Posts for September 2005
A century of energy-mass equivalence!
Spotted at effbot: Happy Hundredth, E=mc^2
September 27, 2005 permalink | Comments (0)
It shoulda been Global Frequency...but it's something
From BoingBoing: New Chris Rock pilot as free video stream on Google Video . Would that this would have been something I might actually LIKE, such as Global Frequency, but it's still an interesting indication that someone is paying attention to this whole internet thing. Will we see more of this?
September 27, 2005 permalink | Comments (0)
The Long Now Seminars available!
Check it out. The Long Now Foundation offers audio downloads of their lecture series. Excellent looking stuff!
September 27, 2005 permalink | Comments (0)
Yet another Google News Alert
"Digital TV Completion bill", maybe? Check out You Are the MPAA: A Broadcast Flag Update, and keep an eye on your Senators!
September 27, 2005 permalink | Comments (0)
Search inside the podcast...
This has some potential: Podscope. (FAQ here). I tried it, and actually got some pretty decent results. I am impressed!
September 25, 2005 permalink | Comments (0)
What he said....
September 14, 2005 permalink | Comments (0)
Another for my News Alerts
I like Google News Alerts. When something bugs me, I pop it into an alert, and keep track of it, often long after it's fallen off the front page. (I still have one running for "brazilian london investigation Menezes", and it still gets hits. The Met police chief Sir Ian Blair just met Menezes family face to face for the first time yesterday, in the House of Commons, for example.)
Anyway, the new one is easy. quoted("no photos, no stories"). From SF Chronicle, (via boingboing):
Already, up pops the Army's response:
As long as that "Joe" who doesn't get it is getting an earful right now (from a sergeant who got an earful from a Captain who got his ass chewed by a Colonel, hopefully), then I'm ok with that. Because it's NOT ok for an active-duty 82nd Airborne trooper to threaten a reporter for doing his job within in the state of Lousiana, barring a state of martial law. (which hasn't been declared. There is a state of emergency, but it doesn't suspend the Constitution.) When a professional soldier threatens to kick you out of the state and take your press credentials, it's scant comfort to hear that a spokesman for his commanding officer says otherwise, unless they make the situation VERY clear to the men on the ground VERY fast.
Disclaimer for militant nutballs: I have the greatest respect for our professional soldier cadre, but (as Spidey's Uncle Ben said), "with great power comes great responsibility". When you get guns and bombs to play with, you have to play by the rules.
And yeppers...I left in the Google News Alert. So if anything interesting about this pops up, the power of the Interweb will let us know.
September 14, 2005 permalink | Comments (0)
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