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3 Farms Festival on the East River. I think MB is involved? Our pal Samoa is playing, and I'm interested in David Johanson's folk act, the Harry Smiths. It ain't Jazzfest, but could be a good time.
Nice pictures of the baby Red-tailed Hawks on Fifth Avenue, posted on Marie Winn's page. She's the author of Red-tails in Love as well as The Plug-In Drug and translations from the Czech, including Vaclav Havel.
heres one for mr and mrs expectant.
jessica lynch story fabricated
I don't think I've ever written a fan letter before but I just wrote one to Sen. Robert Bryd.
We want to know what our resident golf-lover thinks about Annika vs. "the guys".
The NY Post has a package of iPod stories dominating the entertainment section today. No news, but this sort of buzz must make Apple happy. Fittingly, the online paper doesn't include the hardcopy's "opinion" piece by pseudo-reactionary fop Jared Paul Stern, wherein he rails about geeks losing touch with the "real world". He's also found out about "something vaguely disgusting sounding called 'blogging'", which he identifies with "self-absorbed, gibbering baboons who obviously never leave the confines of their Dumbo studios." He does like gawker though, perhaps because, like him, they proudly wallow in their own snarkyness. (How's that for an ugly word, or is it snarkiness?) Anyway, it's the sort of criticism that's only leveled at success.
iPod therefore I am
It slices it dices, more than just music
Fashion mavens got it covered
Party in a pocket
Down with download sites
Forecast:
"Audacious shades of pink, orange and yellow capture the eye and evoke a sense of excitement."
Now I'm looking at the Austria trip pics for the first time. Outstanding photo chronicle jimb(ob)
Great news from the wilderness. If the link gets deflected search for the Washington Post ad or go to the FTW homepage menu. Vote with your money !
its stopped being fun / will return when the vibe improves...
Meme this!
My goal with "Dr. P's Words ..." is to create an exo-toxic meme. As a personality, he's a bit inside the beltway, but breaking Rove, Wolfowitz, etc. into mass culture, revealing the men behind the curtain, should be a goal of anti-neos. Just yesterday David S. Broder advised in an oped that his friend Rove keep a low profile.
The good doc's words made a little headway towards meme-dom today with a link from bartcop E!
At least there's something buzzing in there.
I ran across this while chasing down some Wolfowitz links at Eurolegal.
January 16, 1997
ALBERT WOHLSTETTER, R.I.P.
In Monday’s Wall Street Journal, editor Robert L. Bartley took note of Wohlstetter’s death by reprinting a 1991 account of his long association with Wohlstetter. It gave only hints of the extraordinary role Albert played during the most critical years of the Cold War, which was then just coming to an end. It did point out that two of the most public men of the last three decades who have been identified with shaping strategic counterforce policy, Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, were Albert’s protégés. If you would connect the dots to others who were under Wohlstetter’s spell, you would soon find the late Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson, Senator Robert Dole, and in London, Margaret Thatcher. For all practical purposes, every editorial on America’s geopolitical strategy that appeared in The Wall Street Journal during the last 25 years was the product of Albert’s genius. If Henry Kissinger was the principal leader of the "dove team" in foreign policy over much of this period, stressing diplomatic strategems, Wohlstetter was the undisputed leader of the "hawk team," which stressed military moves of breathtaking creativity and imagination.
six eye columbia
Just in case you want to live it all over again: 20 days in spring 2003. Download the pdf or click the arrow for the web version. I don't know what to think about it really. Some nice graphic work for sure. (via environy)
Total lunar eclipse on Thursday night. If it's clear, we'll have a good view from north eastern U.S.
John Horgan makes the case for therapeutic (and other) uses of psychedelics. Kind of surprising fare for the stuffy Slate.
Wasn't someone (Bruno?) wondering if google had any misspellings of a word that returned more hits than the correct spelling? I can't find the original question. But anyway, along with some other interesting misspelling info, this post finds such a case: the incorrect "transexual" (2860k results) is the more common than the correct spelling of "transsexual" (1660k results.)
The suppressed story of the broadcast feed from the carrier Abraham Lincoln being altered in real time earlier this week during the President's bravura visit. ;-)
faith popcorn - we got your trends
In my little Syria project, there are many stories that get a rise out of me, but sometimes there's one that just seems surreal.
Thought this was sort of interesting: newspaper circulation numbers. I can't believe the Daily News is bigger than the Post.
the next best thing to the cat psychic, and she's right here in nyc. rex's troubles may soon be over.
Happy Birthday Jim, Right?
While doing my usual trolling for Syria, Lebanon, Hezbollah and Hizbulla in news.google.com, I came across an interesting article. And then it disappeared. But I managed to catch the full text of the original before it vanished.
Friday afternoon: UPI -- Rice blocked plan for raids on Syria
Fiday 7:54 PM: UPI -- Rice actions on Syria disputed