Monthly Archives: September 2005
Wired News: Killer Buzz Flocks to New Browser
Wired News: Killer Buzz Flocks to New Browser:
“Flock advertises itself as a ’social browser,’ meaning that the application plays nicely with popular web services like Flickr, Technorati and del.icio.us. Flock also features widely compliant WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop blogging tools. The browser even promises to detect and authenticate all those user accounts automatically. It’s a clear [...]
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Boing Boing: Deaf people not accomodated at film about deaf musician
From da boing:
Matt says: My friend Kathyrn (who is deaf) wrote the following article for L.A. Voice about the new documentary film, Touch the Sound, about deaf musician Evelyn Glennie. Apparently, the film’s producers and director decided not to caption because they felt it would ruin the film’s visual aesthetic! I think the LAV site [...]
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Finally: Bush takes responsibility
RealCities.com | 09/13/2005 | Bush takes responsibility: “WASHINGTON – President Bush accepted responsibility Tuesday for the federal government’s failures in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
After more than a week of White House refusals to play “the blame game,” Bush acknowledged that mistakes were made, and that the government’s halting, disorganized response raised questions about the [...]
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Hunter at Tea
Hunter
Originally uploaded by Michelle R.
Hunter at tea, with Michelle, for her birthday.
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on phones, mobility and pirates, arrr.
Dry Water
Yet there are those who would have us believe that the future of mobility is about phone networks where copying doesn’t work all the time. If you take a picture with your phone, it will seamlessly move to another person’s phone. But if you download a Hollywood movie to your phone, its bits will [...]
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Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans | Ourmedia
Live video of an area in NOLA. Totally awful footage. No people in this one, only devastating destruction.
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/50534
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Transcript for September 4 – Meet the Press, online at MSNBC – MSNBC.com
Transcript for September 4 – Meet the Press, online at MSNBC – MSNBC.com: “MR. BROUSSARD: …that have worked 24/7. They’re burned out, the doctors, the nurses. And I want to give you one last story and I’ll shut up and let you tell me whatever you want to tell me. The [...]
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Boing Boing: Katrina: survivor first-hand account from Charmaine Neville
Boing Boing: Katrina: survivor first-hand account from Charmaine Neville
Our country, Tis of Thee. Shit, if I could, i’d go. I wish I had a helicopter. And some guns.
There were alligators eating people, babies floating in the water, hundreds of bodies of dead people..
“We understood why the police couldn’t help us but we didn’t understant why [...]
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Boing Boing: Katrina: wish you were here.
Two photos, taken on the same day. Photoshopped together.
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/06/katrina_wish_you_wer.html
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Rocketboom: Moving Canvas