Lefty Blogs
williampfaff ++ ++
Russian News ++
seaton-newslinks. USA expat in Europe ++
bilegrip Asu spleen ++
us-rockstroh a rant, not a blog ++
aboutmyplanet eco ++
sfgate ++
crookedtimber ++
onthecommons ++
sjlendman ++
....
abutamam freeiraq ++
airamericaradio +
amygdalagf +
angryarab ++
annezook +
antiwar ++
norwegianity
terrorism-news
blogspot
ourtomorrow
politickybitch
welcome-to-pottersville
aviraqi
billmon ++ whiskeyB
consortiumnews ++
dahrjamailiraq
dailywarnews ++
drforbush +
english +
fallujahinpictures
freespeechradio
halcyondays ++
healingiraq
hereticalideas ++
icasualties
maru
om
boxspinning boxes

jamaicaobserver newspaper
jameswolcott +
lefarkins +
liberalgirlnextdoor ++
lonehighlander Libya, not lefty
mahablog +++ solid
maruthecrankpot +
indymedia melbourne
messopotamian +7Apr06
monkey ++
motherjones ++
fisk
nocapital +
norightturn +NZ
peakoil ++
pilger +
politicalhumor +
raedinthemiddle
rafahtoday Feb05?
rense w= wacko conspiracies
rigorousintuition x
hegemon ++
ruckus ++
rudepundit ++
satiricalpolitical +
scaramoucheblog ++
secretsinbaghdad ++15Ap06
Energring
aliveinbaghdad ++
riverbendblog ++
sideshow +++
signs-of-the-times +++
slashdot ++techy
talkleft ++
thinkprogress ++
thismodernworld +++
uncapitalist ++
velorution ++ bicycles
org ++Brazil peasants
warandpiece +
warfare.ru +russia military
greenpeace
allhatnocattle
alternet ++
americanpolitics
antiwar
gbruno ++YT
axisoflogic ++
blackcommentator
bobharris +
bradblog +
buckfush +funnies
buggery +
buzzflash ++
changeforamerica
countercurrents
counterpunch +++
crisispapers
crooksandliars ++?
csmonitor
dahrjamailiraqhref="http://www.dailykos.com/
davidcorn
democracynow
democracyuprising
dissidentvoice
earthfirstjournal
earthstation5
empirenotes
foodfirst
fpif
fromthewilderness
geocities
granta
grist ??
gristmagazine
guerrillanews
gulf
hizbollah
huffingtonpost ++
informationclearinghouse
infoshop +
inthesetimes x
iranmania x
ivaw
jihadunspun
juancole ++
kuro5hin ++ notlefty
kurtnimmo ++
lrb ++ Iraqi?
mahablog
lewrockwell ++
marklynas climate change
mnftiu get your war on comics
motherjones
nilemedia
nybooks
occupationwatch
oriononline
palestine
prisonplanet
rall ++ Ted Rall cartonist
ratical
redpepper
rense
robert
rollingstone
scoop
selvesandothers ++
smirkingchimp
snappingturtle
socialistworker
spiked
tblog
theiraqiroulette
theleftcoaster +
thepoorman +
tnr ++ magazine
tompaine ++ mag
traprockpeace ++
truthout +
boondocks ++
crowning3
. . . helix
Base
rain radar
Weather
worldtribunal +
worldwatch ++ $ required
zaman + Turkish news
youcantmakeitup + ?
youngfox ????????????
bareknucklepolitics videos?
popdrain videos??
discovery videos??
cs videos??
aegisIraq video??
mariyaguchi video??
iwilltryit video..
baghdadtreasure
ahram cairo newspaper
felbers
thepartyline
jfaughnan 28/04/2006 10:25AM
shrillblog +
thinkprogress +
marchforjustice + pictures
messopotamian + Iraqi not so radical, but scared (also see IraqTheModel which was a USA front, but is now also scared)
scaramoucheblog +
counterpunch
.............
blogads liberal blogs by CPM $ per view
malakandsky ++ stolid?
republicoft + black gay parent??
dailykos ++
rawstory ++
democraticunderground ++
atrios ++
workingforchange +
leftinthewest +
dembloggers +
talkingpointsmemo +
firedoglake ++
vastleft ++
pamspaulding +
americablog +
washingtonmonthly ++
mydd +
politics1 +
bartcop ++
politicalwire +
sisterstalk black lesbian?
culturekitchen ++
alternet
wonkette +++
billstclair +
freefreedomtoldhere ++ pipe bomb

......
almuajaha defunct
whynot defunct
winstonsmith defunct
samadams dormant
mquinn02 defunct
iraqblogcount ++14Apr06 suspended
iraqicomments most recent: jan2005
iraqidoctor most recent: Aug2005
georgemustgo + moved?
vialls ++Dormant (joe is dead)
warblogging Defunct
hammeroftruth quiescant?
mediastorm quiescant? +
bushwhackedusa defunct
hamasonline defunct
4Jul06

01 April 2005

Dingos, ICBM photos

dingoFraser island dingoAnother Aus mammal going extinct, so SUV drivers can hoon along a beach

On 31Dec1999 in Palawan, I saw dogs very Dingo like, the SEAsia village dog?

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allthegoodnessgeo-photo...zoom in on world map, see photos from that Lat/Long

India


children, originally uploaded by Santosh Korthiwada.

Its not yet 1 April in Canada, so my flickr bandwidth is still 0
and no fool stories yet, and il papa is still ill.

31 March 2005

the bike


the bike, originally uploaded by Tatiana Cardeal.

test of fllickr "blog this"
(mb cant "Blog this" on "other sizes"
so need to manually link to authors page

30 March 2005

Just Beneath the Surface


Just Beneath the Surface
Originally uploaded by Smaragd.
via "blog this" flickr by Smaragd

podcasting continued:
so I gets .NET Framework (28Meg) and installs it (shudder)
and blow me down, Doppler still says "need .Net"
so podcasting remains a mystery
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A rather confused SMH story today, seems to be saying that the NZ Govt pays $0.84 for some generic drug for which the Aus Govt pays $21
Why is this not a huge scandal? Or has NZ gone off the WTO radar despite Mike Moore, now retired in Auckland, I guess.
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Another day frittered away in flickr

Yet more Banaue pictures: by estan
rice terraces
and rice terraces

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Mangyan tribals in Mindoro by jensm

I have never visited these people. In fact I've not travelled beyond Calipan (Calapan?) (not Caliban)
(And believe me in a Tempest, dont take a banka)

and a couple of Wellngton shots: (sorry I forgot to note the authors)
Mrs Chippy on the grave
A new aspect on St Gerards & the Hutt

The Harmless People, podcasting, Ted Rall

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from a charming book called "The harmless people" (zhu twa si) by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas.©1959
EMT spent a many months with the 'Bushman' of the Kalahari in the 50s.
"Somewhat later Wite and Giamakwe acted for the others the scene of the hyena's mating, as they imagined it or knew it to be, for the night it had happened only the sound had reached us and the hyenas had not been seen. Giamakwe took the part of the male hyena, Wite took the part of the female. First they walked together on all fours and rubbed faces, and then climbed on Wite's back, emitting a lonesome howl just like the howl we had heard. It was not meant to be funny, and the other boys watched it calmly, treating the mating of the hyenas as a matter of course. All in all, it was a majestic imitation, with snarls and growls, then mounting and pretending to copulate with shivering and ecstasy, then more growls, and finally the male fell away exhausted and curled up on his side, whereupon the female attacked him. It took a long time from start to finish, and the Bushman boys being so literal that they not only gave a precise rendition of the event but took exactly the same amount of time that the hyena had taken."



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Feel like I'm losing it, too much information
what the heck is podcasting anyway?
I check one site, click something and people start talking in funny voices... ok
I click some more and I get a message saying
"add this url RSS feed to your aggregator"..
I try to find a free wind2k "aggregator" - whatever that is and get
a message "you need to add .NET framework"
at this point I get an anti microflaccid spasm and resolve to check back in 6 months.
Like. I have these sidebars for smirkingchimp, and a neat "badge" for flickr
in my blog(s) does this make me an aggregator?
Its all too weird.

OK windowsdevcenter shows you how (its quite a long page..)
first you need Doppler...
soon I'll get a round Tuit

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29 March 2005

Penrose, Cardeal on flickr, Marburg, helmets, Chinatown, Kojo,cheater eggs

Wet Easter, head stuffy, settled in to Roger Penrose "Road to Reality"
I have long held that physics like Tensors, fields, calculus are too complicated.
Something about the notation & nomenclature. The notation seems stuck in a printing technology of fonts & italics & Greek letters from 150 ybp.
Subscripts, superscripts and more. Its all to dusty.
Penrose seems to agree. For 50 years (!) he has been using diagrams for tensors & such,
lots of them in this book. I still dont get it but at least he admits a problem.

I also reckon that advanced maths can be discussed. RP does this rather well, mentioning reasons and difficulties. not simply ranks of equations with terse comments.

I have this fantasy that in some far-away place in (time or space) everybody just understands quantum gravity as a matter of course.
RP uses the word 'intuitively' quite a few times, usually when about to introduce something complex and non-intuitive.

Fibre bundles were a new shock to me, that as far into the book that I've got.
RP is very big on spinors & twistors. His head is very spacy, literally, he appears to have a tremendous grasp of space. He famously invented the pentagonal tiling, then sued a manufacturer who used his tiles as toilet-paper patterns.

RP is also famous for his wacky theories that gravity acts inside the head, in microtubules. This is supposed to produce a head-sized quantum state, which collapses into an "ah ha!" moment which no computer will ever attain.
- seems very dodgy to me.
Schrödinger, sensibly avoiding the war in Dublin in 1943, wrote his famous "what is life" which suggested genetic information was proteins on a string like charms on a bracelet. No concept of semantics. However it excited a lot of physics types to get into biochem. Hence the double helix.
RP's ideas on the brain seem unlikely to generate any such movements.
I am happy that someone has at last produced a discursive book on physics with the maths talked about. Someone should do some animations of RP's illustrations.
Its said that you can only grasp 4dimensions by actively moving sliders/joysticks in a graphics program. One day this will be done for gravity and quantum electro-dynamics.
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Lots of neat photos on flickr:
Two from Brazil"
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Tatiana Cardeal
Tatiana Cardeal2
Tatiana Cardeal3
Tatiana Cardeal4
Tatiana Cardeal5
Tatiana Cardeal6

carf(Gregory Smith)



mantis
venice
nachosan's wife
nachosan's wife
Yabusame #3 by tokyo knock
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An illness that has killed nearly 100 people in northern Angola was identified on Tue 22 Mar 2005 as the rare Marburg virus, which is from the same family [the family _Filoviridae_] as Ebola virus, state and UN officials said. Des
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USA imported more food than it exported (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004).
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helmets kill
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Would you let Enron own your water?
& water?
"forget it Jake, its Chinatown"
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24 March 2005..The International Energy Agency is to propose drastic cutbacks in car use..
"Saving Oil in a Hurry: Measures for Rapid Demand Restraint in Transport"
..more radically..cutting public-transport costs by 100%..
..drastic speed restrictions and compulsory driving bans
"the Agreement on an International Energy Programme (IEP)..countries who signed .... US, Japan, Germany, UK and France - would all have to institute cuts.
"In the event of an activation of IEP emergency response measures, each IEA Member country will be expected to immediately implement demand restraint measures ..

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29/03/2005 11:28AM
Paul Volcker's foodforOilScandalcomittee, has criticized Kofi Annan. Apparently Kofi's son Kojo got $45,000 for 8 years.
On the moral calculus, with no-bid KellogBrownRoot and their famous %50 million bridges, this is a bizarre attack. At the USA resiles form more conventions, USA citizens will look more and more ridiculous presiding over calls for law and morality.
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Colony Crime
Offered one of the cheater eggs laid by workers, the nursemaid ants hesitated. It's hard not to anthropomorphize the scene she describes as consultation: "They have it in their mandibles, and they pass it to each other. In the end, usually one will take it and crush it." In these cases, the workers killed up to 90 percent of worker-laid eggs.