Link dump and transfer

These are some links retrieved off my original blog, which was found archived. Some may not still work, and I hope to weed those out. Most are pretty good though. I also noticed that the webarchive turns these links into their links. I am not sure what that means as yet. Guess I'll find out when I try them. If they fail I will delete the post. I also notice that they are all run together, but I'm feeling lazy today, and so they will probably stay that way for a least a while. If they are already on my blog, I will try to omit it.


4ad Records Alchemy Journal Ampersand Amphetadesk Big Sur Tapes Blog of Collective Intelligence Blogpulse CafePress Boing Boing Bookslut, The Brad DeLong Bringthemhomenow.org Christopher Lydon CitiesForPeace Col. David Hackworth Conblog-The Indepundit Counterspin CrisisPapers Crooked Timber Cultural Creatives Cultural Elite, The Cyberjournalist.net

Daily Brew, The Daily Rant, The Dalkey Archives Dave Barry Dave Winer Daypop Dem Underground Democrats.com Desultor DonkeyRising Dreamvirus Journal EFF Esther Dyson ExitZero Facets Multimedia FastPolitics Finnegans Wake Concordex First Stone Florida Blog Freethinker's Page

Great American Speeches GreyMatter Guardian UK Hack the Planet Harvard Political Review In These Times Incendiary Introspection Indy Media International Sentinel, The Jim Hightower John Sugg Juan Cole Labyrinth (Medieval resources) LeanLeft Left is Right Lefty Directory, The LegitGov LiberalSlant Literary Kicks Live Journal Lucy Perkins

MadKane Mahablog Maureen Dowd MaxSpeak Media Matters Media Revolution MediaBurn Medieval Mayhem by Skelligsraven Meerkat Michael Moore Molly Ivens Mitch Kapor More from Harvard Mother Jones Movable Type MWO Mystic Fire Video Natalie Davis Native American Raven Lore News is Free NION NION - signers North Carolina Experiment, The North State Blogs

OJR Onion Online Journal Oxblog Oxford Democracy Forum Oxytocin PaidContent PBS Online Perfunctory Peter Merholz Philip Greenspun Plucky Popdex Project Censored Published.com Radio Userland RaptorMagic Raw Story Rebecca's Pocket Robert Anton Wilson RSSifyTool Rumi

Salam Pax Salon Second-Class Citizen Sisyphus Shrugged Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Slactivist Slash Slate Stand Down Syndic8 Take Back the Media The Nation The Rational Liberal thinking while typing Tom Tomorrow TomPaine TroubleTickets TrueMajority TruthOut

UK Parliament on the Web Unanswered Questions 911 Utne Online Village Voice w.bloggar Wallace Stevens Wanted: A Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy Weblogs.com WhiskeyBar's List o' Lies
Who's Who in Mysticism Wintermute Z-Net Zope

RECENT ADDITIONS Broken Train Weblog Against War Peace Blogs LEFT is RIGHT Alternative Online News Outlets Eatonweb/NCDU Blogs The Rodent's Burrow CentrifugalForce Omega Point 2012

salonified blogs These are some of the blogs recommended by readers of TableTalk at Salon.com. Agonist ArmedLiberal BeetleSympathy Billmon T.Bogg Calpundit CitizenCites Claremont Weblog Command-Post Counterspin BarryCrimmins Cursor DearRaed Digbysblog DisgustedLiberal Ehrensteinland FailureIsImpossible TheGrandOldParty HermesPress Insurrection JaneGalt JubileeIraq TheLeftCoaster LetterFromGotham LiberalOasis
LinkPopularity LyingSocialistWeasels MainstreamList MajorBarbara J.Marshall
Maxspeak MingReport MyPhD NathanNewman NewLeftBlogs Nuisance NealPollack
Quasipundit Rittenhouse RogerAiles SalonBlog SDSessions SDPP.org RobertScheer
SkyeDreams SlicedAndDiced SmirkingChimp TAP Alternate Usn-dem-vet Vaara WealthBondage WorldCrossing/WebX

The Future of Iraq and U.S. Occupation

by Noam Chomsky

Media Monopoly - Bagdikian

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Bush Lies

Bush Lies: Compendious collection by M.E. Cowan

Revenge of the Bond Traders - by Robert B. Reich

American Prospect Online - ViewWeb
"Meet some folks on Wall Street who might not like Bush's Social Security privatization. "

Cashing in on Cons: Undercover at the American Correctional Association's 2005 Winter Conference

In These Times

The Dreams of George Bush by Robert L. Borosage

The Nation

My fellow Americans, my invasion and occupation of Iraq has cost thousands of lives, wasted hundreds of billions of dollars and provided a recruiting boon to Al Qaeda across the world. It has left America more isolated and less respected than ever. The election went better than I hoped, but there's no way to get out without the country descending into civil war and no way to stay without the insurgency and our casualties growing.

"My tax cuts left the country with record deficits, the slowest jobs growth since the Great Depression and the greatest inequality since the Gilded Age. My trade policies have racked up the highest trade deficits in the annals of nations, and left us dependent on the willingness of the Chinese and Japanese governments to keep buying our bonds despite the continuing fall of the dollar.

Think Progress | Nick Lewis's Weblog

Think Progress | Nick Lewis's Weblog

The Center for America Progress is now publishing a new blog called Think Progress. I'm Impressed. Listed below is their explanation of "what we're all about":

What We're Fighting For:
Social and Economic Justice
Healthy Communities
Global Leadership
A Secure America

What We're Fighting Against:
Corrupt Establishment
Incompetent Establishment
Braindead Media
Radical Right-Wing Agenda

George Orwell on a the Motives of a Writer | Nick Lewis's Weblog

George Orwell on a the Motives of a Writer | Nick Lewis's Weblog

"I used to be known as quite the conservative."

Jake To The Bone: What I've been saying.
"I used to be known as quite the conservative. I listened to lame-brained Limbaugh on a regular basis, and even listened to the re-runs on the weekends. I voted for Reagan and Bush I...twice. As a church-owned teen, and as the son of a preacher, I opposed evolution.
Thank God that somewhere, somehow along the way something in my brain -- that nagging little voice that serves as everyone's baloney detector -- clicked, and I started doing homework. Maybe it started in college in my Anthropology class. Who knows.
The main point is, I started thinking, I started suspecting I was being lied to, and I started to do the hard work of being a citizen -- homework...with the TV sound turned down. " MORE

Democratic Revival - "The Democracy"

via Lion's Den

"...And, if you ask me, Mother Jones has given us our manifesto."

Manager Of World's Largest Bond Fund Comes Out Against W's Privatization Scheme...

via Brian's Political Donnybrook

Is Bush Senior...Deep Throat? And is he ill?

This summary is not available. Please click here to view the post.

worldKit :: easy web mapping :: Home

worldKit :: easy web mapping :: Home

High Strangeness: When Flesh and Blood Fell from the Sky

Red Rain over 3rd Great-grampy's Farm

Poetsarus.com: Exclusively For Blogging Poets

Blog aggregators are popping-up all over the Internet, but to my knowledge, this aggregator created Feburary 4, 2005, is the first aggregator for blogging poets. If you'd like to add your poetry web-log to this aggregator please send me an e-mail to: idlehandsmag@gmail.com Be sure to include your URL and your feed(s).
(via Billy the Blogging Poet)

UNC-Chapel Hill creates Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity

names former Sen. John Edwards as director
(via Ed and Zhoodah)

CHAPEL HILL -- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is launching a Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity that will be led by former U.S. Senator and vice presidential candidate John Edwards.
The Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity will be a nonpartisan initiative, bringing together UNC-Chapel Hill faculty and other national public policy experts to examine innovative and practical ideas for moving more Americans out of poverty and into the middle class. The center will have an advisory committee of senior faculty representing multiple disciplines across campus. In addition to leading the center, Edwards also will serve as a guest lecturer on campus.
"John Edwards is a distinguished Carolina alumnus, and we are delighted that he will return to campus to bring together today’s best minds to focus on issues that affect us all," Chancellor James Moeser said.

Bucky Goldstein, I mean Kinky Friedman To Run For Governor of Texas

Unconventional country singer/author Kinky Friedman has announced he will run as an independent for governor of Texas in 2006. The 60-year-old planned to announce his candidacy in front of the Alamo. After that, all bets were off as to how Friedman would run his campaign.

You Are a Newborn Soul

You are tolerant, accepting, and willing to give anyone a chance. On the flip side, you're easy to read and easily influenced by others. You have a fresh perspective on life, and you can be very creative. Noconformist and nontraditional, you've never met anyone who's like you. Inventive and artistic, you like to be a trendsetter. You have an upbeat spirit and you like almost everything. You make friends easily and often have long standing friendships. Implusive and trusting, you fall in love a little too easily. Souls you are most compatible with: Bright Star Soul and Dreaming Soul

What Kind of Soul Are You?

Progressive Bible

The American Street puts it all together

George Lakoff is not the only genius helping to put Progressives on the map and into office. Now The American Street has done the work that will keep Progressives in good stead for months and years to come.

Come to the site. Bookmark it. Join. And if you can...donate.
It really is haaard work! This page should be a staple in every Progressive library and blogroll. 5 stars! *****

The Propaganda President - George W. Bush does his best Kim Jong-il.

By Jack Shafer

If "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il of North Korea and George W. Bush ever meet, I suspect the two will bond like long-lost brothers. Both men are first-born sons of powerful fathers who partied like adolescents well into their adult lives, after which they submitted to their dynastic fates as heads of state.

Both avoid critical thought, preferring to surround themselves with yes men and apply propagandistic slogans to the onrushing complexities of justice, culture, economics, and foreign policy. Bush churns out buzz phrases with the best of them: He believes in "compassionate conservatism" and fancies himself part of the "army of compassion." He's the "reformer with results" who embraces the "culture of life." He shouts his paeans to "liberty" and "freedom" (a combined 27 times during last night's State of the Union speech, according to today's Washington Post) while reducing civil liberties at home.

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MrWondrous : One-Man Internet

MrWondrous : One-Man Internet

More memory lane stuff dug from the webarchives. This is an index of a few dozen old webpages dating from 1994.

World Peace Treaty 2000

World Peace Treaty 2000

I created this back in 1995. Needless to say, it didn't happen.
It is archived at the Wayback Machine...replete with broken art.
Memory lane stuff.

The Blue Bus is calling us...: NY Times killed story that President Bush cheated in the debates

Bush WAS Wired!

Diane Gail Kelly Goldberg ( -2005) - SFWA News

Death of a friend...
:(

If you knew Kelly, you may sign the guestbook. Her works, pictures and writing can be found here and here.

Scrutiny Hooligans: Ossie Davis, 1917-2005

Scrutiny Hooligans: Ossie Davis, 1917-2005

Yet another legend has been swept upward...

States Writes: peers of The American Street

Power Page

Redolent with information.

Adolescent General loves to play shoot-em-up

Sick General

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. Marine Corps general who said it was "fun to shoot some people" should have chosen his words more carefully but will not be disciplined, military officials said on Thursday.

Lt. Gen. James Mattis, who commanded troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and is slated to be portrayed by star actor Harrison Ford in an upcoming Hollywood movie, made the comments at a conference on Tuesday in San Diego, California.

"Actually it's quite fun to fight 'em, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling," Mattis said.

"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil," Mattis said during a panel discussion. "You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them."

Kids!

Antarctic ice sheet is an 'awakened giant'

New Scientist Breaking News - Antarctic ice sheet is an 'awakened giant'

From the scientific point of view it is now very likely that there will be again another Ice Age, quite soon, in the world, that we shall have the north part of the world all frozen like it used to be, and we're beginning to have natural disasters, from the scientists' study it seems likely that we should soon begin to have these great changes in the earth's climate so people will not be able to live where they have, and the oceans will rise, and many cities will be flooded, like London, and Calcutta, and so on. These things, they say, will happen, according to scientific theory, in about forty years at the most, but maybe even quicker. - J.G. Bennett as heard on Robert Fripp's "Exposure" album, circa 1979.

The Independent Weekly: Winners, quitters and bloggers

Triangle bloggercon and more

Building community--both online and offline--is the theme of the conference. Zuiker hopes the Triangle will develop the kind of community that's been going strong in the Greensboro area.

The conference is free and open to the public. It starts at 9 a.m. and officially ends at 12:30 p.m., though conversations are sure to follow at Franklin Street eateries. Special guest Dan Gillmor, a blogger from the Bay Area who's become an evangelist for grassroots journalism, will also give a free public presentation on Monday, Feb. 14, at 3:30 p.m. in Carroll Hall at UNC-CH.

Patrick Eakes reminds me that the legend himself, Mr. Dave Winer of DaveNet, Scripting News, and Harvard Shorenstein, is also slated to attend.

A splendid time is guaranteed for all...

Social Security Stolen: Bush raids Lockbox then complains of shortfall

Kids. This never would have happened under a Gore Presidency

You never heard the word, Lockbox. Instead you heard Bush warning that there will be a shortfall. Well, duh! Why don’t you just put the money back, Doofus, and tell the top 1% to “do it for the kids”.
Should Bush back off on the tax cut to the top 1% which has led to the shortfall in the Social Security, and which would have been protected under a Gore administration, and, so to say, “do it for the kids”? Take the poll.

semidi :: Privatization Pitfalls

From Semidi: on Social Security: "Think Progress has a few excerpts from a Wall Street Journal article that examines the many ways that privatizing retirement programs in other countries as the Bush Junta wants to do with Social Security has been a miserable failure. "

Thank goodness he beat that flip-flopper

Steady Leadership - President Bush's cognitive dissonance. By William Saletan

Coffee House Studio: Jim Capaldi obituary

Somehow the death of Traffic's drummer, Jim Capaldi escaped me. Thanks to the Coffee House for a wonderful tribute...

Charlotte Astronomical Society : Links

Some interesting links from Charlotte artist, mathematician, astronomer and chessmaster, Garrick Wells.

Special Characters

HTML code for Characters

For Some Bloggers, all Politics is Local

on Personal Democracy Forum
by Sam Heib and Ed Cone

Dave Winer comes to North Carolina

via EdCone.com


Dave Winer will visit the News & Record next week and plans on "going to school on their citizen journalism project. On Wednesday the 9th (Ed Cone is) going to lead a discussion at the News and Record, with bloggers and pros, 7PM at 200 East Market St, Greensboro, open to all."

From Dave Winer:

"I spend three nights in Greensboro, North Carolina, going to school on their citizen journalism project. On Wednesday the 9th I'm going to lead a discussion at the News and Record, with bloggers and pros, 7PM at 200 East Market St, Greensboro, open to all. On Friday head over to Chapel Hill for the North Carolina BloggerCon."

Your Sky: Virtual Telescope Control Panel

Your Sky: Virtual Telescope Control Panel

Charlotte Astronomical Society

Diagram shows the comparative apparent size of the Sun as seen from some planets.
Charlotte Astronomical Society is a project by Garrick Wells.

Nonny is over at The American Street today...

The American Street

Among his offering:
- Moses Mistook “His” “Roses”
- Being-For-Itself Meets Godzilla
- Bullets May Cause Lead Poisoning
- Guns Are For Chickens

These things and more...

Zoloft, Paxil, Xanax and Murder

Murder and Zoloft

Murder and Paxil

Murder and Xanax

LIPPITUDE

Iraq Election: The Day After

Now that the Iraqis have had the opportunity to stain their finger, the world can rest assured that all is well, everyone can go home now. Freedom and Democracy has arrived. Mission accomplished. Lapis is the new vermillion. But was it lapis? Maybe my colors have been adjusted. My horizontal. My verticle. (O how I do love to misspell that word!)

So see ya later, Iraq! We'll be leaving now! Thanks for all the good times!

Ingrate bastards! And after all we have done to, I mean, for, them. Sheesh!

And so the saga continues. Will George be able to move the soldiers from Iraq and into Iran and Syria without people getting all huffy and squishy?

Wait and see!

FREEDOM
Coming to a theater near you!

Scrutiny Hooligans: Is This Photo Propaganda?

Scrutiny Hooligans: Is This Photo Propaganda?

Includes photos and images of Iraq you probably haven't seen.

Daily Kos :: Collapse of The Military--Vietnam's Lesson of What's To Come

by Paul Rosenberg

An astonishing account of the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, and much more, framed nicely by Mr. Rosenberg.

Rockridge Institute - Conceptual Levels: Bringing It Home to Values

Rockridge Institute - by Jason Patent, George Lakoff

Rethinking Progressive politics...

An introduction to framing and its uses in politics.

Brother Blue - Where do we go from here?

Brother Blue - Where do we go from here?

What a delight to run across Brother Blue at the Where do we go from here? site...which I highly recomment, and which has recruited Joe Wilson, Larry Fahn of Sierra Club, John Passacantando, of Greenpeace, John Stauber of the Center for Media & Democracy, Andrew Boyd of Billionaires for Bush among others as contributors. Check it out!

Brother Blue was a fixture in Harvard Square back in the '80s, where he would delight crowd upon crowd with his delightful stories and antics. Imagine Sammy Davis Jr. dressed entirely in blue, and you've pretty much got Brother Blue.

Some of his work is here.

Conservatives vs Progressives

Over at the Principles Project, there is a discussion on the difference between Progressives and Conservatives.

Here were my general observations:

1. Lakoff is spot on when he locates one major difference between the two POVs in each's image of God, and their imitation thereof.Conservatives tend to think of a Strict Father, Liberals and Progressives tend to think of a Nurturing Parent -- certainly less sexist right from the start. And their umbrella metaphor covers nearly aspect of each's worldview.
2. A second distinction cuts across the egoism/ego-transcendence spectrum, or egoism/altrusm. It has been my experience that people who are involved in, or who have transcended the Ego...tend toward the Progressive side of the dial. Same with altruists.
3. Creative vs Reactive. Bob Fritz wrote eloquently about these competing worldviews. Artists and other creative types tend to be progressives, while those who react against their creations are the Conservatives.
4. Conscious vs Mechanical. As DH Lawrence says, "Death is not evil, Evil is mechanical." Well so is War and so much else. As Gurdjieff says, humans are asleep. Mechanical automatons in the main. Consciousness is the way out. Progressives are not afraid of being conscious, living life authentically, not mechanically nodding the head to every bloviation that comes their way.
5. Fear vs Love. Conservatives are moved and motivated by fear, Progressives by love, its antonym.
6. Visionary vs Rote. Progressives dare to dream big, GOOD dreams. Not PNAC-grade malevolence. We know that vision is a reality, so to speak, and that visionaries, not just echatologistic armageddonists are to be valued and heard.
7. The world is our oyster. Progressives can draw from the wisdom of the ancients and the east, or wherever it is to be found. Conservatives tend to shun universities, professors, yogis, gurus, sages, seers...if they don't fit into their little box of acceptable reading. We can read Darwin AND the Bible...AND the Bhagavad-Gita, AND the Tao te Ching...
8. When money is no longer the summom bonum, and human capital, wisdom, intellect, creativity, goodness make their overdue rise...tides will turn, tipping points will be reached, and bright outcomes can once again be anticipated.
9. Racism. At least down here in the South, there is the racial component which cannot be underestimated. Some folks are Conservatives just to be among white folk, and many Progressives are so in order to stand in solidarity with non-whites, knowing among other things, that there is still gross inequities and injustices that need addressing.
10. Deference vs Autonomy. Conservatives tend to toe the party line, and defer to those they perceive as more powerful. Progressives are less likely to do this, especially when facing untruths or bad behavior.
11. Competition vs Cooperation. Consider the relationship between sports and competition, sports and war, war and competition. They are interrelated. Libs and Progressives tend more toward diplomacy, cooperation. And speaking of which...every Progressive should read "The Evolution of Cooperation", as it will will help build a better organization, society and citizenry.
Not comprehensive, but a start...


So...which is the most important distinction? Take the poll!

voting on progressive principles begins

from Daily Kos Diarist "Juls"

the 2020 Democrats have spearheaded a wonderful and important project: using a highly interactive website to aid discussion and drafting of a set of progressive principles. this is a four week project, now into its second week. people have been logging in to discuss and propose various changes to the first draft. today and tomorrow everyone has an opportunity to vote on the proposed changes.

Can you trust a man with bangs?

The Michael Jackson of the Blogosphere

Who is this strange-looking man, who wears his hair in bangs long after his age dictates that he do otherwise, and goggles that would scarely improve Al Yankovic? Why it is none other than the famous Instapundit himself. Glenn Reynolds. The man who had he named his blog "Glenn Reynolds" would have wound up licking crumbs from the basement of the blogosphere.

Read more about Mister Reynolds the Instapundit as anonyMoses explores his latest struggle with superficiality at Daily Kos.

Greensboro News & Record vs Charlotte Observer : 43-0

Go to the Charlotte Observer and do a search for "blog".
When I did it today, I came up with a big ZERO.
Search the Greensboro News & Record and what do you get?
43!

Someone should tell the folks at the Observer that they are atavistic, behind the times, missing the boat. And someone whould applaude the Greensboro News & Record for besting the Observer by being frankly more relevant.

The Wayback Machine: A decade of old stuff, archived alas!

I had heard for years that such a thing existed, and one day hoped to look up some old websites. Well, that day is today, thanks to Roch Smith Jr. from Greensboro101 who brought to my attention The Wayback Machine. In many cases the art didn't survive, and many of the links are defunct, but the basics are still there, simplistic though they certainly are.

The following are links to Wayback's archival copies of the original web pages:

VIRTUAL BOHEMIA: THE LEFT BANK OF CYBERSPACE

My first webpage, composed in 1995, was called Virtual Bohemia: The Left Bank of Cyberspace, and had links to other creations such as:
IBMW : Internet Business Marketing World
Master List
Charlotte Internet Society
Virtual Charlotte
Seers Catalog
Advanced Tones of Voice
David the Letterman
Snail World
Genius Search
Rapid Ear Movement
Society of Future Trillionaires (SOFT)
Life After Money
Nicotine Addicts Anonymous (NAA) "Just say NAA !"
Nostradavid
RH Positive

Explaining each would take too much time. Most have long outlived their usefulness. These are compiled here. The name Microjesus was picked up in 1995 after I had dropped my AOL account under the name of Megajesus, which was my first screen name online.

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CHARLOTTEINTERNET.COM
Eventually I moved to Sprynet, where I had what I call a fortified mirror site. The previous work was housed on my computer in Massachusetts, and my Sprynet work was on my Charlotte computer, and is sadly unarchived. Later, I moved to charlotteinternet which is compiled here. You may note that it changes considerably over the months and years.
For example, see this different months:
Oct 01, 1999
Mar 01, 2001
Sep 25, 2001
Dec 02, 2001
Aug 06, 2002
Feb 13, 2003


Some of the links that were archived are:
Genius Search
Dave Beckwith Art Gallery
Dave Beckwith Sculpture Gallery

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BIRDFINGER.COM
Then I decided to get into comedy, so I created a website called Birdfinger, which was not entirely unlike The Onion, although lacking the humorous element.

Birdfinger is archived here.
June 2000 July 2000 Aug 16, 2000
Special Amerigeddon Issue
Jan 24, 2001 Mar 02, 2001 Jul 23, 2001
Jan 21, 2002 Jul 22, 2002 Sep 26, 2002
Jan 30, 2003

IDEACONSULTANTS.COM
It being the '90s, I was holder of dozens of domains, most with great names, and one I stupidly turned down half a mil for in the late 90s. Worldssexiest.com. Maybe Hugh Hefner or Larry Flynt will make me a reasonable offer...
I included many of the domains within and under the umbrella of IdeaConsultants.com, which is archived here. Unfortunately the projects link doesn't work. Haven't checked the others. Never did much with it anyway. Better as a blog. Oh, but I did find the list of domains listed here.
They include:
HighTextiles ShadeWear PeaceGoods FutureGoods
UnitedStatesofEarth PeaceFutures Sharevenue EarMusic
TheFirstTrillionaire BrainchildPress iBMW WorldsSexiest
YouthInternational SeersCatalog Birdfinger GrowLife
TheHomeLoaner MajorAdvances SexyJets FloodMoney
UpperClassifieds GreenModerate LilithAge WritersCafe
TradeStreetJournal HDcableTV OutreLimits
CharlotteInternet PeoplesEmpire VirtualBohemia GeniusSearch
IdeaManagement eBizIncubator GiftEconomy GreenWitchVillage
TofuChicken FreeSouth 4-MD LoanLow
RVking GoToDo INeedSpeed Enviropress
InfoMinutes CharityBrokers a1Eats BandwidthRX

And now I own but three... Ah the ups and downs!

NUCULUS
I had a couple of Blog-city blogs go defunct on me, and the Wayback Machine picked them up too. Here is Nuculus. Now if I can just remember the names of the others...

ANONYMOSES THE FIRST
Once there was a time when the sidebar on this site was on the left, and not the right, side. Even the blogroll was different than it is now, considerably. But I had to be a smarty pants and change templates, thus wiping out my former work. Well I found the first Anonymoses as well.
Wonders never cease!

AUTOARCHAEOLOGY
Having only just begun this walk down memory lane, I am reminded of a concept that has long trotted through my mind, and that being autoarchaeology, or autopsychoarchaeology...although that might be an unnecessary iteration. Many of you who have a history that you may have thought was lost, for good or ill, may well find riches, or otherwise, within these archives.

MOREOVER...

You can, say, find the front page of the New York Times on 9/11. Things like that...

Happy mining! And thanks, Roch!

For ye Word Joneses: Urban Dictionary

Nick Lewis:
"Urban Dictionary is my favorite new site. It allows users to make their own definitions for words, and other users can either give their definition a thumbs up or thumbs down. The highest rated definition always appears on top."

I personally can't wait to give it a whirl. Meet ya there...

Kos Does Koppel :: What you did NOT see on thursday's ABC Nightline!!!

More than meets the eye...(via Matt Gross)

Hooda thunk?

You're Brigitte Bardot!


What Classic Pin-Up Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla

ResumeWiki - Community Edited Resumes

...for those who think they are going to get a job.
(via Lux et Umbra)

Measure Lakoff's Effect

from Science And Politics

Links to the recent work of this seminal thinker, visionary and linguist.

The Glasses Go Dim : The Death of Philip Johnson

My favorite Johnson
Philip Johnson obituary (via Rafe Coburn)

Whilst traipsing through the Wayback Machine, I discovered, or recovered, some old "art" with the AT&T building taking center stage, and showing it's relationship to Central Park.

Silflay Hraka: Sixty Years After

Silflay Hraka: Sixty Years After

Photos of the arrogance of power. May we evolve, dear God, from this type of inhumanity.

SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY DISCUSSES AMERICA'S FUTURE IN IRAQ

AT THE JOHNS' HOPKINS SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

Bill Clinton at Davos

At Davos Forum, Every Topic Is Fair Game for Bill Clinton

Watch as Big Dog shows the world what being a leader is all about. It has nothing to do with killing.

fashion tips: the ass

fashion dictates that we show more...

blog tips

B.L. Ochman's weblog - Internet strategy, marketing, public relations, politics with news and commentary: How to Write Killer Blog Posts and More Compelling Comments

Eliot Weinberger : What I Heard about Iraq

London Review of Books (via Mathew Gross)

In 1992, a year after the first Gulf War, I heard Dick Cheney, then secretary of defense, say that the US had been wise not to invade Baghdad and get ‘bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq’. I heard him say: ‘The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is: not that damned many.’
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Not that many? Bring out the parsers!

"Art serves to rinse out the eyes". - Karl Kraus

RECENT CARTOONS FROM AROUND THE WEB

We'll be greeted as liberators...

Bush: On Freedom

BushWorld: Reward Incompetence

Again...

Congress gets tough with Condi

The Real Cost of the War

Is Bush A.D.D.?

"Take us to your leader!"

How Bush is like JFK

Republicans reach across the aisle...

...and, of course, the great collections at ZenComix.

(Thanks to Jonathan McVity for the wonderful translation of Karl Kraus' marvelous words in his Dicta and Contradicta. If you see this, old boy, do pay a visit!)

Seymour Hersh: "We've Been Taken Over by a Cult"

from Democracy Now!

Take Action: Protect Women and Children in Emergencies!

Already given money for Tsunami relief? Here's where you can help even more.

Vote Iddybud: Most Deserving of Wider Recognition

Wampum: The Koufax Awards: Most Deserving of Wider Recognition

Our friend, Iddybud, is in the running at the Koufax Awards, in the aforestated category. She is one of the hardest working and gifted bloggers around and would appreciate your vote. Please take two minutes and post a comment in favor of her selection.

-Dave

Remembering Auschwitz at 60

Why memory is important...

Bloggers just say No to Gonzales

Add your vote here.

The dog barks, the caravan passes : Redford on O'Reilly

via Crooks and Liars

China: Meet the New Boss

Yahoo! News - China's economy grows 9.5 percent in 2004 vs 9.3 percent in 2003

Ni hui shuo zhongwen ma?

31 Marines killed today so far, in what is the deadliest day yet

in Bush's Quarter Trillion Dollar War.

(via Mahablog writing for American Street)

Johnny Carson Dies at 79

The torch passes...

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
-Hermann Broch

blizzard: slow tsunami of snow

SnailWorld Sucks Up to Godly Bloggers

As bloggers take their rightful place as Jesuses of the Newish Age, the snail world will want to latch on and pretend they are cool too. Do not let them. Scrape them from the bottom of your shoe like daagpu. Here are some examples of their egregious diffidence:

Writers and Bloggers Wanted
When Bloggers Make News
When blogging can get you locked up
Blog nice, everyone
Judiciary will need to know bloggers' rights
Bloggers could save journalism
Bloggers, Do Your Thing
CBS News Draws Ire of Bloggers
Bloggers' newest power: rating Super Bowl ads
The Betrayal of the "IraqTheModel" Bloggers
Search Leaders, Bloggers Band to Fight Comment Spam
IP Bloggers at ABA TechShow

USA Freedom Corps

USA Freedom Corps

NewsWealth.com

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CHANGING WITH THE WIND: The Story of God

CHANGING WITH THE WIND: The Story of God is a book about how wondrous it is that God spins out this ever-changing universe, never damming the rivers of change, never polluting the winds by stopping their flow.

Here is what Karl Rove had to say:

"You either have values ingrained in your heart and soul that will not change with the wind, or you don't."

As soon as I write the book, it will be available. You can pre-order I guess, although I wouldn't suggest it. It may make me get off my ass and finish it though.
Until then...keep on changin'!

Digby on Kos, Armstrong Williams and institutionalizing "blogger ethics"

What makes Digby so wondrous? Read and see for yourself...

[excerpts]

Those Who Can, Blog; Those Who Can't, Teachout
Well now, it appears that "Zonkette" is causing quite a brouhaha. Atrios and others have more than adequately explained the fact that Jerome and Kos disclosed everything they needed to disclose and any comparison with Armstrong Williams accepting a quarter of a million taxpayer dollars under the table is some kind of cosmic joke. But the damage is done.
...
So the left blogosphere will be the focus of this crusade for online ethics. We don't have institutions like the Claremont Institute who can hire us on as "fellows" --- and launder Republican money through it to pay us. We aren't going to get our marching orders and talking points through the coordinated "left wing" media because there is no coordinated left wing media. We are out here on our own, and when or if we say or do something controversial, there is no institutional defense of us because there is no institution. Certainly, we aren't going to get paid big bucks to be a member of the team.

So fuck a "code of ethics." It will only serve to marginalize us.

All we really have, and ever had, is our credibility with our readers as opinion writers and committed activists. We shall have to measure all of our decisions based upon personal integrity and issue a blanket call of caveat emptor. It's all there is. And, frankly it's all we need. Because despite what some people seem to believe, there is no code of ethics to explain Judith Miller or Lisa Myers.

"I did not have sexual relations..."

Bold New Clip Exposes Deeds Even More Egregious Than The Infamous Denial

How many times have you seen and heard that clip of Bill Clinton saying "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" -- while looking at Helen Thomas, pausing, and then, as if part of a different thought altogether, uttering the words, "Miss Lewinsky"?
One million? Two million? And why?
Because there wasn't that much else he said that was all that bad. He was a good, smart, and adept president with decent and effective policies that actually made people's lives better.

Here is the counterpart to that clip...only in this case, there are scores of lies and misrepresentations. It is called "Remind Us", but could well be called "I did not have sexual relations"...just to remind Americans how trite were Bill's sins as compared to George's.

At the end, there are links to how you can help with the problem...

Triangle Bloggers Conference, Chapel Hill, NC

On Saturday, February 12th, North Carolina is the place to be. Specifically, Chapel Hill, NC. And more specifically, The University of North Carolina. Murphey Hall. Room 116.
...for this is where the Triangle Blogger Conference is to transpire.

Allow Mister Sugar to tell you more about it...

Triangle Bloggercon grows

The word is out: Dave Winer mentioned the conference on his popular Scripting News, our local cable company posted news about the conference on its new local bloggers directory, and Cory Doctorow has even posted to Boing Boing.
We’re up to 61 expected participants for the Triangle Bloggers Conference, which means I’ve got to start looking for a backup location knowing we’ll be growing (the j-school’s conference room holds about 60). Looks like we’ve got at least one New Yorker coming, and my buddy John Ettorre will be driving down from Cleveland. (Hope Jack can join him.) Oh, and Dan Gillmor will be here, too.

UPDATE: Paul has arranged for Murphey Hall 116. I’ll post new directions to the conference wiki. Shortcut is mistersugar.com/triblogs.html.
The idea for a bloggercon in Chapel Hill was to give us North Carolina bloggers a physical forum to discuss some of the exciting issues, trends and activities happening on and between our blogs – blogs and journalism, and blogs and politics in Greensboro (read Ed Cone), online communities (Paul Jones teaches an excellent seminar each fall at the UNC-CH j-school), blogs and local governance (Orange Politics), podcasting (Audio Activism among others), and numerous attempts to aggregate the very active bloggers in our state (see the wiki page for the conference intersession).

Harry Hitler

The Education of Harry Hitler

Diana must be, well, upset with her Harry. And today we hear that Charles wants his boys to watch Schindler's List to get a better sense of just why the world is outraged by Harry's miscreantics. But what other films, books, and such should young Harry add to his education?
Some that come to my are:
Life is Beautiful
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Judgment at Nuremberg
Nasty Girl
The White Rose
Garden of Finzi-Continis
Sorrow and the Pity
Last Metro
Serpent's Egg

Each of these is unique and speaks of different aspects of the horrors of what the world had become. Each I would recommend highly. There are many more, and I may post them as I recall them. Harry needs education, and he needs it soon. Good thing Bill preceeds him.


While he is being videoeducated, he and they might also rest their eyes on this short film.
(Thanks to Roch Smith Jr. of Greensboro 101 for the link.)

5,500 soldiers have deserted

by kos

Woah, here's something we haven't seen in the US media...

American Army soldiers are deserting and fleeing to Canada rather than fight in Iraq, rekindling memories of the thousands of draft-dodgers who flooded north to avoid service in Vietnam.
An estimated 5,500 men and women have deserted since the invasion of Iraq, reflecting Washington's growing problems with troop morale...

INFORM. EDUCATE. AND PROVOKE. : Greensboro's Alternative Newsweekly

It's good to be a Carolinian!

Thanks to Dave Hoggard for bringing this gem to my attention. May it thrive!

Meet the Blokkers...

...I mean Bloggers!

Joi Ito has some great photo galleries where one may get to know fellow bloggers...or at least their faces. Here is a gallery from ETech 2004 which includes many of the blognoscenti, including Esther Dyson, Jay Rosen, Ed Cone, Joi Ito, Howard Rheingold, Jon Lebkowsky, Ethan Zuckerman, Dan Gillmor, Rael Dornfest, Doc Searls, Jeff Jarvis, David Isenberg, Joe Trippi, David Weinberger, the dashing and wise Grant Henninger, Cory Doctorow, Danah Boyd, Sean Bonner and more.

Some of these may be in attendance at the February Blog Conference in Chapel Hill whom I shall leave it to Ruby Sinreich to introduce.

Get to know your peers...

Liberal Billionaires seek liberals to lavish with money

Soros Group Raises Stakes in Battle with US Neo-Cons

Oh! So NOW you are a liberal?!

[excerpt]

A group of billionaire philanthropists are to donate tens of millions more dollars to develop progressive political ideas in the US in an effort to counter the conservative ascendancy.

George Soros, who made his fortune in the hedge fund industry; Herb and Marion Sandler, the California couple who own a multi-billion-dollar savings and loan business; and Peter Lewis, the chairman of an Ohio insurance company, donated more than $63m (£34m) in the 2004 election cycle to organizations seeking to defeat George W. Bush.

At a meeting in San Francisco last month, the left-leaning billionaires agreed to commit an even larger sum over a longer period to building institutions to foster progressive ideas and people.

Far from being disillusioned by the defeat of John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, the billionaires have resolved to invest further in the intellectual future of the left, one person involved said.

Their commitment to provide new money comes amid criticism of the efforts of high-profile donors such as the Hungarian-born Mr Soros to sway US politics as well as doubts about the effectiveness of record funding in helping the Democratic cause in 2004.

The details of the San Francisco meeting are closely held. Mr Soros and his son Jonathan, the Sandlers and Mr Lewis asked aides to leave the room as they discussed the planned financial commitment.

But the still-evolving plan, according to one person involved, is “joint investment to build intellectual infrastructure”.

The intention is to provide the left with organizations in Washington that can match the heft of the rightwing think-tanks such as Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute. At a state level, the aim is to build what one person called a “deeper progressive bench”.

...

Stephen Bing, a film producer and heir to a real estate fortune who donated $13m, is also expected to be involved in the investment in progressive infrastructure.

Andrew Stern, who is president of the Service Employees International Union, has been working to include organized labor in the initiative.

Leftwing policy experts have already got wind of the new funds. One former aide to Mr Kerry said there had been talks with the Center for American Progress about making permanent the network of foreign policy experts established by Democrats in the 2004 campaign. He said he had been told: “Money is not a problem.”

10 ways to use blogs for managing projects

Cutting Through - A live case study

and 4 ways to use wikis for project management

Thanks to Cutting Through from across the pond for helping us to "cut through the information and technology clutter"...

The Ideal Government Project

The Ideal Government Project

From the website:
"About the Ideal Government Project
Wouldn't it be better if...

Ideal government is a web user's antidote to personal frustration with public services. If a government process frustrates you, just do two things:

1. Observe and record precisely what happens, and

2. what the ideal encounter should have been like.

Join us and post it up here. Gradually we could map out the reality of this uncharted territory called government, and compile the first-ever user requirement. Start being an ethnographer of bureaucracy today!

Spread the word, leave a comment or mail me if you want to help us map what's there and where we want it headed. "

Our French bretheren

Please allow my French brother to speak my thoughts while I eat this sandwich.

Patience et silence...
Cela fait plus d'un mois que je n'ai pas écrit. Je ne vais pas dire que le temps me manquait, on trouve toujours le temps de faire les choses qui nous tiennent à coeur. Non. Si je n'ai pas écrit, c'est que je n'ai pas pris le temps de penser.

C'est facile de ne pas penser, c'est ce que Sogyal Rinpoché, un grand maître bouddhiste, appelle la paresse à l’occidentale :


« La paresse à l’occidentale consiste à remplir sa vie d’activités fébriles, si bien qu’il ne reste plus de temps pour affronter les vrais questions. […] Un maître compare cela à « faire le ménage en rêve ». Nous nous disons que nous voulons consacrer du temps aux choses importantes, mais ce temps, nous ne le trouvons jamais.
Impuissants, nous voyons nos journées se remplir de coups de téléphones, de projets insignifiants ; nous avons tant de responsabilités… »

Sogyal Rinpoché – Le livre tibétain de la vie et de la mort
On retrouve d’ailleurs une idée très similaire chez Pascal :


« Rien n'est si insupportable à l'homme que d'être dans un plein repos, sans passions, sans affaire, sans divertissement, sans application. Il sent alors son néant, son abandon, son insuffisance, sa dépendance, son impuissance, son vide. »

Pascal – Pensées
Je me demande parfois si tout ce que nous apprenons, tout ce que nous entreprenons, n’est pas simple divertissement, comme pour oublier notre finitude.

Patience et silence. Il faut de la patience et du silence pour ne pas trop s’égarer.

posted by martin

Also some note on Queneau & other news from Paris. ceci est un blog. - ah oui?-Nonny

Let It All Hang Out

(spoken): "A preachment, dear friends, you are about to receive
on John Barleycorn, nicotine, and the temptations of Eve"
(Bronx cheer)

No parkin' by the sewer sign
Hot dog, my razor's broke
Water drippin' up the spout
But I don't care, let it all hang out

Hangin' from a pine tree by my knees
Sun is shinin' through the shade
Nobody knows what it's all about,
It's too much, man, let it all hang out

Saw a man walkin' upside down
My T.V.'s on the blink
Made Galileo look like a Boy Scout
Sorry 'bout that, let it all hang out

Sleep all day, drive all night
Brain my numb, can't stop now
For sure ain't no doubt
Keep an open mind, let it all hang out

It's rainin' inside a big brown moon
How does that mess you baby up, leg
Eatin' a Reuben sandwich with sauerkraut
Don't stop now, baby, let it all hang out

-THE HOMBRES



Sometimes ya just feel this way.

Bloggers in the News

2004: The Year Bloggers Shed their Skins

Megan Beckwith of Fourcast

2004: Big Year for Blogs - PC World

Bloggers beat wires in Asian disaster - The Inquirer, UK

Bloggers beat conventional media - Times of India, India

ABC's 'People of the Year' - Bloggers - Slashdot

Bloggers rise to the occasion - The Hindu, India

Pew study: Blogs busted out in 2004 - The Industry Standard

Study: Blog creation, readership jumped in 2004 - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Tantalizing informative reflective blogs - Earthtimes.org

Technology Speeds Flow Of Information, Aid For Tsunami Catastrophe - Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic

BlogAid Pledge To Support The Asia Disaster - WebProNews

In time of disaster, bloggers make their mark - Taipei Times, Taiwan

Bloggers fill the void - The Malaysia Star, Malaysia

Presenting...Philoblogger: The Blogging Philosopher

Please welcome to the blogosphere a philosopher of great worth and radiant youth. Philoblogger may well be the world's sexiest philosopher. But don't just ask me. Ask his mother, my sister...who only days ago got to see her philosopher secure his paper, upon which were writ the words, magna cum laude, Philosophy, and University of North Carolina, the whole of which was most pleasing to attending kin, who ululated in shapenotes as young Robert, the Philoblogger, graced the stage with his glowing radiance praeternaturale.

I have invited Gaston le Philoblogger to be a guest columnist, and hope he can do some travel writing, music, film, and book reviews. As Naisbett predicted, the 21st century would become so complex that philosophers would be in great need in order to sort things out. We want to pick the Philoblogger's mind, particularly in regard to the current megaproblems.

We also want to interview The Philoblogger over on The Interview Blog, where, among other things, we are working on a GBI, or Generic Blogger Interview, which we hope our blogging friends will, when complete, answer the damn questions thus providing Humanity with the damn answers.

Please welcome him with your charm and wit.

The Irony of War

I read the news today, oh boy!

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In the garden is no ear

Anonymoses Hyperlincoln

12.30.04

With the left hand we hurl millions to fund the healing,
With the right hand we hurl billions to fund the killing.
The earth rocks in the cradle,
the inbalancing cradle.

Oil-drunk hawks do everything to heat up the earth,
facilitate its end...
Hiroshimized by water.

Global warmers see their fruit
layed out on beaches
set to flame by loved ones

then cheer as numbers rack up,
rack up in Iraq.

How hot is a MOAB?
Will Nature counter by bombing us
with ice?

Why do I fear
this is only just the beginning?

So soft and peaceful here.
In the garden is no ear

to hear the cries

of a billion

suffering

souls.

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May the victims of this tragedy, and their friends and families, find peace, strength, patience, solace, wisdom and magnanimous love and charity. And may we, in our gardens, vow to make their suffering meaningful. This could literally be a watershed moment in world history. We can say no to War for all time, and say yes to helping people live better, more peaceful lives.

In the magnanimous outpouring from around the world, we see, as we knew we would see, that everyone has a heart. We are all better off, and we feel better about ourselves, and indeed are intrinsically better, when we act upon our higher natures.

But the suffering this time is so vast, and will certainly get much worse. By showing them that their suffering, and our response to their suffering, will make for a positive change in the way the world's people relate to one another, and that, indeed, we can set ourselves on such a corrective course...who knows? Maybe it can help alleviate some of the pain.

God help us all.

An anti-war Conservative speaks out

'Staying the Course' Won't Do
by Patrick J. Buchanan

[excerpts from AntiWar.com]
In the aftermath of the suicide bombing of the Mosul mess hall, we are being admonished anew we must stay the course in Iraq. But "Stay the course!" is no longer enough.

President Bush needs to go on national television and tell us the unvarnished truth. Why are we still there? For some of Bush's countrymen, there is a sense of having been had, of having been made victim to one of the great bait-and-switches in the history of warfare.

The president, his War Cabinet, and the neocon punditocracy sold us on this war by implying Saddam was implicated in 9/11, that he had a vast arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, that he was working on an atom bomb, that he would transfer his terror weapons to al-Qaeda. We had to invade, destroy, and disarm his axis-of-evil regime. Only thus could we be secure.

None of this was true. But the president won that debate and was given a free hand to invade Iraq. He did so, and overthrew Saddam's regime in three weeks. "Mission Accomplished!"

That was 20 months ago. What is our mission now? When did it change? With 1,300 dead and nearly 10,000 wounded, why are we still at war with these people?

The president says the enemy is "terrorism" and "evil," and we fight for "democracy" and that "freedom" that is "God's gift to humanity." All very noble.

But why should Americans have to die for democracy in a nation that has never known it? Democracy in the Middle East is not vital to our national security. For though the Middle East has never been democratic, no Middle East nation has ever attacked us. And should we catch a nation that is supporting terror against us, we have the weapons to make them pay a hellish price, without invading and occupying their country.

The only nation in the 20th century to attack us was Japan. And Japan lashed out, insanely, in desperation, because we had cut off her oil and convinced the British and Dutch to cut off the vital commodities she needed to avoid imperial defeat in China. We were choking the Japanese empire to death.

We might all prefer that Arab nations be democratic. But that is not vital to us. If they remain despotic, that is their problem, so long as they do not threaten or attack us. But to invade an Islamic country to force it to adopt democratic reforms is democratic imperialism. If we practice it, we must expect that some of those we are reforming will resort to the time-honored weapon of anti-imperialists, terrorism – the one effective weapon the weak have against the strong.

...

Before addressing his countrymen, the president needs to ask and answer for himself some hard questions. Who told him this would be a "cakewalk"? Who misled him to believe we would be welcomed as liberators with bouquets of flowers? Who led him into a situation where his choice appears to be between a seemingly endless guerrilla war that could destroy his presidency, and walking away from Iraq and watching it collapse in mayhem and the massacre of those who cast their lot with us? Why have these fools not been fired, like the CIA geniuses who sold JFK on the Bay of Pigs?

It is not just President Bush who is in this hellish mess. We're all in it together. But the president needs to know that if he intends to use U.S. military power to democratize the Middle East, Americans – 56 percent of whom now believe Iraq was a mistake – will not follow him.

Finally, the president must answer in his heart this question: Exactly how much more blood and money is he willing to plunge into a war for democracy in Iraq, and at what point must he decide – as LBJ and Nixon did in Vietnam – that the cost to America is so great that we must get out and risk the awful consequences of a mistaken war that we should never have launched?

(Thanks to Rob Urban for referring me to this article.)

Der Spiegel: "Bloggers at Front Line of Relief Efforts"

[excerpt]
If you want to find out more information about this week's tsunami of biblical proportions in Southeast Asia and how you can help the victims, the best place to go is a new blog in the Indian Ocean region that's compiling everything from requests by organizations seeking donations to victim lists.
Blogs are at the forefront of the tsunami recovery effort. While traditional media drags awaiting publication, and government hotlines jam or go unanswered, bloggers have hopped into the fray, providing needed information to relatives desperate to find loved ones and those hoping to join the rescue efforts. One of the best sites out there is the South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami blog set up by students from New Delhi, a Sri Lankan TV producer and Internet junkies in the region. It offers everything from fascinating tsunami facts to emergency contact numbers to humanitarian relief organizations. Plus it tells you how to donate money from wherever you are.

(via Glenn Reynolds)

Deadliest Tsunami in History

D A T E - L O C A T I O N - D E A D
2004, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, etc. 150,000+ w/millions suffering today
1883, Krakatoa, Indonesia 36,000
1707 Japan Up to 30,000
1896, Sanriku, Japan 27,000
1755, Lisbon, Portugal 10,000
1933, Sanriku, Japan 3,000
1960, Hilo, Hawaii, and Pacific Islands Over 450
1979, San Juan, Colombia Over 250
1946, Hawaii 173

Learn more about the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake & tsunamis - from Wikipedia

[excerpt]
The 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake was an undersea megathrust earthquake of moment magnitude 9.0 that struck the Indian Ocean off the western coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia on December 26, 2004 at 00:58:53 UTC (07:58:53 local time in Jakarta and Bangkok). It was the largest earthquake on Earth since the 9.2-magnitude Good Friday Earthquake which struck Alaska on March 27, 1964, and the fourth largest since 1900 (tied with a 1952 earthquake of 9.0 magnitude in Kamchatka). Tens of thousands were killed by tsunamis of heights of up to 15 m, which flooded coastlines between 15 minutes and 10 hours after the quake, causing one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history.
The multiple tsunamis struck and ravaged coastal regions all over the Indian Ocean, devastating parts of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and other countries. Deadly tsunamis struck as far away as Somalia and several other countries on the east coast of Africa, 4,500 km (2,800 mi) or more west of the epicentre. Global ripple effects were so widespread that wave fluctuations passed into the Pacific Ocean and caused tidal disturbances in North and South America.
The plight of the affected people and countries prompted a widespread humanitarian response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

Billionaires, cough it up!

Tat tvam asi...

I am not even a billionaire, and yet I somehow feel empowered to tell each and every one of them to cough it up. Helping victims of tragedy is a growth industry which has suddenly been exponentiated by the forces of Nature, and is likely to occur again and again and again. Some day Nature may find you, and no wall of money will keep you afloat. This is perhaps the worst tragedy in human history. And it has only just begun. Where is your blank check? Your infinite credit line? Want to be a hero and not just inclusionary? Looking for an opportunity to extend noblesse oblige? Sure, the less fortunate can, and are being philanthropic. But time is key. This is your chance to evolve your true worth.

Cough it up. Give it all away. Do something human.


Relief and information links can be found in wondrous abundance at Iddybud, American Street, The Southeast Asia Earthquake and Tsunami site, Emergency Action Blog, and others.

Only a millionaire? You can make yourselves useful too. Give what you can.
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Iddybud sent this article on one way to give:
North Carolina Philanthropists are coughing it up...
An emerging philanthropic trend: the 'giving circle'

The Blogs & Music that Healed the World

We are living in Kuhnian times. Revolutions are happening by the hour. Blogpolitics is already ancient history, even while having a much greater future. Now blogs are tying together newspapers, artists, musicians and such that can and should be marshalled to create, very rapidly, a vast amount of financial and informational relief.

Newspapers can give free advertising for a Tsunami Aid concert, featuring local, national and world acts, which is then carried over blogs, with links for charitable giving. In exchange, the blogs can carry an ad for the newspaper, bla bla bla. Work it out. It's for a good cause. And an urgent one at that.