Thursday, April 10, 2003

Saddam curios for sale online. Saddam Hussein has become an unlikely internet celebrity, with memorabilia related to him appearing for sale on the web. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] 9:20:23 PM

PM launches new Iraqi TV. Media: Tony Blair and George Bush will address the Iraqi nation later today on a new television station set up by coalition forces in a bid to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people. [Guardian Unlimited] 6:34:41 PM

	Monday, April 07, 2003

Low Cost AGMs-Electronic Meeting Software Low Cost AGMs-Electronic Meeting Software This article was my attempt at providing a backgrounder on how to save money by not travelling for AGMs by using the Internet to facilitate electronic meetings. Check the article out at: http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/stories/2003/04/07/lowCostVirtualAgms.html 9:30:04 PM

	Sunday, April 06, 2003

Kerry on supporting troops. Senator John Kerry describes the Bush administration's one-sided approach to "supporting troops," which seems to consist of lambasting anyone who decries the war as unsound policy while simultaneously slashing veteran's benefits and education for military families. Unfortunately, this administration has failed to honor the service of citizens who are doing what's right. After Sept. 11, Americans wanted to contribute and to serve. This administration told them to go shopping. They have cut AmeriCorps when we should be expanding it so every young person has the opportunity to perform national service. But nothing flies in the face of the values of duty and service more than what this administration is doing when it comes to fulfilling our obligation to our troops, our veterans, and their families. We can do better -- and our soldiers deserve no less... And at the same time that American soldiers are engaged in battle at home, this administration is proposing substantial cuts in federal school aid to children of military families. As we learned the hard way after Vietnam, our duty to our troops doesn't end when the battle is won. Those that put their lives on the line have earned a lifetime of support. And America must live up to that commitment. Yet, two months ago, this administration announced it would suspend enrollment in the healthcare system of at least 160,000 qualified veterans. And now they want to deny another 230,000 veterans the healthcare they deserve. Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 9:48:47 PM

Mary Riddell: A morally hollow victory. Iraq comment: No amount of PR will disguise the fact that this war is an outrage against humanity, says Mary Riddell. [Guardian Unlimited] 3:31:11 PM

	Friday, April 04, 2003

QTVR of NYC Hearings on 9/11 attacks. Hans Nyberg writes: "I have a new masterpiece by the New York VR photograper Jook Leung, made yesterday at the hearing in New York about the Terrorist attacks. In this shot, the mayor of New York City is testifying." Link to fullscreen QTVR panorama, Link to 9/11 Commission website, Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 7:34:32 AM

	Thursday, April 03, 2003

Live QTVR blogging from Sydney protest, with sound. Australian photographer Peter Murphy writes: Hi, Xeni -- my vr blog today features an action panorama from an antiwar protest in Sydney yesterday -- with location sound streaming audio accompaniment. Link, Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 9:36:03 PM

Wired News on Ex-Intel VP fighting for detainee Mike Hawash. Story in today's Wired News on the case of former Intel employee Mike Hawash, a Palestinian-born US citizen arrested and detained in solitary confinement two weeks ago by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (link to earlier post on BoingBoing). A friend and former colleague at Intel, Steven McGeady, is championing Hawash's case. McGeady, a former vice president at the chipmaker who hired Hawash as a programmer in 1992, was a high-profile witness in the Microsoft antitrust trial. "People say this doesn't happen in this country," McGeady said, "but one of my neighbors has been disappeared. It's not what he might have done that matters to me -- they disappeared him. They need to question him and let him go, or charge him. It's like Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka." McGeady set up a website, Free Mike Hawash, that urges supporters to write politicians and donate to a legal defense fund. The site is drawing considerable attention online, climbing the charts on Daypop and Blogdex. Because of the campaign, the office of Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden has promised to contact the FBI about the case, McGeady said. Link to Wired News story, Link to SF Chron story, Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 7:19:56 PM

Muslims urged to join jihad. 7.15pm: Iraqi official addresses nation· US backs checkpoint killings soldiers· 26th British soldier killed [Guardian Unlimited] 7:05:47 AM

The New Yorker.  Seymor Hersh.  Read it and be worried.  This line shot me to the core: “The only hope is that they can hold out until reinforcements come.” I do think we can hold out.  Americans are much tougher than many think.  It won't be pretty (given the destruction of a car full of women and children today).  But there won't be a total collapse. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 6:59:50 AM

Here is a fear that I have been dreading for a while:  the US has become Israel.  We needed a target for our rightous indignation and thirst for revenge re: 9/11.  The long slow process of terrorist hunting wasn't enough to satisfy this need.  We didn't have Palestinians to beat up on so we manufactured them in Iraq. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 6:58:27 AM

cronkite on arnett. Walter Cronkite: "Mr. Arnett's firing is more than a personal setback. With him gone from the airwaves, Americans have lost an eye on Baghdad that had proved a valuable addition to our knowledge of a mysterious enemy." [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 6:56:16 AM

	Tuesday, April 01, 2003

'You didn't fire a warning shot soon enough!'. Daily briefing: A journalist's account of the killing of a car full of Iraqi civilians by US soldiers differs widely from the official military version, says Brian Whitaker. [Guardian Unlimited] 10:14:19 AM

	Monday, March 31, 2003

Atwood: America is selling itself out. Margaret Atwood, Canadian literary star and author of "The Handmaid's Tale," wrote a stern open letter to the USA in yesterday's Globe and Mail. The war isn't what's got her upset, though: it's the Bush Administration's exploitation of the war to undermine the civil liberties that define America as the city on the hill, the democratic proving ground to which all other democracies can aspire. You're gutting the Constitution. Already your home can be entered without your knowledge or permission, you can be snatched away and incarcerated without cause, your mail can be spied on, your private records searched. Why isn't this a recipe for widespread business theft, political intimidation, and fraud? I know you've been told all this is for your own safety and protection, but think about it for a minute. Anyway, when did you get so scared? You didn't used to be easily frightened. You're running up a record level of debt. Keep spending at this rate and pretty soon you won't be able to afford any big military adventures. Either that or you'll go the way of the USSR: lots of tanks, but no air conditioning. That will make folks very cross. They'll be even crosser when they can't take a shower because your short-sighted bulldozing of environmental protections has dirtied most of the water and dried up the rest. Then things will get hot and dirty indeed. You're torching the American economy. How soon before the answer to that will be, not to produce anything yourselves, but to grab stuff other people produce, at gunboat-diplomacy prices? Is the world going to consist of a few megarich King Midases, with the rest being serfs, both inside and outside your country? Will the biggest business sector in the United States be the prison system? Let's hope not. Link Discuss (Thanks, Greg!) [Boing Boing Blog] 9:11:25 PM

AP: "NBC fired journalist Peter Arnett on Monday, saying it was wrong for him to give an interview with state-run Iraqi TV saying that the American-led coalition's first war plan had failed because of Iraq's resistance. Arnett himself called the interview a 'misjudgment.'"  [Scripting News] 9:07:32 PM

Jim Moore: "There is an emerging second superpower, but it is not a nation. Instead, it is a new form of international player, constituted by the 'will of the people' in a global social movement. " [Scripting News] 5:43:56 PM

Command Post and Agonist: Scoping Out War News. I want to commend to you two "gifted-amateur" warblogs that strike me as a cut above the others. One is... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 5:40:05 PM

Warblogs and Tomorrow's Journalism. Baltimore Sun: Weblogs cover the war without mainstream restraints. The best blog writers hew to the Mike Royko-Herb Caen style... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 5:38:32 PM

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