Ayad Allawi: Human rights abuses in Iraq are now as bad as they were under Saddam Hussein.
Monthly Archives: November 2005
Charlottesville food blogs.
There are now no less than three Charlottesville blogs about food, I have realized. First, there was Eric’s World of Food (though Eric and his wife, Bella [also a blogger] are moving out west, so soon they won’t count), followed by Brian Geiger’s The Food Geek, and then, most recently, Darlene and Chris’ “Eat Air …
Soybeans over tobacco in Virginia.
The business of tobacco has undergone a radical shift in Virginia recently, a result of the recent quota buyouts. Farmers are switching their crops, and, for the first time, soybeans beat out tobacco for the #1 slot in Virginia in 2004. As more and more tobacco is grown overseas, tobacco is going to become less …
The Jaded JD bids the blogosphere farewell.
Snow!
It’s snowing out, the first time of the season. It’s somewhere between a flurry and a decent pace — more of a mood-setting Thanksgiving Eve snow.
Some soldiers are upset over the sale of clothing that may or may not honor Islam, because terrorists are Muslim and so t-shirts that acknowledge Mecca are pro-terrorist. Points for honesty to the guy who says “I’m just prejudiced, that’s all.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=\SpecialReports\archive\200511\SPE20051121a.html
South Pacific islands disappearing under rising ocean.
Reuters’ Michael Perry has a lengthy and absolutely fascinating article about Pacific islands disappearing under the rising ocean, as global climate change raises the sea level. (Water expands when warmed.) Perry writes: Papua New Guinea’s Carteret islanders are destined to become some of the world’s first climate change refugees. Their islands are becoming uninhabitable, and …
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But “Blue Velvet” is worse.
David Lynch’s “Wild at Heart” is utter crap, and so is every movie he ever made. I just had to get that out of my system.
Check out Underwriter Laboratories’ warning page about turkey fryers. It turns out that they’re all ridiculously, unbelievably dangerous. Don’t miss the MPEG of turkey fryers exploding.
Freed from the bondage of 512MB.
At long last, I have gotten another 512MB of RAM for my desktop, leaving my 1GHz G4 PowerMac with a reasonable 1GB of RAM. What a difference it makes. At all times I have NewsFire, Safari, Mail, BBEdit, and iTunes running, and often need to keep ImageReady, iTerm, and Firefox open. Plus, permanent background apps …