] I'm afraid of Americans
] I'm afraid of the world
] I'm afraid I can't help it
] I'm afraid I can't
] I'm afraid of Americans
] God is an American

David Bowie - I'm Afraid Of Americans

] Clear Channels List of
] Songs with Questionable Lyrics
] Artist Title
snips out a few of the 150 songs banned
] Black Sabbath "War Pigs"
] U2 "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
] Cat Stevens "Peace Train"
] John Lennon "Imagine"
] The Clash "Rock the Casbah"
] Nina "99 Luft Balloons/99 Red Balloons"

Why on earth should would songs be removed from airplay on all of Clear Channel's stations following the 9/11 attacks, when all of these are Anti-war?

Warpig - Politians start meaningless wars that cause pointless deaths, but don't worry, they will go to hell in the end

Sunday Bloody Sunday - Religious feuds only kill innocents, and no one talks about all the evils their cause inflicts. Stop the Cycle.

Peace Train - I'm sad because people are hating each other, but I am also happy because I know soon the world will grow up and be at peace

Imagine - Imagine all the people living in harmony

Rock the Casbah - Damn Arabs with their dicking us over oil

99 Luft Ballons - Some little event could trigger our total destruction, and would anyone even remeber us? War is all so petty and silly.

Songs with Questionable Lyrics

] Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, radio
] conglomerate Clear Channel Communications sent out of a
] list of 150 songs that were recommended to be pulled from
] airplay. NIN's "Head Like a Hole" was on the list.

... WTF?

Nine Inch Nails songs pulled?

] Insight into the news, technology, and culture of Google.

nothing much here yet, but it will be a cool read during the IPO, when gmail goes production, etc

Google Blog

] Overnight Hip-Hop success? Firstly, let me congratulate
] you on parlaying a fascination with vice, three gunshot
] wounds, and a history of felonies into a career. You know
] as I do that one must not only represent, but one must
] represent with style. Style is not just gold teeth, gold
] chains, gold rims and gold car antennas, my friend. Style
] is also gold-plated Versace flatware.
]
] The late-night recording sessions are draining, G. To
] keep pace and deliver more phat raps about whores and
] liquor, you're going to need sustenance. That sustenance
] is cake. And cake, my G, is best served with a
] gold-plated Versace cake server. What your entourage does
] with the remaining 74 cutlery pieces is unimportant. What
] matters is getting your cake on with class.
]
] Please, someone, purchase my recently acquired
] gold-plated Versace flatware set.

Beau-ti-ful

More from ebay

] Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA said that HR 107
] would allow the sale of hacking tools that would bust
] through the Digital Rights Management of iTunes and other
] services if the hacker is using the copies for
] "non-infringing purposes."
]
] His view was that there is no way to assure that any tool
] is only used for non-infringing purposes and that the
] only way to make this possible was to impose a tech
] mandate for copy controls, which HR 107 does not contain.
] And he went on to say that it is impossible to create a
] technology that will permit "fair uses" while prohibiting
] other uses.

How disconnected from reality is the RIAA? Its seems if something *could* be used in an unlawful way, we must control and/or restrict it.

Congress hears DMCA testimony | The Register

] If people are to get into the habit of owning an awful
] lot more music, then it is essential that playlists drive
] the model, not albums. Customers want "type" or "genres"
] of music to sit together to create mood. They do not want
] all of a recording artists' work played in one block, and
] they don't want to be forced to buy it that way either.
] And what seems ridiculous to us is that all music,
] regardless of age, should be charged at the same rate.

Yet another article showing how the RIAA refuses to acknowledge that the world of music buying and listening has changed.

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Music biz waves axe at goose that laid golden egg | The Register

] doing the things they were doing? There were lame attempts to
] explain why Achilles and Odyseus were there fighting in this
] war against Troy for a king they disliked, but they didn't add
] up. Just WHY Helen defected to Troy, but they were
] superficial and unbelievable.

So how close to the myth is the movie? As someone who took Latin for 4 years, I like it when movies try to stay true to the roots.

Do they talk about the golden apple of discord? How much about Paris and his choice to give the golden apple and thus causing the war? Do they talk about how and why the gods took sides? Any sign of Aeneas and his flight from Troy? Does Hector do anything other than be a bad ass? You son didn't know why King Priam ordered the brought the horse in; did they not show the Laocoon eaten by sea snakes for saying to refuse the horse?

The History of the Trojan war is quite cool.
http://www.kultur.gov.tr/portal/arkeoloji_en.asp?belgeno=814

RE: Review - Troy

There's no vestige of beginning,
no prospect of an end
When we all disintegrate it will all happen again
If you came to conquer, you'll be king for a day
then you to will deteriorate and quickly fade away
-Bad Religion, No Control

Rather apt lyrics

I'm sure people have seen this before, if not, check it out and watch a few hours of your life go by

Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About