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Saturday, February 11, 2006
Ladies and gentlemen ...
Put your hands together and give a big Magpie welcome to the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain! If you go here [MP3 file], you'll hear one of the weirdest covers of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' that you could imagine. [We had better luck listening with Winamp than using the site's default player.] If you want to know more about the orchestra, their website is here. And the BBC has an interesting article about them over here. Via Anti-Hit List. | | Posted by Magpie at 11:39 AM | Get permalink
It lives!
Critics called it 'dead on arrival' in Congress, and Dubya didn't mention it at all in the State of the Union address, but his plan to Via Cursor. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:25 AM | Get permalink
Oh, capitalism!
From a wire service story: The gym that brought New Yorkers "Cardio Striptease" has dreamed up "Stiletto Strength," a workout to get women in shape to wear the highest of heels. And some outfit like Crunch will be right there to make a profit from that pain. Via Reuters. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:08 AM | Get permalink
Friday, February 10, 2006
This is really creepy.
The increasing use of RFIDs small devices that can be put into vehicles, products, credit cards, and animals to track their movements has a lot of people worried about their effects on privacy. And those worries have even more basis when RFIDs are implanted in people. And they are being injected into people, make no mistake about it. Check out this story from The Register:
Whereas CityWatcher.com is a provider of video solutions for government and business, we wanted to not only improve security for highly secure areas, but wanted do so with the next generation of product that would integrate with our existing system. You'd think that they were just upgrading some software, wouldn't you? Scary! Spychips.com has much more on the use of RFIDs in humans and in general. Their press release on the Citywatch.com RFIDs is here. Thanks to Just a Bump in the Beltway for the tip. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:20 PM | Get permalink
When did the White House know New Orleans was flooding?
After Hurricane Katrina hit on Monday, Aug 29, Dubya and other administration officals maintained that they didn't get news of the levee breaks until sometime on the 30th. As we posted earlier today, the New York Times reported that records show that the White House knew about the disaster in New Orleans by midnight on the 29th, yet didn't act on that news. [Dubya stayed on vacation; Homeleand Security head Michael Chertoff went off to a conference.] Now it turns out that the administration was even slower on the uptake than even the Times story showed. According to an AP report, the White House knew about the levee breaks on the morning of the 29th just hours after the breaks happened. "The first communication came at 8:30 a.m.," said Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. "So it is inexplicable to me how those responsible for the federal response could have woken up Tuesday morning unaware of this obviously catastrophic situation." This magpie is anxiously waiting to hear how Dubya's minions will try to explain this story away. | | Posted by Magpie at 11:57 AM | Get permalink
Smashing those myths.
Over at Pandagon, Amanda is dealing with a troll attack by debunking common myths about feminists. The post is not to be missed. Here's a teaser: Feminists think there?s no difference between men and women. Like some of the the commenters at Pandagon [and make sure to read the comments!], we have a myth of our own to add to the list: Feminists are all lesbians. Now get over and read Amanda's whole post. | | Posted by Magpie at 11:39 AM | Get permalink
Giving new meaning to the words 'criminally negligent,'
Remember this, which happened early last August 29? [To help refresh your memory, that was a Monday.] [Photo: Marty Bahamonde/FEMA] And remember this photo, taken on Tuesday, while Dubya was still on vacation? [Photo: Martha Raddatz/AP/ABC News] And remember how Dubya said that same day that New Orleans had 'dodged the bullet,' and escaped Hurricane Katrina without the levees breaking? Well, the prez wasn't just wrong he was ignorant of facts that had already reached the White House. According to the NY Times, news of the broken levees reached Washington that Monday evening, and had made it to the White House by midnight. [According to congressional investigators,] Federal Emergency Management Agency official, Marty Bahamonde, first heard of a major levee breach Monday morning. By late Monday afternoon, Mr. Bahamonde had hitched a ride on a Coast Guard helicopter over the breach at the 17th Street Canal to confirm the extensive flooding. He then telephoned his report to FEMA headquarters in Washington, which notified the Homeland Security Department. Despite this, Dubya and Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff were claiming for days that the levees broke on Tuesday, not on Monday. I'm speechless. | | Posted by Magpie at 4:42 AM | Get permalink
How cool!
Color vision in humans may have evolved to help spot blushes and other emotional cues. Via New Scientist. | | Posted by Magpie at 4:18 AM | Get permalink
A big move toward breaking the nation's addiction to oil.
Unfortunately, the nation I'm talking about here isn't the US it's Sweden. While Dubya and the GOP-controlled Congress continue to hand over subsidies to the oil companies and give tax deductions to people who buy SUVs, the Swedes are planning to eliminate their economy's dependence on oil by 2020, replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy sources. And, interestingly, the Swedes think they can do it without increasing their reliance on nuclear power. "Our dependency on oil should be broken by 2020," said Mona Sahlin, minister of sustainable development. "There shall always be better alternatives to oil, which means no house should need oil for heating, and no driver should need to turn solely to gasoline." Via UK Guardian. | | Posted by Magpie at 4:13 AM | Get permalink
Pop quiz!
Salon's 'Ask the Pilot' columnist, Patrick Smith, needed to take some photos for a freelance reporting job. He was shooting those photographs inside the terminals of two airports in New England. What happened next? [Choose one]
Extra credit: Take your camera to a local airport and take some of your own pictures. After airport security lets you go, write a 500-word essay on the theme, 'We live in a different world now.' Paid sub or ad view req'd for Salon. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:05 AM | Get permalink
Thursday, February 9, 2006
There he goes again.
It's just like clockwork. Whenever Dubya is having political difficulties, his administration starts bringing out the terrorist bogeyman again. And, sure enough, the prez's problems over his illegal NSA surveillance program and the uproar over his new This morning, Dubya told the nation about a 2002 al-Qaeda plot to smash a plane into the Library Tower in Los Angeles. According to the prez, that plot shows how the threat of terrorism is still real. Dubya did not explain why the previously classified details of the plot could not be made public until a moment when their revelation would be politically advantageous. [Photos: Kim D Johnson/AP; Mark Wilson/Getty Images] Being oh such a cynic, I have to wonder how a terror plot from four years ago shows anything about the current threat of such action by al-Qaeda. Or any other terrorists, for that matter. I mean, that plot took place only months after 9/11, well before the Department of Homeland Security and all of Dubya's other anti-terror efforts really got rolling. The country is much better protected against terrorists now, isn't it? Well, unless all of the anti-terror efforts by the administration have been ineffective. [Does the president know something else he's not telling us?] What do you bet that the US terror alert level is about to be jacked up to orange again? Note to the NY Times: You might want to suggest that reporters avoid writing stuff like the following paragraph from today's story by David Stout: Counterterrorism officials said months ago that the Los Angeles skyscraper (Mr. Bush mistakenly called it the "Liberty Tower") would be a logical target for a West Coast attack, although Mr. Bush had not spoken in detail before about the officials' suspicions. Given the building's iconic status, it is easy to see why America-haters would rejoice at seeing it fall as some rejoiced when the Twin Towers in New York collapsed. [Emphasis added] While I'll give Stout credit for pointing out that Dubya didn't know the correct name of the building in LA, where did the last sentence in the paragraph come from? To whom exactly is the Library Tower iconic? I'd never heard of the building before and, having spent almost half my life living in southern California, I doubt that the Library Tower is 'iconic' to many people there. It's certainly not iconic to people around the US in the same sense that the Twin Towers were. Either Stout made up this 'fact' about the building, or he got it from someone close to the prez. In either case, an editor should have questioned the statmement. Even worse was the bit about how 'America-haters' would 'rejoice' in the Library Tower's destruction. Says who? And where did the term 'America-haters' come from? If it's Stout's language, it should have been edited out in favor of a more neutral term. [We'd suggest 'terrorists.'] And if it came from some Dubya administration minion, that person should have been identified. As the paragraph stands, it's propaganda, not journalism. Via Reuters and NY Times. | | Posted by Magpie at 11:12 AM | Get permalink
Carnival of Feminists 8.
It's that time of the month again, and the newest Carnival of Feminists is available for your perusal here at Gendergeek. As usual, this one is just chock-full of feminist linky goodness. If you haven't caught the Carnival before, it's a semi-monthly roundup of the best feminist posts from around the web, appearing on the first and third Wednesday of each month. [Yes, you're right. I didn't post about Carnival 7 another of those unplanned hiatuses. That one came out on January 18th, and you'll find it here.] For this carnival, the gendergeeks have put together an excellent set of posts. Here's the section about 'The geeks': One of the most damaging misconceptions about women in science and engineering is that their choice to leave (or not to enter) the profession is based on a personal antipathy towards the subject. Mickle the Hourly Bookseller calls bullshit as she describes her 'choice' to leave physics. There's a mess of other good stuff in the 8th Carnival if you go over here. The 9th Carnival is coming up on Wednesday, February 22nd, and it will be hosted by Mind the Gap. If you want to recommend a post for consideration you can even recommend one of your own send it to mindthegapcardiff AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk by February 19th. And if you want to keep posted on what's up with the Carnival in general, bookmark the home page. | | Posted by Magpie at 7:10 AM | Get permalink
Ooooooh, shiny!
Japanese civil defense posters from the Second World War, from the National Archives of Japan. Despite dealing with such a dreadful subject, many of the posters are surprisingly beautiful. You can view a larger version of the poster above if you go here, and you can follow links to all of the National Archive's online collection of civil defense posters if you go here. The main page for the National Archives digital gallery is here. It includes links to maps, documents, scrolls, drawings, and photographs. Via Boing Boing. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:35 AM | Get permalink
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
The Patriot Act protects you and me ...
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If you build them, who will come?
Or, rather, who will you send there? When we saw this article about how the feds have hired Halliburton to build a bunch of camps to 'detain' thousands of illegal immigrants, we had two reactions:
Being just half a thesis shy of a master's in history, I know that the House Un-American Activities Committee was established back in the 1930s to investigate domestic Nazi organizations. Which they did for exactly one meeting, and then spent their next several decades persecuting leftists under the guise of saving the nation from Godless Communism. And it doesn't take a historian to remember that, within living memory, the US government has on the flimsiest of excuses tossed tens of thousands of its own citizens into internment camps. And that the US Supreme Court allowed these Japanese-Americans to remain behind the fences for the duration of the Second World War. [Photo: Tom Parker] Given all of this history, you'll forgive this magpie if I'm more than a bit skeptical about who the actual residents of these new camps will be no matter what the feds are saying publicly. This magpie isn't the only person wondering whether there's another purpose for the new camps. Over at Orcinus, David Neiwert is pondering the question, too: Just what crisis of "mass immigration" does the government foresee as a possibility? And is it strong enough to warrant the actual construction of concentration camps? We'd suggest going and reading his whole post. And then follow the link to this column by Tom Hennessy for some more thoughts on the camps. Thanks to Jeanne at Body and Soul for pointing us to the NY Times article. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:24 AM | Get permalink
Breaking out of the infernal circle.
I doubt that I have to tell you anything about the reaction that many in the Islamic world have had to these cartoons featuring images of the prophet Muhammed, originally appearing in a Danish newspaper. Since their publication last October, the cartoons have become a symbol for Westerners' hatred and disrespect for Islam, based on the longstanding Islamic tradition that images of the Prophet are forbidden. They've also become a cause célèbre among non-Muslims in Europe and America, who see any attempt to suppress the cartoons as a violation of press freedom and democratic ideals. Magpie hasn't had any posts about the controversy before now because I didn't think that I had anything to add to the debate. I still don't think I have anything original to add, but I can point you to an article by Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who has plenty to say: We are facing an incredible simplification, a gross polarisation: apparently a clash of civilisations, a confrontation between principles, with defenders, in one corner, of inalienable freedom of speech and, in the other, of the inviolable sacred sphere. Presented in such terms, the debate has unfortunately become a battle of wills, and the question becomes: who will win? Muslims, wanting apologies, threaten to attack European interests, even to attack people; western governments, intellectuals and journalists refuse to bend under threats, and certain media outlets have added to the controversy by republishing the cartoons. Most people around the world, observing these excesses, are perplexed: what sort of madness is this, they ask? Ramadan makes a lot of sense, don't you think? You can read the rest of his article here. If Tariq Ramadan's name seems as familiar to you as it did to me, it's because his visa to visit the US was revoked by the feds in 2004 under a provision of the Patriot Act that allows the exclusion of anyone who has advocated terrrorism or supported terrorists. Ramadan's exclusion appears to have more to do with his opposition to the US-led invasion of Iraq than with his record on terrorism he is in fact well known as an opponent of Islamic extremism. His words on the cartoon controversy certain show that he's a dangerous man, don't they? One more note on the controversy: The UK Guardian reports that the Danish paper that published the cartoons about the prophet Muhammed rejected a batch of cartoons about Jesus Christ in 2003. According to Jyllands-Posten Sunday editor Jens Kaiser, the cartoons were not funny and could have offended the paper's readers. Can we say 'double standard'? Thanks to Echidne of the Snakes for pointing me to the Ramadan article. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:14 AM | Get permalink
Fun with Photoshop.
By the way, if anyone can tell me where I can find a larger version of the second image, this magpie would be much obliged. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:04 AM | Get permalink
Sometimes laziness pays off.
Like mine has, in regards to the the attempts by NASA political functionaries to control what the space agency's scientists say to the public. My tale of procrastination starts off on Jan. 28th, when I noticed this story at the NY Times. According to the Times, NASA attempted to silence its top climate scientist after he called for immediate action to reduce greenhouse gases implicated in global warming: The scientist, James E. Hansen, longtime director of the agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said in an interview that officials at NASA headquarters had ordered the public affairs staff to review his coming lectures, papers, postings on the Goddard Web site and requests for interviews from journalists. Pretty hot stuff, but I didn't get around to blogging it. This past Sunday, the Times moved the story onward significantly. Beneath a headline about how NASA adminstrator Micheal Griffin supported 'openness' at the agency were buried several tales of scientists' encounters with overly zealous and extremely politicized public affairs officers. This one in particular caught my eye: The Big Bang memo came from Mr. Deutsch, a 24-year-old presidential appointee in the press office at NASA headquarters whose résumé says he was an intern in the "war room" of the 2004 Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. A 2003 journalism graduate of Texas A&M, he was also the public-affairs officer who sought more control over Dr. Hansen's public statements. If I had written a post about this story, I would have suggested that NASA should make sure that its scientists note that the theory of gravity is 'not proven fact' either, and that they should be careful not to ignore the possibility that gravity is the result of intelligent design. But, as I said, I never got around to blogging this. Today, I will blog on the latest development. It seems that young Mr Deutsch, the public affairs officer referred to in the last excerpt, has resigned his post at NASA: Mr. Deutsch, 24, was offered a job as a writer and editor in NASA's public affairs office in Washington last year after working on President Bush's re-election campaign and inaugural committee, according to his résumé. No one has disputed those parts of the document. I shouldn't be surprised that Dubya's science policy is being implemented by people like young Mr Deutsch, who thinks that the Big Bang is just an opinion. After all, Dubya's administration sent over a bunch of young ideologues much like Deutsch to Iraq after the invasion, and put them in charge of designing the US occupation and 'reconstruction' of that unfortunate country. NASA honchos say that Deutsch's resignation has nothing to do with the uproar over the agency's attempt to squelch the public statements of its scientists. However, a number of NASA employees told the Times that 'Mr. Deutsch played a small but significant role in an intensifying effort at the agency to exert political control over the flow of information to the public,' which makes me think that Deutsch's fabricated resume was just a convenient excuse for removing someone who'd become a lightning rod attracting criticism to NASA. So because we procrastinated so much over the last 10 days, I've been able to blog the pieces of this story all at once, instead of giving them to you one at a time. Laziness rules, huh? | | Posted by Magpie at 12:00 AM | Get permalink
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Don't mess with Helen Thomas.
The White House briefings by Dubya's press secretary Scott McClellan are disturbingly the same. Much of the time, the White House press throws softballs, which McClellan has no trouble responding to. Even with the testier climate of late, the hard questions that are sometimes asked usually die in the morass of McClellan's obfuscations and outright lying. But an experienced White House reporter can sometimes nail McClellan to the wall. And when we talk experience, there's no reporter with more of it than Helen Thomas, who began covering the White House beat when JFK was president. As any of the last eight presidents [and who knows how many press secretaries] could tell you, it's a bad idea to try to stop Thomas from getting at the truth. [Photo: John Pendygraft/St Petersburg Times] At yesterday's briefing, Thomas had a question about Dubya's illegal wiretapping: Q Does the President think he should obey the law? He put his hand on the Bible twice to uphold the Constitution. Wiretapping is not legal under the circumstances without a warrant. This magpie gives the match to Helen Thomas, by a mile. | | Posted by Magpie at 1:48 PM | Get permalink
How's your musical perception?
That's what's being evaluated in this music listening test that's part of a study at the UK's University of Newcastle. You're presented with 30 pairs of tunes, and you have to decide whether the tunes in each pair are the same or slightly different. The test takes between 5 and 10 minutes, and I thought it was big fun. Given that I'm a fiddler who plays Irish traditional music a genre in which outsiders tend to think all the tunes sound the same I wasn't surprised to get 29 out of 30 correct. You can take the test yourself if you go here. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:03 PM | Get permalink
Monday, February 6, 2006
Pushing that envelope.
Pushing it to the point of bursting, I'd say. Not only does Dubya and his attorney general believe that the prez can unilaterally order wiretaps despite a federal law barring him from doing so, but a Justice Department official suggested last week that it would be legal for Dubya to order the killing of a terror subject on US soil. No warrant. No court hearing. Just Dubya's say-so. Via Newsweek. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:30 PM | Get permalink
The latest in a long line.
Dubya's dislike of freedom of speech [see this post from earlier today] follows a path that goes way back in US history. The 1734 proclamation from George II's royal governor to the king's subjects in the colony of New York [over there on the left] is a good example: Whereas ill-minded and Disaffected Persons have lately dispersed in the City of New York, and diverse other Places, several Scandalous and Seditious libels, but more particularly two Printed Scandalous Songs or Ballads highly defaming the Administration of His Majesty's Government in this Province, tending greatly to Inflame the Minds of his Majesty's good Subjects, and to disturb the Public Peace. And Whereas the Grand Jury for the City and County of New York did lately, by their Address to me, complain of these Pernicious Practices, and request me to issue a Proclamation for the Discovery of the Offenders, that they might, by Law, receive a Punishment adequate to their Guilt and Crime. I Have therefore thought fit, by and with the Advice of his Majesty's Council, to issue this Proclamation, hereby Promising Twenty Pounds as a Reward, to such Person or Persons who shall discover the Author or Authors of the two Scandalous Songs or Ballads aforesaid, to be paid to the Person or Persons discovering the same, as soon as such Author or Authors shall be Convicted of having been the Author or Authors thereof. [You can find a full-sized image of the royal governor's proclamation here.] From where this magpie roosts, there isn't much difference between the 18th century attempt to suppress 'scandalous' songs and our current would-be-king George's frequently expressed disdain of freedom. In fact, the passage of 270 years only shows that the prez is even more reactionary than most of us give him credit for. From Images of American History, via WFMU's Beware of the Blog. | | Posted by Magpie at 11:55 AM | Get permalink
How many ways can they say 'misogyny'?
A whole f'n lot of ways, actually. And those aren't even the worst t-shirts sold by these creeps. I won't go into how the glorification of these attitudes contributes towards violence against women, 'cause then I'd be accused of being a humorless feminist. Who's probably a lesbian, to boot. You, however, are probably made of sterner stuff and can't wait to give these guys a piece of your mind? So here's the email: matt@sinfulshirts.com. Go to it! Via Feministing.com. | | Posted by Magpie at 11:27 AM | Get permalink
We were warned.
Dubya's claim that he can spy on whoever he wants shouldn't come as any surprise, given his administration's fast and loose treatment of federal laws and the Bill of Rights. But this quote of Dubya's here surprised even this magpie: 'There ought to be limits to freedom.' As usual, I was a bit suspicious of a quote without a specific source, even it appeared at Lab Kat, which is pretty careful about these things. But after a quick search, I found that Dubya did say it, although before he became the prez. Back in 1999, a website had the temerity to bring up Dubya's alleged cocaine use as a campaign issue, and our man was pretty pissed off. [The site looked like the official Dubya presidential campaign website, and was headlined 'Just Say No to Former Cocaine User for President.'] He can deal it out but can't take it, obviously. But even more worrisome is the fact that Dubya felt that the freedom of expression guaranteed by the First Amendment didn't extend to anyone who criticized him personally. Given that behavior, his current authoritarian tendencies shouldn't be surprising anyone. By the way, Lab Kat has put the Dubya quote into a context that speaks for itself. Go check it out. | | Posted by Magpie at 10:50 AM | Get permalink |
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