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How can a Hoax Become the #1 Search Item on Technorati

How could this happen?   How could such an obvious hoax as “Bush Indictment” become the number 1 search term on Technorati?   Wishful thinking? 🙂

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Another “Freedom of Press” debate brewing …

 Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday it will not renew permission for ABC-TV to operate in the country after the network broadcast an interview with a notorious Chechen warlord…

… The

ministry called the broadcast a “clear fact supporting the propaganda

of terrorism” and said it contained “direct vocal calls for violence

against Russian citizens.”

In the interview conducted by

Russian journalist Andrei Babitsky, Basayev, who has a $10 million

bounty on his head, said he was plotting more attacks.

Among

other attacks, Basayev has been linked to a 2002 hostage-taking assault

on a Moscow theater that left 170 people dead, a 2003 suicide attack in

the Moscow subway that killed 41 people, and a 2003 double suicide

bombing at a Moscow rock concert that killed 17 people.

On

Sunday, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said he was barring military

personnel from contact with ABC and said the ministry now considered

the network “persona non grata.”

Source: AP via YAHOO news

Hm

… Autocratic Russian regime showing what they think of Freedom of

Press?   But wait … what would we think if a

friendly foreign Media Agency broadcasted an interview with

Osama?  Ohh, I can’t wait for the huge debate about to start soon…

Update:  What a coincidence (nothing more implied) that ABC gets

kicked out of Russia, and News Corp (Rupert Murdoch) buys into  Russian TV

broadcasting.

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King George (Bush) gets his way

King George (Bush) gets his way after all… Senate does not

confirm his nominee?  So what?  Who cares about the Senate

anyway?  That’s what a  recess appointment is for … and we’re stuck with Bolton till January 2007.

 
Senators, Congressmen, go home, enjoy your vacation, don’t even

come back… you’re not needed.  Down with Democracy, Long Live

King George! 

Update (7/28) – A very relevant story on 115.org.

Update (7/29) It’s happening soon.

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Always-On 2005 at Stanford

Watching some of the sessions online.  For a conference about Innovation, there is nothing innovative about the feed; tiny screen, cannot be enlarged, the only way to zoom in is to give up the online chat.

The backchannel is about the best feature, it is displayed on the wall at the Conference, thus we, cheapos who did not plunk down $1,800, or just live too far get to participate.  “PeoplePower” really worked when during the Opening Keynote the panelists finally listened to the backchannel demand and changed subject, back from Politics.  (Isn’t this an Innovation Conference, after all?)

Today I really liked Joe Kraus‘s closing remarks, essentially saying we should stop talking about copyright..etc, leave it to the Hollywood types, and focus on what the Valley’s real value is: innovation, creating new businesses and jobs.  Too bad it was a closing remark 🙂

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Senator McCain in Raunchy Movie (???)

WTF!  This has to be a joke! (???) … or so I hope.  According to the Drudge Report"Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. -- who once held hearings chastising Hollywood studios for producing R- rated films and marketing them to teens -- is now playing a part in one!"

Opening this weekend, WEDDING CRASHERS, a movie packed with raunchy moments and bare-breasted beauties bedding down with the guys."

I guess if actors can turn into politicians, it has to work the other way around, too... (???)

What's next?  Howard Stern to the Senate?

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“Midwest” Discovered between East and West Coasts

  “NEW YORK—A U.S. Geological Survey expeditionary force announced Tuesday that it has discovered a previously unknown and unexplored land mass between the New York and California coasts known as the “Midwest….

… Thus far we have discovered places known as Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin,” said Randall Zachary, chief navigator for the expedition. “When translated from the local dialect into English, these words seem to mean ‘summer camp….

… surprised to learn that the Midwest, whose inhospitable environment was long believed to be incapable of supporting human life, is indeed populated, albeit sparsely…

…Though the Midwest territory is still largely unexplored, early reports describe a region as backwards as it is vast. “Many of the basic aspects of a civilized culture appear to be entirely absent,” said Gina Strauch, a Los Angeles-based anthropologist…

…We must remember that these people are not at all like us,” Conde Nast publisher and Manhattan socialite Lucille Randolph Snowdon said. “They are crude and provincial, bewildered by our tall buildings and our art galleries, our books and our coffee shops. For an L.A. resident to attempt to interact with one of them as he or she would with, say, a Bostonian is ludicrous. It appears unlikely that we will ever be able to conduct a genuine exchange of ideas with them about anything, save perhaps television or ‘the big game.'”

source:  the ONION:    

Interesting … reminds me of another map we’ve all seen in 2004 and 2000:

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Accidental President

 Our Accidental President (remember Florida!)  proves to be Accidental in more then one way; he seems to be having a lot of accidents:

 
 – fell off a Segway (isn’t that almost impossible) in Maine
 – fell off a mountain bike in Texas
 – and now fell off a bike at the G8 summit, hitting a local cop.
 
Isn’t it time he gets on  training wheels?
 

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Drapery is Expen$ive in NY, DC

So you think Tyco Tycoon Kozlowski’s $6,000 shower curtain  was extravagant?  Not quite … a piece of drapery at the Capital cost $8,000:

“With barely a word about it, workers at the Justice Department Friday removed the blue drapes that have famously covered two scantily clad statues for the past 3 1/2 years.

Spirit of Justice, with her one breast exposed and her arms raised, and the bare-chested male Majesty of Law basked in the late afternoon light of Justice’s ceremonial Great Hall.

The drapes, installed in 2002 at a cost of $8,000, allowed then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to speak in the Great Hall without fear of a breast showing up behind him in television or newspaper pictures. They also provoked jokes about and criticism of the deeply religious Ashcroft.”

Ashcroft Gone, Justice Statutes Disrobe, from the Washington Post