Daily Archives: 9 Apr 00
I agree entirely: [Association of Alternative Newsweeklies]: ‘How big is Ira Glass today?
He’s so big that http://www.suck.com, a reliable font of Internet rudeness, just awarded
him an “evil genius grant”—or Suck EGG—to shut up for a year. “The only real work he
seems to do anymore is give interviews to fawning journalists and fight off the
attentions of love-struck soccer-mom groupies.’
I’d previously linked to the ACLU’s position on the proposed medical privacy legislation. Here’s what the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has to say.
Windows 98 Communication Tips: How to Speed-up your Connecting time – Windows-Help.NET
To Speed-up the time it takes for DUN (Dial Up Networking) to establish a connection with your ISP
(Internet Service Provider) in Windows 98.
Here’s a message that has to get widely distributed:
BOLIVIA UNDER MARTIAL LAW
As of 10 am Saturday morning Bolivia was declared under martial
law by President Hugo Banzer. The drastic move comes at the end of a
week of protests, general strikes, and transportation blockages that
have left major areas of the country at a virtual standstill. It also
follows, by just hours, the surprise announcement by state officials
yesterday afternoon that the government would concede to the protests’
main demands, to break a widely-despised contract under which the city
of Cochabamba’s public water system was sold off to foreign investors
last year. The concession was quickly reversed by the national
government, and the local governor resigned, explaining that he didn’t
want to take responsibility for bloodshed that might result.
Banzer, who ruled Bolivia as a dictator from 1971-78, has taken an
action that suspends almost all civil rights, disallows gatherings
of more than four people and puts severe limits on freedom of the
press. One after another, local radio stations have been taken
over by military forces or forced off the air. Reporters have been
arrested The neighborhood where most of the city’s broadcast antennas
are located had its power shut off at approximately noon local time.
Through the night police searched homes for members of the widely-
backed water protests, arresting as many as twenty. The local
police chief has been instated by the President as governor of the
state. Blockades erected by farmers in rural areas continue across
the country, cutting off some cities from food and transportation.
Large crowds of angry residents, many armed with sticks and rocks are
massing on the city’s center where confrontations with military and
police are escalating.
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
TelFax: (591-4) 248242, 500849
TelCel: 017-22253
A sense of Well being: Salon celebrates the 15th anniversary of “the world’s most influential online community” (which they bought out last year).
Andrew Sullivan in the New York Times Magazine comprehensively runs down the meaning of testosterone to masculinity.
Single mothers should take on a partner not only to help with their parenting, to have someone to survive them for their chlidren’s sake, but also to increase their own chances of sticking around longer themselves, a new Swedish research study asserts.
Project Censored has released its 25 top censored news stories of 1999. Some are new news, but others no surprise; for me, #1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 12, 14, 16, 18, 22, 24. How about you? What surprised you? What was old news?
Here’s my ambiguously legal deeplink to a New York Times story on the legality of ‘Deep Linking’. ‘When a federal judge issued a decision last week in a
case involving “deep linking,” many reports suggested
that the controversial Internet practice was now
unambiguously legal. But the story is more complex than
that. In fact, deep linking — the practice of linking to a page
deep inside another Web site, bypassing its home page —
still appears to be in legal limbo.’
