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30/1/2006; 6:43:24 |
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My first impulse is to say who could possibly know, but then on further thought, I looked back instead of forward to see what 15 years had done to graphic personal computers, which were about where weblogs are today. The first commercal GPC had come out in 1984. By 1998 the form was pretty well set. How different is Windows XP from the Macintosh of 1988? Not very. It's faster and bigger, but basically does the same thing, in much the same way.[Scripting News] Good news/bad news. Since I'm a Mac user i guess my government provides among the least sophisticated on-line government services. .< 11:27:55 AM  >Mother of invention How the Mosaic browser triggered a digital revolution. [CNET News.com] 'On April 22, 1993, a group of students at the University of Illinois released a piece of computer code designed to get information from various public networks. Little did they know that their pet project, a humble application named Mosaic, would fundamentally change everyday life. While Web browsers with graphical interfaces had traded hands among academics years earlier, Mosaic was the first to be widely adopted and introduce the masses to the Internet.' I remember seeing screenshots of Mosaic printed in Wired. That was it for me. I signed up with an ISP with the domain io.org (they are no more) and pointed our little LCII at the web. .< 11:23:28 AM >Iraq 'needs heritage police' An emergency meeting of experts on Iraqi heritage ends with a plan for the protection and repair of cultural sites. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 11:22:02 AM >A Baghdad Art Center Left in Ashes Some of Baghdad's cultural elite are angry about the war, seeing in its destruction a vulgarity that only further degrades Iraq. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] .< 11:21:11 AM >In U.S., Fear Is Spreading Faster Than SARS Along the West Coast, a pervasive fear of SARS has taken hold, despite the fact that no one in the U.S. has died from it. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] Fear is a huge part of the American psyche. Bush is a part of this culture and by promoting his own fear on his people he can get away with unnecessary wars. .< 1:41:00 AM >US war bill reaches $20bn The Pentagon says the war in Iraq has so far cost $20bn, with the cost of keeping troops there likely to be $2bn. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] Imagine what a great leader could have done with $20 billion dollars. AIDS? Child poverty? Nope, Bush is protecting oil wells, blowing people up, and enraging people all over the world. .< 1:38:10 AM >More die as troops open fire on Mosul crowd World: Community leaders in Mosul appealed for calm yesterday after US forces became involved in a lethal firefight in the city centre for the second day running. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 1:31:35 AM >CBC News: Bush visit likely if Canada joined war: U.S. ambassador Um, do we feel neglected? I don't think so. It would have been a nice opportunity to protest the moron but we're not the bunch of brown-nosers some of us would have us be. .< 1:28:05 AM >Yahoo! News - Clinton blasts US approach to international affairs 'Former US President Bill Clinton blasted US foreign policy adopted in the wake of the September 11 attacks, arguing the United States cannot kill, jail or occupy all of its adversaries. "Our paradigm now seems to be: something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else in the world must agree with us," said Clinton, who spoke at a seminar of governance organized by Conference Board.' .< 1:24:01 AM >CBC News: Canadian destroyer loses torpedo - by accident 'No one was hurt.' Doh! .< 1:15:02 AM >The Globe and Mail: Facts fall victim to war jargon 'The long faces and sombre tones at CNN when "terrorist" tactics emerged were laughable. The terrorist tactics included wearing civilian clothes -- something that French and Russian resistance fighters did when fighting Nazi occupation. We call them heroes. Hit-and-run tactics have been used by overwhelmed locals in every invasion. The United States itself has made heroes of the civilian militias (or "paramilitary groups") who fought British troops in their own war of independence. And the gangs who killed British troops and committed acts of sabotage in British-occupied Palestine after the Second World War -- groups whose tactics were terrorist by anyone's definition -- later formed the state of Israel.' Russel Smith with a righteous rant on the abuse of language in the American media's abdication of it's responsibilities. |
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