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Below are the entries for 08/2002. If an entry has a light red background, that means it's had at least 10 comments added to it.
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A great op-ed piece in the NY Times by Bjorn Lomborg, the director of the Environmental Assessment Institute in Denmark and author of The Skeptical Environmentalist. He says that the environmentalists claim the world is in a downward spiral because of over-development. They cite all kinds of examples to…
Mozilla 1.1 has been released. There’s a whole slew of improvements which include Mozilla taking advantage of Quartz rendering in OS X and the download manager being fully implemented and enabled. I’ve been using Mozilla as my default browser since v.1.rc2. I can’t live without tabbed browsing now.
Reuters says that Bin Laden is reportedly back in charge of al-Qaeda and has re-established links with the Taliban. They are planning on making attacks against US soldiers in Afghanistan. Bin Laden is also reportedly planning on more attacks on US soil, but is waiting for the US to…
The Jerusalem Post is saying that the UN summit in Johannesburg has already been turned into a political event by the Palestinians in attendance. South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said he hoped that the summit would be a “positive, apolitical event”, but the Simon Wiesenthal Center accused…
Another blogger named Chris posted a small entry on his blog (The Spoons Experience) about a Saudi boycott of U.S. companies and products a few months back. Well, he was linked to by the granddaddy of all bloggers which sent several thousand visitors to his site in a few…
There’s a blog about the World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa. They have an interview with Jane Goodall where in response to what she thinks of the summit she says: It’s horrifying to think of the waste the summit will cause. All these delegates having…
I thought this was an interesting view on life by a comic strip called Too Much Coffee Man. It’s kind of sad that people’s lives can be boiled down to this these days. Makes you want to make something of your…
Yasser Arafat’s Fatah group killed a Palestinian mother named Ikhlas Yassin for reportedly “collaborating with Israeli security forces.” Fatah thugs had captured her son and tortured him to get information about who he got his information from. He eventually implicated his mother and the murderers forced her from her home,…
I mentioned earlier that a skunk was keeping our cats at bay last night. Just to give you an example of one of our ferocious cats, I’ve uploaded a picture of the one we call Tuff…
Which Alan Rickman Character Are You? I’ve never seen this movie, so I’m not sure if this is entirely accurate. And I would never have just a mustache! I have wanted to play the cello before though… hmmm. via:…
