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

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