] Newly obtained military records of one of Sen. John F.
] Kerry's most vocal critics, who has accused the
] Democratic presidential candidate of lying about his
] wartime record to win medals, contradict his own version
] of events.
]
]...
]
] But Thurlow's military records, portions of which were
] released yesterday to The Washington Post under the
] Freedom of Information Act, contain several references to
] "enemy small arms and automatic weapons fire" directed at
] "all units" of the five-boat flotilla. Thurlow won his
] own Bronze Star that day, and the citation praises him
] for providing assistance to a damaged Swift boat "despite
] enemy bullets flying about him."

[ Hmm. I guess he got his award under false pretenses too then? Who can even tell anymore... this whole thing seems really out of hand to me. -k]

Records Counter a Critic of Kerry (washingtonpost.com)

] But on CNN,
] Senator Saxby Chambliss, a Georgia Republican who
] previously served on the House panel with Mr. Bereuter,
] said, "Doug has the right to his opinion, and that is
] what makes our country so great."

Dude, you sound like your trying to convince yourself. Like you want to have him arrested, but you can't, and you're reminding yourself why...

The New York Times - Republican Now Opposes War in Iraq

] Fierce fighting erupted in the city of Najaf Thursday
] after a rebel Shi'ite cleric defied an Iraqi government
] threat to attack his stronghold in a holy shrine and
] rejected demands that he end his uprising.
]
] Thick black smoke poured into the sky from near the Imam
] Ali Mosque, soon after Moqtada al-Sadr spurned the
] ultimatum from interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. U.S.
] aircraft and tanks pounded the area around the shrine.

[ Didn't I just recommend a story that said he was ready to give up and be cool? Looks like there's gonna be some serious shit going down. -k]

Top News Article | Reuters.com

] Upcoming.org is a collaborative event calendar,
] completely driven by people like you. Enter in the events
] you're attending, comment on events entered by others,
] and syndicate event listings to your own weblog.
]
] As Upcoming.org learns more about the events you enjoy,
] it will suggest new events you never would have heard
] about.

[ Sounds like a very cool project... -k]

Upcoming.org: Home

] We've invited about 150 Friends Of O'Reilly, people
] who're doing interesting work in fields such as web
] services, data visualization and search, open source
] programming, computer security, hardware hacking, GPS,
] and all manner of emerging technologies to share their
] work-in-progess, show off the latest tech toys and
] hardware hacks, and tackle challenging problems together.
] We'll have some planned activities, but much of the
] agenda will be determined by you. We'll provide space,
] electricity, a wireless network, and a wiki. You bring
] your ideas, enthusiasms, and projects. We all get to know
] each other better, and hopefully come up with some cool
] ideas about how to change the world.

After all the press Stripe Snoop got from the Slashdot exposure, I got an email from Time O'Reilly inviting me to this. [does happy dance].

I'm hitting the book to broaden my knowledge, because amongst all these well known people, I feel like the smallest fish in the pond.

[ Damn dude. Congratulations! There are some serious heavyweights on this list. I've never felt so pathetic in comparison to a friend. ;) -k]

Acidus @ Foo Camp

] Radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced
] Wednesday his militia would leave the Imam Ali Shrine in
] Najaf, following a threat by the Iraqi government to
] "liberate" the holy site.
]
] In a letter issued by al-Sadr's office in Baghdad and
] read to the Iraqi National Conference, the cleric said he
] agreed to demands made Tuesday night by a delegation from
] the conference that he and his forces leave the mosque,
] disband his Mehdi Army and "enter into the mainstream
] political process."

!!! Thats great news! Why is it when I go to CNN the top story is some bull shit about Scott Peterson and this is on the sidebar?!

[ Dude, worrying about Iraq is *so* yesterday. Today it's all about big public trials. -k]

CNN.com - Al-Sadr says militia will leave Najaf mosque - Aug 18, 2004

] A group of media and
] technology companies including Microsoft and Walt Disney
] have agreed in principle to allow consumers to make legal
] backup copies of next-generation video discs and share
] their content on portable devices.
]
] The group, which also includes International Business
] Machines, Intel, Matsushita Electric Industrial and Time
] Warner's Warner Bros., will not have any technology to
] license until the end of the year.
]
] But the announcement, released late Tuesday, marks a
] shift in the way the movie industry has reacted to the
] threat of online piracy of its films.

WOW! The industry is FINALLY coming to grips with the whole fair use concept and the fact that consumers have a RIGHT to legal archival copies of their media. -LB

[ I'll believe it when i see it. They're gonna have super restrictive DRM all over this crap, i guaranfuckingtee. -k]

Industry deal set on allowing limited DVD copying

] SEATTLE, Washington (Reuters) -- A black bear was found
] passed out at a campground in Washington state recently
] after guzzling down three dozen cans of a local beer, a
] campground worker said on Wednesday.
]
] "We noticed a bear sleeping on the common lawn and
] wondered what was going on until we discovered that there
] were a lot of beer cans lying around," said Lisa Broxson,
] a worker at the Baker Lake Resort, 80 miles (129 km)
] northeast of Seattle.
]
] The hard-drinking bear, estimated to be about two years
] old, broke into campers' coolers and, using his claws and
] teeth to open the cans, swilled down the suds.
]
] It turns out the bear was a bit of a beer sophisticate.
] He tried a mass-market Busch beer, but switched to
] Rainier Beer, a local ale, and stuck with it for his
] drinking binge.
]
] Wildlife agents chased the bear away, but it returned the
] next day, said Broxson.
]
] They set a trap using as bait some doughnuts, honey and
] two cans of Rainier Beer. It worked, and the bear was
] captured for relocation.

[ That is some funny shit. A little sad, but funny. -k]

Bear guzzles 36 beers, passes out at campground

] A sensor discerns and categorizes dog barks, translating
] them through 7 modes into words and pictograms that
] humans can understand. See what your pooch is saying, and
] gain a deeper level of understanding.

[ Japanese phones are *SICK*, man. We americans are all "Woo! Text messaging!" while these motherfuckers have a fucking universal translator for DOGS! Not to mention cool barcode readers, TV output and crazy data services. I shit you not, NTT DoCoMo's gonna market the first computer/brain interface and 15 year old girls all over japan will be talking to each other like fucking telepaths over high bandwidth wireless links. Americans will finally get decent wireless data services around the same time. -k

edit : actually, i don't know how fast they are, but Vodaphone's data rates are like 1.5 cents per K (0.2 Y/128B), which is pretty bullshit. Maybe that's just Vodaphone or maybe the actual data services aren't as good as I think. Still, the initial statement, that their phones are ill, stands. ]

Vodafone

Generator for 2-dimensional barcodes that are popular in Japan.

[ Very interesting... they're variable size, which is cool, allowing them to be only as big as necessary to encode the given data. Looks like anything less than 15 chars and it's a 21px square. But "I think that George W. Bush is a crappy president, and I'm not voting for him." is 37px sqare. Pretty neat. -k]

QR Barcode Generator