Friday, May 10, 2002



Interrupted by Alarm, He Plays On With Grace. A fire alarm sounded on Tuesday night at the Jazz Standard, and Houston Person rode it out, stretching out a long solo even longer, going head to head with the noise. By Ben Ratliff. [New York Times: Arts]
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Life of a Man Who Helped Define Cool. A prurient new biography of Chet Baker by James Gavin, right, focuses in depressing detail on the long, painful decline of the jazz trumpet player. By Michiko Kakutani. [New York Times: Arts]
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Salon: Much ado about blogging. Weblogs expand the media universe. They are a media life-form that is native to the Web, and they add something new to our mix, something valuable, something that couldn't have existed before the Web. [Tomalak's Realm]
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Salon: Use the blog, Luke. Scott Johnson. It's about information management. The bloggers have the potential to do something far more original than offer up packaged opinions on the news of the day; they can actually help organize the Web in ways tailored to your minute-by-minute needs. [Tomalak's Realm]
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Workstations 'dirtier than toilets'

"A study by University of Arizona microbiologist Chuck Gerba demonstrated that the average workstation has 400 times more bacteria than the average loo."

Pleasant news for us knowledge workers.
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Davenet: Adam Curry: The Big Lie

Adam, who's weblog is always pretty interesting, reflects on the assination this week of Pim Fortuyn and how the Big's (world media) view of Pim was not the same as Adam's, or the rest of the Netherlands.

"A full day after the tragedy, the Times got back on track. At least one individual reporter did: Marlise Simons in the NY Times revealed the kernel of what sparked the controversey over Pim Fortuyn. I checked her translation against the original article. Spot on: "During the interview he was asked why he was so critical of Muslim immigrants. He said he found it shameful that foreign Islamic clergy here used offensive language against gays in this country, and that Muslim men tried to impose medieval rural customs in the Netherlands. "How can you respect a culture if the woman has to walk several steps behind her man, has to stay in the kitchen and keep her mouth shut," he said."

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