Chris used to work for Apple – this is an interesting idea. The iPod and downloaded music from Universal, seems like a natural combination.
Month: April 2003
Flames engulf the symbols of power
Robert Fisk’s latest report from Baghdad.
At the Kindi hospital, they ordered journalists away from the premises but, briefly obtaining access to the emergency ward, I found a Shia Muslim cleric inside, a man who had studied in southern Lebanon, lecturing the gunmen on the need to restore order in the city. Of course, that was the Americans’ job. But they weren’t doing it.
And in another piece:
I sat on Saddam’s throne and surveyed the dark chamber where terror was dispensed
Outside stand the American Abrams tanks of the 3rd Infantry, their names expressing the banality and power of another nation. On their barrels the crews have nicknamed their armoured behemoths. Atomic Dog. Annihilator. Arsonist. Anthrax. Anguish. Agamemnon. Saddam would have approved.
Apologies
Apologies if I seemed to kicking up stink about Dishings.com – it just came as a shock. Im not quite sure who they are but I take it as a compliment that they liked my site enough to copy parts of it. I realise it is a Radio theme, just the links were the same! LOL .
Dishings appear to be new on the blogscene – I hope they are finding their feet and *welcome to the Radio/blog world*
(Dip hat to Bernie)
And Mark? You are in Amsterdam now? That internet over power lines thing is interesting – I think its been used in Germany for over a year now, and they tested it alot in Scotland.
We love the Iraqi Information Minister
If you have followed the antics of Mohammed Al-Sahaf, the Iraqi Information Minister, you will be crying with laughing looking at this. I especially like the Monty Python and the Holy Grail reference.
Copying my site?
Dishings.com have stolen/used my links and used the same theme…not sure what to do.
Iraqis have paid the blood price for a fraudulent war
Seamus Milne, editor of the comment section in the Guardian, on why the war is still wrong
War question
Blair to Iraqi people: “We did not want this war”
Are you sure about that Tony?
Photos of war casualties
After much thought I have decided to post a number of photos from the war. I am not attempting to glamourise or disrespect, I feel it is important to inform. If you are interested in seeing the effects war can have then click on the link.
Warning – these pictures are extremely gruesome, if you do not want to be exposed to them do not click on the link. The following page contains photos of dead Iraqi civilians and of dead US soldiers. They are to say the least, horrific and harrowing.
You can see the pictures here.
The battle for American science: Alok Jha and Oliver Burkeman
Alok Jha and Oliver Burkeman write a lengthy piece in the Guardian’s new Life section today. And they write it on the very interesting subject of creationism. Some interesting goings-on in Atlanta at the moment with the so-called ‘mouse trap argument’.
It appears to be a bastardised version of Paley’s Watch argument.
I really do not see the logic, nor have I ever, in the argument from intelligent design. A mouse-trap exists therefore an all-poweful super being created the universe? – a bit of a leap there. I studied the argument in detail while at university, and had a passionate argument with my Jesuit lecturer on the issue.
The article has some good quotes:
“We’d all like to have the answers. Suppose you drove someone who’d never seen Mount Rushmore to look at it. They would immediately apprehend that the mountain had been designed, formed by intelligent activity. Now, most people would think that designer would be God … but where the designer came from is a separate question.” (Most scientists point out, among many criticisms of ID, that it assumes the function of an organism to be a given: true of a mousetrap, but not necessarily of living things – ends themselves can change.)
And Ken Miller points out, with my full backing –
“But there’s something called the scientific process, you know – involving open publication, criticism, and rejection of things that aren’t convincing. We don’t teach both sides of the germ theory of disease and faith-healing. Evolution isn’t in the classroom because of political action or court decisions. It’s in the classroom because it made it through, it stood up to scrutiny and became the scientific consensus. It fought the battle and won.”
Concorde grounded for good
The beautiful Concorde is to be grounded for good by the end of the year. I was in Heathrow last week – in a bus on a road beside the runway. At 18.55 I heard a roar from the runway and looked over to see Concorde just taking off – the noise was deafening and it felt like it shook the bus. An amazing sight, I will be sorry to see it go.