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Monday, May 31, 2004

the diebold variations

i’ve picked on diebold around here since.. well… since they first stepped in it, i guess. and i do believe that creativity counts…

so, just go see for yourself

posted by roj at 10:21 pm  

Monday, May 31, 2004

powering up your hearing aid

you could pay attention to joi and save your hearing, or you could get hip with pat benetar and just buy buy lots of batteries…

Energizer Holdings Inc. is appealing to the rock ‘n’ roll sensibilities of baby boomers by enlisting 1980s rocker Pat Benatar to boost sales of hearing-aid batteries.

posted by roj at 9:15 pm  

Monday, May 31, 2004

music is a work in progress

I never go back. I never listen to them. Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time, and it’s oddly unnatural.

posted by roj at 9:11 pm  

Monday, May 31, 2004

thanks, veterans

posted by roj at 9:03 pm  

Monday, May 31, 2004

building a better cow

Kirin Brewery Co, Japan’s number-two beer maker, has succeeded in producing a cow that is immune to mad cow disease, but experts said it was too early for livestock producers to celebrate.

Kirin officials said on Monday the company had produced jointly with a U.S. company a cow that carried none of the “prion” proteins that cause the brain-wasting disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

now… if we could just figure out how to make people immune to “stupid human disease”….

posted by roj at 8:59 pm  

Monday, May 31, 2004

Anthony Carey

care

posted by roj at 8:55 pm  

Friday, May 28, 2004

David Dellinger

one of seven

posted by roj at 4:33 am  

Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Percy Young

musicologist

posted by roj at 6:01 am  

Monday, May 24, 2004

the military flirts with truth-free zones

joi seems to be the nexus of this uncorroborated, but entirely plausible story: rumsfeld bans camera phones.

that should eliminate the problem of pesky photographs that embarass the united states, right? makes rumsfeld’s praise of specialist joseph darby ring a little hollow:

us secretary of defense donald rumsfeld, before the senate and house armed services committee, may 7, 2004

There are many who did their duty professionally and we should mention that as well. First, Specialist Joseph Darby, who alerted the appropriate authorities that abuses were occurring.

posted by roj at 7:04 am  

Monday, May 24, 2004

walmart: subsidized growth

certainly an interesting read [pdf], the organization good jobs first has released a report on taxpayer subisidies for walmart – because, well, walmart needs the breaks.

the report claims that it documents more than $1 billion in subidies from local and state governments. it’s been picked up by the new york times.

posted by roj at 6:58 am  
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