Lefty Blogs
williampfaff ++ ++
Russian News ++
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bilegrip Asu spleen ++
us-rockstroh a rant, not a blog ++
aboutmyplanet eco ++
sfgate ++
crookedtimber ++
onthecommons ++
sjlendman ++
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norwegianity
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earthfirstjournal
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granta
grist ??
gristmagazine
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hizbollah
huffingtonpost ++
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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
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4Jul06

15 November 2007

Murasaki Shikibu, Tourism, Wahab Akbar, nitrites, Peripatus, Iran, Android, Dean Buchanan, Tuhoi, Condi watch

Murasaki Shikibu
the ultimate site
taleofgenji

ujigami-jinja

wherin I was reminded of "The Confessions of Lady Nijo" a book I once owned.
Marvellous how a refined Kamakura period (1300CE?) novel reminisces about Shikibu's Heian (1000CE) novel,
Europe struggled to come up with The Quixote, (1604CE). so crude by comparison.

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Peak Oil, Climate Chaos and Tourism
I wonder whats going to be the effect of hugely expensive kero (jet fuel) on Tourism?
Although Climate Chaos (or as GB has it "Global Warming" ) is now in the public's eye, I dont think that 'awareness' will kill tourism.
Peak Oil is not in the public eye. It will arrive much sooner, and cause such recessions, and retreat into selfishness.
Climate Chaos is looking almost benign until 30 or 50 years out. When crop disruption, The pachyderm in the parlour, will kill most of the population. What greed and selfishness then?

But Peak Oil possibly may cut Tourism hugely, and sooner.

New Zealand's largest Forex Earner. So Many countries have tourism up there in their top 5 forex earners.

What about all those ecotourism projects to save wildlife all over the world? When the tourists cease, what then for Mountain Gorillas?
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RP looking flakey:
11 dead in Makati Mall explosion last month
Now a bomb in the House:

"Congressman Wahab Akbar, died soon after the explosion late Tuesday, which also claimed the lives of a lawmaker’s driver and a congressional staffer."
abs
Akbar's family ruled Basilan forever. "Suspected [ex] commander of Abu Sayyaf" he switched to cooperating with USAnian shared offensive against them. So his death may technically be assasination, not terrorosm. Terrifying all the same.

RP is so chaotic that its tourism is staggering. Barrios have no space for gardens. When no trucks and urea, whence rice?

RP is sustained by overseas workers (900,000 in KSA) so perhaps they can sustain rice imports.
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nitrites may have benefit??
more contradictory diet advice..
newstarget.."

people who consumed the most processed meats (hot dogs and sausage) showed a 67% increased risk of pancreatic cancer ..
"Sodium nitrite is a dangerous, cancer-causing ingredient that has no place in the human food supply,.
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But:
msn
77 percent of mice fed extra nitrite survived a heart attack, compared with 58 percent of mice fed a low nitrite diet.

"This is a very significant finding, given the fact the simple components of our diet -- nitrite and nitrate -- that we have been taught to fear and restrict in food can now protect the heart from injury," ..
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and:
atsdr
Epidemiological investigations and human toxicological studies have not shown an unequivocal relationship between nitrate intake and the risk of cancer (31).
"Simple changes in our daily dietary habits such as eating nitrite and nitrate-rich foods such as fruits and vegetables and some meats in moderation can drastically improve outcome following a heart attack,"

cbc
a similar test using nitrate found in cured meats such as bacon and sausage, which is converted to nitrite by bacteria in the salivary glands.
Like the previous trial, the nitrate-supplemented mice had more nitrite in their heart and had less heart damage..
"Our study suggests that building up nitrite stores in heart muscle could spell the difference between a mild heart attack and one that causes lasting heart damage or death,"
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From Matt McGlones history of life in NZ
Peripatus
Peripatus
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Iran pictures one_more_moment_before_we_bomb
theunapologeticmexican

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Open Source Developers kit for phones:
cbc
googlekb

Google Inc. released its Android open software programming tool for mobile phones on Monday.
The free SDK allows programmers to develop programs for cellphones using a common platform..

But: closed phone code means billions for ring-tone dealers, so dont expect them to be happy (Nokia has yet to come to the party)
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A book out on Dean Buchanan
aaa
Dean was prettier than Robert Plant in 72, way cool, I wasn't cool, except that I was cicisbeo to some of the best girls, so I was grudgingly admitted to Freeman's bay, Herne Bay & Grey Lyn parties. How vital that seemed. Dean Parker is still a playwright, John Minto is still the conscience of the nation (paired with Red Squad Ross Meurant, an unpredictable fork). (confession: I dont think Dean's paintings are that grand. He has recently climbed Aspiring, however, which is not to be sneezed at)
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Tuhoi in Terror in NZ
No Right Turn: Everyone gets bail
org
Police are leaking silly phone taps. This is seriously criminal predudicial behaviour.
But Govts love terror, it lets them cast aside human rights.
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Condi watch

sparklepony
wonkette
we-watch-condi-so-you-dont-have-to

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12 November 2007

MRSA, Obesity, Evolution, Golf, Salamander, Venter, Kozintsev, Robin White

methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) increasing in the community..
aetiology
threadworms in Aus & NZ are dismayingly common, indicate widespread diffusion of hand-carried germ. When I live in the Barrio, no taps, no handbasins, piles of kids everywhere, lots of lice, but I never get threadworms,
washing instead of wiping seems to be the key...
The real worry is Hep, or Staph...
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mikethemadbiologist
deaths from the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus ('staph infections') have exceeded AIDS/HIV deaths in the U.S.

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Fatter is fitter... BMI over 25 may be safer... my BMI being under 24, I'm not optimum weight...
..100,000 fewer deaths among the overweight [USA of course?] in 2004, the most recent year for which data were available, than would have expected if those people had been of normal weight.

fat

OTOH World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) are saying that BMI sub 23 is safest. So major contradiction... I dont belong in either study's safe zone.
WCRF say dont take supplements (except folate?) I seem to notice that nearly every scientist who studies supplements takes a bunch. [Vit A is dangerous to smokers... excess Vit D may be dangerous, but 20 minutes in the sun makes 10,000IU]
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High Speed Evolution
Loose talk about belief, but maybe Miraculous Intervention crew, and Lyn Margulis and her Symbiogeneticist crew could take a gander at: Species forming in quick time (ie tens of thousands of years)
nationalgeographic

Thomas D. Kocher, a professor of zoology U New Hampshire
The high rates of speciation [evolution of new species] observed in these African cichlids are almost beyond belief, but the evidence is clear

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Golf as Toxic Biophilia
guardian
Gary Player..named as the designer of the Pun Hlaing course in Rangoon. His website boasted that he had turned "a 650-acre rice paddy into The Pride of Myanmar".
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parrots
newyorker
newyorker
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Clouded Leopard: a new species in Sumatra? Borneo? both?
Right where the biofuel plantations are planned?
The pelt pattern appears to be at some extreme of the spot-forming process.
Leopard
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330Ma Salamander shapes
salamander
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Craig Venter interview
Craig is sailing about the world, finding millions of virus and bacteria every time he throws a bucket over the side.
Shreeve, J The Genome War is a good read about the race for the human genomesequence
bloggingheads
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Hamlet
Grigori Kozintsev’s
Hamlet
(1964, same year as Burton's film of his dress rehearsal)`
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white
On the Beach at Bikenibeu
Robin White and her husband Mike Fudakowski, who shifted to Masterton in 1999 after 17 years living the island life in Kiribati... their Baha’i faith that led them to Kiribati..
Her father, Albert Tikitu White, a carpenter of Ngati Awa
Florence
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T E Lawrence used a pseudonym because DHL was so notorious
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Aczel has written a book on Teilhard De Chardin
The Jesuit and the Skull
not getting great reviews
I wanted to write a thriller about those 2 crates of Peking Man bones that disappeared in China in 1941
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11 November 2007

Mary Magdalene, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Oil Plateau, X15

Mary Magdalene (John?) from the Last Supper
nationalgeographic
Magdalene
How art should be on the internets
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mnftiu
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch
1,000 miles west of California and 1,000 miles north of the Hawaiian Islands - a week's journ/ey by boat from the nearest port. It swirls in a convergence zone located about 30 to 40°N 135 to 145° W
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Oil Plateau
Sadad al-Huseini, the former head of exploration and production at Saudi Aramco, says that global production has hit its maximum sustainable plateau and that output will start to fall within 15 years, by which time the world's oil resources will be "very severely depleted".
In an exclusive interview with David Strahan of lastoilshock.com, al-Huseini said that oil production had reached a structural ceiling determined bys geology rather than geopolitic, and that as a result the technical floor for the oil price will rise by $12 annually for the next 4 to 5 years. The market price for crude could hit $125 by 2010.

Al-Huseini said that Saudi Arabia's plans to raise production capacity to 12 million barrels per day by 2012 represented "an achievable number", but disparaged Western expectations that the Kingdom would produce significantly more.

x15
aaa


airspacemag
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