Something that's been on my mind for a while. Yahoo news has been my morning home page for a while, simply because it used to be an easy way to compare coverage from AP, Reuters and Agence France Presse all in one spot.
Over the past few years I've noticed trend with AP (maybe it's always been there, I don't know). Their stories, if not simply short fact pieces, lean right 95% of the time, sometimes significantly and in a distorted manner.
Best one I've found so far
Totally cool, but longish, video on the history of the wah pedal. Definitely worth the time to watch.
Best line in the video: Charles Pitts talking about working with Issac Hayes on "Shaft" and only staying on the G for the entire song until the very last phrase: "To me it seemed repetitious, redundant, and ridiculous. It shows you what you know." (27:52 or so). Just goes to show you that you never know where something will take you.
I was looking for a lightweight, easy to use systems performance log for a Debian 5.5 server and came across Webminstats
Systats is a Webmin module that tracks cpu, memory, disk and io statistics over time.
It doesn't install without a few additions to the standard Debian install.
The definition of cold blooded: "According to court documents, (Jill) Lotter had visited her neighbor and mentioned while smoking a cigarette that she had hit her husband in the head with a hammer.
The neighbor went to Lotter’s home on Independence Drive and discovered the man, identified in documents as M.L., on the living room floor bleeding profusely from head and facial injuries.
Lotter told medical personnel, family members and investigators she hit her husband “with a hammer multiple times over a period of several hours during an altercation.”
The Federal statute:
TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 113C > § 2340
§ 2340. Definitions
How Current is This?
As used in this chapter—
(1) “torture” means an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering (other than pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions) upon another person within his custody or physical control;
(2) “severe mental pain or suffering” means the prolonged mental harm caused by or resulting from—
I traveled to Afghanistan in the late fall of 2005 (limping badly due to just getting out of a walking cast due to a broken leg) to study how the Afghanistan Nongovernmental Security Organization (ANSO) collected and disseminated security information for humanitarian NGOs working in Afghanistan, (report here).
It was clear to me then, and it is apparent from this story in Foreign Policy, that the conditions and issues I witnessed and experienced in 2005 still exist. Nothing has changed in any substantial way, even though four years of learning opportunity have passed. Why?