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the biggest website rip-off of them all
paid for with your tax dollars. the CPA rips the excellent brookings institution. via the sleuths at tpm
posted on Apr-21-04 at 10:56 AM
HR 3077 - "unprecedented federally mandated intrusion into the content and conduct of university-based area studies programmes."
"There is a great deal at stake for American higher education and academic freedom. If HR 3077 becomes law - the Senate will review the bill next - it will create a board that monitors how closely universities reflect government policy. Since the legislation assumes that any flaw lies 'with the experts, not the policy', the government could be given the power to introduce politically sympathetic voices into the academic mainstream and to reshape the boundaries of academic inquiry. Institutional resistance would presumably be punished by the withdrawal of funds, which would be extremely damaging to Middle East centres especially."
you didn't have reason to call your congressperson tomorrow? you do now. frightening.
via the excellent openbrackets.com
posted on Apr-16-04 at 5:02 PM
Ashcroft rejected counterterrorism funds on Sept. 10
"Yet the commission staff statement quotes a former FBI counterterrorism chief, Dale Watson, as saying he ``almost fell out of his chair'' when he saw a May 10 budget memo from Ashcroft listing seven priorities, including illegal drugs and gun violence, but not terrorism.
Additionally, on Sept. 10, Ashcroft rejected an appeal from Pickard for additional funding, the commission said."
posted on Apr-13-04 at 9:37 AM
"But maybe it was the right policy after all."
on the 10th aniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, Jay Bryant suggests that perhaps Clinton's policy of non-intervention was the "right policy after all". This comes a few days after another fellow right wing columnist suggests from her suburban home in south carolina that we should "nuke the Sunni Triangle" (and any innoncent who happens to live there) - apparently her entire family agrees. Do they utterly lack sensitivity and should be ignored? or are these valid opinions worth publishing?
posted on Apr-7-04 at 1:56 PM
Ghosts of Rwanda
10 years later, FRONTLINE delivers one of the most powerful episodes in their excellent series of reports. Also covered in The Economist last week, and a couple years ago in The Atlantic in a sublime article: "Bystanders to Genocide". When you first heard about the tragedy did you wish you could have done something, if you had only known more?
posted on Apr-1-04 at 9:20 PM
Alistair Cooke dead at 95
in this age of savagely polluted airwaves, Cooke as still a beacon from another age - and a helluva of class act. he'll be missed.
posted on Mar-30-04 at 6:15 AM
political friendster
an offspring of theyrule.net after a one night stand with disinfopedia? via k10k
posted on Mar-26-04 at 1:57 PM
the future of metafilter?
posted on Mar-23-04 at 9:32 PM
Hamas said, "... Sharon has opened the gates of hell and nothing will stop us from cutting off his head.''
a. is assassination of political/spiritual leaders justified?
b. how much of setback to peace in israel/palestine, is this move?
c. did the whitehouse pre-approve this arguably major expansion in israel's war against palestinian "militants"?
ny times link
posted on Mar-21-04 at 8:40 PM
temporary temples
man made or not ... they are cool. via the new newstoday
posted on Mar-16-04 at 1:50 PM
You’re going to lose more people this summer than you did last year, I guarantee it.
Do you feel it is possible for American citizens to support the troops without supporting the policies under which the troops are acting?
Yes. Most definitely.
posted on Mar-11-04 at 1:30 PM
airstream.com
the idea of motorhomes is a little strange, but wouldn't one of these be fun? via a new favorite: http://mocoloco.com/ via the always excellent: caterina.net
posted on Mar-5-04 at 8:31 AM
one web designers experience with US customs and immigration
joost gets a taste of a federal detention center.via newstoday
posted on Feb-23-04 at 8:04 AM
Israelis kill crops to oust beduin
"Nonetheless, government ministers and officials accuse the beduin of "invading state lands" by refusing to be moved from their historic villages. Sharon himself gave a speech shortly before he became prime minister in which he said: "The beduin are eating away at the last land reserve of the state."" - via american samidizat
posted on Feb-20-04 at 2:19 PM
How much is your personal information worth?
personal data toolkit [ via newstoday ]
posted on Feb-5-04 at 9:08 AM
"fleet owners of a tanker companies" = the new evil doers?
what kind of questions do yesterday's discovery of ricin in the capitol, and the january 9th article ask about our "war on terror"? [ initial link via TPM ]
posted on Feb-3-04 at 9:14 AM
you think it's been a cold winter in the north east this year?
"For those of us living around the edge of the N. Atlantic Ocean, we may be planning for climate scenarios of global warming that are opposite to what might actually occur."
posted on Jan-22-04 at 10:29 AM
John Kerry suprises Howard Dean, the pundits, and much of the nation with what looks like a solid win in Iowa after being counted out of the race. Perhaps its time to take a second look at Kerry.
posted on Jan-19-04 at 6:34 PM
What are the real causes of terrorism?
Tired of the "they hate our freedoms" spiel? What are the real causes of terrorism? and are we addressing them or in fact exacerbating them? "... the variable that came up most frequently was not poverty or human-rights abuses, but perceived humiliation. Humiliation emerged at every level of the terrorist groups I studied — leaders and followers."
posted on Jan-13-04 at 10:03 AM
acid trip
wow. [ via newstoday ]
posted on Jan-6-04 at 9:09 PM
bush in 30 seconds the finalists are in ... i wish bradley had given it a shot. [ quicktime required ]
posted on Jan-5-04 at 10:02 AM
cool information design from ben fry at MIT (via newstoday.com)... anyone else have any links to share of particularly good information designers/design? merry x-mas all.
posted on Dec-25-03 at 9:38 AM
richard perle has been discussed here before, finds himself caught in his own web again. should this man be allowed to remain on the defense policy board arguably one of the most influential bodies of unelected citizens in the world?
posted on Dec-5-03 at 10:29 PM
mr. picassohead
perhaps we should be out working in our gardens or making art instead of spending time in front of our computers... but this is pretty cool. [ via newstoday, flash required ]
posted on Dec-2-03 at 9:17 AM
the chemical home
"babies are born with toxic chemicals already contaminating their bodies" - we know we are exposed to these dangerous chemicals everyday, greenpeace puts together a nice site describing what the dangerous ones are how to avoid them. Isn't this the kind of thing our tax dollars going to the EPA are supposed to provide? [ via computerlove.net ]
posted on Nov-30-03 at 6:00 PM
memogate
first the plame affair - now stolen confidential memos from democratic senators servers ... business as usual on capitol hill?
posted on Nov-28-03 at 10:28 AM
An Educational Exploration of Nunavut. "Setting out to document arctic climate change we will dogsled the territory of Nunavut, meeting Inuit Elders and students, to explore traditional ecological knowledge in the remote communities visited along the trail while gathering scientific data daily from the field for NASA and Environment Canada." - a cool expedition to bring some attention to what many are describing as the greatest threat to mankind today.
posted on Nov-25-03 at 9:13 AM
bruno coulais pushes the envelope merging photography and motion at this beautiful site ... flash 6 required.
posted on Nov-18-03 at 9:40 AM
the second most powerful man in the world , is the world a more or less safe place with this man (some would argue) in charge?
posted on Nov-9-03 at 1:59 PM
"American power worldwide is at its historic zenith. American global political standing is at its nadir." - Zbigniew Brzezinski speaking at the New American Strategies for Security and Peace Conference. [ via tpm ]
posted on Nov-3-03 at 8:27 AM
a reminder that our world is full of plenty of real horror and monsters. happy halloween. via yewknee.com
posted on Oct-31-03 at 8:21 AM
"If Tom Delay is acting out of his Born Again Christian convictions in pushing legislation that disadvantages the poor every time he opens his mouth, I'm not saying he's not a Born Again Christian, but as a the Lord's humble fruit inspector, it sure looks suspicious to me. " - Bill Moyers interviews Joe Hough.
posted on Oct-24-03 at 7:32 PM
But this doesn’t mean all W.M.D.? “How can you be certain?” His answer was clear: “I know all the scientists involved, and they chat. There is no W.M.D.” - Jafar Dhia Jafar in the new Seymour Hersh New Yorker article on pre-war intelligence. [ via dangerousmeta.com ].\
posted on Oct-20-03 at 12:27 PM
“Various people would laugh at various times [during Powell’s speech] because the information he was presenting was just, you know, didn't mean anything -- had no meaning,"
posted on Oct-15-03 at 8:57 AM
another canary tips over
as the administration (more specifically the white house council on environmental quality and its head james l. connaughton) continue to ignore and bury the warnings of the effects global warming from their own scientists.
posted on Sep-23-03 at 7:31 AM
a few quotes to remind us how we got where we are today via atrios
words from our leaders, and ms. ivins to mull over on saturday. while we are at it - perspective from baghdad might be worth your while as well.
posted on Sep-5-03 at 11:24 PM
it does look like fun
burning man 2003. more links? photos? stories? from this years fun in the desert.
posted on Aug-30-03 at 3:57 PM
bush appoints pipes to head US Institute for Peace , in a recess move (dodging senate confirmation).
among his post sept 11 quotes are: ``What we need to do is inspire fear, not affection.''
Pipe's ideas for peace in the middle east are worth a look. Does this appointment say anything about the kind of peace bush is pursuing in the middle east?
posted on Aug-22-03 at 6:17 PM
chemical ali captured. ny times link
now wait a second ... how much money did american taxpayers already spend to "kill" this man?
posted on Aug-21-03 at 7:45 AM
washington post editorial mocks european heat wave via the newly reskinned dangerousmeta.com
and vis a vis the thousand of deaths (primarily the elderly) and fires attributed to the heat wave. is there an especially warm place in hell reserved for the author? and who might it be?
posted on Aug-15-03 at 10:42 PM
this election cycle's best campaign website? very nicely done. via the always excellent ugga bugga
posted on Aug-7-03 at 10:32 AM
mother earth fights back "Global warming, which most climate experts blame mainly on large-scale burning of oil and other fossil fuels, is interfering with efforts in Alaska to discover yet more oil." via dangerousmeta and " It’s so hot windshields are shattering or falling out, dogs are burning their paws on the pavement, and candles are melting indoors." - are the naysayers ready to get on board? and start acting like good global citizens?
posted on Jul-30-03 at 1:29 PM
"hey mom and dad"
a word from the front - i feel horrible for this guy and his family. why isn't he getting food, water and being rotated? where are all our taxpayer dollars going anyway?
posted on Jul-28-03 at 10:39 PM
on the internet nobody knows you're a horse .. via newstoday.com
posted on Jul-24-03 at 11:36 PM
deadly weekend in iraq this weekend was a particularly bad one in iraq, with numerous american deaths and casualties ... yet there is barely a mention of the death toll in the media (check washington post, ny times, drudge, etc. etc.) this morning. is something going on here? or are editors and the american public bored with the story? - i had to dig for the links in this post.
posted on Jul-21-03 at 8:31 AM
escaped robo balloon will we be seeing more of this in coming years? this story is amusing - and perhaps a caution? via the always good yewnkee.com
posted on Jul-16-03 at 4:39 PM
is george george tenet the administrations fall guy on niger/uranium issue? should he be? and where does our vice president fit into the puzzle?
posted on Jul-11-03 at 10:36 AM
"God told me to strike at al Qaida and I and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did..." does this kind of talk coming from our president and the most powerful man in concern you? - or reassure you?
posted on Jun-30-03 at 12:02 PM
a little hint of things to come in 2004 from the bush team. slate link with popups
apparently they are still working on content for few areas, specifically: the environment and "more hispanic photos"
posted on Jun-24-03 at 7:47 PM
the administration is "underestimating the enemy." It has failed to address the root causes of terror, he said. "The difficult, long-term issues both at home and abroad have been avoided, neglected or shortchanged and generally underfunded." Would we prefer to have this man providing intelligence information to our president more than a woman who has an oil tanker named after her?
posted on Jun-16-03 at 9:05 AM
paid for with your tax dollars. the CPA rips the excellent brookings institution. via the sleuths at tpm
posted on Apr-21-04 at 10:56 AM
HR 3077 - "unprecedented federally mandated intrusion into the content and conduct of university-based area studies programmes."
"There is a great deal at stake for American higher education and academic freedom. If HR 3077 becomes law - the Senate will review the bill next - it will create a board that monitors how closely universities reflect government policy. Since the legislation assumes that any flaw lies 'with the experts, not the policy', the government could be given the power to introduce politically sympathetic voices into the academic mainstream and to reshape the boundaries of academic inquiry. Institutional resistance would presumably be punished by the withdrawal of funds, which would be extremely damaging to Middle East centres especially."
you didn't have reason to call your congressperson tomorrow? you do now. frightening.
via the excellent openbrackets.com
posted on Apr-16-04 at 5:02 PM
Ashcroft rejected counterterrorism funds on Sept. 10
"Yet the commission staff statement quotes a former FBI counterterrorism chief, Dale Watson, as saying he ``almost fell out of his chair'' when he saw a May 10 budget memo from Ashcroft listing seven priorities, including illegal drugs and gun violence, but not terrorism.
Additionally, on Sept. 10, Ashcroft rejected an appeal from Pickard for additional funding, the commission said."
posted on Apr-13-04 at 9:37 AM
"But maybe it was the right policy after all."
on the 10th aniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, Jay Bryant suggests that perhaps Clinton's policy of non-intervention was the "right policy after all". This comes a few days after another fellow right wing columnist suggests from her suburban home in south carolina that we should "nuke the Sunni Triangle" (and any innoncent who happens to live there) - apparently her entire family agrees. Do they utterly lack sensitivity and should be ignored? or are these valid opinions worth publishing?
posted on Apr-7-04 at 1:56 PM
Ghosts of Rwanda
10 years later, FRONTLINE delivers one of the most powerful episodes in their excellent series of reports. Also covered in The Economist last week, and a couple years ago in The Atlantic in a sublime article: "Bystanders to Genocide". When you first heard about the tragedy did you wish you could have done something, if you had only known more?
posted on Apr-1-04 at 9:20 PM
Alistair Cooke dead at 95
in this age of savagely polluted airwaves, Cooke as still a beacon from another age - and a helluva of class act. he'll be missed.
posted on Mar-30-04 at 6:15 AM
political friendster
an offspring of theyrule.net after a one night stand with disinfopedia? via k10k
posted on Mar-26-04 at 1:57 PM
the future of metafilter?
posted on Mar-23-04 at 9:32 PM
Hamas said, "... Sharon has opened the gates of hell and nothing will stop us from cutting off his head.''
a. is assassination of political/spiritual leaders justified?
b. how much of setback to peace in israel/palestine, is this move?
c. did the whitehouse pre-approve this arguably major expansion in israel's war against palestinian "militants"?
ny times link
posted on Mar-21-04 at 8:40 PM
temporary temples
man made or not ... they are cool. via the new newstoday
posted on Mar-16-04 at 1:50 PM
You’re going to lose more people this summer than you did last year, I guarantee it.
Do you feel it is possible for American citizens to support the troops without supporting the policies under which the troops are acting?
Yes. Most definitely.
posted on Mar-11-04 at 1:30 PM
airstream.com
the idea of motorhomes is a little strange, but wouldn't one of these be fun? via a new favorite: http://mocoloco.com/ via the always excellent: caterina.net
posted on Mar-5-04 at 8:31 AM
one web designers experience with US customs and immigration
joost gets a taste of a federal detention center.via newstoday
posted on Feb-23-04 at 8:04 AM
Israelis kill crops to oust beduin
"Nonetheless, government ministers and officials accuse the beduin of "invading state lands" by refusing to be moved from their historic villages. Sharon himself gave a speech shortly before he became prime minister in which he said: "The beduin are eating away at the last land reserve of the state."" - via american samidizat
posted on Feb-20-04 at 2:19 PM
How much is your personal information worth?
personal data toolkit [ via newstoday ]
posted on Feb-5-04 at 9:08 AM
"fleet owners of a tanker companies" = the new evil doers?
what kind of questions do yesterday's discovery of ricin in the capitol, and the january 9th article ask about our "war on terror"? [ initial link via TPM ]
posted on Feb-3-04 at 9:14 AM
you think it's been a cold winter in the north east this year?
"For those of us living around the edge of the N. Atlantic Ocean, we may be planning for climate scenarios of global warming that are opposite to what might actually occur."
posted on Jan-22-04 at 10:29 AM
John Kerry suprises Howard Dean, the pundits, and much of the nation with what looks like a solid win in Iowa after being counted out of the race. Perhaps its time to take a second look at Kerry.
posted on Jan-19-04 at 6:34 PM
What are the real causes of terrorism?
Tired of the "they hate our freedoms" spiel? What are the real causes of terrorism? and are we addressing them or in fact exacerbating them? "... the variable that came up most frequently was not poverty or human-rights abuses, but perceived humiliation. Humiliation emerged at every level of the terrorist groups I studied — leaders and followers."
posted on Jan-13-04 at 10:03 AM
acid trip
wow. [ via newstoday ]
posted on Jan-6-04 at 9:09 PM
bush in 30 seconds the finalists are in ... i wish bradley had given it a shot. [ quicktime required ]
posted on Jan-5-04 at 10:02 AM
cool information design from ben fry at MIT (via newstoday.com)... anyone else have any links to share of particularly good information designers/design? merry x-mas all.
posted on Dec-25-03 at 9:38 AM
richard perle has been discussed here before, finds himself caught in his own web again. should this man be allowed to remain on the defense policy board arguably one of the most influential bodies of unelected citizens in the world?
posted on Dec-5-03 at 10:29 PM
mr. picassohead
perhaps we should be out working in our gardens or making art instead of spending time in front of our computers... but this is pretty cool. [ via newstoday, flash required ]
posted on Dec-2-03 at 9:17 AM
the chemical home
"babies are born with toxic chemicals already contaminating their bodies" - we know we are exposed to these dangerous chemicals everyday, greenpeace puts together a nice site describing what the dangerous ones are how to avoid them. Isn't this the kind of thing our tax dollars going to the EPA are supposed to provide? [ via computerlove.net ]
posted on Nov-30-03 at 6:00 PM
memogate
first the plame affair - now stolen confidential memos from democratic senators servers ... business as usual on capitol hill?
posted on Nov-28-03 at 10:28 AM
An Educational Exploration of Nunavut. "Setting out to document arctic climate change we will dogsled the territory of Nunavut, meeting Inuit Elders and students, to explore traditional ecological knowledge in the remote communities visited along the trail while gathering scientific data daily from the field for NASA and Environment Canada." - a cool expedition to bring some attention to what many are describing as the greatest threat to mankind today.
posted on Nov-25-03 at 9:13 AM
bruno coulais pushes the envelope merging photography and motion at this beautiful site ... flash 6 required.
posted on Nov-18-03 at 9:40 AM
the second most powerful man in the world , is the world a more or less safe place with this man (some would argue) in charge?
posted on Nov-9-03 at 1:59 PM
"American power worldwide is at its historic zenith. American global political standing is at its nadir." - Zbigniew Brzezinski speaking at the New American Strategies for Security and Peace Conference. [ via tpm ]
posted on Nov-3-03 at 8:27 AM
a reminder that our world is full of plenty of real horror and monsters. happy halloween. via yewknee.com
posted on Oct-31-03 at 8:21 AM
"If Tom Delay is acting out of his Born Again Christian convictions in pushing legislation that disadvantages the poor every time he opens his mouth, I'm not saying he's not a Born Again Christian, but as a the Lord's humble fruit inspector, it sure looks suspicious to me. " - Bill Moyers interviews Joe Hough.
posted on Oct-24-03 at 7:32 PM
But this doesn’t mean all W.M.D.? “How can you be certain?” His answer was clear: “I know all the scientists involved, and they chat. There is no W.M.D.” - Jafar Dhia Jafar in the new Seymour Hersh New Yorker article on pre-war intelligence. [ via dangerousmeta.com ].\
posted on Oct-20-03 at 12:27 PM
“Various people would laugh at various times [during Powell’s speech] because the information he was presenting was just, you know, didn't mean anything -- had no meaning,"
posted on Oct-15-03 at 8:57 AM
another canary tips over
as the administration (more specifically the white house council on environmental quality and its head james l. connaughton) continue to ignore and bury the warnings of the effects global warming from their own scientists.
posted on Sep-23-03 at 7:31 AM
a few quotes to remind us how we got where we are today via atrios
words from our leaders, and ms. ivins to mull over on saturday. while we are at it - perspective from baghdad might be worth your while as well.
posted on Sep-5-03 at 11:24 PM
it does look like fun
burning man 2003. more links? photos? stories? from this years fun in the desert.
posted on Aug-30-03 at 3:57 PM
bush appoints pipes to head US Institute for Peace , in a recess move (dodging senate confirmation).
among his post sept 11 quotes are: ``What we need to do is inspire fear, not affection.''
Pipe's ideas for peace in the middle east are worth a look. Does this appointment say anything about the kind of peace bush is pursuing in the middle east?
posted on Aug-22-03 at 6:17 PM
chemical ali captured. ny times link
now wait a second ... how much money did american taxpayers already spend to "kill" this man?
posted on Aug-21-03 at 7:45 AM
washington post editorial mocks european heat wave via the newly reskinned dangerousmeta.com
and vis a vis the thousand of deaths (primarily the elderly) and fires attributed to the heat wave. is there an especially warm place in hell reserved for the author? and who might it be?
posted on Aug-15-03 at 10:42 PM
this election cycle's best campaign website? very nicely done. via the always excellent ugga bugga
posted on Aug-7-03 at 10:32 AM
mother earth fights back "Global warming, which most climate experts blame mainly on large-scale burning of oil and other fossil fuels, is interfering with efforts in Alaska to discover yet more oil." via dangerousmeta and " It’s so hot windshields are shattering or falling out, dogs are burning their paws on the pavement, and candles are melting indoors." - are the naysayers ready to get on board? and start acting like good global citizens?
posted on Jul-30-03 at 1:29 PM
"hey mom and dad"
a word from the front - i feel horrible for this guy and his family. why isn't he getting food, water and being rotated? where are all our taxpayer dollars going anyway?
posted on Jul-28-03 at 10:39 PM
on the internet nobody knows you're a horse .. via newstoday.com
posted on Jul-24-03 at 11:36 PM
deadly weekend in iraq this weekend was a particularly bad one in iraq, with numerous american deaths and casualties ... yet there is barely a mention of the death toll in the media (check washington post, ny times, drudge, etc. etc.) this morning. is something going on here? or are editors and the american public bored with the story? - i had to dig for the links in this post.
posted on Jul-21-03 at 8:31 AM
escaped robo balloon will we be seeing more of this in coming years? this story is amusing - and perhaps a caution? via the always good yewnkee.com
posted on Jul-16-03 at 4:39 PM
is george george tenet the administrations fall guy on niger/uranium issue? should he be? and where does our vice president fit into the puzzle?
posted on Jul-11-03 at 10:36 AM
"God told me to strike at al Qaida and I and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did..." does this kind of talk coming from our president and the most powerful man in concern you? - or reassure you?
posted on Jun-30-03 at 12:02 PM
a little hint of things to come in 2004 from the bush team. slate link with popups
apparently they are still working on content for few areas, specifically: the environment and "more hispanic photos"
posted on Jun-24-03 at 7:47 PM
the administration is "underestimating the enemy." It has failed to address the root causes of terror, he said. "The difficult, long-term issues both at home and abroad have been avoided, neglected or shortchanged and generally underfunded." Would we prefer to have this man providing intelligence information to our president more than a woman who has an oil tanker named after her?
posted on Jun-16-03 at 9:05 AM
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