Archive for August 24th, 2006

When You've Lost Megadeath, You're In Trouble

Megadeath is mad at the UN.
Heavy metal maven Dave Mustaine is so angry with the United Nations that he is naming his group Megadeth’s next album “United Abominations.”
“I was watching TV and saw the trucks that said ‘UN’ on them and said, ‘Man, you are so uncool, ineffective, anything,” the singer/guitarist said in a recent [...]

CNN - The Kings Of Misplaced Focus

CNN runs a story on the web site today under a headline. But before we get to the headline, let’s check out the first two paragraphs.
Less than half of Americans believe the United States is now safer from terrorism than it was before September 11, 2001, according to a CNN poll released Wednesday.
Forty-three percent [...]

links for 2006-08-24

Hot Library Smut
Not what you think. Gives me ideas for home improvement projects.
(tags: photography library)

We Need It For Research ...And Stuff

Employees are thinking twice about working for companies that restrict net access.
Microsoft says that many employers need to free up their Internet access policies in order to appear more attractive to potential hires. That’s the message coming from the Microsoft Tech.Ed 2006 conference in Sydney, where Microsoft Senior Design Anthropologist Anne Kirah recently spoke. Kirah [...]

Fake News

Thanks to frequent commenter Paul Williams for the link here.
Journalism has been taking a lot of hits lately. We’ve had the Reuters photojournalism scandal. We had Rathergate. Awhile back we had a Pew poll that revealed a serious erosion in public trust of the media. I personally can’t get through ten [...]

Are We Too Late?

While nothing remarkable happened on the 22nd, it looks as if Iran still has some plans for later in the month.
The Iranian news service Al-Borz, which is known to have access to sources in the Iranian government, predicted that on the first anniversary of Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s government, in late August 2006, Ahmadinejad is expected [...]

Kofi On The Case

Israel is forced to sit idly by while Syria and Iran violate the Hezbo deal.  Iran treats the UN like an annoying neighborhood child ringing your doorbell once a week to sell you asparagus flavored candy.  North Korea keeps right on launching missiles and are actively digging large holes to test their nuclear weapons.
Kofi decides [...]