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WTC/Pentagon attacks meta-coverage:

• World New York
• Camworld
• Scripting News

Everyone from Pat Robertson to assorted elected officials are blaming not only Islamic terrorists, but "Islam" as a shorthand for it--all with, as yet, no evidence of who might have been behind the attacks.

Tom Brokaw on NBC can't get enough of State Department officials. For hours this morning, NBC "reported" that the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine had "claimed responsibility" for the attack on the World Financial Center. Brokaw's source, it turns out, was an anonymous caller to Abu Dhabi television.

originally posted by xowie

Good reminder from an activist mailing list:

Be vigilant against the anti Muslim hysteria that could hit. We already ran into a guy who was spray painting ‘Fuck Islam’. After a few stern words, and a talk about the Muslims who surely were in the World Trade Center when the planes hit, he helped us spray paint over his racist tag. White people in particular have a real responsibility here to protect our middle eastern brothers and sisters from the mindless, racist, reasonless attacks and finger pointing that are sure to follow this attack.

Check in here if you’re alive in New York or any other affected city (DC).

dead @ 32 is hosting lots of photos and video of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks.

Huge smoke cloud visible on NYC radar. (MeFi)

originally posted by xowie

What good is spilling blood?
It will not grow a thing
“TASTE ETERNITY”
the sword sings Blues for ALLAH
In’sh’ALLAH
They lie where they fall
There’s nothing more to say

• Robt. Hunter

  look at water and fire
  earth and wind
  enemies and friends all at once
  the wolf and the lamb
  the lion and the deer
  far away yet together
  look at the unity of this
  spring and winter
  manifested in the equinox
  you too must mingle my friends
  since the earth and the sky
  are mingled just for you and me
  - Rumi

  ‘An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.'
  

• Mahatma Gandhi (via Noise Between Stations)

originally posted by xowie

If you're in Manhattan, think about something seriously for me -- there was already a major blood shortage, and there will be an immense need for blood. Most hospitals have set up ways for you to walk in and donate blood today; please, if you're OK, and your family is OK, and you are just glued to your television, think about ungluing yourself, walking to your nearest hospital, and donating blood.

I cannot stress how important this is right now.

PFLP denying responsibility. DFLP too.

originally posted by xowie

CIA fact sheet and Muslim student database on Osama bin Laden.

originally posted by xowie

Astrological software for Apple Macintosh.

Sec. 101: Prohibition of Certain Devices.
(a) In General -- It is unlawful to manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide or otherwise traffic in any interactive digital device that does not include and utilize certified security technologies that adhere to the security system standards adopted under section 104.

originally posted by xowie

Buddy Holly’s 65th birthday. Rave on!

originally posted by xowie

Transform Columbus Day.

originally posted by xowie

My unseen opponent began with some highly irregular, if not totally absurd, opening moves - shifting all his pawns forward by one square. These were moves that no Grandmaster would ever play. From this deliberately unpromising position emerged moves of extraordinary power. In the first game I was totally crushed.

I am Seymour Skinner. Who are you?

Of course if you're Einstein, you want everything that you want your way and then you want to be left alone. So you want love, and you want affection, you want a good meal, but then you don't want any interference outside of that, so you don't want any obligations interfering with your life, with your work. Which is a difficult stance to maintain in an adult relationship; it doesn't work. Everything has to be a give and take. Einstein always felt Paradise was just around the corner, but as soon as he got there, it started looking a little shabby and something better appeared.

SF Gate: Sketches of the Game of Ultimate.

originally posted by xowie

"John and George had already had a dose, but then called me and asked if I wanted to come over, and I thought 'yeah, cool, why not -- it's the Beatles after all','' he recalled, describing how they had gone on to get high.

originally posted by xowie

Fortunately the world didn't split in two as one of the children surveyed before the event believed would happen, nor did the Earth leave the Sun's orbit as feared by another.

The Adult Industry Medical (AIM) HealthCare Foundation was started by porn legend Sharon Mitchell to provide HIV testing and health care for performers in the adult entertainment industry. They are providing a vital service to exploited workers and are terribly under-funded. If you watch porn, you should support this organization.

originally posted by xowie

George Washington University, located in the DC neighborhood expected to see some state violence at the end of this month, is closing its dorms for five days surrounding the IMF/World Bank meetings. An interesting aspect of the shutdown which somehow didn’t make it into the Washington Post article is that the DC police will be using GWU as a base of operations.

The U.S. runs but can’t hide.

originally posted by xowie

Who’s got the beats in hip-hop these days? Where is the song that gets you snapping your neck before you even realize the stereo’s on, and then keeps you nodding after it ends, like the next day?

When I first did the Lawrence story, the biggest problem was for the very small papers in the United States. The editors may have agreed with it, but they couldn't run it. One editor told me someone broke windows at his paper, and another said his kids got beaten up at school and someone spray-painted his dog.