Abu Rhubarb? WTF? If the dude can't even pronunciatify the name of the prison, what are the odds that he has any understanding of the issues surrouding ah-BOO grehhb?

More front page NY Times online

NEWS ALERT The United States will demolish Abu Ghraib prison in consultation with a new Iraqi government, the White House said on Monday. (6:38 PM ET)

The little spinners at work. My first thought: so they can hide physical evidence from future International Tribunals.

NY Times online cover story of the moment:

N.Y. Police Chief Rises
At a time when New York is on the front lines in the worldwide battle with terror, Raymond W. Kelly is emerging as the city's top general.

Did you know we were on the front lines here? I didn't. Can we stop?

lockhart steeles curbed launches.

This post on Barbara Bush's beautiful mind has been completely rewritten. D'oh.

Has anybody seen Aernout Mik at The Project? Would love to hear about it. I was very interested in his big video installations that showed in Toronto in 2001.

Aernout Mik: "Parallel Corner," May 1-June 20
The Project
37 W 57, 3rd fl

this thursday michelle segre has an opening at derek eller. she'll be showing lucio. oh yeah, and some drawings.

this last nights episode of the simpsons (the season finale no. 335) took a broad shot at the republicans. mr burns bought up all the media outlets in town (to controll his image) except for lisas popular independent small press. next everyone opened their own small presses a thinly veiled reference to blogging.

"There's been a lot of talk recently about the exact definition of "torture." Some say it's an accurate descriptor of what happened to Iraqi detainees in U.S. custody. Others say those detainees were not tortured, but simply "abused," and that "torture" is something out of Saddam's dungeons. In a Newsday op-ed this week, linguist Geoffrey Nunberg mused over the invocation of the word "torture". He joins Bob to discuss the political uses and abuses of language, and his new book, Going Nucular: Language, Politics and Culture in Confrontational Times."

i didnt want to crap up sally's post with this post since it was not specific to cycleists but there are a few people recording roadside memorials. at the top of the list is roadsidememorial.org

look under the hoodie

the post punk kitchen

east river music project

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(no link--too lazy) House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco offered her strongest condemnation yet of President Bush on Wednesday, assailing him as incompetent and declaring that the only way for the United States to triumph in Iraq is to replace him as commander in chief.

Triumph? How about "get the fuck out?"

he'll never make another invalid assumption. (why is all my news two days old today?)

I am a bit embarrassed at being so surprised by this chart showing where U.S. oil comes from.

So this Firefox browser works great and since Microsoft Word seemed like maybe its been removed from this machine I downloaded a free word processor called Abidword and it works pretty well and earlier I got the notion to spend twenty bucks to get a year of dictionary.coms deluxe version because I find the out loud pronounciation key a nice feature. I have a dictionary software that does it but it's all the way down at my house, which is still occupied for awhile longer by my hippie replacement, and anyway a web based out loud pronounciation key is something a person who believes in good clean fun should have. This little Vaio laptop keyboard is ok, easier to type than I would have thought, in case you're wondering when I'm going to wrap up, I'm just practicing so....

IRR being called up. Drum and Kos have threads.

Is it not bad enough that we have to endure the Repulican National Convention (103 days and counting)?
New Yorkers beware, now maybe the Olympics too:
New York City joined four European capitals — Paris, London, Madrid and Moscow — as the five cities unanimously selected today to advance to the final bidding round for the 2012 Olympic Summer Games.

the gray zone

Profile of Brown University's semiotics program: "How an obscure Brown concentration trained graduates to crack the codes of American culture -- and infiltrated the mainstream."

Rumor has it that the success of HBO's Deadwood has led to a greenlight for an even more obscene and depraved series about another patch of land utterly beyond the reach of the law -- Gitmo.

Every year at about this time I find my self at a loss trying to remember all the great outdoor-seating restaurants I had "re/discovered" the year before.
Care to partake in some list making - restaurants with outdoor seating/gardens?