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Sunday, January 04, 2004

A Comedy of Justice. James Branch Cabell's Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice. One of the many treasures at Documenting the American South. Mike Keith's James Branch Cabell Page (Mike Keith has also performed and recorded an obscure symphony based on Jurgen). Owlcroft's overview of Cabell's work. [MetaFilter] 10:17:03 PM  Permalink  comment []

Crater Gusev Panorama Wow! Here's a QuickTime VR Panorama of the Spirit landing site. 3:15:28 PM  Permalink  comment []

A quote from John Rhys-Davies. A quote from John Rhys-Davies, whom I'm sitting next to for a moment: "Tonight when there are evil people in caves plotting and scheming to destroy their fellow men, we have seen an astonishing display of man's creativity and ingenuity. Nothing that happenend on our planet today was more important than this. A tribute to the genius of the American spirit and all that is best in humankind." [2020 Hindsight] 12:36:53 PM  Permalink  comment []

On alien soil What a fantastic panorma from Crater Gusev. Plain landscape. But look how your eye is drawn towards those small hills on the horizon. And think how the rover is going to investigate those rocks, an those patches of sand. This is the first day of a grand adventure. 10:38:46 AM  Permalink  comment []

Make some Bloise about Stealth Patriot 2!. Make some Blog Noise aka Bloise about the Stealth Patriot II bill. Link to Ross' Patriot II post to give the issue a lift. As of 9am PST on Daypop (Not in the top 40), Blogdex (Not seen in the top 150) and Technoraty seems to be down right now.   Why are there no results, when I search for "Patriot" on Feedster, but 12391 posts when I search for "Patriot Act"? (Well, now it does show 22671 posts for "Patriot", but here is the screenshot that proves, it didn't.) [mark finnern: Future Salon] 10:31:38 AM  Permalink  comment []

A report from the UK that the US is planning to spend $3 b to rebuild a secret police force in Iraq.  The US hopes to organise the various groups into one force with the local knowledge, motivation and authority to hunt down resistance fighters. According to Washington, the new agency could number 10,000. Initially, salaries will be paid by the CIA, which has 275 officers in Iraq. The force is intended to have a crucial role in post-Saddam Iraq.  Vincent Cannistraro, a former chief of CIA counter-terrorism, said: "They're clearly cooking up joint teams to do Phoenix-like things, like they did in Vietnam." He said that small units of US special forces would work with their Iraqi counterparts, including former senior Iraqi intelligence agents, on covert operations. [John Robb's Weblog] [Bear Flag Republic Radio Weblog] 10:30:58 AM  Permalink  comment []

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