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Thursday, September 28, 2006

very cool
interactive
art site

National Gallery
of Art, Washington

NOTE: it is not just for kids
The JUNGLE (left) is
one of a dozen
interactive art applets.
...

"... inspired by the paintings of French artist Henri Rousseau."

Friday, September 22, 2006


Dick Cheney aka VICE PRES. aka puppet master speaking with MR. TIM RUSSERT
Say he would do it [the war]
all over age the exact same way!!!!
Damn His Eyes! They just dont get it!!
from
Meet the Press transcript:

VICE PRES. CHENEY: You’d have a man who had demonstrated capacity for violence, who started two wars, who had, in fact, been involved with weapons for mass destruction, who had every intention of going back to it when the sanctions were lifted. And by this point, especially with Ahmadinejad living next door in Iran, pursuing nuclear weapons, there’s no doubt in my mind that if Saddam Hussein was still in power, would have a very robust program under way to try to do exactly the same thing. The world is better off because Saddam Hussein is in jail instead of in power in Baghdad. It was the right thing to do and if we had it to do over again, we’d do exactly the same thing.

MR. RUSSERT: Exactly the same thing?

VICE PRES. CHENEY: Yes, sir.

more ....it gets sadder

ITS CALENDAR TIME!
despair.com who does a great parody of the motivational posters now introduces
Build your own calendar.
Pick THE motivational ....
errr..... De-motivational topics like

AMBITION
with the subtext of:

The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly

Then personalize the dates with your own humor, and birthday reminders etc

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Little people:
....so fine ! so so sweet ....

installation art at a new scale more more more

first mentioned by abby on boing boing

but worth another mention

and so so much better than the ugly cows in boston cow parade

Marry Me Bars!

I am in love with them....
sure they are not ice cream ....
but they are Dam Good for a soy product
company Tofutti Brands also makes tofutti cutties
even if you are not cutting back on "moo juice" derrivatives
it still worth the try
a possible vegan delight too....

Tuesday, September 12, 2006


Yahoo beta email is a dog

nice design maybe...but with all its ads
it really bites .....switching back to classic
for trivial email...using gmail for all essential email.

Friday, September 08, 2006

winning the midterm elections the BUSH way
Just when BUSH needs it, he pops
the fear word
terrorism !!! (see below*) Sort of like the word "liberal" used in the past,
but oh it has than little extra Texas Kick, to swing the voters back around....
dam dam dam...
my gray hairs are increasing in numbers
and Bush is not helping !


*the byline reads:
" His
[presidents] speeches on security this week signal that Republicans will use the terrorism issue for the third election in a row."
more
source: Christian Science Monitor
from the September 08, 2006 edition, | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
new!
  • i am adding a sections Translated newspapers for newspaper that are translated by google tool structure:
translate.google.com
/translate?
sourceid=navclient-ff
&hl=en
&u=http://www.faz.net

  • i added New Scientist to news digested

Thursday, September 07, 2006

Need your help:
do you have a news site you love
which is not listed here on the side bar ?
let me know.

do you have suggestions for other
reference sites?
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006

THE BEST: have to try it
imagelabeler .....very addicting

by google


http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/

o you have to come up with label for images
o you get points if someone else also gives it the same label

o that someone else is looking at the image at the same time
o you don’t know what they are entering

o each time you match, a new image comes up

o there is a time limit , so you have to fire away to get matches

google gets better labels out of the deal

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

We have ignored the Kurds, but it shall also boil over. (see following stories) There is a mounting call for independence. Turkey is very worried. We should be too. We screw the Kurds once before, they rightfully will only trust the US as far as they need the US. What was GWB thinking? What Should we do....damned if I know...

Story one - Open unrest of Kurds in Turkey
Two killed in Turkey cafe blast
Two people have been killed in a bomb explosion at an outdoor cafe in south-east Turkey, police say. At least seven people were injured in the blast, which hit the tea garden in the town of Catak in Van province, near the border with Iran. It follows a series of bombings in Turkish resorts and Istanbul last week in which at least three people died.

A smoke-covered street in Antalya following the explosion on 28 August 2006

more

source:BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5311252.stm


Story two - Clear signs of a independent state blooming
Kurdish Leader Bans Iraqi Flag in Northern Iraq
By M. Alihan Hasanoglu, Cihan News Agency, Arbil
Saturday, September 02, 2006
zaman.com

Massoud Barzani, Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) leader and president of the Kurdish Regional Government in northern Iraq, banned the Iraqi national flag in the Kurdish region, claiming it represented the Baath regime. more

source: http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&hn=36213
if you love firefox then you will LOL at this
IE7
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