A synthesis of text and sound.
URLWire:
US Broadband market breaks 40%. Soon to come—the megabyte home page.
Feminism?
Existing definitions may be too narrow. NY Times, The Opt-Out Revolution. National Post, Canada, What Women Want, the Sequel. Via AL Daily.
Guardian.UK:
Experts discuss decaying art. Maybe non-archival inkjet prints are more mainstream than we thought.
NY Times Editorials:
Two for the environment today. A fire bill to fight fires. “Its mandate is so broad that it would invite commercial logging in remote areas of the national forests, where fires pose little threat to people or property but where the timber industry is most eager to ply its trade.” And, Superfund undermined. “Unless Congress renews the fund, which pays for cleaning up toxic waste dumps, taxpayers will have to foot the bill instead of the companies that caused the messes in the first place.” Make the companies pay for the mess, not the taxpayers. There must be an incentive for them to be ‘clean,’ in the first place.
NY Times:
Hip-hop artist’s fashion line tagged with a sweatshop label. “Mr. Kernaghan said the workers received 15 cents in wages to make Sean Jean shirts that sell for $40.”
CNN:
Congressmen want NASA to ax space plane. Not especially surprising, from the House of Representatives. Castigate NASA over lack of vision, the deficiencies of the existing shuttle, then slam the door on funds and future development. Everyone needs to get on the same page.
2020 Hindsight:
Susan’s covering the fires in California. That bit about name, date of birth, and name of dentist really gets down to basics.
Sunset tonight:
Tonight’s sunset is a gift that keeps on giving. I’m still watching it, even as this is posted:
An
old acquaintance called up, asking me if I knew anyone who freelanced with ASP .NET? They’re looking for someone relatively skilled, and reasonably-priced. Location not an issue. Leave a comment here.
OS X dock envy assuaged.
MobyDock. Haven’t used it, but some of you might be interested.
Yahoo News/AP:
Supreme Court may have to take on terror cases. This’ll get interesting.
CNN:
Restoring James Madison’s home. Sounds pretty drastic ... but stripping away “mango-colored plaster” to reveal red brick seems like a winner to me.
Byrd.Senate.Gov:
Missed this. Oct. 17, Remarks by Robert C. Byrd. “We are borrowing $87 billion to finance this adventure in Iraq. The President is asking this Senate to pay for this war with increased debt, a debt that will have to be paid by our children and by those same troops that are currently fighting this war. I cannot support outlandish tax cuts that plunge our country into potentially disastrous debt while our troops are fighting and dying in a war that the White House chose to begin.”
Greenpeace:
Port of Miami denies Greenpeace ship berth space. Hadn’t noticed before ... Greenpeace has xml/rss feeds. Or maybe I noticed, and just forgot. Anyway. Here they are again.
SF Gate:
The “Nasal Rangers.” As I’ve mentioned many times, venture downwind of a pig farm sometime. Take an airline-sickness bag with you.
Space.com:
The Great Storm: Solar Tempest of 1859 Revealed. “In early September in 1859, telegraph wires suddenly shorted out in the United States and Europe, igniting widespread fires.” That would certainly ignite a reaction, in today’s hyperactive and mildly paranoiac citizenry. One can only theorize over effects on cellphones, computers, cars ... could be quite the Y2K event, eh?
eir.com/Reuters:
Europeans say US should pay to rebuild Iraq. “... six months after the toppling of Saddam, a majority in every EU country except Denmark said the war was unjustified.”
SitePoint:
World Domination for Small Web Businesses. When a slow economy seems to say ‘generalize’, that strategy may work against you.
DP Review:
Filmmaking:
Library of Congress:
Rivers, Edens, Empires. Lewis & Clark and the revealing of America.
NY Times:
A Cultural Scorecard says West is Ahead. Co-author of “The Bell Curve;” no doubt most have heard of that work. Exercise appropriate skepticism.
NY Times Op-Ed:
There’s a catch: jobs. Stop kidding around ... raise the top rate. Try this. “That the wealthy enjoy greater benefits is self-evident: they possess greater material well-being. [snip] Moreover, the contrary principle—that the poor derive greater benefits from the state—sounds not merely implausible, but also absurd.”
NY Times:
Funny, I was going to write about this the other day. Every news report, I never see American military personnel attempting to speak the native language; not even basic one-word commands. Just yelling, pointing and shoving with guns. Seems that impression may be accurate ... Baffled Occupiers, or the Missed Understandings. Oct. 22. And today’s Letters to the Editor, GI’s in Iraq; A Cultural Gap.
