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November 16, 2005
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posted by ottereroticist at 11:27 PM PST - 29 comments
Auger-Loizeau: Recognizing that for each placated consumer of technology there is an unsatisfied, complicated or strange one.
posted by signal at 8:57 PM PST - 5 comments
He's young, telegenic, bilingual, a Harvard grad... and
now André Boisclair, the
youngest person ever elected to a seat in Quebec's National Assembly, is the new leader of the
Parti Quebecois, the nationalist -- as in
Quebec nationalist -- left-leaning party
founded to take
Canada's mostly french-speaking province out of the federation. Oh, and
he's gay. And an
admitted (former) cocaine user (although that might be
a good thing.) Oh, and, according to the polls, the next Premier Ministre of Quebec.
posted by docgonzo at 8:22 PM PST - 116 comments
"Old Tom is the most famous of the Eden killer whales". The story of a pod of
killer whales who enlisted the help of fishermen in NSW, Australia to hunt
baleen whales. The pod would corral the whales, while Old Tom would tow the fishing boats out to sea by pulling the anchor ropes in his teeth. The reward? The fishermen left the whale overnight and the orcas got to eat the tongue. Alas, it seems Old Tom may have met his end when the
covenant was broken and a fisherman named Logan tried to take the whale to shore before the feast. Tom tried to hold the boat back with the rope, but it broke a tooth which infected and led to his death. Tom's skeleton is now on display at the
Eden Killer Whale Museum. His story inspired a young girl to become a biologist and
investigate the story for herself.
posted by qwip at 6:49 PM PST - 8 comments
Bodies still being found in NOLA You know, it's hard to imagine anything worse than coming back to your home in New Orleans and finding it completely destroyed. But, tonight, as you're about to hear, there is something worse, much worse. Dozens of families have returned to what is left of their homes and found, lying amidst the mold and the wreckage, a body, forgotten, abandoned. Maybe it's their mother or their grandmother, sometimes even their missing child. More Here
posted by srboisvert at 4:01 PM PST - 31 comments
The
hunting of American Bison got a renewal today. The first hunt of the buffalo, in 15 years, began with a Belgrade, MT,
boy killing a bull with 4 shots, shortly after the hunt began. The 15 year hiatus on hunting Bison in Montana was contentious,
if not downright nasty, but that's over now. Montana has allowed Bison hunting outside Yellowstone park, and it's
been a media show. Of course, this
really pisses some folks off, to which hunters claim, "
It's like the hunter's become the hunted". The mountain west of the US has become a battle ground of
flowing ideas, with man against nature, and man against man. The Endangered Species Act, the very thing that has lead us to this event,
is under siege. People begin to notice when critters die.
Welcome to
Bison Hunt, 101.
posted by Wulfgar! at 3:30 PM PST - 64 comments
Mainstream Media to American Democracy: Drop Dead! Brad Friedman ask alarming questions about the complete lack of attention which has been paid to the
GAO report on electronic voting technology (PDF link) released more than a month ago, which confirms what security experts have been saying for years: these systems are vulnerable to multiple independent attacks targeting system and network vulnerabilities, access controls, hardware controls, and overall management practices. If you're short of time, at least read Rep. Waxman's
fact sheet summary.
Ultimately, there is no real security on these machines; the report shows that overturning election results would not be at all difficult for even a single moderately skilled attacker. And now Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman are wondering if
American Democracy has died an electronic death in the wake of massive discrepancies between final pre-election opinion polls and the results of several citizen initiatives designed to reform Ohio's electoral processes.
posted by dinsdale at 1:18 PM PST - 68 comments
Artist Tad Stones has started up the
Hellboy Animated blog, which already has some great stuff up about character designs and style concepts for the in-production animated series based on Mike Mignola's comics.
posted by XQUZYPHYR at 9:01 AM PST - 10 comments
