NY Times on Wikipedia
Bob Morris @ Mar 12th 2006 21:57 - Category: Unfiled ;
Anonymous Source Is Not the Same as Open Source
Can an article be judged as credible without knowing its author?
Wikipedia says yes, but I am unconvinced.
Archive for March 12th, 2006
March 18. 200 demonstrations
Bob Morris @ Mar 12th 2006 08:38 - Category: Anti-war ;
From StopWar.org.uk, organizers of the London protest on March 18.
The London demonstration is one of many taking place across the world. There will be protests in more than 200 cities and towns on every continent, including Baghdad and Basra. Three years after the start of the war, more than 100,000 deaths later, with trillions of dollars spent on the biggest armed robbery of a country since Hitler’s Blitzkrieg and more war ratcheted into view, we must once again show that world public opinion is the ’second superpower.’
Tony Blair may have a President and his God on his side. We have the solidarity of each other and outrage and justice on ours.
“We cannot give back Iraqi lives extinguished or ruined by those acting in our name. At the very least, we must demand that those responsible for this epic crime get out of Iraq now and that we have an opportunity to prosecute and judge them, and to make amends to the Iraqi people. Anything less disqualifies “us” as civilised.
John Pilger”
Here in the States there will be at least 40 demos.Let’s stop the the next insane invasion of the neocons before it happens - Stop War on Iran
Blue Room wonders why the US is always Finding monsters to destroy, and why such countries generally like Venezuela, the focus of the post, have lots of oil.
Worried yet? Halliburton to build detention camps… for who?
When the ‘leaders’ have demonstrably gone insane, it is the right and duty of the people to stop them. Let’s all join the protests next Saturday.
Protests get results
Bob Morris @ Mar 12th 2006 08:37 - Category: Unfiled ;
WordPress on a memory stick
Bob Morris @ Mar 12th 2006 08:36 - Category: Unfiled ;
Hey geek bloggers, now you can install a local version of WordPress on a memory stick, perfect for experimenting with. Yup, it’s a webserver on a stick, your own little playpen for WordPress.
Full details on my tech blog.
Italian/UK corruption charges
Bob Morris @ Mar 12th 2006 08:35 - Category: Unfiled ;
This story could get huge.
Italian prosecutors have asked a judge to let David Mills, the husband of Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, be put on trial on corruption charges.
Judicial sources said prosecutors had also asked for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to be indicted.
Pollution soaring to crisis levels in Arctic
Bob Morris @ Mar 12th 2006 08:35 - Category: Climate change ;
Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that indicates Earth’s most vulnerable regions - the North and South Poles - are poised on the brink of a climatic disaster.
