[From NYT] Hundreds of communities have been waging fights against cellphone companies and the march of antennas into suburbia. Continue reading First Come Cellphone Towers, Then the Babel at NYT > Technology
Archive For April, 2005
Bob Dylan: With God on Our Side
[From Bob Dylan] Oh my name it is nothin’ My age it means less The country I come from Is called the Midwest I’s taught and brought up there The laws to abide And that land that I live in Has God on its side. Oh the history books tell it They tell it so [...]
U.S. changes mind about RFID-enabled passports (sort of)
[From Engadget] Following some intense pressure from privacy advocates, the U.S. government has admitted that their plan to put RFID chips in people’s passports had some potentially huge security problems. The original design had an RFID chip that would broadcast personal information to speed up the processing of travellers, but in an interview Tuesday Frank [...]
Wal-Mart attempts to censor parody website
For several days in April, this address, www.walmart-foundation.org, hosted a parody of the Wal-Mart Foundation’s website. I created a derivative work by changing all of the text and several of the images from the original site. The goal was to make the site look like it could be a real site from a company like [...]
Vietnam prepares for anniversary
[From BBC News] Preparations are underway to mark 30 years since the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. Continue reading Vietnam prepares for anniversary at BBC News Tags: war <BR/>
Two Detail Bolton’s Efforts to Punish Dissent
[From The Washington Post] A former senior Bush administration official told Senate staff members yesterday that John R. Bolton, the president’s nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, sought to punish two State Department officials for disagreeing with him on nonproliferation issues, congressional sources said. And a… Continue reading Two Detail Bolton’s Efforts to Punish [...]
News in Brief
[From The Speciuos Report] AirBus test flies world’s largest passenger plane; A380 prototype still looking for place to land. Tom Delay proposes Federal judge appointments be indexed to GOP contributions. Virgin Mary’s Image on soiled underpants draws smaller than anticipated crowds. Dyslectic Seattle Cop charges 216 motorists with IUD. Vandals TP Christo’s Home; Artist Not [...]
MP3 player, herbal remedies lead to emergency landing at O’Hare
[From Belleville News Democrat] MP3 player, herbal remedies lead to emergency landing at O’Hare Associated Press CHICAGO – An airline passenger’s MP3 player and three vials harmless herbal remedies led to an emergency landing at O’Hare International Airport, the evacuation of 74 passengers and crew and a search of the plane Tuesday by the Chicago [...]
Happy Birthday to the newspaper – 400 and going strong
[From Gizmo: Inventors and Remarkable People] March 9, 2005 Mass media will celebrate its 400th birthday later this year when the newspaper, the first mass medium begins its fifth century of publication. The exact date of the first newspaper is not known, and was thought to have been during 1609 but recent evidence accepted by [...]
Nicholas Kristof Greenwashes Nuclear Power
[FromCounterPunch] Greenwashing Nuclear Power By LUKE BROTHERS In George Orwell’s classic novel, 1984, the government uses the slogans war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength. Now, Nicholas Kristof (New York Times, April 9, 2005) would have us believe that nuclear energy is green. Kristof’s argument that “nukes are green” is out of [...]