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Current Topic: Miscellaneous

CNN.com - After flashy failures, online groceries quietly grow - May 19, 2004
Topic: Miscellaneous 11:26 am EDT, May 21, 2004

] After the spectacular crashes of big-name Internet
] grocers in the late 1990s, the dream of a grand new wave
] of online food stores appeared to fizzle.
]
] But with intentionally meager fanfare, grocers have made
] Internet shopping available to tens of millions of
] consumers nationwide, and upcoming expansions will expand
] it to millions more.

[ Next big thing or bound to bust? It's not terribly appealing to me, since I'm within 1 minute of 3 grocery stores. But then, I've been too busy to set foot in any of them for weeks, so maybe this could be useful... -k]

CNN.com - After flashy failures, online groceries quietly grow - May 19, 2004


John Stewart's commencement address to Wm&Mary
Topic: Miscellaneous 9:20 pm EDT, May 20, 2004

] Lets talk about the real world for a moment. We had been
] discussing it earlier, and I... I wanted to bring this up
] to you earlier about the real world, and this is I guess
] as good a time as any. I don't really know to put this,
] so I'll be blunt. We broke it.
]
] Please don't be mad. I know we were supposed to
] bequeath to the next generation a world better than the
] one we were handed. So, sorry.
]
] I don't know if you've been following the news
] lately, but it just kinda got away from us. Somewhere
] between the gold rush of easy internet profits and an
] arrogant sense of endless empire, we heard kind of a
] pinging noise, and uh, then the damn thing just died on
] us. So I apologize.

John Stewart's commencement address to Wm&Mary


Zenarchery.com: Download My Banners!
Topic: Miscellaneous 9:09 pm EDT, May 20, 2004

[ Scroll down a bit...

Support terrorism is my fave. -k]

Zenarchery.com: Download My Banners!


Iraqi Counsil attacks each other
Topic: Miscellaneous 3:47 pm EDT, May 20, 2004

] "When America treats its friends this way, then they are
] in big trouble," Chalabi said.
] He called Thursday's raid "the penultimate act of failure
] of the CPA in Iraq."
] He said his relationship with the CPA is now
] "nonexistent."

What is the world smoking? Wake the hell up. June 30th is a bullshit date.

[ It always was. A friend of mine who's a JAG indicated to me the other day that, this is, as I understand it, a legal game so that american forces can stop being an occupying force and begin being an invited peacekeeping force. We hand over power, and they sign a thing saying "We're fucked, please help!" and we magically go from illegitimate occupiers to legitimate foriegn aid, from an international law perspective (lawyers, please feel free to tear this all apart if it's wrong... this is the impression i've got).

In real-world, pragmatic terms, nothing changes, never was gonna, and all the rhetoric from the administration is, as you certainly surmise, designed to make the gesture look more relevant (again, in an everyday joe, pragmatic sense) than it is. Politics and semantics, i say. -k]

Iraqi Counsil attacks each other


MSNBC - Can Star Wars: Episode III be saved?
Topic: Miscellaneous 3:29 pm EDT, May 20, 2004

[ I had a longer post written, but went to another site, which had a popup, which cleared the meme rec. window.

I'll summarize :

1. Fuck george lucas. he can take star wars with him to the special little minihell where vision-less directors go.
2. he'll never reliquish control, so no, Ep III cannot be saved... it will suck at least as much as 1 and 2, and probably more. I can only hope that this one has no real actors at all... go whole hog and have the CG do the bad acting, and recite the wooden dialogue.
3. You'll note, Ep IV was the suckiest of the original 3, and it's the only one Lucas directed. Irvin Kershner represents on Empire and Marquand is sufficient with Jedi. Nuff said. -k]

MSNBC - Can Star Wars: Episode III be saved?


New York classifies Vonage as phone company | CNET News.com
Topic: Miscellaneous 10:56 am EDT, May 20, 2004

] Handing a setback to emerging Internet phone services,
] the New York State Public Service Commission on Wednesday
] ruled that Vonage Holdings is a telephone company and
] thus subject to state regulation.
]
] In a statement announcing its decision, the agency sought
] to soften the blow, saying that it nevertheless hoped to
] apply "only minimal regulations to ensure that it does
] not interfere with the rapid, widespread deployment of
] new technologies."

[ Tough break for Vonage. Is QoS gonna be the first reg they hand down? -k]

New York classifies Vonage as phone company | CNET News.com


Some notes on the 'Who wrote Linux' Kerfuffle, Release 1.1
Topic: Miscellaneous 10:53 am EDT, May 20, 2004

] The history of UNIX and its various children and
] grandchildren has been in the news recently as a result
] of a book from the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution.
] Since I was involved in part of this history, I feel I
] have an obligation to set the record straight and correct
] some extremely serious errors. But first some background
] information.

[ Nice smackdown of AdTI by Andy Tanenbaum, with, additionally, a little leftover smackdown for Linux (which, for those who don't want to rad to the bottom, he says is foolishly monolithic, when it should be microkernel based). -k]

Some notes on the 'Who wrote Linux' Kerfuffle, Release 1.1


BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Claim made for new form of life
Topic: Miscellaneous 10:36 am EDT, May 20, 2004

] Doctors claim to have uncovered new evidence that the
] tiny particles known as "nannobacteria" are indeed alive
] and may cause a range of human illnesses.
]
]
] The existence of nannobacteria is one of the most
] controversial of scientific questions - some experts
] claim they are simply too small to be life forms.
]
]
] But US scientists report they have now isolated these
] cell-like structures in tissue from diseased human
] arteries.

[ nanogerms. -k]

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Claim made for new form of life


GAO Says HHS Broke Laws With Medicare Videos (washingtonpost.com)
Topic: Miscellaneous 10:27 am EDT, May 20, 2004

] The General Accounting Office concluded that the
] Department of Health and Human Services illegally spent
] federal money on what amounted to covert propaganda by
] producing videos about the Medicare changes that were
] made to look like news reports. Portions of the videos,
] which have been aired by 40 television stations around
] the country, do not make it clear that the announcers
] were paid by HHS and were not real reporters.

[ Mixed feelings on this one. I think there are more important problems with the medicare plan, like the fact that it's very likely gonna cost 530 billion, not 400 billion among others. I haven't seen this particular segment, so i can't say how misleading it is. The GAO believes it is though.... -k]

GAO Says HHS Broke Laws With Medicare Videos (washingtonpost.com)


Iraqis Blame U.S. for Wedding Attack, Despite Denial
Topic: Miscellaneous 10:20 am EDT, May 20, 2004

] Grieving Iraqis accused U.S. forces Thursday of killing
] dozens of wedding guests in a desert airstrike, but the
] U.S. military insisted it had killed about 40 foreign
] guerrilla fighters, not civilians.

[ So far I've seen as many stories on one side as the other, but this is one to keep an eye on. The all important hearts-and-minds battle is pretty close to lost already, but this isn't going to help. If it's not true, there needs to be some solid proof in a hurry, because it's going to play true in the middle east regardless. -k]

Iraqis Blame U.S. for Wedding Attack, Despite Denial


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