Wednesday, May 07, 2003
Dear friend
Pip's Picks was my first blog, an experiment in the technology. I've learned a lot, including the fact that Pip's Picks is superfluous to the much better and bigger blog I've now created.
From today, to make it easier for you as a visitor, and for me as well, I've decided to enter great links from the WWW at Wilson's Blogmanac, which will henceforth be one third of the Almy's trinity (!): Scriptorium, ezine and blog.
This change will make the Blogmanac a much more useful online resource, and I intend also to provide a lot more Almanac material there. Subscribers to the free daily ezine will, I believe, find it a useful adjunct to the ezine, so I shall place a link each day to the Blogmanac. I'll leave Pip's Picks up here indefinitely, as you will find in its archives hundreds of links that I believe are very worthwhile.
See you at the Blogmanac, and thanks for visiting.
carpe diem!
Pip
Is Google too powerful?
"Welcome to freedom, and have a nice day!"
Iraqis have paid the blood price for a fraudulent war
More bloodlust than a real war
Bush made articulate for Tribune readers - or for Bush?
EgyptianIntellectual Speaks Of the Arab World's Despair
Ex-CIA director: USA faces 'World War IV'
The Night After, by Uri Avnery
Meet the New Butcher of Baghdad
Who is Ahmed Chalabi, Bush's choice for Baghdad?
More on Chalabi from Time Magazine
Arundhati Roy on the war - great article
Did Brits steal credit for Neptune discovery?
Visitors flock to Michael Moore site
Michael Moore: My Oscar "Backlash"
US was a key supplier to Saddam
This war was not worth a child's finger
How America Lost the War, William Rivers Pitt
Hollywood exec fired for comments about USA
After Iraq: Perpetual War and a Nuclear World
The War for the White House is on
GreenStar Co-op Products that Feed Globalization
Bush's Napoleonic Complex: Telltale Signs of Empire
Why I Oppose the US War on Terror: ex-Marine Sergeant
The Toppling of the Saddam Statue
Bring Troops Home, Before They Learn to Like Killing
The culture jammers' encyclopedia
They Rule: Clever Flash site shows who rules the world
Chickenhawks: Pro-war, but didn't serve
Our BIG directory of 1,000+ peace-related URLs
More questions: An overview of the War on Terrorism
13 Myths: a brief version of our 31 myths
Operation Northwoods, 1962: US Army fake terrorism plan
Powell and CNN lied: what Osama's tape really said
How US policies betray desire for a non-compliant Iraq
Here it is, conclusive proof against Iraq
A warmonger explains war to a peacenik
Personal Voices: An Open Letter to the US President
Peace Planet: new Webring for your planet-friendly site
George Bush Sr warns George Bush Junior on Iraq
Activists in Baghdad Brace for Consequences of War
Almanac's Yellow Page: Ex-Iraqi nuke scientist reveals
51% of Americans still think Iraq did Twin Towers
The Chilling Effects of Anti-Terrorism
Oxfam's appeal to undo our damage in Iraq
"Shut Your Mouth": Assault on civil liberty (Salon mag)
Very funny mpeg: Bush and Blair
Peace Planet: new Webring for your planet-friendly site
Late Night Live, top discussions (with audio)
Paul Kelly's Woomera Song, free download
Bring on the spanners - why we are lucky to have Bush
The Miscalculations of Yes-Men, William Rivers Pitt
The Euro, the $, and the real reasons for the war on Iraq
Links for the February 15 antiwar rallies worldwide
Is Bush nuts? This might explain it all
Huge gallery of photos of February 15 peace rallies
Al-Qaeda and Bush's very strange media conference
Afghanistan has been well and truly betrayed
Pentagon Threatens to Kill Independent Reporters in Iraq
Why Not Kill Dictators with Kindness?
White House spies on UN delegates; US media ducks
US vetoes in UN: allowing Hussein's chemical weapons
Boycott Brand America Campaign
Beyond War, excellent free audio program
Bush Family Values Photo Album
Norman Mailer on US and war (audio)
Richard Perle: Death of the UN
US vetoes in UN: allowing Hussein's chemical weapons
Collateral Language: User's Guide to America's New War
Bush Family Values Photo Album
Iraq Body Count | Comment & Analysis
HOW MANY CIVILIANS WERE KILLED BY CLUSTER BOMBS?
"The Pentagon says 1: Iraq Body Count says at least 200.
It is understandable that the US government should wish to play down the damage done to Iraqi civilians by cluster bombs. The rules of war prohibit the use of inherently indiscriminate weapons. Cluster bombs are weapons which are incapable of being used in a manner that complies with the obligation to distinguish between civilians and combatants. Those who use them in civilian areas therefore open themselves to charges of war crimes.
Even so, last month’s claim by the Pentagon that only one civilian has died from cluster bombing is breathtaking in its audacious distortion of reality."
Unknown News
"The news you need, whether you know it or not."
Thousands of links; not a great job of arranging them, but many gems at this site and worth the digging.
Peacebus.com Home Page from 5 May 2003
"Peacebus captain, Graeme Dunstan's is returning to Nimbin to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the 1973 Nimbin Aquarius Festival, an event for which he was co-director."
Gday, Graeme.
Tuesday, May 06, 2003
BIT-101 : ActionScript Experiments and Tutorials
I'm struggling with Flash MX and one of my classmates told me to check this one out. This guy ain't struggling.
WIRETAP - British Youth Oppose "Bomber" Blair
"A few months ago, if you'd told most British schoolteachers that hundreds of their students were about to start taking a big interest in international politics they’d have been delighted. Now it's all they can do to keep the kids in the classrooms."
This is my way of wishing the British Prime Minister a happy 50th birthday, something I beat him to by two months.
Fortune.com - Magazine - Rummy's North Korea Connection
"What did Donald Rumsfeld know about ABB's deal to build nuclear reactors there? And why won't he talk about it?"
US 'threatened NZ's Clark with severe retaliation'
"The United States threatened severe retaliation against New Zealand economic interests unless Prime Minister Helen Clark backed down over her anti-war remarks, it is claimed."
Bravo New Zealand!
Monday, May 05, 2003
Unequal Protection by Thom Hartmann
"In 1886 the court reporter of the U.S. Supreme Court claimed that the court had ruled that 'corporations are persons' in the Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad case. If you read the case itself, you find that in fact the court ruled no such thing. But the reporter wrote it up in the headnotes of the case - not a legal document, but only a commentary on the case - and subsequent generations of corporate attorneys claimed it was so. Over time, it became so."
I haven't read Hartmann's book, but, based on an interview I heard with him on new Dimensions radio it looks well worth the read.
The Memory Hole > MSNBC Article on Bush "Misstatement" Pulled Off Site
"While the fact that a big media outlet erased its own reporting to protect the powerful isn't a surprise (although it is still maddening), the big shock is that another tentacle of the corporate media called them on it. On 29 April 2003, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote:
Did the news media feel that it was unpatriotic to question the administration's credibility? Some strange things certainly happened. For example, in September Mr. Bush cited an International Atomic Energy Agency report that he said showed that Saddam was only months from having nuclear weapons. "I don't know what more evidence we need," he said. In fact, the report said no such thing — and for a few hours the lead story on MSNBC's Web site bore the headline "White House: Bush Misstated Report on Iraq." Then the story vanished — not just from the top of the page, but from the site."
The Video that Proves 9-11 was not a Surprise to Bush
"By now you have all heard the strange story of how George Bush claimed to have seen the first plane hit the World Trade Tower on TV before going into a school room to read to some children. This is a strange story because there was no video of the first impact until a day later, when a video shot by a documentary film crew that captured the first impact surfaced."
A mean-spirited America
"Today, I fear my own government more than I do terrorists".
US, UK Waged War on Iraq Because of Oil, Blair Adviser Says
"London, May 1 (Bloomberg) The US and UK went to war against Iraq because of the Middle East country's oil reserves, an adviser to British Prime Minister Tony Blair said."
Would the US Plant WMD’s?
"This article by ex-CIA officials discusses the question of US vs UN inspection teams looking for the notorious weapons of mass destruction. Also addresses the question of "would the US plant evidence?" and gives a history with specifics of this having happened before - in Central America, Viet Nam & Cambodia, and Cuba; and to justify the first Gulf War. A long (if you read the chronology of faked evidence) but good read with many facts you may want to have at your disposal."
Sunday, May 04, 2003
AltaVista's Babel Fish Translation Service
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Almanac of Disasters
Macabre, I guess, but useful to almanackists and perhaps others. One glitch: when I used it, sometimes the page I was on jumped onto another page.
Vivisimo Document Clustering - automatic categorization and content integration software -
Another search engine worth a try. I probably won't switch from the dreaded Google, but this one worked very well on my cursory trial.
FindArticles.com"FindArticles.com is a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free."
Space Calendar (JPL)
"The Space Calendar covers space-related activities and anniversaries for the coming year. Included are over 1,100 links to related home pages."
Best Blond Joke In the World
Iraqi Nuclear Site Is Found Looted (washingtonpost.com)
"Sunday, May 4, 2003;
NEAR KUT, Iraq, May 3 -- A specially trained Defense Department team, dispatched after a month of official indecision to survey a major Iraqi radioactive waste repository, today found the site heavily looted and said it was impossible to tell whether nuclear materials were missing."
Lit.Org - Writers resources, epublishing, zines, stories, authors, interviews, chat, links and more!
"Lit.Org is a community for Readers and Writers. We provide a place to share your ideas and thoughts. You can use publish your stories, poems, essays ..."
