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March 31, 2004
A Real Live Preacher fights a Real Live Raccoon, Pt. 3
“I wasn’t as irritated at the raccoon since I found out she had babies”
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March 29, 2004
“Never has there been a financial rip-off of the magnitude of the U.N. oil-for-food scandal”
“The Times, Wall Street Journal and Sunday Telegraph have been exposing the outline of what Newsday admits is ‘the most underreported story of the year.’”
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Photoshop Plug-in: BW Workflow Pro
“Taking black and white conversion to the next level”
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March 28, 2004
Digital Photography in the Wilderness; taking a Canon 10D on a climb in the Himalayas
“Simple is beautiful. I took a risk when deciding to go this light and take only standard battery packs along, but it seems it was the right thing to do”
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From Sgt. Stryker: Digital Warfighter - Total Information Dominance
“The great thing about this new site is that people just like you will directly determine the quality of the place”
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An Iraqi woman prepares for the Athens Olympics
“At least this time, there won’t be any secret police officer instructing us what to say and what to do”
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Shams, Scams and Kofi Annan
“it is highly possible there has been quite a lot of wrongdoing”
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March 27, 2004
A Real Live Preacher fights a Real Live Raccoon, Pt. 2
“Picture if you will, an insane man, a crazed and silly man, running all over his roof in the wee hours of the morning. Can you see him with his flashlight and a wild look in his eyes?”
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PDF: The First Timer’s Guide to Lobbying
From the most knowledgeable Greg Greene
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The Statement is Now Inoperative
The Duel of Contradictory Statements Continues (snore)
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March 26, 2004
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9/11 Hearings Summarized in a Flow Chart
One can truly see the bipartisan nature of the commission in this chart
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The traditional anonymity of “background briefings,” and how Richard Clarke lost his
“the Bush administration gave Fox News Channel permission to broadcast remarks from a background briefing by former Bush counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke that were originally made on the condition Clarke not be identified”
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March 25, 2004
A Real Live Preacher fights a Real Live Raccoon, Pt. 1
everything I know about wild animals I learned from ‘The Simpsons’
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Ukrainian nukes go AWOL
“We are currently looking for several hundred missiles. They were decommissioned, but we can’t find them”
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Photo (a bad one): Two World Leaders in front of the World’s Worst Wallpaper
I’m developing a wallpaper phobia, and this doesn’t help (Later: it appears this may have been a tent, not wallpaper ... but that’s no excuse for such a visual assault)
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March 24, 2004
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It’s a Circular Firing Squad of Flying Attack Monkeys!
”...the Bush administration attacks on the character ... of Richard Clarke remind one of the flying attack monkeys from ‘The Wizard of Oz.’”
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Streaming live video (or audio) of C-SPAN
For those (like me) who don’t get C-SPAN3
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Photos: Damon’s New Office
Decorated with 2500 Post-It notes
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March 23, 2004
Light transmitting concrete casts new light in dull rooms
“This special effect creates the general impression that the thickness and weight of a concrete wall will disappear”
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TypeKey and Movable Type Comment Registration FAQ
Good, webloggers need new fodder to spat over, and already, this appears to be plenty
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March 20, 2004
ResearchBuzz -- GooFresh
“This form is a way to search for sites added today, yesterday, within the last seven days, or last 30 days”
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Street Smarts: Learning From JetBlue
Reminds me of the old Mindspring ... their service garnered unusual loyalty in the same ‘hands-on’ ways
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March 18, 2004
A fascinating article on Sports Illustrated’s digital photography workflow at the Super Bowl
How would you like to edit “16,183 digital pictures shot in Houston’s Reliant Stadium by eleven of the magazine’s staff photographers over the course of about six hours”?
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Jeffrey Veen: I don’t care about accessibility.
“when Web design is practiced as a craft, and not a consolation, accessibility comes for free.”
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“An open letter to Jakob Nielsen” ... Ouch
“I would dare say you are doing far more harm than you are doing good, and I ask that you cease this behavior”
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March 17, 2004
US House tries to overturn two centuries of checks and balances, and gain the power to overrule the Supreme Court (more
here)
Irony; pass a law to overturn the Supremes, and the Supremes will rightly rule it is an unconstitutional law
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March 16, 2004
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March 15, 2004
PDF: The New York Times, hoisted with their own petard
Laywer sends reply with a scathing on-point quotations ... taken from the NYT editorial pages!
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March 14, 2004
Photo: Terrorism can’t stop Democracy
The real question is, can it affect the outcome of the vote?
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Photo: No wonder Gail Devers is so fast
With claws like that, you can really get some traction
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SXSW is blogger unfriendly: “No unauthorized videotaping or photography is allowed...”
I would have gotten arrested, for sure. Yep, there would have been a big stinky scene when I showed up.
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March 13, 2004
New York Times screws Freelance Photographers by demanding joint copyright ownership instead of just usage rights
“Rates are currently $150 for assignments in the New York metropolitan area, $200 for U.S. assignments and $250 for foreign assignments” ... an absolute joke for usage rights, never mind joint ownership
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March 12, 2004
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The Realities of Flying in the Post 9/11 World for Photographers
“If you are still using film, do not request a hand search ... If you are not already taking Prozac, you may want to start”
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March 11, 2004
The USB Swiss Army Knife
Now available with 64 or 128MB of memory
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March 10, 2004
Republican Intra-Party Wrasslin’: David vs. Goliath
”...when they were going on about the White House and ruining my career, all I could think was, ‘I don’t have a career.’”
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“This single painting planted the seed that grew into the Museum of Bad Art”
“The Museum Of Bad Art was founded the night Scott Wilson pulled this painting from a trash pile on a Boston street”
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March 09, 2004
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Photos: Snow at Mono Lake
Emese shoots Winter Tufa
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March 08, 2004
The Six Patron Saints of Graphic Design
Saint Anxiete was tragically martyred ... when trampled by a herd of cattle while chasing after the the King of Fedex to hand him a package
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Vintage Cowgirl Pinups
Many of the artists who did ‘nose art’ on WWII aircraft also painted cowgirl pinups
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The Return of Protein Wisdom
“Here’s where I left my blog!”
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March 07, 2004
Real Obnoxious
A great series of posts about Real Player. Follow the links to the three entries
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Did a Comet Trigger The Great Chicago Fire?
over a 24-hour period, an area of land the size of Connecticut was burned
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The Great Robot Race
20 driverless robots are about to race from LA to Vegas
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March 06, 2004
Yesterday was Spam’s Tenth Birthday
...since July 2003, most email is now spam
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I gotta get me a Lensbaby!
Correction: I’ve ordered one, and can’t wait for it to show up
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March 05, 2004
A Photo Trip through the Chernobyl Dead Zone
“I travel a lot and one of my favorite destination lead through poisoned with radiation, so called Chernobyl ‘dead zone’ It is 130kms from my home”
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R.I.P, Godzilla, 1954-2004
“Japanese cinema favourite Godzilla’s next film appearance will be his last, ending a 50-year series of 28 movies”
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March 04, 2004
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March 03, 2004
Church, State, and Paid Administrative Leave
“A Lutheran pastor announced a personal theology that denied the existence of God, resurrection, and eternal life and the response of the church was a one-week suspension”
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Punishing Girl Scouts for the activities of adults
“Why are folks in this conservative Texas town where President Bush has his ranch so mad at the Girl Scout organization?”
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Fluid lenses for digital cameras
“FluidFocus system mimics the action of the human eye using a fluid lens that alters its focal length by changing its shape”
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Barry Got Blog ... Again
This time, it’s an MT blog with comments ... wonder how long that will last.
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March 02, 2004
The Green[e]house Effect: Today, I Vote...
Another blogger comes out for Edwards ... Kerry bloggers seem few and far between
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March 01, 2004
Citizen Smash comes out for Edwards
”...John F. Kerry is no John F. Kennedy”
