Last weekend, some of the techtopians raised a flap over Starbucks’ fascist policy forbidding photography in their stores, encouraging readers to storm the barricades with their digital cameras to take back this commons, give power to the people and smash the state, so a lot of folks complied.
Now we have another case of photo-fascism involving [...]
CNN finally breaks the blackout in the proposed FCC rule changes on media ownership:
WASHINGTON (CNN) – The Federal Communications Commission has received so many public comments on its Web sites regarding Monday’s vote on media ownership consolidation that the agency is having “problems” with its server, an FCC official said Friday.
And the messages aren’t [...]
Three fish, saltwater, rock, and a couple of corals doesn’t make a reef.
But it’s a start.
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See Tim Blair’s column in The Australian on bias in down under media:
Ironically, the best comment on the war came from a talkback caller rather than an ABC presenter. The caller’s name was Jill and she told Sydney ABC drivetime host Richard Glover that she’d migrated to Australia after World War II. “I wish we’d [...]
The Boston Globe Online has a reasonably balanced article on Victor Davis Hanson:
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON leads a double life. A fifth-generation raisin farmer in California’s fertile Central Valley, Hanson is also a historian of ancient Greece, a lyrical defender of American agrarianism, and a prolific contributor to conservative opinion magazines. His columns so caught the [...]
Jarvis reported on a complaint from NY Daily News columnist Zev Chafets on Maureen Dowd’s use of ellipses to alter the meaning of a statement by the president on Al Qaeda:
Here’s what she wrote:
“‘Al Qaeda is on the run,’ President Bush said last week. ‘That group of terrorists who attacked our country is slowly but [...]
Hosting Matters is down, and with it a number of blogs such as Jeff Jarvis and Instapundit. There is an Instapundit backup site if you can’t live without your hourly fix of Professor Reynolds. Oddly, the Hosting Matters status page is silent about the problem, which has persisted for several hours. They must have pissed [...]
Here’s your basic home-made aquarium stand installed in the house. The veneer is Pao Ferro from Flamingo Veneers, applied over the back side of some flexible birch plywood after soaking and bending. The veneer was pressed in a DIY veneer press made by following Joe Woodworker’s directions, attached to an air compressor.
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This is the bottom part of the stand.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
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Krugman’s on the rampage against the tax cut, and he’s got the Financial Times on his side. He claims we were getting a great deal on taxes already:
Once the new round of cuts takes effect, federal taxes will be lower than their average during the Eisenhower administration. How, then, can the government pay for Medicare [...]
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