Month: July 2005
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Group Decries Urban Outfitters T-Shirt
The Anti Defamation League is pissed off because Urban Outfitters is selling a t-shirt that says “New Mexico, Cleaner than Regular Mexico.” Here is an article: Group Decries Urban Outfitters T-Shirt Ok, you know what? They are right. Mexico, when viewed from the US border, is a dirty, third world country well-populated with shanty towns,…
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Privacy isn’t anonymity
Over on Radar O’Reilly there is this entry about Schneier’s wholesale surveillance concept, with some excerpts focusing on the privacy issues/concerns of this increasingly common practice. I wrote some comments on the site, which I’ve reproduced here: “Isn’t this more about anonymity than privacy? Anonymity is the ability to interact with society without being recognized…
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London, again
The Guardian is reporting more bombs in the London Tubes. This is interesting as it makes the local terror intensify in the pattern of the D.C. Sniper – dull, disruptive, numbing of the local inhabitant’s desire to travel. In Washington, this meant targeting people at gas pumps and mall parking lots, in London this means…
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combatants and beneficiaries
Asymmetric warfare really does depend on the blending of the lines between combatant and “innocent.” The fluid battlefield doesn’t really offer backwaters and safe havens to those who gain from the outcome of a battle and given the right ideological arguments, one might believe that the American and British are exporting terrorist casualties to Iraq…
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An Idea of Order
Some other thoughts:
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P.O.V. – The Brooklyn Connection | PBS
The Brooklyn Connection is a wonderful documentary by Dutch filmmaker Klaartje Quirijns about an Albanian living in America who equipped the Kosovo Liberation Army out of U. S. gun shops and surplus stores. It really drives home for me the madness of the ‘War on Terror’ namely that we don’t have any conception about what…
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London
Three things about the bombs in the London transportation system:
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How to solve the copyright distribution issue – the practical approach
I really dig the way in which Richard Stallman has approached the problems inherent in copyright, but they aren’t very practical – a little too idealistic and abstract for a bunch of greedy MBAs and CEOs to deal with. Andrew Orlowski gave this address, titled, After Grokster: why (almost) everything we’re told about P2P is…
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British man sacked for having opinion
Happy Independence Day. Take a moment to be glad you aren’t Alex Hanff, a British software developer who the Register is reporting was sacked for having opinion by his new employer, Aldcliffe Computer Systems. The gist is that he was asked to appear on an evening news talk show after the announcement of the U.…
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the end times are here
It is 10pm Pacific, Saturday July 2nd, and NBC is showing NASCAR in Primetime.