Archive for March, 2005
bravobravo
I can’t even begin to think about the amount of work that went into this. If you’re a regular reader of boingboing, you’ll marvel at the detail of this parody site, done up in time for April Fools Day.
Update: Awesome.
Subtle Bias II
The media is doing it again.
A week ago it happened with Jeff Weise. Today, they’re doing it with Terri Schiavo. Look around the web, and you’ll see what I mean.
Drudge has this picture…
Yahoo news has this…
MSNBC heads their main story using this picture…
And still others, with this…
Yet, the reality of what Terri Schiavo has been [...]
Possessing the Very Power of God
If you visit, browse and read as many websites as I do, you probably have a short list of places that never fail to enrage you. It might be a militant left wing wacko blog, an MSM news site, or a bulletin board filled with whiners. Have you ever secretly wished you could simply click a button and immediately launch a [...]
1st Birthday
Congratulations Arthur.
The End
RIP
The National Press Club Welcomes Jeff Gannon
There are so many things wrong with this that it’s hard to know where to start.
The same day that the prestigious Washington, D.C., journalism organization plans to present a lunch talk by former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee, it will also allow the former White House reporter/escort to be on a panel discussing bloggers and online [...]
Stone Age Warning System
Via Bloomberg.com: Asian Goverments Raise Tsunami Alert Using Faxes, Local Media
Asian governments relied on phone calls, faxes and the media to alert citizens of a possible tsunami after a magnitude 8.7 earthquake struck near Sumatra, in the absence of an alert network they promised to build.
“After we received the readings on the earthquake we contacted [...]
One More, In Honor of Johnnie
I just couldn’t pass this up.
I Was Innocent, But He Believed It!
That’s what O.J. Simpson said today when asked to comment on the death of Johnnie Cochran.
“I’ve got to say, I don’t think I’d be home today without Johnnie,” Simpson said by telephone from Florida after learning of Cochran’s death in Los Angeles.
Simpson noted other members of his defense team but said: “Without Johnnie running the [...]
An Actual Tsunami and the Threat of a Tsunami
Apparently, that’s what it takes to put together a tsunami warning system in India.
Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal has told NDTV that a state-of-the-art tsunami warning system will be soon put in place in the country.
The proposed Rs 125 crore project, which has already been approved by the government, would give India the capability [...]
Tsunami 411
Via Wired: Why no tsunami this time? Answer lies in location.
The powerful quake that struck off Indonesia on Monday probably did not generate a killer tsunami because it was deep and in a fortuitous location, experts said on Tuesday.
But they said the uncertainty over whether there would be a tsunami after the 8.7 magnitude quake [...]
Tolling of the Bell
Dead (updated 3/31/05 -ed.)
Johnnie Cochran, Jr., (Famed O.J. Simpson lawyer) died in California today. Family statement on Cochran.
Schiavo
Not Dead Yet
Jerry Falwell in critical condition
Pope needs feeding tube