Way cool. Take Google Maps and allow anyone to annotate it. (Only works in FireFox currently.)
From Google Maps Mania
Wikimapia lets anyone add or edit a description for any place on earth (without registering). It also provides a new, unique way of browsing Google Maps satellite images.
I wonder how long it will be before spambots start [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2006’
Wiki + Google Maps = Wikimapia
Haditha. Complicit to the top.
We’ll be hearing a lot about the Hatidha Massacre was done by a few deranged soldiers. Don’t believe it. The derangement goes right up the food chain and into the top command.
On Friday, the New York Times reported that preliminary results of a military inquiry showed that the civilians killed in the city last November [...]
Podcast: Gloria La Riva. Revolutionary Venezuela
Inside the Bolivarian Revolution
Gloria La Riva discusses recent developments in Venezuela, why the U.S. government is bent on overthrowing the revolutionary process and talks about what progressives and revolutionaries living in the U.S. can do to show solidarity with the Venezuelan people. Among other topics, she focuses on the major gains in education and health [...]
War pigs in Haditha
“When these investigations come out, there’s going to be a firestorm,” said retired Brig. Gen. David M. Brahms, formerly a top lawyer for the Marine Corps. “It will be worse than Abu Ghraib – nobody was killed at Abu Ghraib.”
‘Worst war crime’ committed by US in Iraq
John Kline, the Republican Congressmen for Minnesota who [...]
Norton and Windows Update
If you are an experienced user, you probably want Windows Automatic Updates either off or on “download updates but let me choose when to install them.” Then you can choose when to install them, as recent updates have in fact created serious problems for some. Let others beta-test the new patches for a few days [...]
It’s official
Probe finds Marines killed unarmed Iraqi civilians
Marines from Camp Pendleton wantonly killed unarmed Iraqi civilians, including women and children, and then tried to cover up the slayings in the insurgent stronghold of Haditha, military investigations have found.
Officials who have seen the findings of the investigations said the filing of criminal charges, including some murder counts, [...]
More on CIA torture flights
The flights are run by the highly secret CIA Counter Terrorist Intelligence Centre, CTIC, at Langley.
“If a strong psychological interrogation with some physical force is required, a detainee is flown to Jordan. If a suspect is to be interrogated in between periods of strong physical force, he is sent to Egypt. For the most severe [...]
House Judiciary passes Net Neutrality bill
The House Judiciary Committee today passed the Net neutrality bill proposed by Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) by a 20-13 vote. The action represents the first legislative victory for the Net neutrality forces, which are pushing Congress to enact legislation that would prevent service providers from developing premium tiers of Internet [...]
The new FrontPage
I use Microsoft FrontPage to build websites. The most recent version was released in 2003.
Here’s what’s replacing it, Microsoft Expression Web Designer, now available as a free beta download. More on my tech blog.
Enron Logo contest revisited
In Jan 2002, Viridian Design, an online movement about global warming, had a contest to create a new, more fitting logo for the then catering and collapsing Enron. The above was the winning entry.
When companies merge, or change names, or even re-org, a logo redesign is very often job one. But when companies *croak* in [...]
No bill is better than a bad bill
The Senate immigration bill which passed yesterday needs to be reconciled with the noxious Sensenbrenner bill which has already passed in the House. The troglodytes there will do their utmost to destroy the Senate version. This fight will be nasty, but really, it’s a choice between a onerous, restrictive Senate bill and a racist, mean-spirited [...]
Lay and Skilling
“It’s safe to say each of them is facing north of 20 years real jail time,” said Kirby Behre, a former federal prosecutor and co-author of Federal Sentencing for Business Crimes.
Any money they’ve managed to hold onto will vaporize in the coming onslaught of civil lawsuits. Money they tried to shelter in irrevocable trusts can [...]
ABC News stands by Hastert story
Despite a flat denial from the Department of Justice, federal law enforcement sources tonight said ABC News accurately reported that Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert is “in the mix” in the FBI investigation of corruption in Congress.
ABC’s law enforcement sources said the Justice Department denial was meant only to deny that Hastert was a [...]
House leaders whine about FBI search
Why?
Members of Congress said they were not defending any possible wrongdoing by Jefferson. But they said the constitutional principle of separation of powers had been violated.
It was the first time law enforcement authorities, acting on behalf of the executive branch of government, served a search warrant on a congressional office.
Some experts said the Justice Department [...]
