Bob Morris @ Nov 12th 2003 11:41 - Category: Unfiled ;
Freeway Blogger
When you put a sign on the freeway
people will read it
until someone takes it down.
Depending on its size, content and placement
it can be seen by hundreds of thousands of people
(This is the site where the Scarlet Pimpernel lurks, and not the also excellent, Nobody Died, as we mistakenly reported. We blame reactionary right wing forces for the error)
Bob Morris @ Nov 12th 2003 11:27 - Category: Unfiled ;
Food Drive for striking L.A. grocery workers
ANSWER L.A. has started a food drive for these grocery workers.
How you can help
1) Drop off food donations at the ANSWER office. Donate non-perishable items, canned goods, powdered milk, beans, rice, baby food, etc.
2) Come to the ANSWER office and help solicit donations of food by phone!
3) Join us at the press conference/rally on this Sat., Nov. 15!
The press conference and first food distribution will take place on: Sat, Nov. 15, 11 A.M., Vons Supermarket at Pico & Fairfax
Bob Morris @ Nov 12th 2003 11:07 - Category: Unfiled ;
It’s official, Howard Dean gets SEIU, AFSCME endorsement
Kos details why. Dean tried harder, the others shot themselves in the foot.
Bob Morris @ Nov 12th 2003 10:52 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bomb at Italian base in Iraq kills at least 25
Insurgents bombed an Italian military police headquarters in the southern town of Nasiriyah Wednesday, killing at least 25 people. Italian officials said they feared the death toll it would rise. At least 60 people suffered injuries. But it was already the deadliest single assault in an exceptionally deadly month.
The attacks are increasing in intensity as well as frequency, while the bellicose dimbulbs in DC look for a quick solution no doubt getting twitchy about Dubya’s decreasing chances for reelection and their own jobs.
Bob Morris @ Nov 12th 2003 10:45 - Category: Unfiled ;
Israel Supreme Court lifts ban on “Jenin, Jenin”
Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed a ban on public screenings of an Israeli Arab director’s film about one of the most hotly debated military confrontations of the 3-year-old Palestinian uprising.
“Jenin, Jenin,” described by the filmmaker, Mohammed Bakri, as a fact-based documentary but denounced by Israeli critics as false and propagandistic, examines an intense, close-quarters battle 19 months ago in the heart of a West Bank refugee camp.
And a powerful movie it is, check our review here, and rent it if you can.
Bob Morris @ Nov 12th 2003 00:36 - Category: Unfiled ;
Handy web tools
Google News Alerts
Tell News.Google.com what news topic you wish to follow and it will send the news once a day or as it happens. I’m currently tracking “George Soros”.
Use Yahoo disposable addresses to avoid spam
Getting spammed? Create a disposable address at Yahoo. Use it to sign up for things at websites. If it starts getting filled with spam, kill the address and create another one.
Yahoo Calendar
You can sync many PC calendars with Yahoo Calender, which is certainly handy. However I’ve just concluded, why bother with a PC calendar when I can do it all on the web and never need sync again. Plus Yahoo Calendar has an reminder option that notifies you via email or text messaging to a cell phone. Plus, I can view the calendar on my cell phone. Way cool.
Google Toolbar
This adds onto your browser so you can easily search Google, however it also has an amazingly handy tool to fill in forms on webpages. You enter your name, address, email, credit card info, etc. just once. When you are at a website form requiring any or all of them, simply just click the Google toolbar button to fill in the form! Credit card info is password protected.
Spam killers
I use Cloudmark SpamNet, which puts me on their net of many thousands of users, and therein lies the strength. When you mark email as spam it notifies the SpamNet servers, which then blocks that spam for all the users. It’s simple to set up, my stats currently show 22,779 blocked emails out of 56,823.
It only works on Outlook so far. They have a free trial version for Outlook 2000 and above and a free beta version for Outlook Express.
Bob Morris @ Nov 12th 2003 00:31 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bob Morris @ Nov 12th 2003 00:29 - Category: Unfiled ;
We shall not be McMoved
Merriam-Webster stands its McGround. Despite having taken down its Web defintion of McJob, Merriam-Webster has now publicly announced that it will not remove McJob from the print and pay-for-click versions of the dictionary.
“For more that 17 years ‘McJob’ has been used as we are defining it in a broad range of publications,” the company said, citing everything from The New York Times and Rolling Stone to newspapers in South Africa and Australia.Link
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