Moon Farmer May 2002 Archive
« April 2002 | Main | June 2002 »To compare Picasso to Hitler was one thing. But to suggest that Picasso was not difficult, did not require long and concentrated study! Ayrton was now a marked man. The reader of his brilliant article senses that, by this stage, there can be no turning back, and the author might as well abandon all concern for his personal safety.
Posted by GeeTee at May 31, 2002 03:00 PM
From a previously unpublished film script by Salvador Dali, written in 1937 for the Marx Brothers.
Posted by GeeTee at May 31, 2002 02:50 PM
CBC News: Mistakes may have been made: PM
"Perhaps there was a few million dollars that may have been stolen in the process. It is possible. But how many millions and millions of dollars have we saved to the country because we have re-established the stability of Canada," said the prime minister.
Posted by GeeTee at May 31, 2002 02:30 PM
The idea that the CIA and the FBI will suddenly start working together amicably seems unlikely; and anyway, who would want to take spying lessons from the CIA, which was only slightly less culpable in the September 11th mess?
Posted by GeeTee at May 31, 2002 12:50 PM
"We find that, given the crudeness of filtering technology, any technology protection measure mandated by CIPA will necessarily block access to a substantial amount of speech whose suppression serves no legitimate government interest," the court ruled.
Posted by GeeTee at May 31, 2002 12:37 PM
Body Shop founder censored by search engine
When Roddick's website editor spoke to the Google team about their policy, they told her they do not accept ads for sites with any political content that could be perceived as "anti" anything.
Posted by GeeTee at May 31, 2002 09:26 AM
The Globe and Mail: Breaking News
Under the changes, complaints would go directly to a tribunal which would have the authority to dismiss complaints not in the public interest and to promote mandatory settlement conferences as an alternative to formal hearings.
Posted by GeeTee at May 31, 2002 04:15 AM
Yahoo! News - Fla. County Makes '23' a Passing Grade
Palm Beach County high school students taking a new history exam this week need to answer just 23 of 100 multiple-choice questions correctly to pass.
Posted by GeeTee at May 30, 2002 10:10 AM
Even more troubling is the recent Alberta criminal case of R. v. Hamilton, Canada's first criminal spam case, in which the Criminal Code proved ineffective in dealing with a spammer who sent e-mails offering to sell documents detailing how to make homemade bombs, how to break into private homes, and how to generate credit card numbers.
Posted by GeeTee at May 30, 2002 07:21 AM
The uncertain Spaniard says 'em' and the Swede 'hmm', whereas the Japanese have a raft of options, including 'anoo' and 'jaa'.
Posted by GeeTee at May 30, 2002 06:23 AM
"There is nothing portentous about my small self. If I had the greatness you alone see in me, would I write you begging letters year after year?"
Posted by GeeTee at May 29, 2002 06:23 PM
On Tuesday, an Australian research team in Sydney announced it had successfully replicated the DNA from a female Tasmanian tiger pup that had been preserved in ethanol more than a century ago.
Posted by GeeTee at May 29, 2002 03:55 PM
MediaGuardian.co.uk | Broadcast
In the week of the World Cup, one surprise entry was the inclusion of footballers at number six, possibly as a result of stories of astronomical salaries and irresponsible behaviour.
Posted by GeeTee at May 29, 2002 03:49 PM
A friend met an intellectual, and said: "Congratulations! You've got a baby boy!" The intellectual replied: "Thanks to buddies like you!"
Posted by GeeTee at May 29, 2002 10:56 AM
WHO issues Asian smoking warning
"Children deserve to grow up in environment free from such marketing," said Harley Stanton of the WHO's regional Tobacco Free Initiative.
Posted by GeeTee at May 28, 2002 03:10 PM
How can we love right when it's easier to love wrong?
Posted by GeeTee at May 27, 2002 12:56 PM
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Elizabeth Barton
In 1525, when nineteen years of age, being then employed as a domestic servant at Aldington, Kent, she had an illness during which she fell into frequent trances and told "wondrously things done in other places whilst she was neither herself present nor yet heard no report thereof." From the first her utterances assumed a religious character and were "of marvellous holiness in rebuke of sin and vice."
Posted by GeeTee at May 26, 2002 10:03 AM
Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre
[…] the horseshit and craziness continues, he insists - in microfilming and in more recent digitisation projects in which he claims books are still being destroyed "in order to preserve them" […]
Posted by GeeTee at May 24, 2002 05:47 PM
Using electrodes, they stimulated the brains of women in ways that caused pleasurable feelings. The subjects came to no harm—indeed their symptoms appeared to evaporate, at least temporarily—but they quickly fell in love with their experimenters.
Posted by GeeTee at May 24, 2002 05:27 PM
My dear Telemachus,
The Trojan War
is over now; I don't recall who won it.
The Greeks, no doubt, for only they would leave
so many dead so far from their own homeland.
But still, my homeward way has proved too long.
While we were wasting time there, old Poseidon,
it almost seems, stretched and extended space.
I don't know where I am or what this place
can be. It would appear some filthy island,
with bushes, buildings, and great grunting pigs.
A garden choked with weeds; some queen or other.
Grass and huge stones . . . Telemachus, my son!
To a wanderer the faces of all islands
resemble one another. And the mind
trips, numbering waves; eyes, sore from sea horizons,
run; and the flesh of water stuffs the ears.
I can't remember how the war came out;
even how old you are—I can't remember.
Grow up, then, my Telemachus, grow strong.
Only the gods know if we'll see each other
again. You've long since ceased to be that babe
before whom I reined in the plowing bullocks.
Had it not been for Palamedes' trick
we two would still be living in one household.
But maybe he was right; away from me
you are quite safe from all Oedipal passions,
and your dreams, my Telemachus, are blameless.
Posted by GeeTee at May 24, 2002 05:15 AM
It's my birthday today.
Today someone special to me is going to buy me a slice of pie.
This could be the year of my life when I decide it's time to be serious. I'll let you all know if it happens.
Do me a favor today and smile. That's what I want for my birthday. For everyone I know, everyone who reads moonfarmer, everyone to just smile for the simple joy of it.
Posted by Shad Muegge at May 23, 2002 11:55 AM
I'd walk close to buildings counting
bricks, run my finger in the grout
till it grew hot and numb. Bricks
in a row, rows on a floor, multiply
floors, buildings, blocks in the city.
I knew there were numbers for everything--
tires piled in mountains at the dump,
cars on the interstate to Maine,
pine needles blanketing the shoulder of the road,
bubbles in my white summer spit.
I dreamed of counting the galaxies
of freckles on Laura MacNally,
touching each one--she loves me,
she loves me not--right on up her leg,
my pulse beating away at the sea
wall of my skin, my breath
inhaling odd, exhaling even.
[…]
Posted by GeeTee at May 23, 2002 05:35 AM
I am not worth enough--why do I not judge you harshly?--
For you to perish fleeing from me across the long waves.
You pursue a costly hatred and purpose
If, to be rid of me, you count it cheap to die.
Soon the winds will calm, and with the waves spreading smoothly
Triton will drive his azure steeds across the sea.
Would that you too were changeable with the winds--
And, unless you exceed the oak in hardness, you will be.
Why, as if you did not know what the raging waters can do,
Do you trust the waves whose hardships you have know so often?
Even if you cast off your moorings when the sea invites the journey,
Nevertheless the broad depths hold many woes.
Nor is it good for those who break promises to tempt the waves:
That place exacts penalties for treachery,
Especially when love has been wounded, for the mother of Loves,
It is said, arose naked from the waves of Cytherea.
Posted by GeeTee at May 21, 2002 07:03 AM
I am not a painter, I am a poet.
Why? I think I would rather be
a painter, but I am not. Well,
for instance, Mike Goldberg
is starting a painting. I drop in.
"Sit down and have a drink," he
says. I drink; we drink. I look
up. "You have SARDINES in it."
"Yes, it needed something there."
"Oh," I go and the days go by
and I drop in again. The painting
is going on, and I go, and the days
go by. I drop in. The painting is
finished. "Where's SARDINES?"
All that's left is just
letters, "It was too much," Mike says.
But me? One day I am thinking of
a color: orange. I write a line
about orange. Pretty soon it is a
whole page of words, not lines.
Then another page. There should be
so much more, not of orange, of
words, of how terrible orange is
and life. Days go by. It is even in
prose, I am a real poet. My poem
is finished and I haven't mentioned
orange yet. It's twelve poems, I call
it ORANGES. And one day in a gallery
I see Mike's painting, called SARDINES.
Posted by GeeTee at May 21, 2002 06:48 AM
This evening it's raining,
and my picture of you is raining.
The day falls open in memory.
You walked in.
I can't hear. Memory gives me nothing but your picture.
There only your kiss or the rain is falling.
Posted by GeeTee at May 21, 2002 06:46 AM
CommsDesign - Municipal groups sue FCC over cable modem ruling
An alliance of local and county groups is suing the Federal Communications Commission over its March 14 ruling that cable modems are no longer telecommunications services subject to state and local regulations.
The AT&T Cable people have left a couple of door hangers at my house explaining they are going to be upgrading the cable system in my neighborhood. (We may lose service during the day while they work on it). It may be that my days of narrowband internet connections are coming to an end, at last, finally.
Posted by Shad Muegge at May 16, 2002 07:35 AM
19. Mowing. Frost, Robert. 1915. A Boy's Will
THERE was never a sound beside the wood but one,
And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.
What was it it whispered? I knew not well myself;
Perhaps it was something about the heat of the sun,
Something, perhaps, about the lack of sound---
And that was why it whispered and did not speak.
It was no dream of the gift of idle hours,
Or easy gold at the hand of fay or elf:
Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak
To the earnest love that laid the swale in rows,
Not without feeble-pointed spikes of flowers
(Pale orchises), and scared a bright green snake.
The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.
My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make.
Posted by Shad Muegge at May 15, 2002 04:15 PM
His crime family still bears his name, though he maintained in his 1983 autobiography that "I'm not a Father anymore and there is no Bonanno Family anymore.''
Posted by GeeTee at May 12, 2002 02:53 AM
News - Montreal - canada.com network
"Maurice Boucher is unique," said Lavigne. "The only other Hells Angel that was like that in the history of the gang was Sonny Barger in the U.S. Maurice Boucher's ego destroyed him."
Posted by GeeTee at May 11, 2002 04:49 PM
Guitarist article - learn the art of learning to practice guitar
Tom is also learning, over time, that by always making the effort to focus his attention on this muscle tension, he can always eliminate some part of it, and by consistently doing this in practice, things begin to feel easier and easier, because he was really fighting his own muscle tension, which made it feel so hard.
Posted by GeeTee at May 11, 2002 12:15 PM
Sources familiar with the meetings said that Mr. Brault and Mr. Boulay travelled to Ottawa on several occasions to pitch deals to Mr. Gagliano and Joseph Charles (Chuck) Guite, the senior civil servant in charge of federal advertising. They recalled that some of the presentations were made over lunch in Mr. Gagliano's office while the minister ate his soup.
Posted by GeeTee at May 11, 2002 11:52 AM
Enough of this elusive penis thing. Men don't have a problem brandishing their members in real life. How about a little more on the celluloid? Women across the nation: Stand up for your rights and demand more dick! To kick off our campaign, we've included a list of some memorable (and not so memorable) dick shots. It's an eclectic list, and you're sure to find some of your favorites among them.
Posted by GeeTee at May 11, 2002 11:23 AM
Dr. Lloyd Van Wyck, who performs a wide range of plastic surgery including breast augmentation, says he was "flabbergasted" to find out that some parents at his daughter's school would turn their backs on a gift from Hooters because the restaurant has constructed its image around big-breasted servers known as Hooters Girls.
Posted by GeeTee at May 11, 2002 08:14 AM
Corbett said the judge's decision is only an interim ruling, but that the board has indicated it wants to argue its position in a trial. Corbett said Hall is prepared to do the same.
Posted by GeeTee at May 11, 2002 04:34 AM
By shining one frequency of light on the device, the team was able to crimp the molecule, causing it to pull the diving board downward -- converting light into mechanical energy. When another light frequency was used, the molecule relaxed.
Posted by GeeTee at May 10, 2002 11:41 AM
A Federal Aviation Administration inspector even sat next to the hijacker, Hani Hanjour, in one of the Arizona classes, checked records to ensure Hanjour's 1999 pilot's licence was legitimate but concluded no other action was warranted, FAA officials told The Associated Press.
Posted by GeeTee at May 10, 2002 09:45 AM
Commissioner's Findings - April 30, 2002 - Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Pursuant to ongoing compliance with Principle 4.9.4, the bank should collaborate with credit reporting agencies in the initiative of developing understandable, consumer-friendly formats for credit information.
Posted by GeeTee at May 10, 2002 08:06 AM
FuckedCompany.com - The Dot-com Deadpool
Select this option if you want to receive an email everytime there's a rumor about a company you're interested in. You may select up to five companies to monitor. You'll receive the full text of the rumor in your mailbox. FC currently receives around 100 to 500 rumors everyday.
Posted by GeeTee at May 10, 2002 06:51 AM
Economist.com | Biology and politics
Unsurprisingly, the debate has been dominated by the extremes. Francis Fukuyama, a writer and critic of human cloning, complains that opposition to the Senate ban comes from an unholy alliance of anything-goes libertarians and left-wingers who want to perfect human nature. But a similar charge could be levied against the banners, who include both the religious right and left-wing Luddites.
Posted by GeeTee at May 10, 2002 05:53 AM
Her solicitor said he couldn't disclose the exact details, but Jodee Berry can now pick whatever type of Toyota she wants.
Posted by GeeTee at May 10, 2002 05:42 AM
By DAN WHITE SENTINEL STAFF WRITER May 8, 2002
"We contacted the city attorney," said Sgt. Brad Goodwin. "It could be interpreted anywhere from being free speech to being artistic. It's really nothing we have control over."
Posted by GeeTee at May 10, 2002 05:24 AM
Mr. Boudria is stuck defending new allegations of mismanagement in his department. He has not explained why his government paid out $656,000 to place 100 pages of advertising in a Quebec publication called L'Almanach du Peuple, when the Quebec government got more pages for only $39,000.
Posted by GeeTee at May 10, 2002 05:05 AM
One bootleg version of "Attack of the Clones" appears to have been made at a private showing of the film, using a tripod-mounted digital camcorder pointed at the screen. Another evidently employed a more sophisticated version of the same technique.
Posted by GeeTee at May 10, 2002 05:02 AM
Chretien, for his part, has never apologized for whatever government corners might have been cut in the drive to shore up both federalism and his party's fortunes in Quebec. On the contrary. To him, the two are clearly one and the same.
Posted by GeeTee at May 10, 2002 04:54 AM
The plaintiffs contend both companies have known for decades that the MD-80 and DC-9 have design flaws that make it easy for leaking chemical fluids to get sucked into the auxiliary power unit, or APU, and mix with cabin air. The APU is a small turbine engine used to generate electricity and circulate cabin air before takeoff.
Posted by GeeTee at May 09, 2002 06:25 AM
Among the projects being presented, this announcement highlights a study,led by Dr. Murray Frank of the University of British Columbia, entitled"Internet stock message boards and North American financial markets."
Posted by GeeTee at May 09, 2002 06:20 AM
"Every photo honors the purity and innocence of youth and contains no sexually explicit conduct in accordance with United States Law!" asserts the site. "In the time honored tradition and within the laws of the United States of America and most states and municipalities, the visual depiction and appreciation of the male form, including the pubescent male form, has been and is legal. Little Boyz supports the laws of the United States of America and gladly and willingly conforms to these laws ... Little Boyz, in accordance with the Constitution, believes that the right to view and appreciate nude images of minors in an artistic and aesthetic manner is guaranteed."
Posted by GeeTee at May 08, 2002 02:40 PM
The result was a list of 100 topped by Don Quixote, which received 50 per cent more votes than any other book. The club did not release the number of votes or ranking for the other 99 books, which were listed alphabetically by author.
Posted by GeeTee at May 08, 2002 02:31 PM
The research, funded primarily by the National Institutes of Health, used two large groups of Danish men and women who had been studied since their mothers were pregnant with them between 1959 and 1961. When the children were one year old, the mothers were questioned about how long they breast-fed their babies. One group of 973 was given a Wechsler IQ test, an intensive one-on-one assessment, while the 2,280 men in the other sample were given intelligence tests when they entered the Danish military. In both groups, those breast-fed for nine months scored significantly higher than those breast-fed for less than one month. Further supporting the conclusion that breast-feeding improved intelligence, researchers found a strong "dose effect" - a gradual improvement based on the number of months of breast-feeding up to nine months, when the effect ended.
Posted by GeeTee at May 08, 2002 01:39 PM
Once a child is admitted to an English public school, all brothers and sisters and their offspring are allowed to follow suit.
Posted by GeeTee at May 08, 2002 01:12 PM
Bioethanol is one of the lowest-cost, most consumer-friendly ways to reduce gasoline consumption and CO2 emissions from vehicles. It is a clean fuel that can be used in today's cars.
Posted by GeeTee at May 08, 2002 01:07 PM
There was no doubt an attempt to blow up Parliament. But Guy Fawkes and his associates may have been caught in a Jacobean sting operation.
Posted by GeeTee at May 08, 2002 01:05 PM
Over 12,000 citations spanning 60 yearsof SIL International's language research in over 1,000 languages.
Posted by GeeTee at May 08, 2002 12:52 PM
The Village Voice: Features: by Patrick Giles
Here it is: The vast majority of Catholic clergy are, and have always been, gay. Priestly same-sex abuse has reached such appalling numbers because it was never properly halted and because many Catholic leaders (as their press statements have made disgracefully evident) have never learned to distinguish between "homosexuality" (partnering consensually with someone of your own sex) and "sexual abuse" (touching or forcing yourself sexually upon an unwilling partner of any age). What's more, the Magisterium has always understood that gay people keep the religious orders alive, because (just by the law of averages) many bishops and cardinals must themselves be gay.
Posted by GeeTee at May 08, 2002 07:41 AM
We don't need a new vision. We just need to recognize what the traditional vision has been. The traditional vision protects copyright owners from unfair competition. It has never been a way to give copyright holders perfect control over how consumers use content. We need to make sure that pirates don't set up CD pressing plants or competing entities that sell identical products. We need to stop worrying about whether you or I use a song on your PC and then transfer it your MP3 player.
Posted by GeeTee at May 08, 2002 06:36 AM
Biologists Sought a Treaty; Now They Fault It
They say the treaty has spawned paralyzing biological bureaucracies built on the widespread belief that any scientist collecting samples — whether for a drug company or a dissertation — is bent on stealing genetic material and making a fortune.
As a result, biologists say, in many tropical regions it is easier to cut a forest than to study it.
Posted by GeeTee at May 08, 2002 05:26 AM
They were tipped off that he had been a Russian spy in Berlin, they were uneasy about his support of civil rights and pacifism, and they worried over claims he was working on a death ray.
Posted by GeeTee at May 08, 2002 05:01 AM
stinkfactor.com | Wheres losers are losers and winners are still losers. No one likes a slob!
In detail, we placed a "Look Up" sign on the tree trunk, and a "Look Up" sign on the southern approach as well as a "Look Up" sign on the northern approach. Directly beneath the $2.00 was a sign that read "There are two dollar bills in the tree. Take them." We thought our instructions were quite clear.
Posted by GeeTee at May 07, 2002 04:53 PM
"When a business enterprise, to promote and defend its sales and profits, makes factual representations about its own products or its own operations, it must speak truthfully," said the court in its decision.
Posted by GeeTee at May 07, 2002 12:11 PM
Guggenheim spent the next decade of her life administering first to the needs of the alcoholic writer, and then to the unfaithful Communist who eventually took his place (for his sake, she joined the Party). She was nearing forty and sick with a sense of personal failure when a friend suggested that she open an art gallery as a diversion from suffering over men. She acted quickly: aided by half a million dollars that she inherited on her mother's death, in 1937, and closely guided by Marcel Duchamp, she opened Guggenheim Jeune in London in early 1938. And her thwarted needs and passions suddenly found an open course. "I fell so in love with it," Guggenheim wrote of a small rounded brass sculpture by Jean Arp. "The instant I felt it I wanted to own it."
Posted by GeeTee at May 07, 2002 09:21 AM
The poll, released yesterday, also found one in 10 students have "seriously" considered suicide in the last 12 months.
Posted by GeeTee at May 07, 2002 09:12 AM
If either Auditor-General Sheila Fraser or the RCMP proves those allegations, the administration will have been caught dipping into the public treasury to pay its own political bills. Instead of patronage, words like fraud are now being thrown around.
Posted by GeeTee at May 07, 2002 09:09 AM
Last week's column about the death of my son Chase from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome set off something of a chain reaction across the Net. The column went out a bit earlier than usual, and by the time I awoke on Thursday, words of support were already in from readers in Japan, Australia, India, and Kuwait. By breakfast I'd heard from Europe, and by 24 hours later I'd heard from more than 500 friends around the world. A week later, the message total stands well above a thousand, with many of those -- at least 30 percent -- offering to help personally in Chase's SIDS monitoring project.
Posted by GeeTee at May 07, 2002 08:12 AM
Guardian Unlimited Observer | International
DiMario waited in vain for her arrival or emails but Oksana had vanished, as had her agent. 'I began investigating and came across a site about Russian bride scams. There I found pictures of "Oksana", using four aliases. The pictures she gave me were not of her, but of a popular Russian model, Anna Smirnova. Oksana was a real person, but nothing like who I thought she was.'
Posted by GeeTee at May 06, 2002 05:52 PM
"The school board has presented no evidence that the Catholic board had the legal right in 1867 to hold school dances, to control who could and could not attend those dances, or even more generally the legal right to regulate dating by students," he told the court.
Posted by GeeTee at May 06, 2002 05:06 PM
As ridiculous as lawyers universally believe the zoo's response is, there is little recourse -- aside from writing this column or going to court. (Full disclosure: The author of Hearsay is the co-chairman of the First Amendment Committee of the journalism group, Investigative Reporters & Editors, which advocates for keeping government records open. The author also is part of a family membership to Friends of National Zoo -- at least until this column runs.)
Posted by GeeTee at May 06, 2002 04:08 PM
"Alice" (buy) and "Blood Money" (buy) were recorded concurrently. "It's such a big deal to crank up a band and the whole bit," Mr. Waits said. "Once you crank up the machine, it seems a shame just to make one pancake." But the albums are as different as sleepwalking and chronic insomnia. "Alice," which was very loosely inspired by "Alice in Wonderland," is full of lyrics about dreaming, and many of the songs proceed in a haze of brushed drums and breathy horns. "Blood Money" is more hardnosed, veering from warped carnival oom-pah to ominous lullabies.
Posted by GeeTee at May 06, 2002 02:33 PM
NRA LAUNCHES NRA ONLINE - THE ULTIMATE PRO-GUN ISP
In an effort to create a high quality Internet Service that helps promote and protect Second Amendment rights, the National Rifle Association has launched NRA Online. The service provides unlimited dial-up access, up to five e-mail addresses, free web hosting and 24 hour live technical support for only $19.95 a month. Covering more than 95% of the U.S.population through more than 1900 local numbers (which will grow to 2300 next month), NRA Online provides nationwide coverage for Freedom-loving Americans. "We're excited about NRA Online," says NRA Treasurer Woody Phillips. "So many people have requested a high-quality, pro-gun alternative to the mass market ISPs that we felt the time was right to launch one. We've spent considerable time building a solution that will be appreciated by our supporters while helping the NRA protect and defend our Constitutional Rights."
Posted by GeeTee at May 06, 2002 02:25 PM
Inspectors took away garments found not in conformance with Saudi interpretation of Islamic law, the newspaper al-Jazirah reported Sunday. The abayas either were not plain and opaque or they were provocatively clinging, it said.
Posted by GeeTee at May 06, 2002 01:24 PM
Matthew Geigen-Miller, communications director for the Network, described the refusal of the three provinces to bring 16- and 17-year-olds under the child-welfare umbrella as reprehensible. "It is totally out of line with the UN convention and what the other provinces and territories are doing."
Posted by GeeTee at May 06, 2002 01:20 PM
Boucher verdict -- Montreal -- canada.com
Hells Angels leader Maurice (Mom) Boucher was told Monday he won't be eligible for parole for 25 years after his conviction on murder charges. In court, Prosecutor France Charbonneau asked for a DNA sample from Boucher. She explained later that she wants it in connection with other investigations.
Posted by GeeTee at May 06, 2002 01:04 PM
[…] on average since 1998, the federal government appears to have paid about $78,000 more each year than its publicized ad rates.
Posted by GeeTee at May 06, 2002 01:02 PM
ChildCare Action Project (CAP) Media Analysis Report MAR22050
Yes, there is presentation and discussion of evolution in this film. Indeed, some pictorial display of DNA sequences being completed to form a new species is shown. But it's a movie. It is not proof.
Posted by GeeTee at May 06, 2002 12:57 PM
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Posted by Shad Muegge at May 06, 2002 10:44 AM
CBC News: Child poverty activists tell PM to put words into action
"The federal government is either comatose, or morally bankrupt around the lives of children," Callwood said.
Posted by GeeTee at May 06, 2002 10:41 AM
Boucher, leader of the Hells Angels' select Nomads chapter, was to return to Quebec Superior Court on Monday to receive an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years.
Posted by GeeTee at May 05, 2002 07:06 PM
cancon: Mrs. Everywhere by Gabrielle Taylor
I am focusing on a young man in a bright red Che Guevara shirt -- striking against black-clad Muslim women -- when I notice my boyfriend is surrounded by four large policemen. I lose the shot and go over. Bryan is telling them no, we are not major media, the pictures are for our personal use. They ask me why I'm taking pictures. I say they're for my web site. They ask what my web site is called but, Philistines that they are, they have obviously never heard of it.
Posted by GeeTee at May 05, 2002 06:01 PM
My friend, Paul, is a member of this band. They will be playing this month at a Seattle location. I'll post details when I get them.
Posted by Shad Muegge at May 05, 2002 09:31 AM
In 1940, the 1,000-year anniversary of Taira's death, the Finance Ministry, a short distance from the site, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. And after World War II, the U.S. military dropped its idea for a parking lot on the site after a bulldozer operator suddenly died. Some even blame Taira for the 1998 bankruptcy of the Long-Term Credit Bank after the institution sold the land under his monument.
Posted by GeeTee at May 04, 2002 06:58 PM
Colombian authorities have told the Foreign Affairs Department they have reason to believe that the three men aboard the chopper -- Gilles Pregent, a pilot from Montreal; Jay Riddell, a mechanic from Vancouver; and Pierre Galipon, a Frenchman and a partner in Heliamerica, the company that owns the chopper -- are alive.
Posted by GeeTee at May 04, 2002 06:51 PM
The eScience Telescopes for Astronomical Research (eSTAR) Project is a programme to build a prototype robotic telescope network, to test computing infrastructure and software which could be used for larger scale projects. The prototype will include telescopes which carry out observing requests sent across the internet and a system which performs rapid reduction of the data. Intelligent agents will then examine the results and, if required, request follow-up observations.
Posted by GeeTee at May 04, 2002 06:46 PM
For instance, scientific evidence suggests marijuana is "not a gateway" to harder drugs, like cocaine, heroin and other more addictive substances, Nolin said.
Posted by GeeTee at May 04, 2002 06:43 PM
For the 2002 season, the total allowable catch (TAC) for harp seals is 275,000. But East Coast sealers have already taken almost 300,000 from a population of five million seals.
Posted by GeeTee at May 04, 2002 06:39 PM
"Adult songs for children, or children's songs for adults," is how Tom Waits describes Alice. "A maelstrom or fever-dream; a tone poem with torch songs and waltzes... an odyssey in dream logic and nonsense."
Buy Alice and/or Blood Money
through Moon Farmer's Amazon.com store.
Posted by GeeTee at May 04, 2002 08:17 AM
The Archdiocese's finance council said the proposed settlement to the alleged victims of the now defrocked priest, John Geoghan, would leave the Boston Church without money to pay other victims.
Posted by GeeTee at May 04, 2002 06:47 AM
The thing is, as Simpson makes clear, the Canadian way is no better, and it shows. Through the splintering of the Canadian right into two parties -- the squishy center-right Progressive Conservatives and the populist, mostly western Canadian Alliance -- Jean Chrétien’s Liberal Party has won the last three elections in a walk. On its own, that might not be a bad thing, but Simpson highlights two related trends: the sharp decline in voter turnout and the increasing centralization of power in the hands of Prime Minister Chrétien.
Posted by GeeTee at May 04, 2002 06:27 AM
LawMeme: Legal Bricolage for a Technological Age
3. Not buying things from the advertisers on television shows. Part of your contract is that not only do you watch the advertisements, but that you subsequently buy from the advertisers. If you don't buy from the advertisers, the whole system breaks down.
Posted by GeeTee at May 03, 2002 12:35 PM
Twenty long unavailable stories by Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon and the incomparable master of detective fiction.
Posted by GeeTee at May 03, 2002 09:43 AM
We are currently in the middle of a very difficult decision. Halifax Live has been providing independent news and information for the HRM since 1999. When we first started this project we had no idea we would be so popular with the residents of Halifax, and for that matter the entire Country. To be very Frank, we have encountered problems, problems which leave us to make a difficult decision, continue Halifax Live, or send it into cyber heaven. Over the past few months the threats of being sued have hit an all time high. We believe in the Canadian Charter of Rights, which includes the right to freedom of expression, with limitations of course. We don't believe in defamation and or character assassination, nor have we ever stooped to such a level in our mission to provide independent news coverage for the region. It all comes down to one simple question: Can we afford to defend our right to freedom of expression? At this time we just don't know. Our final decision will be made shortly.
Posted by GeeTee at May 03, 2002 09:11 AM
When the Turtle Creek Reservoir drops to low levels will a multinational make an effort to publicize this shortage and encourage us to conserve water?
Posted by GeeTee at May 03, 2002 08:15 AM
We know there is an economic rationale for some concentration of media ownership. And we recognize media owners' right to reflect their views in outlets they own. But mass media, including newspapers, are also a public trust; publication carries a responsibility.
Posted by GeeTee at May 03, 2002 06:06 AM
No one has any idea how the semen ended up at the forest preserve.
Posted by GeeTee at May 03, 2002 06:03 AM
Another news and pullquotes style blog, out of UCLA. With a name like BlogLeft you know what to expect, but more measured than most. Course, if it were called "BlogRight" because it was pro-government, I'd say the same.
Posted by GeeTee at May 03, 2002 05:34 AM
"I did it in half the time and ate twice as much," Erik Lindbergh joked. His grandfather's flight time was 331/2 hours.
Posted by GeeTee at May 02, 2002 02:21 PM
After studying the pros and cons of pot use for 14 months, the committee released a preliminary report Thursday saying scientific evidence suggests marijuana isn't a so-called gateway drug that leads to the use of harder drugs.
Posted by GeeTee at May 02, 2002 02:18 PM
The U.S. government report says designers could not have anticipated the combination of forces that made the huge complex come down on September 11.
Posted by GeeTee at May 02, 2002 10:41 AM
"The sitting-in practices are particularly objectionable when two or more enforcement units group together to work an intersection which generates frequent driver violations. Usually, where this situation occurs, the officers are doing nothing more than reaping the harvest of inadequate or poor traffic engineering. These locations frequently encourage noncompliance by the motorist to traffic signals or turning regulations. Very often, however, the real culprit is faulty traffic engineering rather than the driver."
Posted by GeeTee at May 02, 2002 08:04 AM
On Saturday, May 4th - the day after the premiere of the Spider-Man movie! - the comic book industry will sponsor Free Comic Book Day at participating comic book shops. Publishers such as Dark Horse, DC, Image, Marvel, and many more have prepared giveaway editions of some of their best titles for this special day.
Posted by GeeTee at May 02, 2002 06:09 AM
The technique could create giant TV screens, digital billboards and walls that change colour. Slim, plastic LCDs sewn into fabric could display e-mail or text messages on your sleeve. "It depends what future societies want," says Broer.
Posted by GeeTee at May 02, 2002 05:48 AM
Economist.com | Congressional redistricting
Weirdly shaped districts like these are signs that a crime has been committed. Again, start with Florida. This year, the Republican-controlled legislature has proposed a map with 18 Republican-leaning seats and seven Democratic ones. But as the 2000 presidential vote showed, Florida's electorate is split perfectly down the middle. The map has been rigged outrageously to favour the Republicans.
Posted by GeeTee at May 02, 2002 05:39 AM
"I don't care if this room I'm sitting in blows up. What concerns me is what is happening at the Church of the Nativity. This is a crime that cannot be forgiven."
Posted by GeeTee at May 02, 2002 05:34 AM
Scientists of Bashkir State University have found indisputable proofs of an ancient highly developed civilization's existence. The question is about a great plate found in 1999, with picture of the region done according to an unknown technology. This is a real relief map. Today's military has almost similar maps. The map contains civil engineering works: a system of channels with a length of about 12,000 km, weirs, powerful dams. Not far from the channels, diamond-shaped grounds are shown, whose destination is unknown. The map also contains some inscriptions. Even numerous inscriptions. At first, the scientists thought that was Old Chinese language. Though, it turned out that the subscriptions were done in a hieroglyphic-syllabic language of unknown origin.
Posted by GeeTee at May 02, 2002 05:29 AM
In the article, an 18-page essay with 38 footnotes published in the Journal of Homosexuality, Dr. Mirkin argued that the notion of the innocent child was a social construct, that all intergenerational sex should not be lumped into one ugly pile and that the panic over pedophilia fit a pattern of public response to female sexuality and homosexuality, both of which were once considered deviant.
Posted by GeeTee at May 02, 2002 05:20 AM
Set against a rich tapestry of 6,000 galaxies, the Tadpole, with its long tail of stars, looks like a runaway pinwheel firework. Another picture depicts a spectacular collision between two spiral galaxies -- dubbed "The Mice" -- that presages what may happen to our own Milky Way several billion years from now when it collides with the neighboring galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. Looking closer to home, ACS imaged the "Cone Nebula," a craggy-looking mountaintop of cold gas and dust that is a cousin to Hubble's iconic "pillars of creation" in the Eagle Nebula, photographed in 1995. Peering into a celestial maternity ward called the Omega Nebula or M17, ACS revealed a watercolor fantasy-world of glowing gases, where stars and perhaps embryonic planetary systems are forming.
Posted by GeeTee at May 02, 2002 05:17 AM
A Republican running for sheriff in Colorado will pay a $100,000 bounty if you can somehow whack Osama bin Laden. Of course, there's a catch: you'll need to kill the terrorist with a custom weapon manufactured by the candidate's gun company.
Posted by GeeTee at May 02, 2002 05:15 AM
''To say my son is legally responsible for his own abuse at the hands of this monster Shanley when my son was only 6 years old is horrific,'' Rodney Ford, the father of Gregory Ford, said in an interview. In the lawsuit, the Fords charge that Law was negligent in overseeing Shanley, who he knew, or should have known, was a danger to children.
Posted by GeeTee at May 01, 2002 02:32 PM
USTR - Intellectual Property - 2002 Special 301 Report - Priority Foreign Country
The U.S. Government withdrew benefits from Ukraine under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) in August 2001, and imposed $75 million worth of sanctions on Ukrainian imports on January 23, 2002, based on the repeated failure of Ukraine to comply with the June 2000 Joint Action Plan. Ukraine unfortunately enacted an unsatisfactory optical disk (OD) law in February 2002. The U.S. Government has worked with industry to develop an approach to improve the actual enforcement of copyright protection even with this inadequate OD law. To that end, the United States, in cooperation with Ukraine and industry officials, has developed a set of ten regulations to be implemented to improve the inadequate OD law. We hope to see Ukraine implement the substance of these regulations soon and follow up with strict enforcement of the current OD law. At the same time, the United States remains committed to working with Ukraine to address the remaining deficiencies in the existing OD law and thereby work toward reestablishing normal trade relations.
Posted by GeeTee at May 01, 2002 01:06 PM
Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre
Few people outside the party's inner circles were aware of her existence until after the war, when her death, alongside Hitler in their Berlin bunker, was announced. Hitler had married her 36 hours before. She would leave behind instructions to her sister, Ilse, to burn some of her papers, her dressmaker's bills. She did not want to go down in history as a shopaholic - the only sin, Sibylle writes, that she was aware of committing. Apart from these few facts she is a void.
Posted by GeeTee at May 01, 2002 01:00 PM
"Over 35 million people living in the Great Lakes basin get their drinking water from the Great Lakes and I venture to guess they will not appreciate the fact that nuclear waste is being shipped across their drinking water," said Kucinich.
Posted by GeeTee at May 01, 2002 12:40 PM
politechbot.com: Text of misleading anti-cloning ad by Bill Kristol's group
HARRIET: Look, if they were really interested in cures, they'd be talking about adult stem cell research, which shows far more promise -- not creating embryos to destroy them for medical experiments.
Posted by GeeTee at May 01, 2002 12:26 PM
"The Rise of the Creative Class" by Richard Florida
The key to economic growth lies not just in the ability to attract the creative class, but to translate that underlying advantage into creative economic outcomes in the form of new ideas, new high-tech businesses and regional growth. To better gauge these capabilities, I developed a new measure called the Creativity Index (column 1). The Creativity Index is a mix of four equally weighted factors: the creative class share of the workforce (column 2 shows the percentage; column 3 ranks cities accordingly); high-tech industry, using the Milken Institute's widely accepted Tech Pole Index, which I refer to as the High-Tech Index (column 4); innovation, measured as patents per capita (column 5); and diversity, measured by the Gay Index, a reasonable proxy for an area's openness to different kinds of people and ideas (column 6). This composite indicator is a better measure of a region's underlying creative capabilities than the simple measure of the creative class, because it reflects the joint effects of its concentration and of innovative economic outcomes.
Posted by GeeTee at May 01, 2002 11:40 AM
"Our guess is the amount he owes to the Canadian-owned publishing sector is between $4- and $5-million," said Jack David, publisher of Toronto-based ECW Press, which turns out more than 50 books a year.
Posted by GeeTee at May 01, 2002 10:21 AM
This is a Windows VBScript I created to remove the click-through End-User License Agreements from retail software I install. EULAs are getting unacceptably intrusive and restrictive, and I for one have had enough. In my opinion, manufacturers have no business putting extra restrictions on how I use something after I have already paid for it. While this script is no great programming achievement, its purpose is twofold: (1) to make a point about the absurdity of hidden "agreements" that buyers cannot know about until after sale, and (2) to be able to honestly say that I never accepted any EULA, and thus my use of the software is limited only by copyright law, just like a book or a CD.
Posted by GeeTee at May 01, 2002 10:13 AM
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