I don’t mind the guy, but can’t help thinking of this similarity (they really should give that scream bloke some botox injections):
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UPI has compiled a list of the nationalities of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay from analysis of multiple news sources. The results: almost half the foreigners taken from Afghanistan were from the Arabian peninsula (160 from Saudi Arabia, 253, from the Arabian peninsula as a whole), less than 0.2% were from Iraq and there are more Brits than from any other European country. Going to war with Iraq, meant that you removed a tyrant and had control over almost exactly the same oil reserves (Iraq plus Kuwait) as Saudi Arabia. This would mean that you could tighten the screws there, or be covered if there were a revolution, without drying up the pipeline of oil. Playing hardball with Saudi directly would not have been possible. Just a thought. Saudi Arabia 160 Yemen 85 Pakistan 82 Afghanistan 80 Jordan 30 Egypt 30 Algeria 19 Morocco 18 Kuwait 12 China 12 Tajikistan 11…
iTunes wishlist: 1. Ability to create a list of personal favorite songs as playlists/wishlists and publish on a weblog with links to iTunes (newsblogger for iTunes). 2. Affiliate program for above playlists (an Amazon style affiliate program with no physical product to deliver). 3. Ability to send someone a gift of a song with a picture and message (a value added online greetings card). 4. iTunes Music Store API. 5. Publication of aggregated affiliate playlists from weblogs on the iTunes site (iTunes celebrity playlists, but for everyone). 6. iTunes charts by song instead of by album, with cut and paste adsense like code to publish on affiliate sites. I guess the problem is that the iTunes model is the reverse of the Gillette Razor model i.e. Apple makes money on the handle (the iPod) rather than the blades (songs). But the fact that the songs are a loss leader is…
The head of the BBC resigned over exactly the same allegation that the Independent makes today. So either the Independent is guilty of far worse than the charges levelled at the BBC, under which circumstances one would expect a gagging order – or – the BBC had covered the truth but couldn’t prove it.
“[I]ntelligence-gathering, like reporting, is an imperfect business”. After years of hide and seek with Saddam Hussein one might have some sympathy with intelligence services that may have made mistakes about WMD, particularly when interpretations of findings would naturally filter, like a game of telephone, to reflect what governments wanted to hear, as documents moved up the food chain. Sympathy for intelligence gatherers and reporters alike might also be needed for the usually bullet proof Bair. Just when he was riding high on the outcome of the Hutton report and a critical government vote, came the bolt. Blair’s accidental betrayal came from his main ally over WMD
Ah, Waldrobemalfunction.com – obviously a site about difficulties with IKEA’s (un)dresser called Janet.
Sixapart are in a position to dominate the weblog publishing market, they have the best pro tool, Moveable type and the best service, Typepad. But the pro tool is used for free by many people (cough), and the service which is easier for new users is paid for and competes against free services. Wouldn’t it be better to have the Moveable Type as a paid for tool – the Dreamweaver of blogging and Typepad as an ad supported free service?
what do real kids think of classic guitar anthems – I am peeing myself… “Bob Dylan: Like A Rolling Stone (1965)” “What the grown-ups say: “Dylan drives his inspiration and imagination to even greater heights… Anger, hatred, disgust, defiance, disbelief, apathy, ignorance, repugnance; it’s all here.” (Earthsound)” Kid: “Sophie: He sounds like he’s just smelled something really bad, like cat poo.” “Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit (1991)” “What the grown-ups say: “… reflects Kurt Cobain’s skilful mingling of Stooges’-style brute yobbism (grinding guitars and yelping vocals), American punk and late 1970s art rock.” (NME)” Kid “Sophie It’s making me think about doing bad things like putting snowballs down my sister’s back. “ “The Sex Pistols: Anarchy In The UK (1977)” “What the grown-ups say: “They play with an energy and conviction that is positively transcendent in its madness and fever… It has an Ahab-versus-Moby-Dick power that can shake you like…
Excellent review of a myth busting biography of Dick Turpin the 18th Century highwayman who according to popular mythology was the epitome of the glamorous and likeable villain, an archetype that stretches from Robin Hood to Butch Cassidy to the fictitious Hannibal Lecter. How far then is the squalid reality of Armin Miewes, the German cannibal, from the dapper and erudite Lecter. The real Turpin it seems was just as different, an unattractive, unchivalrous and brutal thief who raped and murdered. “In April 1739 a pock-marked butcher was hanged at York for crimes against His Majesty’s Highways. Richard Turpin’s death was just about the only thing in his shortish life that conformed to anyone’s idea of how a highwayman was supposed to be.”
Three major players in search, Yahoo, Google and soon Microsoft makes for more players than some of the other big Internet services, occupied by the likes of Ebay, Amazon, Netflix. Here’s a wild prediction for the first massive merger of the rebound: Microsoft will buy Yahoo (if they can get away with being that aggressive).
New Zealand Herald – Latest News: “While five probes – including two robot rovers – explore Mars, a Sydney scientist’s pet dingo-kelpie cross may have found the evidence so many have been seeking.”
In 1848, in Georgia, it was illegal to teach a black person to read. Two years ago it was illegal to teach women in Afghanistan. Today Georgia is considering banning the word evolution from its school text books, making it illegal to fully educate anyone.