Archive for August, 2002
Wireless channel use sets up turf battle
“The world’s biggest barista and a grass-roots group are squaring off in a wireless game of chicken at Pioneer Courthouse Square.
On one end stands Starbucks, which this week likely will begin marketing a paid service that lets its customers in Portland’s living room connect their laptops wirelessly to the Internet. On the other is Personal [...]
White House intervenes in port talks
“In emotional rallies up and down the West coast, dock workers are telling the Bush administration to butt out
Who Would Buy That?
(auction oddities from all over the web)
Ian Willmore: corporate cash and the earth summit
Here is another opinion piece on Exxon-Mobile. This time about how they spent nearly a million dollars to pressure the Bush administration not to attend or support the Earth Summit. Imagine if they had spent a million dollars on something to actually help people?
“So you’ve splashed out $830,000, but in return you have an Administration [...]
Oily Diplomacy
“The Bush administration, promiscuously invoking the war against terrorism, is using its influence inappropriately to assist an American oil company that has been sued for misconduct overseas. The intervention reinforces the impression that the administration is too cozy with the oil industry.
The case involves Exxon Mobil and its activities in the Indonesian province of Aceh. [...]
TidBITS: Can the Digital Hub Survive Hollywood?
“Hollywood wants to be sure that you can’t do anything with video from TV or cable without the film studios’ permission. So while you may want to be able to stick a DVD full of home movies into your Mac and edit a five minute short for your distant relatives to download from your iDisk, [...]
Notebook overhaul on the horizon - Tech News - CNET.com
“PolyFuel, for instance, a spinoff of SRI International, is working on fuel cells for portable devices. The cells essentially break down methanol molecules into protons, electrons and carbon dioxide. While the protons pass through a specialized membrane, the electrons can’t and get shuffled into a wire powering a cell phone or laptop. The byproducts from [...]
The Internet Archive: Building an ‘Internet Library’
“The Internet Archive, working with Alexa Internet, has created the Wayback Machine. The Wayback Machine makes it possible to surf pages stored in the Internet Archive’s web archive. The Wayback Machine was unveiled on October 24th at Berkeley’s Bancroft Library.”
The Internet Archive: Building an ‘Internet Library’
Officers Say U.S. Aided Iraq in War Despite Use of Gas
“Though senior officials of the Reagan administration publicly condemned Iraq’s employment of mustard gas, sarin, VX and other poisonous agents, the American military officers said President Reagan, Vice President George Bush and senior national security aides never withdrew their support for the highly classified program in which more than 60 officers of the Defense Intelligence [...]
The Death Convoy of Afghanistan
“How many are buried at Dasht-e Leili? Haglund won
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
