"news" Category Archives (38 entries)
In general, I don't talk about the news but the few times that I do, I tend to not have an appropriate category to list things under. This will cover world, and local news that I may bring up from time to time.Parent-Categories are:
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The Tico Times
The Tico Times is the english weekly paper from Costa Rica. For the last eight months I've been subscribing to the paper edition of The Tico Times. I've mentioned my Tico Times delivery issues before, it usually takes a while to get to Michigan but it's much easier to read on paper than on the screen (they also offer a PDF subscription).
I've wanted to see what's going on in the country when I'm not visiting. I've been paying attention to opinion pages, letters to the editor, classifieds and more local ads. Of the five times I've been there it's all been in April or between the end of November and beginning of January (and really only covering half-a-dozen different weeks) so I've really only seen a portion of the year while there. So I've been paying more attention to the non-tourist type articles; when I'm there traveling I'm generally looking more for what's going on there at that time.
PLEASE Leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Sunday at 6:34 PM on August 17, 2008.
Related categories: The Costa Rica Plan, costa rica, news, web sites
I'm Running For President !!!
Have you seen my news coverage yet?!? I'm so excited!!!
If the video doesn't start, click the image once the video finishes loading.
Or go straight to http://GaryForPresident.com/
Posted by Gary on Thursday at 10:42 PM on July 24, 2008.
Related categories: funny, me + myself + i, news, web sites
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TV Roundup!
For much not being on television I've been highly entertained by the tube this week...
Fortunately, I've barely caught any news coverage, it's just embarrassing the way that the networks turn tragedy into entertainment. Or maybe it's that fact that people watch it like it's entertainment that makes me feel that way.
My heart and prayers go out to anyone with any connections to the tragedy at Northern Illinois University.
Read or leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Friday at 9:19 PM on February 15, 2008.
Related categories: news, television
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Microsoft and Yahoo! - 44 Billion
Who cares!?! Unless you own stock in Yahoo, of course :)
Microsoft has nothing to offer Yahoo, IMHO, they've never been great with the internet (search, MSN, webTV, etc.) and that's okay. Really, Bill, it's okay. It really is.
I'm assuming Yahoo! will take the money and run, unless they've got a lot of debt, this is a nice chunk of change (and if they've got a lot of debt, this'll pay it off).
I do worry about Flickr, Del.icio.us, the nice mobile web portals and whatever other sites that Yahoo owns. But at the end of the day, I think the 'net will be okay and not have anything to worry about...
I don't really understand the concept of business at 44 billion dollars, so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about but I promise I'd be a fast learner if anyone ever put me into into a situation where I would need to learn about it...
I just think about Guy Kawasaki and he must be really kicking himself for not taking Yahoo's offer to be president way back in the day. Several years ago I saw him speak and he mentioned that tidbit after mentioning other people's famous mistakes like "640k is all anyone will ever need".
PLEASE Leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Saturday at 8:34 AM on February 2, 2008.
Related categories: news, technology
Tico Times - Costa Rican English Newspaper
So a few weeks before I left I subscribed to the TicoTimes. It's a weekly English nation-wide newspaper about the size of Metro Times or a magazine from the Sunday section of a newspaper that comes out on Fridays in Costa Rica. A month's subscription included the ability to download the PDF file every week. It's a little hard to read on the screen, I think I get one more electronic issue, but I'll probably buy a copy tomorrow.
It was nice to get a feel for what was going on in the country. From a to do list it wasn't very helpful to me. It comes out on Friday and the calendar generally doesn't stretch much past the weekend. So I might go somewhere else tomorrow and I should have stayed here for something, but I've already made my arrangements. I did find out about some kind of air festival in the northwest but I forgot all about it, I'll have to check on that...
From a news standpoint I did know the rainy season was dying down early, I know the colon was going to go up in value (their "Greenspan" changed something), that the phone company might go on strike (they didn't) and a few other things. It's definitely worth the $8 to get the four issues on-line if you're considering traveling the country. I recommend this for anywhere, I've gone to the bookstore and picked up a newspaper for London, England to get an idea of what's going on there too (you might have to reserve these in advance).
Posted by Gary on Thursday at 10:53 AM on November 29, 2007.
Related categories: Costa Rica 2007, costa rica, news, web sites
Student Removed From Kerry Speech - Tasered After Resisting
So I'm sure many of you know about the student at the Kerry Forum at the University of Florida (here's one of many videos available). What I don't seem to understand is why everyone is upset that they tasered him for what he was speaking about. From what I saw, they made him leave for not giving up the mic (which was cut off) and possibly what he was speaking about (and the audience applauded for them making him leave). What they tasered him for was for fighting as they were trying to escort him out. There were four or five police trying to get him to leave and he clearly wasn't leaving. To me, it looked as if he wanted a scene or had some kind of mental instability.
Am I missing something?!? I'm not saying the tasering was or was not excessive, but let's be clear as to why they zapped him, it wasn't for his words (I can't imagine the zappers were even listening that close) it was for resisting to leave. I will agree the extra zaps were probably too much (it sounded like a few), especially if cuffed already, but it didn't really slow him down so I can't imagine it set as a regular taser (it never took Veronica Mars more than one zap to get someone in line). I generally don't mess with the law, but I do know you don't mess with security / police / secret service when it deals with senators / presidential candidates and when a bunch of people are escorting you out the building, you're probably going to lose if you fight with them about it.
From this Blog from the Washington Post I get the feeling this student was familiar with the local police.
Here's a local Miami news survey and 44% (of over 18,000 votes) say he deserved it, cast your vote! The results really surprised me...
Random extra thoughts:
It didn't even seem like he was listening to Kerry when he was talking to him.
When he was screaming "don't taser me", I have to assume they were threatening to taser him if he didn't calm down. Otherwise why scream it?
It's possible I'm mistaken and the audience was applauding him just for making the scene, but I don't think they applauded until he was being escorted out. I don't think he was considered to be under arrest until he was actually resisting leaving, I don't think they arrested him for his words.
Watch some of the longer versions of the video that show after they get him out of the room and down the stairs (about 2 minutes in). He keeps acting like the "inciting a riot" charge was due to the talking and not the resisting to leave. He wouldn't give them his name, or ID and acted like they were "going to give him [me] to the government". It's all cRaZy talk at the end.
He has his own web site at theandrewmeyer.com , please note his e-mail address if you visit.
The Bloggerheads do a lot of looking at the different angles and timelines.
Read or leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Wednesday at 10:29 PM on September 19, 2007.
Related categories: news, people
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Karnak Temple
Found this cool 360 degree panorama of Karnak Temple. It requires Quicktime (I was there last year, BTW).
(I was actually looking for something on The Moon Landing which was 40 years ago today....)
Read or leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Friday at 9:59 PM on July 20, 2007.
Related categories: Egypt 2006, news, web sites
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Korea Peace Network - Open Letter to Shinzo Abe
A very old friend asked me to mentioned the Korea Peace Network and the fact that they were taking out a full page advertisement in the NY Times on Friday (unfortunately, I didn't see the message until today). The advertisement was an "Open Letter to Shinzo Abe" will be featured in a full page ad in the New York Times while the Japanese Prime Minister is in D.C.
It's a article about the current prime minister and he seems to be attempting to be sweeping some slavery/servitute issues of the past under the carpet. It's a ling letter with some photos and artwork of the atrocities that are mentioned in the letter.
I thought it was interesting that at the bottom in a very large font they added (the unrelated text) that "As a Korean American Organization, the KANCC expresses its deepest regret over the horrible Virginia Tech. masssacre and offers sincere sympathy to the families of the victims."
PLEASE Leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Saturday at 9:52 AM on April 28, 2007.
Related categories: general, news
Hormel Tries to Stop Use of Spam
Spam Arrest will be featured on ABC's World News with Charles Gibson tonight (Monday, March 5th, 2007). World News will be discussing the ongoing trademark dispute between Hormel and Spam Arrest over the use of the word “spam”.
Spam Arrest has been defending itself against Hormel for the last 4 years while Hormel has been attempting to cancel the Spam Arrest trademark granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office. (more info)Definitely overstepping their trademark, no confusion between spam “food” and junk mail (IMHO). They should have to shoulder the blame for spam if they want exclusive rights to the name...
Spam Arrest is my favorite way of blocking e-mail spam from home. It's practially impossible for spammers to get automated junk mail past their filter!
Posted by Gary on Monday at 1:38 PM on March 5, 2007.
Related categories: news, technology
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Random News Bits
I saw most of these stories in The Week which I really like (I get the printed edition). They don't write a lot (most?) of their articles, they get from other sources. They reprint some political cartoons and have a few columns I like such as “Only in America” (which contained the Seattle School article)
PLEASE Leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Sunday at 11:31 AM on January 21, 2007.
Related categories: general, money, news
Go Tigers!!!
The Detroit Tigers made it to the World Series!!!! It's totally weird that no one knew who it was that we were going to play until less than two days ago. Game one is tonight.
All I really remember about the last time we made it (in '84) was watching the news as the fans went nuts (they flipped/burned some cars and other stuff) and the newscasters were talking all very excitedly about the celebration. And I'm thinking that “this isn't good” and then the national news came on and used the same footage with “Riots” in all the captions and descriptions that they used...
Read or leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Saturday at 5:11 PM on October 21, 2006.
Related categories: activities + sports, holidays + events, michigan, news
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300 Million People (that's 300,000,000) in the United States
So this Tuesday the U.S. Population is supposed to hit 300 Million people. I was looking for some kind of cool counter to put on my page (even just a graphic that changes with each page load). Not having any luck, but I know I've seen one before. Here's the current numbers, looks like only 10,500 to go...
FYI, if we round the world's population to Six Billion (6,000,000,000) that means we're only 1/20th of the world's population. That's not very much considering how big we think of ourselves in a global way.
Remember a few years back I talked about your ecological footprint and how much of the world's resources you use. I thought I'd bring it up with the 1/20th number in mind and let you take the ecological footprint survey again.
I found a crappy JavaScript/CSS one but it just looked like it'd eventually become problematic sticking it in the post. Can anyone help me find one? I can find pages with the info (like this) but I wanted to embed it in my page.
Read or leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Sunday at 11:04 PM on October 15, 2006.
Related categories: general, news, people
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The LifeStraw
Over 6,000 people die a day (most of them children) from water releated illnesses. These folks have created The LifeStraw, a straw about the size of a small clarinet that can be worn about the neck and weighs about 0.095 Kg (3.3 ounces). It'll filter 2 liters (half gallon) a day for about a year! And they only cost about $3 each.
Over a billion people in the world don't have safe drinking water! (Drinking salt water will reduce the life expectancy in half).
More info (from the FAQ):
I spotted this on the New York Times video feed I get on my TiVo.
Posted by Gary on Wednesday at 10:48 PM on October 11, 2006.
Related categories: health, news, science, technology
So my buddy was in a train crash yesterday...
So yesterday I knew Mark was on a train home from Battle Creek and gave him a ring just to see if he was home yet. He was still in Jackson. Turns out they hit a dump truck crossing the tracks on a private drive (the driver was likely killed instantly). He said a few of them got thrown to the ground as they stopped (which took about a 1/2 mile). They were in the car directly behind the engine (remember that if you watch the videos) and he said the windows turned black with smoke. Fifteen people had minor injuries and went to the hospital. They were then emergency bussed to the train station (city and school busses) and waited for hours to get another bus back home (I think he was supposed to get back around 2 and got back around 6:30...
He's fine (mostly fine, today he's complaining about his back) so that's a good thing. This WLNS news report has 3 different videos (all with a little more info) if you're interested. I don't know how long they'll keep the story/videos (which I never did get to play on my Mac, does yours play it).
I could be wrong but I don't think they gave any of these people a free train trip or anywhere to call if they had problems after or anything. He did say the Red Croos showed up at the train station to hand out water and check on people.
Read or leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Wednesday at 9:30 AM on May 31, 2006.
Related categories: friends + family, michigan, news
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HappyNews.com
I've always thought this would be a good idea for a web site but it seems like it'd be more work than I have time to do. The HappyNews site promises “Real News. Compelling stories. Always Positive.”
Stolen from Scott.
PLEASE Leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Wednesday at 4:45 PM on December 21, 2005.
Related categories: general, news, web sites
Oakland County Child Killings
So just a few days ago I was thinking about the Oakland County Child Killings from a few decades ago. I thought it was pretty bizarre that I even thought about it at the time. I was in a parking lot and I remembered trying to recall the type of they were looking for (at the time I couldn't think of they name but it was a blue Gremlin, with a white stripe). I do remember thinking it was strange that I was even thinking of it and I've thought of it several times since then. I was on the way to the car, not from it, so I wouldn't have just heard it on the radio (besides I'm pretty sure I was listening to a Laura Veirs CD earlier, it was my day off, so I didn't need the traffic report).
So here's the extra strange part, I was googling around looking for John McElroy's Automotive Insight show to see if they had an on-line feed (which I never did find) and I found this WWJ Audio Page with a link to a November 30, 2004 story about the killings. I'm 99% pretty sure it's from the same day I was thinking about it. Coincidence? Or did I catch part of the story and not remember? or...?
The car involved looked similar to the one on the right. It's not exactly right, but I've really been thinking about this the last 24 hours and googling for more info and the car in particular (I think because I was in a parking lot). I'm thinking the model they were looking for that the white stripe was definitely thicker (I really remember the white stripe when I think back), darker blue and the car wasn't as long (stubbier?) click the image for what I think is closer to correct but wasn't clear enough to shrink.
I only listen to that station for traffic and weather (on the 8's) and you'd think I'd remember if I had heard a 5 minute story on the topic. This was huge when I was a kid since I was in Oakland County and one of the missing kids was from Berkley so I think I'd have listened. This was real life boogey man stuff...
So here's the second extra strange part. I'm leaving the same store yesterday and while I'm getting in the car I see a police car four aisles down and when I sit down I see it's in the second row already (that was quick) and then I realize it's a different car. As I drive away I notice there are about five police vehicles slowly cruising the parking lot (this is one of the new outside malls in northern Allen Park). When I go down the hill/around the corner to the other new mall I see that a few minutes later they are down there too. Somethings going on...
You do have to factor in memory stuff, both short term and long term. I had totally forgotten that they had found the bodies and while I remembered the other cities were close I hadn't recalled how close (right next door practically).
More info on the old case: WWJ, Oakland Press and Click on Detroit. Don't know how long these links will last but this google search seemed to find quite a bit on it.
Read or leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Saturday at 9:38 AM on December 3, 2005.
Related categories: general, michigan, news
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Election "News" takes away from REAL news.
How many news stories weren't heard yesterday (and today) because of election "news". I say "news" that way because most of it was speculation after speculation until all the counts are done. And then they spend all day today talking about how close it was and/or why those guesstimates weren't correct or why person X didn't end up winning.
It's a colossal waste of time until the real counts are done (and it's not like we have to wait weeks for the results). There is real news they could be telling us. There are people missing, there are wars and disasters. There might even be something nice that happened in the world that they can tell us about. Heck, I'd rather hear the weather or traffic report than election speculation.
If they really want to give me election information today. Tell me the winners and give me 5 minutes of the winning candidates telling me the first dozen things that they are actually going to do/fix/implement once they take office. Condolence speeches to the losers and congratulations to the winners aren't telling me anything...
PLEASE Leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Wednesday at 4:32 PM on November 9, 2005.
Related categories: general, michigan, news, television
Boycott Aruba?
This is different - I just saw this on the news (I rarely watch the news on TV). Natalee Holloway who disappeared in Aruba earlier this year has never been found and her family hasn't gotten much response from authorities in Aruba. So the Governor of Alabama is requesting that the nation boycott travel to Aruba to hit 'em where it hurts.
Read or leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Tuesday at 6:18 PM on November 8, 2005.
Related categories: general, news, television
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CNN Hurricanes
CNN has an interesting hurricane web page, you can go all the way back to Dennis of 2005 for information. The information for the current hurricanes is kept relatively up-to-date.
PLEASE Leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Friday at 5:24 PM on September 23, 2005.
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Corpus Christi Web Cam
So for as much as I've been watching it the waves at this web cam in Corpus Christi at the Bob Hall Pier have definetly been getting worse today. They say they're keeping it up during Hurricane Rita but as I started writing this I noticed people on the pier, so maybe I need to look at a map to see where this is in the path...
Found by Amy at All About Me.
UPDATE: So it looks like they are going to be just (and I do mean just) south of the hurricane's path. Flooding warnings at the NOAA site.
Also, I fixed the link (it was the wrong one). And they are experiencing traffic difficulties with everyone linking so it's gotten slower...
Posted by Gary on Friday at 1:20 PM on September 23, 2005.
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'Take photos of your children...'
CNN says Rita becomes third most intense hurricane on record:
“Rita -- the powerful Category 5 storm plowing across the Gulf of Mexico - has become the third most intense hurricane on record, according to National Hurricane Center data. Long lines of cars Wednesday headed out of coastal Texas towns and Houston -- the fourth most populous city in the country. Evacuating parents were told to take photos of their children and to give them identification in case they get separated.”Now that's a nightmare, worrying about getting separated from your babies while during the storm, I can't even imagine. What the heck is going on with the weather these days?!? I can barely remember any weather disasters compared to any of these hurricanes and tsunamis in the past year. I remember occasional hurricanes and tornados in my life, but it's just been non-stop lately. They're having to relocate the relocated people from Katrina. This is like Irwin Allen / Movie of the Week kinda stuff...-- CNN.com
My thoughts go out to everyone who's in this mess. The same for those worried about friends and family.
Tuesday night, the sheriff (from Louisiana) wrote a check for $2.5 million out of the department's bank account -- which only had $23,000 in it -- to reserve 150 trailers for his staff.I'm not sure how long NOAA will have this photo up (551k), but it's amazing... They keep current events up for about 60 days, check out some of the archive.
PLEASE Leave comments (or trackbacks/pings) Posted by Gary on Wednesday at 11:08 PM on September 21, 2005.
Related categories: general, news, quotes
Get someone to do your “homework” and benefit hurricane relief
This is a great thought, in an effort to support Hurricane Relief, Dean says:
For a confirmed donation of $50 to the American Red Cross, I'll write a 600 word essay on the subject of your choice, with a minimum of two references.
I say you'll be getting a deal for fifty bucks and he'll post it or e-mail it to you privately. If you don't read Dean's World check it out (he blogs from Michigan). He's “Defending the liberal tradition in history, science, and philosophy” and he talks about normal stuff like TV shows and the like...
I'm sure this is a limited time offer (and void where prohibited).
PLEASE Leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Friday at 3:21 PM on September 2, 2005.
Related categories: blogging, general, news, people, web sites
Blind Video-Gamer
Brice Mellen is on G4 TechTV (Attack of the Show) right now. He plays Mario World and Mortal Combat and he's blind. And in a few he's going to play another sightless gamer in “the world's first Sightless Gamer Mortal Kombat Challenge!” Here's a link but they don't really do show notes like they used to...
Here's a little more from USA Today, CNN and Wired.
Plus they are going to show doom on the iPod (which I talked about last week).
Read or leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Monday at 7:24 PM on August 22, 2005.
Related categories: games, general, news, people, technology
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Shuttle debris not unusual...
So I didn't hear any news about there being some small debris falling off at the launch yesterday.
NASA said it would know by Sunday whether debris that fell off the space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank during this week's launch damaged the spacecraft as it blasted into orbit. - CNNThey make it sound like it's not a big deal. And if this wasn't the first flight in a long while I probably wouldn't think twice. But I'd really like the flight to go 100% perfect so the program can get moving again.
Understand, I want all flights to go perfect but this flight (and the next few) are extra important.
One of those things I've always wanted to see is a Shuttle Launch. The problem is that delays can make a short trip to Florida turn into a several week trip. So I think after they get a few under their belt I might have to take a vacation down that way. Anyone got any tips the the best way to see a launch? Any stories...??
LATER: “according to current data, Discovery is in good shape for a safe return home”. They are grounding future flights until they get more of this figured out...
Read or leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Wednesday at 12:32 PM on July 27, 2005.
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Dennis
I'm watching CNN talking about the hurricane coverage. 
It's been upgraded to a Class 4 which is 131-155 miles per hour(!), it's near Pensasola (20mi ESE) and I guess Atlanta is in it's path (but it looks more like Mobile to me). And these idiots crazy people are out there doing color commentary as these 100 mile per hour winds are knocking them around. The two guys were out there practically doing a talk show...
CNN is encouraging you to send in your stories, photos or video. Nice live Java animations at the National Weather Service (check out the Loops on the left).
I'm slightly confused about the class of the hurricane (but maybe it's changing). CNN's web site reports it as a Class 4
“This is going to be a destructive hurricane,” said Ed Rappaport of the National Hurricane Center, which has designated Dennis as a Category 4 storm.but now the banner on CNN tv makes it sound like was just upgraded to a class 3 (111-130 mph). PLEASE Leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)
Posted by Gary on Sunday at 3:36 PM on July 10, 2005.
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37 people killed and 700 wounded
In case you've been in a cave today here are some headlines.
So just three days after I mention we haven't have to raise the terror alert level and how happy that's made me. Here we are...
These attacks bother me more than they used to. Ever since the 9/11 attacks deaths of larger proportions have bothered me more and more (a lot more). As a child I wasn't generally bothered by disasters. If a plane crashed I understood it was still safer than driving. If there was some disaster a flood or a hurricane I still knew more people than that probably died in traffic accidents (Google-ing finds me about 40,000 per year); it didn't make it okay, it just helped me to compartmentalize it. I've always understood that the TV sensationalized the disasters and basic things like car crashes were old news and not covered and it's always annoyed me and helped me to not get to stressed about these things; I knew there was so much more that I wasn't hearing about.
But since 9/11 it's hit me more. It was huge, it was on purpose and it was a lot of lives. I was in some state of shock (or something) for a while (weeks) following it. And then the numbers from the Tsunami last year the numbers kept growing and I couldn't believe it. I've never been a big news watcher or current events, as I've said a million times, I hate that it's just generally bad news. But during the Tsunami they kept listing numbers from other disasters so I saw lots of other numbers, big numbers...
It's really depressing, in a End Of The World kind of way. People killing each other in such large numbers and it doesn't seem to be getting them anywhere. We're just being mean except for when large number of people die (natural or not) and then we're all mushy and we all try to help one another. The helping and the bonding of humanity is amazing sometimes but it really needs to last longer and not need a disaster to make everyone be nice.
I'm sure these numbers will rise. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone who is affected by these attacks and will be ast these next few days go by.
PLEASE Leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Thursday at 7:55 PM on July 7, 2005.
Related categories: general, me + myself + i, news
The Daily Show on News Shows about Blogging
The Daily Show had a great segment which pretty much picked on the major 24 hour news networks for their reporting on reading of blogs.
From Lisa via Tim. There are other copies on-line here and here.
PLEASE Leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Wednesday at 10:50 AM on May 18, 2005.
Related categories: blogging, news, technology, television
Time Travel (not really)
So when I listen to these radio shows and podcasts on my iPod sometimes they're a little old when I listen to them so the news is a little old too. Sometimes this is disorienting. I'll hear someone mention the Pope is ill or one other news fact and it throws me off a little bit. When I think about getting the news late, it's bothered me a little bit and I'm not sure why?
But I've been catching up on the TiVo and it's the same thing when I see ads for the evening news and it's old too (especially when it's the weather for tomorrow). The odd thing is the TiVo delays don't bother me so much (and I recall the same when I used to use my VCR).
So why do the iPod shows bother me more? One big difference is they get mentioned in the actual show (and not in an ad) Adam Curry will mention the Pope or Leo Laporte will mention it's Easter. I guess maybe that reminds me I'm listening to something old...
Read or leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Thursday at 11:04 PM on April 7, 2005.
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Tsunami Before and After
A before and after photo of a residential area about a mile inland. This is totally unbelievable, I just don't have any sort of frame of reference for this sort of disaster...
Read or leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Sunday at 2:20 PM on January 2, 2005.
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Documenting the Internet News Information System 1992-2014
So the title is boring, but the content isn't. At least watch the movie, preferably listen to the audio and then watch the movie.
So I was listening (3:28) to Future Tense today and they talked about this 8 minute film (watch it). It's kind of how how personalized information will be presented to you in the future and some of the problems with it. It might be helpful to listen to Jon before watching the movie. It's interesting.
This is extra interesting to me. I've been perfecting my personal daily “news” feed for my iPod. Everyday it automatically gathers a bunch of short shows for me to listen to; some are “real” radio shows and some are podcasts. It's about 30 minutes of 10-12 shows that include (but not limited to): the news (NPR news, Future Tense and other tech), health, science (stardate astronomy, earth and sky, earthwatch), word of the day, and several fluff human interest stories (I'll elaborate more on this in some futer posts). I do listen to more, but these are pretty much the for sure ones I listen to. It's definitely limiting what I'm hearing, but at least it's stuff I'm interested in. In the future I know these things will be smarter and I'll get more variety with more choices but the searching just isn't there yet so I'm manually having to make some generalizations.
I'd like some more variety but this is what I've found that I like so far. I'd love a few more “people” shows, maybe with some social/psychological-type info (but not a 30 minute show). I'd like my horoscope, I never read it but if it were to be read to me I'd listen. Letterman's top ten would be fun too. And some local news would be great; not just the murders and fires but the things that are going on, what kids have done and other “stuff”. Any tips or suggestions?
Read or leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Tuesday at 5:42 PM on December 28, 2004.
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Total Eclipse of the...
Total eclipse of the Moon tonight. It'll be 11 PM-ish in the eastern time zone in the US. See Yahoo for basic info, Space.com for Top 10 Lunar Eclipse Facts and this and this guide. This will be your last chance until 2007!
Read or leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Wednesday at 5:31 PM on October 27, 2004.
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I've got nothing to complain about.
I think of all the silly things I've whined about this week. And the many more (even sillier) things I've heard others whine about. Most of us just don't have anything to complain about. I cannot even tell you ho many evacuations I've heard about down there these last few months.
Actually no matter how bad someone else has it, I feel you shouldn't neglect what it is you need to complain about it, you've still got problems too. Unless you're just an incessant whiner and if so (hurricane or not) please shut up stop it.
PLEASE Leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Friday at 10:13 PM on September 24, 2004.
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Frances
And people complain like that have real problems (I only got a three day weekend, it's too humid, etc.). 
I thank God that those are the only things we have to complain about. I hope things go well for families that have to go through such disasters as hurricane Francis.
Posted by Gary on Friday at 9:34 PM on September 3, 2004.
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If Boogers can strengthen your immune system...
And sunlight can suppress it then (according to this) we should just "sit in the dark picking our noses".
Saw this in a magazine and found it on my first google attempt ("children eat boogers to increase immunity").
The only concern is that too much Mucophagy may lead to Rhinotillectomania.
PLEASE Leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Tuesday at 9:41 PM on June 1, 2004.
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Hey! Be careful with that nail gun.
"A construction worker had six nails driven into his head in an accident with a high-powered nail gun, but doctors said Wednesday they expect him to make a full recovery." And by the way the "Authorities cleared the co-worker of any wrongdoing."
Original Yahoo! story.
Minor Update: I found someone with a better photo (x-ray) of this guy.
Funny Update: Here's contextual text oops related to the same article
PLEASE Leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Sunday at 8:28 PM on May 9, 2004.
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Visual NewsMap
So you can visually see the Google! news now. You can break it down by types of news, location or even older news. It's pretty neat (or at least neat enough to blog about).
"Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap's objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe." For more information go to http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/ and they do some other cool stuff if you go to their home page.
PLEASE Leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Saturday at 1:44 PM on April 3, 2004.
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"Does it bring us together, or draw us apart?"
A quick evaluation on whether a technology is good or not. That is a pretty short evaluation and I like it (it's short, it's powerful and it meets my 3 second attention span requirement). I got this from a Mike Rohde blog entry that was referring to a Howard Rheingold article quoting an Amish person as to why cell phones are okay for them. It's got to be causing some conflict for them, remember cell phones are a lot more these days than just phones they are e-mail, web browsers, PDA, video games, calulators, cameras, mp3 players, etc... and some of those functions are standard these days. The Amish aren't the focus of my entry but they are the round about source of the quote.
Back to the quote: "Does it bring us together, or draw us apart?" - While it is a nice short evaluation on technology, the continuum between the two ends of the spectrum leaves a lot of grey area. But I've been thinking about it every since I read the entry. Computers (sans Internet) can take people away from the people they know. The Internet can bring them the world but also take them away from people they know. But for some it could be a creative outlet - photography, music, movies, art design. This could be what brings them out.
My question is what are some very clear technologies that fit at one end of our spectrum or another?
There is no research here, I'm just making it up as I go along (so don't get upset with me).
No big conclusion, just thoughts about the topic. If you think of any please leave me a note.
Read or leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Thursday at 7:57 PM on April 1, 2004.
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