Month April 2006

Fighting back is terrorism?

The Washington Post thinks so. Attacking Iran may trigger terrorism In the land of WaPo, if the US launches a violent attack on Iran, that’s permissible, but if Iran responds with violence, then it’s terrorism. Orwell spoke of this in…

FYI

Making the Net rounds This Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds past 1 o’clock It will be 01:02:03 04 Won’t happen again for a hundred years. Ah, but this isn’t quite so. It will happen again exactly twelve hours…

HR 4437

From Lying Media Bastards [HR 4437] is personal. Why are Latino students protesting by the thousand? Because for many, the law says “we’re going to take your parents away.” Why doesn’t anyone understand that? Too many don’t. But that is…

World Water Forum rejects water privatization

Third World countries, led by Bolivia and social organizations, have ratified their rejection of the privatization of water at the 4th World Water Forum, underway in Mexico City. Spokespeople from these sectors voiced their opposition to the intention of developed…

AudibleType

Podzinger will create text transcriptions of podcast. Now there’s a new site, AudibleType, that will do the same. Plus it has an open API. www.audibletype.com is a web based voice recognition system. The system allows for transcription of audio and…