Month: April 2003
“He was forty years old on the day in 1930 when it occurred to him that he, in all likelihood, would turn out to be one of those fellows who would be his mother’s companion unto her death, and though Levis accepted this duty, he often found himself in a cantankerous disposition around her. While…
“Bolsheviks in the White House,” an interview by Jarosław Kurski of Daniel Cohn-Bendit, from
;You have to admit that Americans in one stroke were able to knock down the EU, NATO, Europe and the Middle Eastern region. As far as Europe is concerned, in just two or three weeks we will wake up with a terrible hangover. Maybe it’s happening right now. We’ve all realized that it’s easy to…
“Supposing the truth of these statements, it is certainly arguable that deception may have been justified on the basis of the huge policy matters at stake. Many people felt that the US involvement in the Gulf War was vital to world peace. From that perspective, the usual
Twenty-five percent of children i
Twenty-five percent of children in central Harlem have asthma, the highest rate anywhere in the country.
“It was Hotta who had treated me to a dish of fruit-flavored ice when I first came to the school. Well, if he was as two-faced as that, I felt ashamed of accepting even that much from him. I’d only had one dish, so it had only cost him one and a half sen; but…
I have revised the MetroCard pricing
I have revised the MetroCard pricing information a good deal, and added a chart, working with excellent ideas from Mike Epstein. You can download the latest version in the form of a 200K PDF file.
“An Art Center Left in Ashes” by Dexter Filkins from
;This is our American liberation! I never thought you would do it. I went to the American School. I believed in your moral values. And every night you bombed. Every night, I ran through the streets, an old woman in my nightgown. Look at my library!
“Amoral and utopian multiculturalism” by Natalie Solent from
;Trying to love a crowd is impossible. No one man can begin to know them all, yet alone know them well enough to love. One can and should, of course, have goodwill towards the crowd. And as time goes by a person who was once in the crowd can become better known, better liked, until,…
I know the colors are inverted, but the new O
I know the colors are inverted, but the new Ohio bicentennial license plates are similar enough to the diplomatic plates issued by the US Department of State that I wonder how many people from Ohio have tried parking anywhere they want to see if they could get away with it.
The problem with XML feeds.
Aggregators of XML feeds have come into their own in the last six months. I like them. They work. But they expose a serious deficiency among bloggers, a deficiency which journalists generally do not have. Bloggers write the worst headlines. Most feed aggregators show a list of headlines from sites which offer feeds. You click…