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UK Archives to Make WWII Awards Database
Available

UK Archives to Make WWII Awards Database
Available 05/31/2004 10:09 PM
The BBC is reporting that a new database will "cover all those given awards for bravery in north west Europe between D-Day and the war's end." That's apparently about 12,000...

A Small Victory - The Victory Coaltion
Brings You: Ask a Blogger Monday!

A Small Victory - The Victory Coaltion
Brings You: Ask a Blogger Monday! 04/27/2004 11:39 AM
answering your questions .. Michele knows everything .. Ask a Blogger Monday! .. Challenge .. Michele

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GNU/Shoes

GNU/Shoes 01/24/2004 10:36 PM
GNU Shoes 0.3/0.4 release

It's All About the Shoes

It's All About the Shoes 09/07/2004 07:00 AM
When nearly all of his competitors were exporting work overseas, John Stollenwerk kept his 700 factory jobs in the United States -- but not for the reasons you'd think.

Putting ourselves in their shoes

Putting ourselves in their shoes 09/22/2004 10:33 AM
Juan Cole helps us imagine what life would be like in the United States under Iraq-like conditions. In terms of civilians killed -- it would be as if 9/11 happened every week.

Travelling Shoes

Travelling Shoes 03/21/2003 09:13 AM
it was Uday in the bunker .. Uday Out of the Picture? .. travellingshoes

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Nice shoes

Nice shoes 01/03/2004 02:06 PM

Medium Footwear's collection of new shoe designs look pretty cool. They seem right about midway between skate shoe and hipster shoe to me (tending towards hip for the sake of being hip), which is what I'm currently liking in my shoes.

I'd point to my favorite shoe designs, but their assy flash interface doesn't let me link directly to them.

Of shoes and meat

Of shoes and meat 07/28/2004 06:17 AM

« Welcome to Missouri, land of meat and shoes! »

One of the most impressive things about Finns is their grasp of geography, well, at least all the ones I know seem to know far more detail about the planet we inhabit than any other people I've ever met, which is a dramatic contrast to Americans who seem to have some difficulty placing their own country on a political map of the world. If you read Finnish, you'll get a good chuckle out of Peter Elk's [Finnish expat living in NYC] look at an old geography book and it's descriptions of US states. If you don't read Finnish, well, the summary is that some of the state descriptions are pretty hilarious.

Missouri, for example, is the "Meat and Shoe State". I mean, Missouri, land of the Ozarks and home of the 'throwed[sic] roll', evokes the image of meat and shoes? Lambert's does have really great rolls if you remember to duck and their iced tea is served in giant mason jars with free refills, too. I kept trying to imagine of a reason why anyone on the planet would think of shoes and meat when describing Missouri. And then it dawned on me....Missouri! The Sho[e]-Me[at] State! Someone in Finland heard Shoe-Meat instead of Show-Me! Of course! :) The slogan has been in use for a long, long time and has a somewhat interesting origin.

The most widely known legend attributes the phrase to Missouri's U.S. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver, who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1897 to 1903. While a member of the U.S. House Committee on Naval Affairs, Vandiver attended an 1899 naval banquet in Philadelphia. In a speech there, he declared, "I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me." Regardless of whether Vandiver coined the phrase, it is certain that his speech helped to popularize the saying.

Other versions of the "Show-Me" legend place the slogan's origin in the mining town of Leadville, Colorado. There, the phrase was first employed as a term of ridicule and reproach. A miner's strike had been in progress for some time in the mid-1890s, and a number of miners from the lead districts of southwest Missouri had been imported to take the places of the strikers. The Joplin miners were unfamiliar with Colorado mining methods and required frequent instructions. Pit bosses began saying, "That man is from Missouri. You'll have to show him."

However the slogan originated, it has since passed into a different meaning entirely, and is now used to indicate the stalwart, conservative, noncredulous character of Missourians.

Well, in all honesty, Missouri did have the Brown Shoe Company in St. Louis and the enormous stockyards in Kansas City [in Missouri in spite of the name] back before it became better known for Budweiser Beer and John Ashcroft. I think the new state slogan should read, "Missouri! We're real sorry about Ashcroft!" Or, maybe, "Missouri! Getting dumb sports fans drunk since 1906!" Missouri does have a few redeeming qualities like Mark Twain, Chuck Berry and Vincent Price. It's home, but as Mark Twain so wisely quipped, "Familiarity breeds contempt..." I will henceforth refer to it as the "Shoe-Meat State". :)

Because it's July [read everything is closed for summer holiday and I'm bored] and I'm, of course, far more entertained by state slogans than anyone probably should be, I'll offer a more honest selection of state slogans for the easily amused. They're notoriously bad and ridiculed all over the US [65k pdf] for being the product of horrible PR wonks.

• Alabama: Wonder Full ∴ Wonderful? Alabama? "Yes, we have indoor plumbing."
• Alaska: Beyond Your Dreams, Within Your Reach ∴ "Screwing the environment for your SUV"
• Arizona: The Grand Canyon State ∴ "Land of Cheap Smokes and Indian Reservations" Monument Valley is really a lot more stunning than the Grand Canyon.
• Arkansas: The Natural State ∴ Natural? Natural what? "If you can read this, you don't live here."
• California: Find Yourself Here ∴ ...because everyone here is as lost as you are. "California, the fruit and nut state!" or "Our women have more plastic than your car!".
• Colorado: (none) ∴ Colorado, home of the Coalition for the American Family and anti-gay everything. "If you don't ski, don't bother."
• Connecticut: Full of Surprises ∴ Boy, howdy, who wrote that nonsense? "Connecticut, Stepford wives and suburban stupor!" or "Massachussets is thattaway!"
• Delaware: It's Good Being First ∴ The state best known for it's very 'generous' tax structure, S-Corporations and cheap booze/outlet malls that people from adjoining states flock to. I guess they couldn't just say, "Hey! We're small, cheap and available!".
• Florida: (none) ∴ "Ask us about our grandchildren!" or "Watch out for that sinkhole!"
• Georgia: Georgia on My Mind ∴ We banned rum and slaves but not lawyers!
• Hawaii: Aloha ∴ BORING. "Islands of flaming hot magma!"
• Idaho: Potatoes. Tasty Destinations. ∴ Why not just get sponsored by Ore-Ida Corp and go with "When it says Ore-Ida, it's alll-righta."? or, even better, "Land of Tater Tots!".
• Illinois: Right Here. Right Now. ∴ Yeah, it's there alright. What happened to "Land of Lincoln"? "Illinois! Please remember the S is silent!"
• Iowa: Come Be Our Guest ∴ "Iowa! Be our guest as you surely won't stay!"
• Indiana: Enjoy Indiana ∴ It used to be "Wander Indiana" which had TV spots with an empty car toodling around the state which gave you the [realistic] impression that the state put you to sleep. "Indiana! Enjoy our dullness!"
• Kansas: Simply Wonderful ∴ "Kansas! Drive faster, daddy! Faster!" The only thing more boring than driving across Kansas is driving across Wyoming.
• Kentucky: It's That Friendly ∴ "Five Million People; Fifteen Last Names"
• Louisiana: Come as You Are. Leave Different. ∴ "It's not new and it doesn't lean!"
• Maine: It Must Be Maine ∴ "Every visitor gets a free L.L. Bean Boat Tote!"
• Maryland: (none) ∴ "Crab cakes and crabs."
• Massachusetts: Make It Yours ∴ "Taxachusetts! Our Taxes Are Lower Than Finland's (For Most Tax Brackets)"
• Michigan: Great Lakes. Great Times. ∴ "First Line Of Defense From The Canadians" or "All your crap cars are belong to us!"
• Minnesota: Explore Minnesota ∴ "And don't forget the bug spray!" or "10,000 Lakes and 10,000,000,000,000 mosquitoes"
• Mississippi: Feels Like Coming Home ∴ "Come Visit And Feel Better About Where You Live"
• Missouri: Where the Rivers Run ∴ "Your Federal Flood Relief Tax Dollars At Work" or "We're sorry about Ashcroft!"
• Montana: Travel Montana ∴ "Home of the Unabomber and christian militias"
• Nebraska: Possibilities...Endless ∴ "Ask About Our State Motto Contest..."
• Nevada: Wide Open ∴ Gotta wonder what the guy who made that one up was looking at. "Home of the mushroom cloud!"
• New Hampshire: Make Up for Lost Time ∴ "Go Away"
• New Jersey: The Perfect Getaway ∴ What a perfect motto for a state filled with gangsters! "Hey, Guy! Whatchoolookinat?"
• New Mexico: Land of Enchantment ∴ "Atomic bombs and Aliens! Coincidence? We think not!"
• New York: I ♥ NY (I Love New York) ∴ "Give us your wallet!"
• North Carolina: A Better Place to Be ∴ "Come smokem peace pipe!"
• North Dakota: Legendary ∴ "We still have at least 50 residents!"
• Ohio: So Much to Discover ∴ "Ohio! The state next to Indiana!"
• Oklahoma: Native America ∴ "Just like the musical only without the singing!"
• Oregon: We Love Dreamers ∴ "We hate Californians!"
• Pennsylvania: The State of Independence ∴ "Cook With Coal!"
• Rhode Island: (various) ∴ "We aren't really an island!"
• South Carolina: Smiling Faces. Beautiful Places. ∴ "We didn't surrender to those Damn Yankees!"
• South Dakota: Great Faces. Great Places. ∴ "250 miles to the nearest rest stop!"
• Tennessee: (none) ∴ "The edumacation state!"
• Texas: It's Like a Whole Other Country ∴ It sure is y'all. We all wish it were another country, too. "Si! Hablo Ingles!"
• Utah: (none) ∴ "We're on a mission from god" or "Dry in every way imaginable"
• Vermont: (none) ∴ "Come peep and leave"
• Virginia: Virginia is for Lovers ∴ "We have ponies"
• Washington: (none) ∴ "Home of Apples and Microsoft"
• West Virginia: Wild and Wonderful ∴ "Kissin' Cousins!"
• Wisconsin: Stay Just a Little Bit Longer ∴ "Come cut some cheese!"
• Wyoming: (none) ∴ "Why are you here?"

Blue Shoes

Blue Shoes 04/04/2005 11:08 AM

« One of the five bright blue towers of the 110 kV Salmisaari-Meilahti power line that crosses the seurasaarenselkä that are collectively called "Antti's Footsteps" in honor of their designer, Antti Nurmesniemi. Look at the tiny little people on the right for a sense of scale. [They were named from a HE contest with 1,496 entries and the winner receiving 5000 kWh of electricity for a year. The finalists were: Sinijätit, Johtokurki, Hattiwatit, Meritoverit (sea friends), Seireenit (sirens), Stadin Eiffelit (Eiffels of the city), Sinilinja (blue line), Sinimastot (blue masts), Virtaviivat (blood line) and Antin askeleet (Antti's footsteps).] »

Helsinki Energy seems to go out of it's way to make power plants look good as though people might notice, and perhaps blame them, that the Baltic is still so polluted that it's not recommended to eat Baltic fish more than once a week or the layer of smoggy gritty haze over the city today if they didn't sex them up a bit. As though they might be saying, "Yes, this is a coal fired power plant but, hey, aren't these lovely blue power lines beautiful?" Sure, they say the plants are ultra clean but the people they're saying that to probably don't live next to the strip mine somewhere with cheap labour and no pretty blue pylons. Energy production is with rare exception a dirty, ugly business that we'd all like to pretend that we don't participate in and depend on utterly each and every day. I look at those blue giants daily and I'm reminded of the lengths we will go in our own self-deceptions and how we are so willing to be fooled. We are energy junkies.

Big Belly, Big Shoes

Big Belly, Big Shoes 05/31/2004 05:31 PM
This week's question: Why did my wife's feet grow a shoe size when she was pregnant?

"shoes for the kids in Afghanistan. "

"shoes for the kids in Afghanistan. " 06/17/2004 11:33 AM

How Much Computing Will You Wear In Your
Shoes?

How Much Computing Will You Wear In Your
Shoes? 05/06/2004 01:32 AM
Forget gimmicky tricks like the "air pump" in the tongue or blinking lights on the back of sneakers, now companies like Adidas are working on "smart" shoes that include sophisticated sensors, a microprocessor and an electric motor to monitor how the shoe is responding to whatever the wearer is doing and adjust the shoe on the fly. That is, if the compression of the base of the shoe is too soft or too hard, it will adjust to make it better, lessening the wear and tear on a runner's knees. Like those blinking lights on shoes that are popular with kids, it appears this sneaker will come with some blinking lights too - but they'll serve a purpose: displaying the "settings" of your sneakers. This may be the first shoe that needs its own CD-ROM instruction manual. Don't think shoe technology ends here, either. This is just the start of where some people see these smart shoes going. Some are even predicting that, for all the hype about wearable computing, the best place to put such processing power is in the shoe.

Adidas 1 Self-Adapting Shoes

Adidas 1 Self-Adapting Shoes 05/06/2004 07:13 AM
The Times' Circuits section accidentally reports about something interesting this morning when they talk about the development of the new 'Adidas 1' self-adapting running shoe. Although the article is too busy getting quotes from Rob Enderle to actually break down what exactly the shoes do to adapt, I was able...

Walk A Mile in Your Shoes

Walk A Mile in Your Shoes 12/10/2003 11:29 AM
Walk A Mile project brings policymakers and people on assistance together. One of their programs is Living on Food Stamps, where policymakers try to eat for a month on the same amount of food stamps regular people receive. Here's how it went in Oregon, and some lessons learned by legislators.

Report: $250 shoes to have computer

Report: $250 shoes to have computer 05/06/2004 08:40 AM
CNN May 6 2004 12:21PM GMT

Karma? Top Floor, Next to Shoes

Karma? Top Floor, Next to Shoes 07/25/2004 04:04 AM
In Chelsea, a museum dedicated to the art of the spiritual path opens in a former temple of commerce.

Can these running shoes outsmart you?

Can these running shoes outsmart you? 03/19/2005 02:55 AM
Adidas delivers its athletic footwear of the future, a shoe designed around a microprocessor.
Photos: Watch them run

Wearing Shoes Bad For your Health?

Wearing Shoes Bad For your Health? 04/01/2005 05:25 PM

Can't Get Bob Vila to Come By? A Suite
Tries to Fill His Shoes

Can't Get Bob Vila to Come By? A Suite
Tries to Fill His Shoes 04/15/2004 06:30 AM
When it comes to home improvement, a good blueprint can make all the difference. Professionals can use high-end software like AutoCad to figure out how wide to make a staircase or how far to extend a patio. But a product from Broderbund, 3D Home Architect Design Suite Deluxe 6, puts many of the same resources within reach of do-it-yourselfers, allowing them to make plans with near-professional precision.

Kicksology - Timeline of Basketball
Shoes

Kicksology - Timeline of Basketball
Shoes 08/06/2004 08:11 AM
Kicksology, Timeline of Basketball Shoes

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NCR boss fills Fiorina's shoes

NCR boss fills Fiorina's shoes 03/30/2005 07:21 AM
Computer Weekly Mar 30 2005 11:16AM GMT

Let's try and walk in Six Apart's shoes
for a moment

Let's try and walk in Six Apart's shoes
for a moment 05/14/2004 03:10 PM
I have been thinking over the past 24 hours what it must be like to be in Six Apart's office...

Nike Made-to-Order Shoes

Nike Made-to-Order Shoes 06/17/2005 03:45 PM

Mass customization: Nike has a store in Manhattan that makes custom shoes. You have to be invited to get an appointment there.

It's part store and part studio, where customers go to design their own sneakers. They choose between materials, colors and patterns to create unique footwear matching their own stylish sensibilities.

Once the creation is complete, specs get sent electronically to a manufacturing facility. Three weeks later, sneakers arrive by mail at the customer's house.

Social Climbers put on your hiking
shoes......

Social Climbers put on your hiking
shoes...... 08/02/2004 09:53 AM

Ju dith (as usual) is totally tied in.....

Are you a social climber? Do you live in the San Francisco Bay area? If so, you might want to join Urban Diversion or the San Francisco Outdoor Adventure Club.

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Ah, that kind of social climbing, you say! Indeed, online social clubs are becoming an increasingly popular platform to
form ‘face-to-face facilitation for fun’ fora.

They even have ‘clubhouses’!

This morning I
found—Urban
activity clubs provide a place to grow, explore and maybe meet—by Reyhan Harmanci, on sfgate.com. In a
year-and-a-half, Urban Diversion’s membership “has risen from 75 to 260, with 25 to 35 events each month. In August,
they plan to launch an East Bay calendar with a new Web portal” according to this article.

Looks like I will have to start a new category in my
S NS Meta List for ‘Online Social
Clubs’.

Happy Sunday!

National WWII Memorial

National WWII Memorial 05/30/2004 11:36 PM
National World War II Memorial .. What a travesty .. new eyesore .. website .. war

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"National WWII Memorial"

"National WWII Memorial" 05/31/2004 09:53 PM

Pilot says sorry for WWII bombing

Pilot says sorry for WWII bombing 07/12/2004 05:52 AM
A German wartime pilot who accidentally bombed a church in Northumberland says sorry to the people living in the village.

Cosmo adds spirituality to sex and shoes
(Reuters)

Cosmo adds spirituality to sex and shoes
(Reuters) 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
Reuters - Is this a sign of the times or what? Cosmopolitan, the glossy bible of sex and shopping for the single girl, has launched a new monthly column on spirituality.

No Windmills, Tulips or Wooden Shoes,
Please (Reuters)

No Windmills, Tulips or Wooden Shoes,
Please (Reuters) 06/30/2004 09:25 AM
Reuters - Windmills, tulips and wooden shoes may be among the most beloved emblems of the Netherlands, but they are symbols the Dutch government hopes to avoid after it takes up the EU presidency, local media said on Tuesday.

493 mln pairs of athletic shoes sold in
2004

493 mln pairs of athletic shoes sold in
2004 04/01/2005 10:40 PM
ZDNet Apr 2 2005 2:12AM GMT

Downtown Washington, DC and the new WWII
Memorial

Downtown Washington, DC and the new WWII
Memorial 06/06/2004 11:12 AM

Took the airplane down to my hometown of Washington, DC for a bit of exercise this weekend.  The city was built to awe the citizens with an inhuman scale.  Plazas are vast and the Mall itself is a forbidding barrier if you're trying to walk from place to place on a hot or cold day (the architects who wrote A Pattern Language concluded that no public square would be effective unless it was small enough that people could recognize each other from opposite ends).  The government buildings are huge and discourage casual entry by being set back from the street and not having any retail shops on the ground floor as a commercial office building might.

The D.C. of my childhood is vastly different from the D.C. of today.  Those imposing buildings that symbolize the government's power are now wrapped in concrete highway barriers that broadcast the government's fear of a lone terrorist driving a truck filled with a fertilizer bomb.  Around the Federal Reserve building, for example, the barriers cover part of the sidewalk so as a pedestrian you're separated from the street by a wall of concrete.  The effect is certainly ugly and it will be interesting to see what happens if a beautiful Old World city such as Paris needs to be secured against lone terrorists in trucks.  But in a way the cowering of the government marks the triumph of the individual in American society.  "God created men; Colonel Colt made them equal" wasn't quite right after all.  It was the terrorists who blew up the Marine compound in Beirut and those who blew up the World Trade garage in 1993 who actually made individual men the equals of government.

There is one new building in Washington, D.C. that harks back to an era when governments were all-powerful and individual men and women subordinate:  the World War II Memorial.  This is at the east end of the Reflecting Pool and adjacent to the Washington Monument (now wrapped in an ugly high security fence).  The new monument looks as though it was built by Soviet architects and indeed looks a lot like the WWII memorial in East Berlin.  The thing is huge and it makes one pause and reflect... "We'd better not start any more wars or we're going to run out of space on the Mall."

[My visit to the Memorial coincided with protests in Europe against American power in the form of George W. Bush, visiting to celebrate the American victory over the Germans in Italy.  Picking up on the theme of an earlier entry, I suppose it would not have been very politic of him to respond by saying "We're sincerely sorry for being so bellicose and we're going to show it by giving Italy back to the Germans..."]

Overall I still love Washington, D.C.  Where else can you drive on a riverside parkway, 100-percent paid for with Federal tax dollars, and pass adjacent signs reading "The George Bush Center for Intelligence" and "Turkey Run"?

Bittersweet Tribute Set for WWII
Veterans (AP)

Bittersweet Tribute Set for WWII
Veterans (AP) 05/29/2004 01:56 AM
AP - For many veterans, the new World War II Memorial in the nation's capital is a fitting tribute. But they wish more of their buddies were alive to be here.

Eurostar tribute to WWII hero

Eurostar tribute to WWII hero 04/27/2004 10:10 AM
Rail company Eurostar names a new train after a French spy credited with saving London from V-1 flying bomb attacks.

Bush Likens War Against Terrorism to
WWII (AP)

Bush Likens War Against Terrorism to
WWII (AP) 06/02/2004 01:47 PM
AP - President Bush, preparing new Air Force officers for war, cast the fight against terrorism as a struggle between freedom and tyranny similar to World War II and the Cold War.

German military phrasebook from WWII

German military phrasebook from WWII 03/31/2005 12:42 PM
Cory Doctorow: Nico sez, "I scanned this original 1943 US Army German phrasebook today. I think the phonetics are very strange and funny." Link (Thanks, Nico!)

War on Terror Like WWII Mission, Bush
Says

War on Terror Like WWII Mission, Bush
Says 06/02/2004 10:52 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jun 3 2004 3:20AM GMT

Bush likens war on terror to WWII

Bush likens war on terror to WWII 06/02/2004 02:55 PM
President Bush says the war on terror is like the struggles against tyranny in World War II and the Cold War.

Age Keeps WWII Vets Out of Parachute
Stunt (AP)

Age Keeps WWII Vets Out of Parachute
Stunt (AP) 05/08/2004 02:36 PM
AP - A group of World War II veterans won't get to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Allied invasion of France next month the way they wanted — the Army decided they're too old to safely parachute into Normandy.

Internet opens history of WWII

Internet opens history of WWII 06/01/2004 01:05 AM
Washington Times Jun 1 2004 5:42AM GMT
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Incase, DC Shoes introduce Skatebag,
iPod cases

Incase, DC Shoes introduce Skatebag,
iPod cases 07/15/2004 11:52 PM
Incase Designs has teamed up with DC Shoes to introduce the DC/Incase Skatebag and DC/Incase iPod and iPod mini sleeves...

Chunky "Masai" raver shoes eliminate
cellulite

Chunky "Masai" raver shoes eliminate
cellulite 07/05/2004 06:17 AM
The Masai Barefoot Technology shoe is a big raveware-looking sneaker that changes your gait to something like that of a barefoot Masai treading the grasslands and is rumoured to elliminate cellulite.

The shoe feels strange at first. The top two-thirds of it look like a fairly orthodox running shoe, but the sole is bizarre. Two inches thick at the midpoint of the heel, it tapers gradually toward the toe and swoops upward at the rear, creating a cutoff effect. The wearer steps down on the fat part of the heel, the "sweet spot," and a springy sensor bounces back, encouraging the foot to roll forward toward the toe.

This, we are told, is the gait of the Masai people, renowned for walking great distances as they move their herds of cattle across the savannas of Kenya and Tanzania. They have no apparent cellulite.

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"ABC13.com: Mystery surrounds 70 pairs
of shoes filled with bu..."

"ABC13.com: Mystery surrounds 70 pairs
of shoes filled with bu..." 11/11/2003 09:14 PM

Angry thief stole 25 left shoes
(Reuters)

Angry thief stole 25 left shoes
(Reuters) 04/08/2005 07:51 AM
Reuters - A thief who stole 25 shoes got a little less than he or she bargained for after realising they were all for left feet.

Make your own WWII victory shoes

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