Posts from — June 2005

U.S. Soldiers Say Saddam ‘Friendly’:

The AP reports that the July issue of GQ magazine (subscription only) features an interview by Lisa De Paulo with three U.S. soldiers who guarded Saddam after his 2003 capture. They say he’s friendly – and a hygiene nut.

Thrust unexpectedly into the role of prison guards for Saddam Hussein, a group of young American soldiers found the deposed Iraqi leader to be a friendly, talkative “clean freak” who loved Raisin Bran for breakfast, did his own laundry and insisted he was still president of Iraq, says a report published on Monday.

Saddam liked Ronald Reagan, thought Clinton was okay, and initially disliked the Bushes:

“The Bush father, son, no good,” one of the soldiers, Cpl. Jonathan “Paco” Reese, 22, of Millville, Pa., quotes Saddam as saying.

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millville is one of the places that i went to high school.

MilkandCookies – The Smufs Epic Mini-Series:

hahahahaha

Internet Archive: Details: Fun with Mathematics: Some Thoughts from Seven Decades:

Fun with Mathematics: Some Thoughts from Seven Decades

well… i enjoyed it. interesting bit of history, some nice math, and a story….

Ecolanguage.Net:

Social Security: The Real Connections

First Female Pilot Joins Famed USAF Thunderbirds:

NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev., June 17, 2005 — U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, “Thunderbirds,” officials announced their new pilots
for the 2006 demonstration season which includes the first female demonstration pilot in the 52-year history of the Thunderbirds.

Capt. Nicole Malachowski, of the 494th Fighter Squadron at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, joins the team as the first female demonstration pilot
on any U.S. military high performance jet team.

G4 – Videos:

Attack Of The Show serves up real web pages from a real webserver really inserted in someone’s butt

very, very wrong and a new level of surveillance.

blinkx:

blinkx is a tool for your PC that allows users to find and benefit from information in a revolutionary fashion. Fundamentally, blinkx understands what you are looking for.

blinkx reads what you have on your computer screen and automatically links you to related information – Web sites, the latest news on the Web, even documents and e-mails on your own computer. Users no longer have to input keywords or get caught up in the ugly mechanics of search.

woo hoo! other than smart folders… which won’t work right in either spotlight or blink when i search for “social construction of technology” blink is what spotlight should be, it finds stuff. i type in specific intellectual, it brings up all those papers… very good.

New Open Access Journal for human-centered ICT research:

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interesting new journal.

Disappearing Government Information – New paper by Susan Nevelow Mart:

You can download it for free from SSRN.   Susan Nevelow Mart, Let the People Know the Facts: Can Government Information Removed from the Internet be Reclaimed

Abstract:     
This article examines the legal bases of the public’s right to access government information, and examines and analyzes the types of information that have recently been removed from the Internet and the rationales given for the removals. The concerted use of FOIA by public interest groups and their constituents is suggested as a possible method of returning the information to the Internet. There article concludes with a brief review of recent FOIA cases that might provide some guidance on the litigation sure to follow such concerted requests.

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this is important

http://www.meulie.net/e107_files/downloads/Rare_Exports_Finland.mov: