Archive for July, 2002
Why the mine was flooded
I’m sure everyone saw the headline about the rescue of the miners, but this was at the bottom of the page:
“"I worked that old mine in the 50’s," said Joe Jashienski, an 89-year-old retired union organizer who watched the rescue efforts from his house here on Schoolhouse Road. "And I remember the last day when […]
National and regional card games
Card Games from around the world, and how they are played!
“There are a few card games that have spread throughout the world, but almost all countries and regions have their own characteristic card games. Most people learn to play cards from family or friends, not from books or the Internet. Because of this, card games […]
Bill on Security Backed in Senate; Veto Threatened
Did anyone miss this? I ususally don’t post such headline stories, but I think it is amazing that the White House would be willing to veto the creation of its new Big Brother deparment just because Congress wants people transferred to the department to retain their civil service protections! It reminds me of the battle […]
Privacy?
Here is the latest privacy scandal:
“They thought they were making routine purchases
Bill May Disrupt Downloading Music
“A proposal by a California congressman would give the entertainment industry broad new powers to try to stop people from downloading pirated music and movies off the Internet.
Rep. Howard L. Berman, D-Calif., formally proposed legislation that would give the industry unprecedented new authority to secretly hack into consumers’ computers or knock them off-line entirely if […]
Operation TIPS: Bush plan to recruit 1 million domestic spies
In case you didn’t already read about this:
“Operation TIPS
Opening the Secret Files on Lumumba’s Murder
From Stephen Weissman of the Washington Post:
“I have obtained classified U.S. government documents, including a chronology of covert actions approved by a National Security Council (NSC) subgroup, that reveal U.S. involvement in — and significant responsibility for — the death of Lumumba, who was mistakenly seen by the Eisenhower administration as an African Fidel Castro. […]
Don Markstein’s Toonopedia: Krazy Kat
Yesterday was the anniversary of the first brick thrown in this famous comic!
“On July 26, 1910, the mouse hurled a brick at the cat, thus inaugurating a major element of a relationship that would last over a third of a century.”
Don Markstein’s Toonopedia: Krazy Kat
Deep Linking Takes Another Blow
“Using a search engine to locate stories on newspapers’ sites violates European Union law, according to a recent ruling by judges in Munich’s Upper Court.
The ruling is the latest legal decision in a two-year battle between German newspaper Mainpost and German search service NewsClub. Mainpost charges that NewsClub violated the law by searching through and […]
How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web
“It’s hard to believe Google - which is now the world’s largest single online marketplace - came on the scene only a little more than 8 years ago, back in the days when Amazon and Ebay reigned supreme. So how did Google become the world’s single largest marketplace?
Well, the short answer is
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
