Norman Finkelstein will be speaking on campus here later this week at the invitation of the local anti-war folks. A Google search on him brings up a lot of pro-Finkelstein materials (much of it from racist hate sites and individuals), but not a lot of critical pieces about his books. If anyone knows of any…
September, 2003
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This report from the Australian Broadcasting Company’s MediaWatch program is downright sickening in showing just how far some people in the media are willing to go to manufacture details to make a news story more sexy. The article details a news story filed by Australian Broadcasting Company television reporter Gina Wilkinson, who is stationed in…
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The one good thing the Patriot Act has done is provide a lot of entertainment as people on the Right and Left alternately work themselves into knots to try to either oppose or support John Ashcroft’s favorite law. First, on the Left, here’s a blatant distortion of the act by Pete Ponzetti, a Green Party…
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Reason is the only magazine that I actually go out and buy even though I usually read all of the content first on their web site. Why? Because of excellent stories like Michael McMenamin’s St. Martha: Why Martha Stewart should go to heaven and the SEC should go to hell. Like many other libertarian-oriented folks,…
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Michael Moore has a bizarre post on the front page of his web site. Bizarre because it is another of Moore’s rambling essays in support of Wesley Clark for president, but on the other hand if Moore is right then Clark is again lying (one way or the other) about that mysterious call he claims…
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The other day I noted that one of Wesley Clark’s version of his views on Iraq is that he supports the idea of going to war against Iraq, but thinks “We could have waited” and conducted the war at a time TBA. So far, however, Clark has not offered his opinion on when the stars…
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I measure the success of this and my other blogs/web sites by three criteria: 1) how useful they are to me when I’m looking for information that I wanted to track; 2) number of page views; and 3) number of discussion group posts. When it comes to page views, last week was the busiest week…
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Gizmodo.Com had a brief mention today about the Mirra network backup device which is targeted at home users. Looks like this is a box running embedded Linux that polls any other boxes hooked up to your home network and backs up the files on them automatically. The product site isn’t big on details, but it…
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For a project at work, I am trying to find anyone who might have experience using ED-X.Com, a distance learning-specific search engine, as a marketing vehicle for distance education programs. Please post any thoughts here or e-mail them to brian@carnell.com. Thank you.
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I am sick of hospitals, having spent way too much time in them over the past couple weeks (though thankfully not as a patient). It all started a couple weeks ago with a scheduled procedure for my grandmother. She had a stent procedure a couple years ago, but she’s still having problems with circulation, so…