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Friday, Jun 01, 2001
all wet
my alma mater is actually engaged in something oddly interesting and i have to read about it on memepool? not quite as exciting as the princeton annual streak but fire fighting robots are fun. looks more like a elementary school science fair than burning man though.
over mediated
SILENCE OF THE MEDIA LAMBS
prop plain
"What all this indicates is that the nation has entered a new era -- not one of political civility but one in which the words of day-to-day political discourse have grown almost fully estranged from any real meaning or attachment to fact. Propaganda – not journalism – is ascendant."
daddys girl
"If the tape finds its way into the wrong hands, the White House is going to turn every shade of red," predicted 'Frat-Rat' who demanded anonymity. "Jenna should get the message, and get it fast, there are a few troublemakers on campus who are rooting for her to fall on her face. She is making it too easy for them."
the belt way
"The Democrats have been crazy ever since -- in their view -- the Republicans stole the presidency for that amiable dunce George W. Bush. Now the Republicans are spastic because -- in their view -- the Democrats stole one of their senators. In effect, the defection of Vermont's James Jeffords is Florida II. And now there will be many Floridas. The capital is rabid, with mutual contempt and hatred everywhere inside the Beltway."
old lace
French Scientists Revive Napoleon Poisoning Theory
electioneering
"In some precincts with optical-scan ballots, those who voted twice in the same race were rescued by machines programmed to reject such ballots and give voters a second chance. But not all counties with such ballots possessed the equipment, and not all counties with the equipment used it on Election Day.
Escambia and Manatee counties possessed the second-chance capability but deactivated it. Escambia Supervisor Bonnie Jones said, "People should be able to mark their vote correctly." She said giving voters a chance to correct mistakes "increases the cost of an election," because ballots cost 25 cents apiece.
"Maybe that was a bad judgment call," Jones mused. "Who's to say?"
Thursday, May 31, 2001
dog show
"Her principal media are diversely textured mat boards which are taped securely to a cover of transfer paper. This two-layer instrument functions as an aesthetically sensitive recording device for the artist's bodily engagement with the surface. The canvas is essentially buried, and Tillamook applies her strokes as unmediated expressions of her ferocious instincts to dig things out. As if in a trance of pursuit to expose what lies beneath, she claws and gnaws at the surface, her nails and teeth a flurry of motion far surpassing that of any human in speed and precision."
FOIA
"But on what legal basis is it now possible for the United States, as made manifest through the CIA, to supervise the shooting down of small airplanes thousands of miles outside the jurisdiction? The answer comes in the form of a decision memorandum signed by President Bill Clinton in June of 1994, bringing "closure," to use a fashionable term, to acrimony within the administration on this issue. The documents in question are all available from the National Security Archive, whose Kate Doyle sued for them under the Freedom of Information Act."
i see luger
BOULDER, Colo., May 30 (UPI) -- A federal agency is developing a radar-like device that uses electromagnetic waves to peer through clothing and detect concealed weapons from up to 15 meters (50 feet) away.