Day January 24, 2005

Uh, no

The horrible grunt of the Tasmanian devil. Jim Mitchell sez: “There’s an unbelievably good audio file of a howling Tasmanian Devil in the travel section Sunday’s SFGate.com. This may be the worst sound ever emitted by a carbon-based life form.” …

More on podcasting

After researching podcasting a bit, and checking the reviews of mp3 players in PC Mag, I decided against getting an iPod, and instead ordered the iRiver H320 20 GB mp3 player from Amazon. It differs from the iPod in that it has…

Drought’s growing reach

NCAR Study Points to Global Warming as Key Factor The percentage of Earth’s land area stricken by serious drought more than doubled from the 1970s to the early 2000s, according to a new analysis by scientists at the National Center…

Why I’m willing to defend Hussein

By Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General, and co-founder of the International Action Center, who in turn was a  co-founder of the ANSWER Coalition. That Hussein and other former Iraqi officials must have lawyers of their choice to assist them…