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Month: June 2004

  • Road to Abu Ghraib

    Human Rights Watch has put together a profile of the entire Abu Ghraib debacle. Definitely on my reading list.

  • Help Fight Stupid Patents

    The EFF is holding a patent busting contest Someone even tried to patent hyperlinks. (via Kottke)

  • Wal-Mart 25th Largest Economic Entity

    Of the world’s 100 largest economic entities, 51 are now corporations and 49 are countries. The world’s top 200 corporations account for over a quarter of economic activity on the globe while employing less than one percent of its workforce. (source) The richest 1 percent of Americans own 40 percent of the nation’s household wealth […]

  • John Stewart Tears into Ashcroft

    Fantastic video of John Stewart tearing Ashcroft’s testimony apart. (via BoingBoing)

  • Are You Staring at My Zit?

    I have a Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer-esque pimple on the end of my nose. Ron kept staring at it as he was talking to me last night. I want to walk up to people and strike up a conversation and then say You’re staring at my zit, aren’t you?! AREN’T YOU!!

  • Supreme Court MP3s

    The Oyez project has released audio recordings of landmark Supreme Court arguments and rulings. I actually spent a whole afternoon once listening to the closing arguments of Lawrence and Garner v. Texas. That and the motion filed to determine if the Supremes could hear cases regarding prisoners in Guatanamo Bay.

  • Ray Charles (1930-2004)

    Ray Charles was one of musicians I wanted to see before I die (another being Tina Turner). Looks like he went before me. I’ll always remember his role in The Blues Brothers. You boys gotta learn not to talk to nuns that way.

  • Control Room

    Control Room is a documentary that takes us inside Al-Jazeera, the largest television channel in the Arab world. With a reputation for controversy in criticizing royalty and politicians, it was only natural that Al-Jazeera would turn their critical eye on the United States invasion of Iraq. Remember the toppling of Saddam’s statue? The ‘Iraqis’ coming […]

  • Conference Report Out

    If you are jonesing for my writing you can check out my coverage of the conference that I am at.