Sensi in Hollywood.
Sensi in Hollywood.
originally posted by xowie
Sensi in Hollywood.
originally posted by xowie
Some film-makers in Los Angeles see the current relationship between Hollywood and the White House as a mutual back-scratching function, with President Bush seeking to win over the normally pro-Democratic entertainment community while Hollywood wins brownie points which it may be able to employ later in its relationship with the government.You think? Rousing montage of film clips is just what the president ordered.
originally posted by xowie
Say it ain’t so, the Sorting Hat sent me to Slytherin!
Four thousand one hundred one pages on Abbie (Abbott) Hoffman, courtesy the Federal Bureau of Investigation, via newbreed librarian.
That MetaFilter book club people were talking about starting now lives at Yahoo! Groups : MeFiBooks.
WP: The Coldest Warrior by Ted Gup.
originally posted by xowie
I just got an email with the following headers:
From: xz9Q.559fMh2334@msn.comCan you guess what the body said?
To: <Undisclosed.Recipients>
Subject: Anything other than white is unacceptible 191943
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:55:57 -0800
xrefer: “The web’s reference engine … contains encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri & books of quotations.” Is it any good? (racism quotes, gormless definition)
Saudi clans working with U.S. oil firms may be tied to bin Laden
Two billionaire Saudi families scrutinized by authorities for possible financial ties to Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network continue to engage in major oil deals with leading U.S. corporations.file under: why-doesn’t-this-surprise-me?
We are targeting these groups that do it all the time. If you are at your house one night and you want to get a free copy of some software, that's not what we are talking about.Well, that's a relief! Although, the ZDNet headline promises "Warez Crackdown's Just Begun"...
The new Google Catalog Search is dope.
In my late teens, I saw "Wild Style." I went to a music store and told the man there I wanted two turntables. And he laughed at me, said "You don't need two, you just need one!"DJ Krush: Putting His Spin on Hip-Hop (washingtonpost.com)
From Follow Me Here:
Michael Moore’s publisher tells him his forthcoming book Stupid White Men and Other Excuses for the State of the Nation will not be distributed, and the print run will be destroyed, because the content is offensive and he is intellectually dishonest for not saying that the President has done a “good job” in recent months.
“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty and vice versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you."Doris Lessing
Hello, Switzerland.
originally posted by xowie
What do you get when you mix the best book ever written with the most prolific games designer of the last fifteen years? Lord of the Rings by Reiner Knizia. (...)The Lord of the Rings board game sounds like a winner.
I can see the game becoming as popular as Settlers of Catan.
In wartime, people want a cocksure leader, the kind of guy who enjoys sparring with reporters, grins when things appear to go badly and shows occasional glimpses of our national craziness — you never know, he really might just decide to flatten Baghdad. Like Osama bin Laden, Rummy clearly digs the war, and while most of the Bush team walks around wearing permanent expressions of hemorrhoidal despair, he looks like he’s having fun.Wyatt Earp and the Witchfinder General by John Powers.
originally posted by xowie
Adbusters: America vs. The World
Assignment: List direct American military intervention on other nations' soil from World War II to the present day. Do not include: indirect military involvement such as arms sales, however significant (e.g. Israel); nuclear threats or nuclear testing (e.g. Marshall Islands); establishment of controversial bases or defense systems (e.g. Western Europe, Saudi Arabia); humanitarian missions that did not involve combat; or the geopolitical impacts of military treaty development, acceptance or rejection. Discuss.
Hello, mycroft.pica.army.mil!
TidBITS Mac newsletter on Digital Photo Goodies.
Infographic: clearing out the caves (CNN).