I saw
OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism last night. Article on producer/director Greenwald
here.
The PIPA poll report findings were the most shocking statistics for me -
to see the statistics quoted in the movie go to 'Iraq' and then the report dated 'October 2, 2003,' page 15 & 16 specifically. It is not a 'great' movie, but it does a good job at hammering in the fact that Fox is bad bad bad and definitely not "Fair and Balanced" reporting. I guess if you are not use to questioning what you hear, it is worth a see.
This is a good
site too.
On Monday, July 12th - the 109th anniversary of Buckminster Fuller's birthday in 1895 and the 50th anniversary of the patent on his best-known invention, the geodesic dome - the U.S. released the Buckminster Fuller commemorative stamp
Awe-Inspiring Experiences:
Thanks to the generosity of the Templeton Foundation, a team of scholars centered on UCLA is engaged in a three-year process of exploring the world of awe-inspiring experience: also called mystical experience or primary religious experience.
The three day
Awe to Action conference, one part of the UCLA program, has just wrapped up. Mark Kleiman has a
quick report, and a slightly
longer report.
Steve Jobs WWDC presentation on the next OSX (tiger) Supposedly impressive stuff related to the future of image & video processing, I haven't seen it yet as I'm on my land line. He gets into the capabilities of "core video" at about 1hr 10min.
From
Yahoo (IPS):
A report prepared by the top CIA official handling the matter says Saddam Hussein was not responsible for the [Halabja] massacre, and indicates that it was the work of Iranians.
This is the infamous "gassing of the Kurds" incident that is the basis for the "Saddam used WMD against his own people" mantra. Before the war I remember hearing that it was really the Iranians, but then it seemed like anyone saying this was branded a nut job (or worse - a Saddam lover,) and I admit to being sort of convinced by this into believing it was Saddam.
Has anyone been following more closely? Is this the standard line now? Are you no longer crazy to suggest it was the Iranians? And has this been widely known, or is this new story big news?
That could be a little tough for the administration...
I've been trying, when appropriate, to get people to move away from Internet Explorer (just doing my part for
homeland security.) So I guess I should stick with the follow through. To wit: there is a bug in Mozilla (and thus in Firefox) when run on Windows 2000 or Windows XP that can allow for remote execution of code. This bug has already been patched, so all you need to do is update your software to the latest version. For Firefox that would be 0.92. Here's the
mozilla page with complete details on the vulnerability and what you need to do.
Waltzing Matilda
Bruno’s contention that “waltzing matilda” refers to hanging by the neck sounds plausible, but the references I’m finding confirm the (perhaps bowdlerized) meaning that I’ve always heard, in which waltzing matilda means carrying a swag bag, like a hobo with his belongings tied in bundle hanging on a stick. Perhaps there was a double reading intended.
feel like ive posted this before but...
cinecultist.
A
silly season story, but a cool picture of an SUV in a swimming pool (via eyebeam reblog).