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

28 June 2008

Gong Li

Finally saw "Memoirs of a Geisha". I had resisted because of the whole Speilberg/Dreamworks/John Williams thing
I heard they didn't use the make-up, hair or kimonos so I didn't go.

The real reason to see it, of course, is for Gong Li, as Hatsumomo, with her hair down as a madwoman from the Edo?, nothing like a Geisha,
Startlingly fine. Looking fine 12 (?) years after Red Lantern.
The DVD has the director and Colleen Atwood, the costume designer, seperately excusing themselves for not using the true Geisha look. Something about Supermodels, or didnt test. Every scene is stuffed with details shipped from Japan (contrast with the spare interiors in most Samurai pics) but the actual kimonos apparently had "too much detail" - Li does appear in one fine piece. I havnt seen Wayne Wang's "Chinese Box" so perhaps this actually is Li's first English language film. She is suitablty trashy in Maimi Vice & Hannibal, but Memoirs is a tour de Force.aaa

aaa
__________________________________________________



Jim Kane J. P. S. Brown aka Pocket Money
Apparently made into a movie with Paul Newman and Lee Marvin, supposed to be nmg (not much good)
The book is about a gringo and a Mexican, the movie about 2 gringos?
Anyway Aro Video doesnt have "Pocket Money"
The great Lee Marvin only made it to 63. I am watchng AgeAtDeath closely these days

A
n arriero is a driver of animals, a drover .. . a man might answer politely, with meaning, a lady who thanks him for fixing her flat tyre
"Arrieros somos, En el camino andamos. Algun dei nos encontramos"
"We are drovers, we travel the road. Someday we are bound to meet"
................ ....
Arriba ya del caballo. hay que aguantar los reparos
Once youve chosen to mount a horse you have to, as a man, take any pitching and bucking he might decide to hand you.
.....

23 June 2008

1948, Bacteroides fragilis, Phoenix Touches Martian Ice, Omega 3,

This week in 1948 I was born, along with the transistor, the computer, the LP and QED

June 21, 1948, a press conference was convened at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to launch what in today's jargon would be called a ''new recording configuration.'' Columbia Records' ''Long-Playing Microgroove Record'' - LP, for short

Nicknamed "The Baby," the new computer demonstrated the ability of the Williams Tube. For the first time in history, a computer used a stored program. Tom Kilburn wrote that computer program, first executed on June 21, 1948. :

Close enough:
On July 1, 1948 the Bell System unveiled the transistor

Feynman published QED

Phys. Rev. 74, 939 - 946 (1948)
A Relativistic Cut-Off for Classical Electrodynamics
Received 8 June 1948
....
Phys. Rev. 74, 1430 - 1438 (1948)
Relativistic Cut-Off for Quantum Electrodynamics
Received 12 July 1948

In June 1948, the Soviet Union attempted to control all of Berlin by cutting surface traffic to and from the city of West Berlin. ...

Also in 1948


16 May 1948 the Nakba

With the enactment of apartheid laws in 1948, racial discrimination was institutionalised.

Well I've outlived apartheid and the CCCP, looks like I might not outlive the zionist entity...




molecularstation
...polysaccharide A, or PSA, which is produced by the symbiotic gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis.
... experimental mice and induced changes to their intestinal bacteria by exposing them to a pathogenic bacterium called Helicobacter hepaticus. This microbe causes a disease in the mice that is similar to Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. However, when the animals were co-colonized with B. fragilis, they were protected from the disease–as were animals that were given oral doses of just the PSA molecule.

In particular, Mazmanian and his colleagues found that PSA induced particular immune-system cells called CD4+ T cells to produce interleukin-10 (IL-10), a molecule that has previously been shown to suppress inflammation–and offer protection from inflammatory bowel disease. “Thus, bacteria help reprogram our own immune system to promote health,” he says.

“The most immediate and obvious implication is that PSA may potentially be developed as a natural therapeutic for inflammatory bowel disease,” says Mazmanian.
]



aaa
Lil Kim
__________________________________________________
aaa
Phoenix Touches Martian Ice
sciencemag
__________________________________________________

Murchison meteorite xanthine uracil
the Murchison meteorite,...Australia in 1969. ... contains xanthine and uracil, ...nucleobases that are necessary for RNA and DNA ...carbon atoms in the two substances are in a heavy form ...the most complex molecules ever found to have originated in space.

This isnt all that new.. just the isotope ratios... Are they really the most complex???
scribd





Omega 3
about 4000 girls and boys between the ages of 6 and 16. ...Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Study...After the researchers controlled for the parents' income and education and for the children's age, race, number of siblings, and blood lead levels, they found that girls who ate more omega-3 scored significantly better on four cognitive tests, including an IQ test.
...the dietary effect explained about 1% of the difference in test scores between girls, about the same amount as exposure to lead, says Lassek. Boys also perform a bit better on cognitive tests if they eat more omega-3s than other fatty acids, but the effect is "twice as great in girls as in boys," says Lassek. That disparity suggests that evolution has favored girls who stow omega-3 fats on their lower bodies.... omega-6 fatty acids interfere with cognition, because girls who ate more of these oils didn't perform as well.


, , , ,

22 June 2008

Microsoft Campus

My two brilliant Nephews in Seattle Microsoft Lab, 2-way mirror (to observe advanced primates punching keyboards?)

The older nephew is employed on the human interface of Windows. (!).. a glam career move, not quite as glam as working for Google perhaps?

The younger nephew in on a scholarship to Berkely. Physics, jazz Trumpet.
There is hope for the next generation?
And for the generation now aged around 10, I expect great things. I experience some jealousy, for they will experience the physical collapse of Industrial Civilization, what fun. We the 69ers merely saw the moral collapse, which doesnt have the same satisfying crunch.


aaa
Microsoft Campus

aaa
2-Way mirror

_____________________________________________________________________