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I just returned from PodCamp, Boston, a 2 day gathering of nearly 300 podcasters, at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston (actually Charlestown), within walking distance of the monument...
Weve been distracted, unfortunately, by the Israel-Hezbollah war and the failed London-based plot to bomb as many as 10 civilian jet planes. Both of these events have pushed the Iraq...
With the Israel-Hezbollah hostilities due to cease on Monday morning, I decided to check out what the Israeli newspapers and bloggers are saying about what has transpired in the last...
Some video from Youtube showing the ghastly aftermath of Hezbollah rocket attacks on northern Israel. This video is more raw than you typically see on CNN or Fox.
Rocket Attack in
I received an email from Mani, an Iranian engineering student who would like to see democracy come to his country. He asked me to post the following:
Iranian student dies in jail.
The...
I came across a great interview that former Senator (and Vice Presidential candidate) John Edwards did with former President (and Governor of Georgia) Jimmy Carter.
Listen to John Edwards...
Al Manar, the Hezbollah TV station, is blocked in the United States. Click on this link to Al-Manar. I dont know why this is. I thought only countries like China and Iran block Internet...
Australian actor Jack Thompson claims that global warming is a far greater atrocity than the September 11 terror attacks, from globalwarmingwatch.
Heres the article in the Sunday Telegraph...
Judging by the articles Im reading, both from the Web and the blogosphere, I have to conclude that the housing bubble is for real, and is worldwide to boot. Here are some articles
Parents, if you have taken out PLUS loans (Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students), you should consolidate now, from Yahoo business.
The interest rate on PLUS loans will be adjusted...
The Nike+ running shoes contain a pedometer sensor and a wireless transmitter that talks to a receiver you plug into an iPod Nano, from boingboing.net.
Talk about intelligent design!...
Attention all Pearl Jam fans - Pearl Jams new music video, Life Wasted, is now available on Google Video for free, from Googleblog.
Play it now.
Its available under the Creative Commons...
There was some recovery early Tuesday, amid a lot of volatility, according to the India Times.
ALERT! SENSEX BOUNCES BACK ON WEDNESDAY! UP 341 POINTS!
The markets witnessed some
An employee of the Veterans Administration took home information without authorization and let it get stolen, from One Pissed Off Veteran blog entry.
The stolen information included...
In the final chapter of the breakup of Yugoslavia, Montenegro votes, by a narrow margin, to secede from Serbia, from Yahoo News.
The country was formerly Serbia-Montenegro. Montenegro...
Billions of dollars of share value was lost last Friday and this Monday on the Mumbai (Bombay) Stock Exchage. Police are keeping a watch near lakes an canals, where distressed investors...
The following was taken in its entirety from Wired News, in the belief that the NSA and the Bush administration will do all they can to get it removed from the Internet and keep it
May 20, 2006 - the Three Gorges Dam opens early but with much controversy, from The Guardian.
With over 1,000,000 people displaced, buildup of silt downstream, havoc to the environment,...
Believing that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism, the Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno claimed, from scotsman.com.
Sounds as if creationism
If youre looking for a great Fathers Day book, check out Tim Russerts Wisdom of Our Fathers. I saw him give a talk on CSPANs BookTV. Hes an excellent speaker. The book is based on emails...
Officials of Polands television network TVP announced that will ban advertisements containing erotic and violent scenes during Pope Benedicts visit to Krakow this week - from cracow-life.com
Along...
Please tell everyone you know about Brian Ross reporting that his cell phone is being tapped by the FBI. His reporting, on the ABC News blog, is courageous.
He was told by a confidential...
With all the hubbub about No Child Left Behind and the need for educational standards, this article from MSNBC explains how our textbooks are dumbed down. Were losing the race to India...
In this exclusive report, correspondent Brian Ross interviews an active duty air marshal who says his cover has been blown because of policies of the Federal Air Marshal Service, from...
According to this article in truthout.org, former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove will be indicted for perjury and lying to investigators. Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald...
According to this article (from Discovery Health), no relationship is quite as primal as the one between a mother and a daughter. When youre five, (mother) is a goddessThats the way...
This is the full translated text of the letter the President of Iran sent to President Bush, from Le Monde (Paris)
Why cant the mainstream media just publish the text of the letter,...
Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) claimed that his bizarre behavior was caused by Ambien, Ambiens manufacturer, Sanofi-Aventis, is the subject of a class action lawsuit. One
Iran will open an oil stock exchange next week, from Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting.
Oil will be priced in euros, not dollars. Why is that important to us? By providing an
This is an abridged, translated version of an article that appeared in the Chinese National Geographic Magazine, from Three Gorges Probe News Service.
See also earlier article on Three...
Microsoft latest operating system, Windows Vista is likely be delayed again by at least 3 months according to the Gartner Group.
According to CNN, the Gartner target is May-June, 2007.
Information...
In California, you can get a 50 year home loan. - from bankrate.com
Suppose you take such a loan when youre 30. That means you wont pay the loan off until youre 80! The 50 year mortgage...
Taliban militants shot an Indian hostage dead in Afghanistan as he was trying to escape. - from Yahoo News
Story from The Hindu (India) - Foreign Minister Shyam Saran called the beheading...
A Boston court ruled that Verizon can charge a fee for local calls that connect to the Internet. - from boston.com
This ruling means that a Boston-area AOL dial-up user who makes a...
Casey Fossum, though wild, pitched 6+ shutout innings, as Tampa Bay defeated Boston, 5-2. - from the Seattle Post Intelligencer.
Box score from redsox.com
The game exposed a number
A Vatican offical urged Catholics to boycott the film.
This is the thread on digg.
One blogger disagrees: its only one persons opinion.
Angelo Amato, head of the Congregation for the...
The FBI secretly sought information last year on 3,501 U.S. citizens and legal residents from their banks and credit card, telephone and Internet companies without a courts approval,...
From Cambridge University (UK), some facts about our power consumption. - from Cambridge Earth First.
Weve lost, for example, 400,000 square miles of the Arctic. There are some interesting...
In two starts, Josh Becketts ERA zoomed from 1.29 to 4.50. Hes given up 14 runs (13 earned) in his last 2 starts. He gave up 9 runs (8 earned) in this one, needing 100 pitches to
A former Iranian ambassador and Iranian insider provided details of US covert operations inside Iran. - from Asia Times
Seymour Hersh, in an article in the New Yorker magazine, claimed...
According to Reuters (via Israel), the answer is yes.
The story from HaAretz (Israel).
Israels military intelligence chief reports that Iran has received a first shipment of missiles...
Alexander Milinkevich, the main opposition leader in Belarus, was jailed today after being convicted of attending an unsanctioned rally. - from news.bbc.co.uk
A blog entry about Milinkevichs...
Tim Wakefield was the victim of 4 Josh Bard passed balls and anemic Boston hitting, taking another tough luck loss. - from boston.com
Official box score, from redsox.com
Wakefield blames...
CNN Moneys headline today is New Home Sales Soar
Not everyone agrees. Some posts from the blogosphere disputing this claim:
From Northern New Jersey: Housing Is Dead - the text of...
According to boston.com, Coco (aka Covelli) Crisp and I will be neighbors. They just bought a house in Middleton, MA. I was wondering - did he get a good deal. According to the
A dramatic 8th inning home run by Manny Ramirez, following an intentional walk to David Ortiz, powered the Sox to an 8-6 victory over the Tribe. - from boston.com
redsox.com wrapup
Cleveland...
According to boingboing.net, Jane Jacobs, who really understood how cities work, died today.
I read her book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, over 40 years ago. Her writing...
You think gas prices are high here? Check out this chart of gas prices ($/gallon) around the world. from CNN Money.
This chart is as of March, 2005. CNN got its figures from air-inc.com,...
On the afternoon of February 22, 2006, Hao Wu, a Chinese documentary filmmaker and blogger, ws jailed by the Beijing division of Chinas State Security Bureau. That afternoon, he had...
Someone googled this site asking for Famous Rabbis of Krakow, Poland. I thought Id oblige. - from The Museum of the Jewish People (Israel)
The Museum of the Jewish People (Beit-Hatfustoth)...
