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day 1: aol weblogs
Satellite photos before and after (during) the blackout.
Blackout history project (via TPM)
"Even if within two hours it was pretty clear, for a president to say something, it's got to be more than pretty clear, it's got to be 100 percent certain," said one Republican with strong ties to the White House."
ok i think i figgered it out - the stooges blew a fues in sound check and hence a cascade to remember :
Blackout Cancels Mich. Iggy Pop Concert
CLARKSTON,Mich. - A high wattage rock band and a venue named after a power company couldn't make the show go on during the blackout that hit the state.
Iggy & the Stooges had finished a sound check Thursday at DTE Energy Music Theatre and were headed back to their Auburn Hills hotel when the power went out, the Detroit Free Press reported on its Web site.
It was supposed to be the biggest Detroit rock reunion of the year: Iggy with brothers Ron and Scott Asheton performing their first hometown show in three decades, in front of what would have been a packed crowd of fans.
The concert was rescheduled for Aug. 25.
Fans seeking refunds can get them at their point of purchase. That may not be much consolation for those who'd trekked from England, California and elsewhere to witness the big night.
"I'm so bummed," said Eric Danville, who flew in from New York. "It had to be an act of God or a solar flare that would keep me from seeing the Stooges."
I heard about a Microsoft Worm on NPR yesterday and I think I got it. Ninety seconds online then a system shutdown message with a sixty second timer.
You know those weird time traveller emails? The one where the guy is looking to buy all sorts of non existent futuristic equipment so that he can get back to the future? Well, this guy has had a long email conversation with him, and apparently there was some message indicating a drop time and location for delivery of the goods. And this other guy works 10 minutes away from the location and went by to check it out. And he wasn't alone.
Insert comment here about having a little too much time on your hands.
kartoo is a new (to me) meta-search engine which presents your results in a map display. i haven't played around with it too much yet, but i find these sort of visualizations interesting.
Ahh, vacation...
Skinny found out our good buddy Carlo has been hard at work....
I know there are several of these lists, but this one seems pretty extensive: The Bush Administration on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Capabilities - a compilation of quotes from senior white house officials. Has this been posted before?
Is that badass cat Rex still looking for a new home?
another brit wit on rivington st -- felix salmon
bush cards
dark lyrics
There's no point to this link except it makes me think of Steve.
The Disposition of the Dead
Maybe I’m growing morose in my unemployment, but I keep running into stories that make me think about our attitudes toward death and corpses... The Post seems to be looking for controversy in this story about a film series being held at Green-wood Cemetery, suggesting that showing horror films there is in bad taste, or disrespectful to the deceased and their families. I don’t know about that, but in researching Central Park I learned that Green-wood (50 years older than the Park) was always used as a recreational site, disregarding the dead, and presaging the need for more parks in the growing city. I wonder how far back that sort of thing goes; seems like Europeans, at least pre-Enlightenment, wouldn’t have been so eager to dally in a graveyard. The same cemetery comes up in the strange story of the murder of councilman James Davis. A plot was donated for Davis, but when the family learned that the ashes of his murderer had already been placed in the same cemetery, they insisted on having him moved. That seems like a primitive attitude for a culture willing to party in the boneyard, but maybe it’s part of a more widespread atavism that goes with our current war mentality. Davis was also the first dignitary to lie in state at City Hall since 1918. Lying in state is a little weird for my tastes; a fetishism of the body that seems old-fashioned to me. It must make sense, though, to the fans of Celia Cruz, who crowded the wake of the late Salsa star, overflowing St Patrick’s, and lining 5th Avenue for her highly public funeral procession. This is all considered an honor, but in the case of politicians, at least part of the “honor” has historically been to offer definitive public proof that the person is really dead. We don’t stick heads on poles around here any more, but something like that was done with the corpses of the Hussein brothers, when our government made public display of grisly photos of their dead bodies, just for verification’s sake of course...
atten DRW......lots of birds thay may be basic byt some beautiful yello and black small ones.....bring equipment:>)...sez skinny
nader's pick for next us pres. what are his chances of winning the democratic nomination?
i've been doing a lot of web surveys lately and i've got to say that frames and sound are about the two most annoying things a web designer can do. what is the point of doing a site with frames anyway?
i failed the bear identification test and won't be shooting any bears this season. what do you montanans do with all that dead bear, anyway?
political compass : east leftnut
Mark Crispin Miller