This is a good reminder that no life should go unnoticed.
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Refugees Emerge to Discover Vitenam War Over
This is an incredible story from Cambodia. Apparently, refugees fled the Vietnamese, hiding in the jungle, and only discovered the war was over because they finally chose to leave the jungle.
Sometimes it’s hard to forget you’re in Kansas…
… such as those times when you have two steers on the loose just west of downtown. And your squad car suffers damage from them.
Answers To Life’s Vexing Question
Haven’t we all wondered about this?
A Divided America
I was struck by a Nixon quote I saw on NBC tonight. He said, in 1968, to a deeply divided America, that he would make it his top priority to reunite the country. It didn’t work out so well for him. I wonder if Bush will be any more successful in his similar promise.
What Are We Fighting For?
I just watched Unconstitutional. It ended with this question: what are we fighting for?
Most people would say we are fighting for our freedom. That would include our freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom from the government detaining us for no reason, freedom from our government using their power to steal our property.
Yet our response to attacks on us is to turn around and restrict many of those things we say we’re fighting for. People who are Muslims in this country have been beaten in American Federal prisons, held for nearly a year with no charges filed. People who are exercising their right to protest find themselves under FBI scrutiny.
For those of you that have not yet seen Unconstitutional, you should see it. If you are thinking it is like Fahrenheit 9/11, think again. This is not a stick-a-microphone-in-a-politician’s-face-to-make-him-look-stupid movie. This is a movie loaded with first-person interviews and actual footage of events. They interviewed a Muslim family fleeing oppression in Syria who had three family members held in terrible conditions — in Seattle — after 9/11. They showed footage of a Washington, D.C. police unit infiltrating a peaceful protest during Bush’s inauguration. The parallels to the Japanese internment camps years ago are startling.
This is something we should all be MAD about.
World\’s Worst Telco?
Hats of to Slashdot for unearthing, so to speak, what is probably the worst set of telephone company horror stories I’ve ever heard.
Enjoy Being Slower
There’s a nice article in the Philadelphia Inquirer about how time seems to stop sometimes when you travel by train. It’s a good read.
The site has an annoying registration system. bugmenot.com will help with that.
House Outlaws Fast-Forwarding; Senate & Pres Next?
These sorts of things really tick me off. Wired is reporting that the U.S. House has passed HR2391, which, among other things, would make it a violation of the Copyright Act to skip commercials using a technological means (hardware or software) — and it makes it a violation to make the computer program that allows people to skip commercials.
I feel a donation to the EFF coming on.
Happy Birthday, Vacuum Tube
Today, the vacuum tube turns 100.
The vacuum tube made possible everything from amplifiers to control circuits and early computers.