Monday, February 21, 2005

So much for your hunt ban, Mr Blair. Telegraph — Permalink Almost 100 foxes were reported killed by hunts across Britain yesterday during a mass show of defiance by foxhunters against the Government ban on their sport. Read remarks from McQ, Joe Gandelman, Wind Rider, and John Derbyshire. [memeorandum] Can only imagine what jean and lionel would have said about this one...   I can her life and him sputter just thinking about it 5:19:15 PM    comment [] High-Tech Delhi Suburb Stuck in 'Village Time Warp'. GURGAON, India -- Five years ago, Saurabh Chawla, a young corporate strategist, moved out of cramped and polluted New Delhi to the open spaces of suburban Gurgaon, seeking a better quality of life. As scores of software companies and call centers set up shop there, the rural outstretch hugging the capital also became a high-tech hub. Settlers like Chawla hoped Gurgaon could become a city of the future. By Rama Lakshmi. [washingtonpost.com - Technology] most interesting comment in her to me is there are only two sewage treatment plants awhich is iadequate.  The sewge from the urban area of Gurgaon is running downstream and ruining the crops of the farmers.  Can anyone say green revolution? 5:14:34 PM    comment [] Church group aids tsunami victims. Five men from a County Down church return from Sri Lanka after working to help survivors of the tsunami disaster. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 3:24:53 PM    comment [] EDS Execs Say Better Days Are Just Ahead (AP). AP - Electronic Data Systems Corp. has spent two years bailing water and patching leaks that threatened to sink the company, and executives say better days are just ahead. [Yahoo! News: Technology] "They have may have settled the NMCI problem, but now they've got another crop of issues to contend with," said David Garrity, an analyst with the investment bank Caris & Co. "It's a Rubik's cube." mixing the metaphors, are we? 3:20:32 PM    comment [] Bad Advice and 'For Her Own Good'. Expert advice has become a staple of newspapers, books and cable TV. While much of the advice has targeted women, two authors have maintained that the dos and don'ts have long been biased against women's interests. Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English first published For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women in 1978. [NPR's All Things Considered] Funny reference to Dr Phil, king of the advise givers.  Problem with this of course, is when you write about complaining that women need to be careful who they take advice from, you open yourself up to an accusation of giving advise yourself, espeically when you submit to being interviewed onNPR where one of the stock questions, "what would you tell our listeners to do?"  Where is the idea that people figure things out on their own if we need to go back to trusting our own "instincts"  - both men and women - on how we work out way through the crazy world we inhabit. And, that in today's world, an expert is as likely to be someone who has an overextended lifestyle to support as a true seeker of his/her own truth that they have the wisdon, humiility and compassion to share. 3:17:29 PM    comment [] More Africans Enter U.S. Than in Days of Slavery. The influx is still a trickle compared with the number of newcomers other nations, but it is already redefining what it means to be African-American. By By SAM ROBERTS. [NYT > Home Page] 2:30:07 PM    comment [] Raconteur of Dot-Com World Takes On Thomas Edison. Mike Daisey's relentlessly interesting if overstuffed play takes aim at the unchecked power of corporations, but focuses on many companies and from an outsider's perspective. By By JASON ZINOMAN. [NYT > Technology] 2:19:56 PM    comment []

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