Mel Gibson Muzzles Unfriendly Clerics

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Jefferson Muzzles

Jefferson Muzzles 04/13/2004 12:38 PM
The Jefferson Muzzles are awarded as a means to draw national attention to abridgments of free speech and press and, at the same time, foster an appreciation for those tenets of the First Amendment.

Unfriendly Friendster

Unfriendly Friendster 09/04/2004 09:55 AM
If you start an online company, and that company's main services are all based on merging people together via the...

Take screenshots in
screenshot-unfriendly apps

Take screenshots in
screenshot-unfriendly apps 01/16/2004 11:05 AM
There are some apps out there that simply refuse to allow you to take a screenshot of them -- this is usually limited to games which hijack the keyboard so that they intercept your screenshot command before Mac OS X itself ca...

Strix Ethernet Unfriendly Building
Contest

Strix Ethernet Unfriendly Building
Contest 04/27/2004 03:52 PM
I know it's PR, but it's good PR: science museum gets free network because Ethernet won't work: Strix has a brilliant little contest running to promote the use of its wireless backhaul and access point system in buildings that are impossible to affordably pull wire through. I've heard that museums are a great category in general, because they're either built so thickly to ensure temperature control or they're converted from another purpose now defunct (textile mill, hardened office building, etc.). In February, a prison in San Antonio won the contest. The latest winner is The Science Place in Dallas....

In Case of Unfriendly Skies (Los Angeles
Times)

In Case of Unfriendly Skies (Los Angeles
Times) 01/25/2004 10:32 AM
Los Angeles Times - It wasn't only people with a fear of flying who were horror-struck by the story that came out of Kenya in late 2002. Even the hardiest traveler couldn't help but be spooked.

"The Thomas Jefferson Center for the
Protection of Free Expression: The 2004
Jefferson Muzzles"

"The Thomas Jefferson Center for the
Protection of Free Expression: The 2004
Jefferson Muzzles" 04/15/2004 02:33 AM

Nigerian leader rows with clerics

Nigerian leader rows with clerics 05/14/2004 04:55 AM
President Obasanjo calls a Christian leader "a total idiot" as he visits the scene of communal clashes.

Sunni clerics killed in Baghdad

Sunni clerics killed in Baghdad 09/20/2004 08:17 AM
Two prominent clerics are gunned down in Baghdad, reawakening fears of sectarian strife in Iraq.

Clerics caught with hands in till
(Reuters)

Clerics caught with hands in till
(Reuters) 05/06/2004 05:29 PM
Reuters - Federal prosecutors in Chicago have charged two clerics with fleecing their flocks.

Saudi Clerics Decry Attacks on
Westerners (AP)

Saudi Clerics Decry Attacks on
Westerners (AP) 06/14/2004 09:54 AM
AP - Six Saudi clerics once affiliated with Islamic militants — including two praised by al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in videotapes — have condemned recent attacks against Westerners in the kingdom, describing the perpetrators as "a deviant group."

France Struggles to Curb Extremist
Muslim Clerics

France Struggles to Curb Extremist
Muslim Clerics 04/29/2004 11:11 PM
France has expelled dozens of clerics for spreading radical Islam, but making such a hard-line stance stick is difficult.

Clerics of 3 Faiths Protest Gay Festival
Planned for Jerusalem

Clerics of 3 Faiths Protest Gay Festival
Planned for Jerusalem 03/30/2005 11:31 PM
Leaders of three faiths are making a rare show of unity to try to stop a WorldPride festival and parade in Jerusalem.

Islamic, Jewish, and Christian clerics
meet together in Jerusalem!

Islamic, Jewish, and Christian clerics
meet together in Jerusalem! 04/04/2005 04:23 AM
Clerics Fighting a Gay Festival for Jerusalem .. Here's the NYTimes story .. reports .. not

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Clerics Urge Iraqis to Join Security
Force (AP)

Clerics Urge Iraqis to Join Security
Force (AP) 04/01/2005 08:17 PM
AP - Influential Sunni Muslim clerics who once condemned Iraqi security force members as traitors made a surprise turnaround Friday and encouraged citizens to join the nascent police and army.

Leading Muslim Clerics in Iraq Condemn
Church Bombings

Leading Muslim Clerics in Iraq Condemn
Church Bombings 08/02/2004 10:23 PM
Still, some Christians said they feared that the attacks were a frightening signal of a rise of fundamentalist Islam.

Leading Muslim Clerics in Iraq Condemn
Bombing of Churches

Leading Muslim Clerics in Iraq Condemn
Bombing of Churches 08/03/2004 12:37 AM
Still, some Christians said they feared that the attacks were a frightening signal of a rise of fundamentalist Islam.

2 Senior Clerics Are Killed in Iraq;
Hostage Deadline Passes

2 Senior Clerics Are Killed in Iraq;
Hostage Deadline Passes 09/20/2004 03:03 PM
The killings came one day after a militant group posted a grisly video showing the beheadings of three Kurdish truck drivers.

Leading Shiite Clerics Pushing Islamic
Constitution in Iraq

Leading Shiite Clerics Pushing Islamic
Constitution in Iraq 02/05/2005 09:20 PM
The leaders want their faith to be enshrined as the national religion, governing marriage, divorce and family inheritance.

William Gibson

William Gibson 12/26/2004 06:48 PM
William Gibson Cyber Claus

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And now, a word from Mel Gibson

And now, a word from Mel Gibson 03/31/2005 07:23 PM
Fox News digs deep for expert commentary on the Schiavo case

Sunni Clerics Urge Followers to Join
Iraq Army and Police

Sunni Clerics Urge Followers to Join
Iraq Army and Police 04/01/2005 10:32 PM
The edict was a striking turnaround for the clerics, who have often lashed out at the fledgling army and police force.

Gibson: Cyber-Claus

Gibson: Cyber-Claus 12/26/2004 04:44 PM
Xeni Jardin: On William Gibson's blog, a holiday-themed short which was originally published as "Cyber-Claus", in The Washington Post Book World in 1991. Snip:

In the night of 12/24/07, though sensors woven through the very fabric of the house had thus far registered a complete absence of sentient bio-activity, I found myself abruptly summoned from a rare, genuine and expensively induced examples of that most priceless of states, sleep.

Even as I hurriedly dressed, I knew that dozens of telepresent armed-response drones would already be sweeping in from the District, skimming mere inches above the chill surface of the Potomac. Vicious tri-lobed aeroforms that they were, they resembled nothing more than the Martian war machines of George Pal’s 1953 epic, “The War of the Worlds”.

And while, from somewhere far above, now, came that sound, that persistent clatter, as though gunships disgorged whole platoons of iron-shod mercenaries, I could only wonder: who? Was it my estranged wife, Lady Betty-Jayne Motel-6 Hyatt, Chief Eco-Trustee of the Free Duchy of Wyoming? Or was it Cleatus “Mainframe” Sinyard himself, President of the United States and Perpetual Chairman of the Concerned Smart People’s Northern Hemisphere CoProsperity Sphere?

Link

Mel Gibson and the Passion movie
again...

Mel Gibson and the Passion movie
again... 03/08/2004 11:03 PM

A man goes to see Mel Gibson's new movie, The Passion, and is inspired to take his family to Israel to see the places where Jesus lived and died.  While on vacation his mother-in-law dies.

An undertaker in Tel Aviv explains that they can ship the body home to Wisconsin at a cost of $10,000 or the mother-in-law could be buried in Israel for US$500.

The man says, "We'll ship her home."

The undertaker asks, "Are you sure? That's an awfully big expense and we can do a very nice burial here."

The man says, "Look, 2000 years ago they buried a guy here and three days later he rose from the dead. I just can't take that chance."

William Gibson interview

William Gibson interview 02/18/2004 10:53 AM
Here's a great interview with William Gibson, who is on the road promoting the paperback of his brilliant novel of apophenia run wild, Pattern Recognition (see my review, too).

"When you write a science-fiction novel set in some sort of recognizable future, as soon as you finish it you have the dubious pleasure of watching it acquire a patina of quaint technological obsolescence. For instance, there are no cell phones in Neuromancer. I couldn't have foreseen them. It would have seemed corny, like Dick Tracy wrist radios."

And he never set out to predict how we might be living a few decades hence. "I always assumed that social-science fiction - anything set on Earth in a not-too-distant future - is just a mutant version of the present. But the easiest hook to hang on me was that I was a futurist. I had always maintained that I was squinting at the present in a certain way."

Link (via Futurismic)

William Gibson on John Shirley

William Gibson on John Shirley 03/20/2003 06:37 PM
Here's William Gibson's introduction to John Shirley's proto-cyberpunk novel, City Come a Walkin'.

Shirley made the plastic-covered Sears sofa that was the main body of seventies sf recede wonderfully. Discovering his fiction was like hearing Patti Smith's Horses for the first time: the archetypal form passionately re-inhabited by a debauched yet strangely virginal practitioner, one whose very ability to do this at all was constantly thrown into question by the demands of what was in effect a shamanistic act. There is a similar ragged-ass derring-do, the sense of the artist burning to speak in tongues. They invoke their particular (and often overlapping, and indeed she was one of his) gods and plunge out of downscale teenage bedrooms, brandishing shards of imagery as peculiarly-shaped as prison shivs.

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MSNBC - Mel Gibson says his wife could
be going to hell

MSNBC - Mel Gibson says his wife could
be going to hell 02/12/2004 06:26 AM
MSNBC - Mel Gibson says his wife could be going to hell .. Read article .. Hell

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'Violent' review for Gibson film

'Violent' review for Gibson film 02/11/2004 01:43 PM
A film critic calls Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ "brutal", saying it dwells almost entirely on pain.

comments on the Mel Gibson/Haiti posting

comments on the Mel Gibson/Haiti posting 03/08/2004 11:03 PM

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From Zoran Lazarevic:

Two hundred years in a history of a nation is a short time to change human behavior without force. For one example, think that slavery was abolished in the U.S. in 1865, but the first black generation that grew in freedom and equality was born in 1970s.

Compare today Serbs living a couple of miles away: across the river Danube which marked the border between the Austro-Hungarian empire (north) and the Ottoman empire (south). In the north, they live in neatly painted houses lined along geometrically straight roads, behind tall walls keeping the privacy of their property. Villages just south of Danube are hectically built around worn-out curvy roads, having short transparent fences displaying property in slight disarray. The north prides itself with culinary craft and the taste for fine arts from Austria and Hungary. The south takes pride in warriorship and macho attitude, and jokes about its own widespread bribery.

Serbia proper was liberated from the (Turkish) Ottoman Empire in the early 1800s, and united with the north in 1918.  There is absolutely no question, that if separated, the two regions would have very different economies. Just like there are vast differences between other ex-Yugoslavia states. And that is all after a century of common life, mostly under communism which tried to kill out (pun intended) all differences in religion and nationality.

From Fazal Majid:

You could blame Lazare Carnot (d. 1823) for fathering Sadi Carnot (d. 1832), the inventor of thermodynamics, and thus leading to global warming...

William Gibson interviewed by Moira Gunn

William Gibson interviewed by Moira Gunn 12/31/2004 12:49 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: IT Conversations has an 18 minute audio interview with William Gibson, from Moira Gunn's Tech Nation program. Link

William Gibson short: Cyber-Claus

William Gibson short: Cyber-Claus 12/26/2004 11:21 PM
Xeni Jardin: On William Gibson's blog, a holiday-themed short which was originally published as "Cyber-Claus", in The Washington Post Book World in 1991. Snip:

In the night of 12/24/07, though sensors woven through the very fabric of the house had thus far registered a complete absence of sentient bio-activity, I found myself abruptly summoned from a rare, genuine and expensively induced examples of that most priceless of states, sleep.

Even as I hurriedly dressed, I knew that dozens of telepresent armed-response drones would already be sweeping in from the District, skimming mere inches above the chill surface of the Potomac. Vicious tri-lobed aeroforms that they were, they resembled nothing more than the Martian war machines of George Pal’s 1953 epic, “The War of the Worlds”.

And while, from somewhere far above, now, came that sound, that persistent clatter, as though gunships disgorged whole platoons of iron-shod mercenaries, I could only wonder: who? Was it my estranged wife, Lady Betty-Jayne Motel-6 Hyatt, Chief Eco-Trustee of the Free Duchy of Wyoming? Or was it Cleatus “Mainframe” Sinyard himself, President of the United States and Perpetual Chairman of the Concerned Smart People’s Northern Hemisphere CoProsperity Sphere?

Link

Gibson Defends 'The Passion of the
Chris' (AP)

Gibson Defends 'The Passion of the
Chris' (AP) 02/14/2004 07:52 PM
AP - Mel Gibson said the graphic depiction of Christ's crucifixion in his upcoming film "The Passion of the Christ" was meant to make viewers realize the extent of Christ's sacrifice.

Gibson Defends 'The Passion of the
Christ' (AP)

Gibson Defends 'The Passion of the
Christ' (AP) 02/14/2004 09:09 PM
AP - Mel Gibson said the graphic depiction of Christ's crucifixion in his upcoming film "The Passion of the Christ" was meant to make viewers realize the extent of Christ's sacrifice.

Gibson tops celebrity power list

Gibson tops celebrity power list 06/18/2004 04:52 AM
Actor and director Mel Gibson is named the most powerful celebrity in the world by US business magazine Forbes.

Report: Gibson Expands 'Passion' Screens
(AP)

Report: Gibson Expands 'Passion' Screens
(AP) 02/19/2004 07:39 PM
AP - Mel Gibson is adding 800 theaters to the debut of his controversial Crucifixion drama, "The Passion of the Christ," next Wednesday.

William Gibson on his Tech Life and
Latest Novel

William Gibson on his Tech Life and
Latest Novel 02/19/2004 07:40 PM

ABCNEWS.com : Gibson: 'Passion' About
'Faith, Hope, Love'

ABCNEWS.com : Gibson: 'Passion' About
'Faith, Hope, Love' 02/16/2004 11:54 PM
ABCNEWS.com : How Despairing Gibson Found 'The Passion' .. preview of Mel Gibson's interview .. in this article

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Net Pirates Show Passion for Mel Gibson
Film (Reuters)

Net Pirates Show Passion for Mel Gibson
Film (Reuters) 05/12/2004 12:45 PM
Reuters - Mel Gibson's box office smash "The Passion of the Christ" broke the ignominious record as the most-pirated movie on Internet file-sharing networks in April, an online piracy tracking firm said Wednesday.

Gibson Guitars Prepares Digital Network
Platform

Gibson Guitars Prepares Digital Network
Platform 01/08/2004 07:20 PM

Shifting Gears: Gibson to Head Tech, Ops
at NYLIM

Shifting Gears: Gibson to Head Tech, Ops
at NYLIM 04/03/2005 01:12 AM
Wall Street and Technology Apr 3 2005 4:51AM GMT
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