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Some of the best still images of what remains in Hurricane Katrina's wake
are up over at the
Washington Post; there are a lot of compelling shots there that put into perspective the horror of the situation. If you're looking for a well-edited group of photos that convey what the Gulf coast has faced over the past few days, and will face in the coming months, this is it; I'm in awe of the photographers that continue to work hard to document the disaster.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego
at 3:55 PM on September 1, 2005
(48 comments)
The first mention of AIDS on Usenet
was in the net.singles group back on December 20, 1982. In it, seven people grasp for information about the disease -- how it's transmitted, how long it takes to start to show symptoms, and what those symptoms could be. It's a window both into the early days of AIDS knowledge
and the early days of the Internet, and a fine example of people using 'net-based community groups to acquire information and ask questions.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego
at 12:56 PM on December 1, 2002
(6 comments)
After an eventless trip across the United States, MetaFilter is now happily living again. I was trying to come up with a name for my apartment, now that MetaFilter lives here -- Pyra East? MetaBroadway? I'm not creative right now.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego
at 10:12 AM on May 31, 2001
(60 comments)
Poor, poor kid.
It sucks when you are out there protesting, get apprehended by the authorities, and are so scared that you have a little, ahem, "accident"; it sucks more when a camera's there to catch it.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego
at 4:49 PM on April 18, 2001
(41 comments)
Is it just me, or does it seem ridiculous that Napster will
have one billion dollars of expendable net income over the next five years that it will be
able to pay to the record labels? The labels would be crazy to accept this; in a year, when Napster files for Chapter 11, the settlement would vanish.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego
at 5:27 PM on February 20, 2001
(26 comments)
It isn't just Dubya that's making idiotic mistakes in the White House. The Office of the Press Secretary has posted
a transcript of a press briefing, in which
they themselves identify a source by name that is supposed to be identified only "on background" and as "a White House official." (Who the hell is John Bridgeland, anyway?)
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego
at 6:28 PM on February 1, 2001
(12 comments)
Elian's fathers rights were affirmed today, and
the decision is already online. One thing I love about the Internet is that things like this take nanoseconds to be available to the public (if the system's working right, at least!) -- where previously you had to rely on the newsmakers' spin on things, now you can read the decision yourself and come to your own conclusions.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego
at 10:29 AM on June 1, 2000
(4 comments)
Does anyone know what happened to
GirlText? Elizabeth was supercool, but for the last week or two, there's been a "denied access" page. Bummer.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego
at 7:40 AM on May 21, 2000
Anyone know what happened to
Bloat? It went and disappeared today; the page sort of redirects to the main TheWebToday page ("sort of" because "/bloat/" stays in the URL). And the Bloat list isn't in the right-hand panel of the main page, either.
Has Sally Tenpenny gone and left? :(
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego
at 9:10 PM on May 9, 2000
(8 comments)
I wish that this page
had the
complete transcript of Oprah's interview with Janet Reno, since at the very end, she said that she hoped Reno could take a little time off "and maybe not shake so much." Seeing as Reno has Parkinson's Disease, that's a pretty offensive thing to say; if Oprah didn't know this, then she should do a little more homework on her guests, and if she did, then she should be asked sometime in a live interview if she'll get a chance "to maybe stuff a little less food into her overeating mouth."
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego
at 1:34 PM on May 2, 2000
(4 comments)
RedHat Linux security problem uncovered.
Today, apparently it was discovered that if you install the Piranha package with RedHat 6.2 (ostensibly part of the default installation, but there's controversy over this), a default password is installed that would give anyone access to the Piranha configuration package; from there, it is apparently trivial to execute any command on the box that you want.
I find it very interesting that the fact that Microsoft had a "backdoor password" in a DLL made
huge news (and it turned out to be patently false), yet this has gotten almost
no press. I'd like to think otherwise, but I know it's because people hate Microsoft, and thus are eager to deride it... and yet here's proof that even the mighty Linux is susceptible to the same exact problems.
Next time you reach for the keyboard to cry out "nyah nyah!" at the discovery of some problem with Windows, remember this...
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego
at 9:38 PM on April 24, 2000
(15 comments)
A day after a MSIE bug, a Netscape bug.
I figured I had to post this here, since the anti-Microsoft crowd always posts about the MSIE bugs, but seems to stay
reeeeeal quiet when a bug is found in their chosen browser. I wish that people would just acknowledge that all software has bugs, and that discovering them is a helpful link in fixing them.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego
at 10:23 PM on April 20, 2000
(4 comments)
A terribly misleading use of the .GOV top-level domain
has surfaced. The House Republican Committee, by all means an organization that deserves a .gov designation, has decided to
use that designation for purely partisan means... the site is chock-full of "aren't Republicans great?" feel-good stories and digs at Democrats.
What a terrible precedent to set; I can hardly wait for all of the interest group caucuses to start grabbing their own .gov domain names and throwing up pages that, by virtue of their URL, pretend to be the official word of the U.S. Government.
How does one go about registering displeasure with the person in charge of granting .GOV addresses?
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego
at 9:36 AM on April 11, 2000
(8 comments)
Yay! The flag burning amendment is dead
, at least for another year. What offends me most is: why did 63 Senators vote for this? Second most: do these people actually believe themselves when they preach that people have fought and died for the flag? I *hope* that no soldiers have fought for the flag, per se; I would hope that our military fights for the ideals of which the flag is a nice, abstract representation.
I've put up
a short page with links to the official Congressional Record transcripts of the debate, for those who are interested. (It gives me reading for my plane ride tomorrow, if I can avoid the calling of my Sims family.)
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego
at 5:47 PM on March 29, 2000
(5 comments)
