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Saturday, Nov 29, 2003
eco chamber
"The city of Alexandria played host on 1 November to the renowned Italian novelist and scholar Umberto Eco, who gave a lecture in English, on varieties of literary and geographic memory, at the newly opened Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Al-Ahram Weekly publishes the complete text of the lecture."
Saturday, Nov 22, 2003
blog like the wind
"BLOGRUNNER is a portal for blog content. The site features an index of weblog entries from across the web. These entries are grouped together according to interest topics and news stories. BLOGRUNNER makes it easier to track stories and conversation threads that develop across blogspace. BLOGRUNNER also highlights the interdependency of mainstream media with the blogosphere by closely integrating weblog entries with the stories they track from traditional media."
Friday, Nov 21, 2003
opuspus
"Nov. 20 — The comic-strip world was rocked when Pulitzer-winning “Bloom County” cartoonist Berkeley Breathed announced he was returning to the Funny Pages with a Sunday-only-strip starring, and named after, his most beloved character, “Opus”.
Thursday, Nov 13, 2003
ground control
"everytime the wind blows: nir rosen with the us 3rd armored cavalry regiment in iraq"
Wednesday, Nov 12, 2003
binded me with science
"The first issue of Science Times appeared 25 years ago, on Nov. 14, 1978. Its guiding principle ever since has been that science is not a collection of answers, but a way of asking questions, an enterprise driven by curiosity. To celebrate the anniversary, we pose 25 of the most provocative questions facing science. As always, answers are provisional."
Tuesday, Nov 11, 2003
sleep cycler
"Over the past month, I've managed to convert my sleep cycles to something called the Uberman's sleep schedule. The end result is that I am sleeping roughly three hours a day. How did I do it? Is it safe?"
mobile carriers
"The Federal Communications Commission issued rules yesterday allowing consumers for the first time to disconnect their home phones and move their existing phone numbers to cell phones."
sorOn
"Soros, who has financed efforts to promote open societies in more than 50 countries around the world, is bringing the fight home, he said. On Monday, he and a partner committed up to $5 million to MoveOn.org, a liberal activist group, bringing to $15.5 million the total of his personal contributions to oust Bush."
Tuesday, Nov 04, 2003
talkin points blues
daily reports on the state of the nation from the new democratic think tank Center for American Progress.
Thursday, Oct 30, 2003
course correction
"In These Times founder James Weinstein on the American left's "long detour" with communism, its current crisis, and the hope he sees in Howard Dean."