and nasty." [Salon]
Boo fucking hoo. Beeld u in dat de omgekeerde situatie was, en dat een man binnenkwam met een vriend, en dat hij wijzend en met open mond een vrouw aan de andere kant van de kamer aanstaart. En dat die vrouw daar nijdig commentaar op geeft.
Zou die vent dan ook mogen klagen? Neen dus. Die dubbele standaard, da's om ambetant van te worden.
Niet alleen met vrouwen trouwens, maar ook met dingen als dit hier. De eerste die een "Miss White USA" wilt organiseren wordt door de NAACP aan de schandpaal genageld. Gr.
Trouwens, nog Schwarzenegger in Salon:
During the filming of 1996's "Eraser," Connolly alleged, a guest on the set happened upon Schwarzenegger performing oral sex on a woman in his trailer. As Salon reported last month, Schwarzenegger allegedly looked up from his work and uttered a line that has now become an inadvertent trademark of the Schwarzenegger campaign. "Eating," he reportedly said, "is not cheating."
Een man naar mijn hart.
Fark rules.
(Some Guy)
3500 Pictures of Russian porn star Nikki Nova (not safe for work)
AFAIK, she isn't Russian.
Hot, but not Russian.
I don't care if she is enhanced or not but I would poon that chick until until the cows came home. I would also make sure the cows were drunk, had a bad map, and a rigged compass.
My pornstar identification skills are the stuff of legend.
She also co-hosts Night Calls 411 (or one of its several variants) on Playboy TV.
I, uh, heard. From a guy in a wheelchair.
Who had a beard and dark glasses, and a pirate flag.
Ack!
What I did today: I signed at Chapters for around 700 people. It was fun, although it lasted a bit over seven hours, and I was a bit dazed toward the end.
Then I went straight from the signing to the Hugo ceremonies, and was entirely chuffed and grateful to win the Hugo for Best Novella.
And tomorrow (Sunday) morning I'm doing a reading at Torcon in room CC 104A. It won't be followed by a signing, as I'll have to get on a plane almost immediately afterwards.
[Neil Gaiman's Journal]
