26. March, 2003 - that’s settled then
- It’s been decided: Spunky MacHack stays on Calendar Despite Apple WWDC Move. I applaud the MacHack committee for deciding to stick to their guns and not reschedule the conference, but now I’m faced with the decision of how I deal with it. I’ve moved all my comments on the WWDC schedule change to Apple’s monkey-wrench in my summer.
- 68 arrested at Minneapolis war protest. They were blocking entrances to the U.S. Courthouse. Nothing like the protests in SF, but pretty big news around here. [strib]
- CWD turns up in Wisconsin elk imported from Minnesota. Again, there’s still no proof that CWD will jump from deer or elk to humans, but that’s what they said about BSE in England at first, too. [strib]
- Lyme disease total soars in Minnesota. 2002 saw 88 percent more cases than 2001. This’ll be a good year to make sure you don’t get bit by ticks.
- Bush administration endorses McVeigh Doctrine:
The latest Bush propaganda philosophy goes like this: if you have a tyrannical government you’re trying to get rid of, anywhere in the world, you bomb its government buildings, target its leaders, and label yourselves freedom fighters
, and you can morally do anything you want.
Sounds vaguely familiar… [endwar]
Where Have All The Muslims Gone?
asks a teacher in the Detroit area. Dissappeared? Or fled? Once, I thought that the republic was governed for the people and by the people. Today, I realized that people are the very last thing that this republic cares about.
[metafilter]- Face recognition gets lift, says U.S., so soon we’ll be at the point where your face can be picked out of a crowd. It’s better at picking out men than women, and older people more easliy than younger ones.
- Since the English-language version of Al Jazeera has been hard to reach (and now they’ve been banned from the NYSE floor, too), you may want to look at Dar Al Hayat news. It’s been suggested as an alternate news source for following current events. [endwar]
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Last updated on Wed, 26 Mar 2003 08:38:57.