In Aristide's Wake, a Land Long Divided by Class, Color Explodes (Los Angeles Times)
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Russian Standoff Explodes (Los Angeles
Times)
Russian Standoff Explodes (Los Angeles
Times)
09/04/2004 05:00 AMLos Angeles Times - BESLAN, Russia — A three-day school hostage
ordeal ended in bloodshed and pandemonium Friday when explosions tore
apart the gym where more than 1,000 captives were being held, touching
off an assault by Russian commandos and fierce gun battles in
surrounding streets.
Divided France Unites Over Hostages (Los
Angeles Times)
Divided France Unites Over Hostages (Los
Angeles Times)
08/31/2004 04:44 AMLos Angeles Times - PARIS — Muslim women in head scarves,
journalists in jeans and senators draped in tricolored sashes rallied
here Monday in support of two French hostages held in Iraq by
kidnappers demanding that France repeal a new ban on the Islamic head
scarf in public schools.
A Long Look at Response to Brief (Los
Angeles Times)
A Long Look at Response to Brief (Los
Angeles Times)
04/12/2004 04:53 AMLos Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — One day after the release of a
top-secret report delivered to President Bush only five weeks before
the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the spotlight shifted to a pair of new
questions: How did the president respond? And what did the FBI do?
New $50 Bill Will Fight
Counterfeiters in Color (Los Angeles
Times)
New $50 Bill Will Fight
Counterfeiters in Color (Los Angeles
Times)
04/27/2004 04:37 AMLos Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — President Ulysses S. Grant is
still on the front, the U.S. Capitol is still on the back, and the ink
is still black and green. But those are about the only similarities
between the $50 bill currently in circulation and the redesigned
currency introduced Monday by the Treasury Department.
"Dazzling, full-color shots of people
long since dead, landscapes long since
paved, and an empire long since
overthrown."
"Dazzling, full-color shots of people
long since dead, landscapes long since
paved, and an empire long since
overthrown."
01/17/2004 11:07 PMSchwarzenegger Has Long To-Do List to
Boost Business (Los Angeles Times)
Schwarzenegger Has Long To-Do List to
Boost Business (Los Angeles Times)
04/20/2004 04:43 AMLos Angeles Times - After signing a massive workers' compensation
insurance overhaul bill Monday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger now is
turning his persuasive powers to the next steps he deems necessary to
bring clear skies to California's business climate.
Tough New Smog Rules Get Long Deadlines
(Los Angeles Times)
Tough New Smog Rules Get Long Deadlines
(Los Angeles Times)
04/16/2004 05:04 AMLos Angeles Times - The Bush administration's new air quality standard
will impose tougher requirements on the nation's smoggiest regions
— Southern and Central California — but postpone the
compliance deadline for so many years that local air officials worry
that the regulations could be rendered ineffective.
Porn Actors' Struggles Began Long Before
HIV (Los Angeles Times)
Porn Actors' Struggles Began Long Before
HIV (Los Angeles Times)
05/05/2004 05:25 AMLos Angeles Times - MONTREAL — He's a middle-aged black porn
actor who had wanted to be a policeman. Known for his
conscientiousness, he'd ask costars to refrain from smoking even as
they were having unprotected group sex.
Firms Have a Long List of California
Turnoffs (Los Angeles Times)
Firms Have a Long List of California
Turnoffs (Los Angeles Times)
04/12/2004 07:28 AMLos Angeles Times - Victor Monia is pleased that Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger is wrapping his arms around the California workers'
compensation problem. That doesn't mean the president of Visa
Technologies, an electronics manufacturer in San Jose, is canceling
his plans to move the 23-year-old business to Reno.
Long a Republican Bulwark, a Growing
Arizona Is in Play (Los Angeles Times)
Long a Republican Bulwark, a Growing
Arizona Is in Play (Los Angeles Times)
09/16/2004 05:13 AMLos Angeles Times - PHOENIX — Louie Gomez lives in the new
Arizona — the nation's second-fastest-growing state, where
transplants from other regions are altering an entrenched conservative
political culture.
A Class Struggle on Venice Boardwalk
(Los Angeles Times)
A Class Struggle on Venice Boardwalk
(Los Angeles Times)
07/12/2004 05:27 AMLos Angeles Times - It started about the time a dog named Raku voted
in Venice's neighborhood council election.
On Ellis Island, an Effort to Bring Its
Long-Hidden Side Into Public Light (Los
Angeles Times)
On Ellis Island, an Effort to Bring Its
Long-Hidden Side Into Public Light (Los
Angeles Times)
01/03/2005 06:23 AMLos Angeles Times - ELLIS ISLAND, N.J. — On a chilly afternoon,
wind and rain whip through the broken windows of a small, dark room
where people with tuberculosis once stared out at the Statue of
Liberty and wondered if they would ever begin a new life in America.
Class-Action Lawsuits for Overtime Pay
Allowed (Los Angeles Times)
Class-Action Lawsuits for Overtime Pay
Allowed (Los Angeles Times)
08/27/2004 01:23 PMLos Angeles Times - SAN FRANCISCO — In a closely watched labor
law case, the California Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for a
class-action lawsuit brought by Sav-on Drug Stores workers who say
they were misclassified as managers and improperly denied overtime.
The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed
Columnist: A House Divided, and Strong
The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed
Columnist: A House Divided, and Strong
04/08/2005 05:05 AMdestroy any and all legitimacy public intellectualism once had .. the
recent electoral success of conservatives .. because we can't stand
each other .. brilliant column .. David
Brooks
nytimes.com/2005/04/05/opinion/05brooks.html?hp
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The Seattle Times: Local News:
Underdogs' spacecraft explodes on 1st
launch
The Seattle Times: Local News:
Underdogs' spacecraft explodes on 1st
launch
08/10/2004 06:52 AMRocket explodes, kills dummy .. The spectacular
mishap
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002000209_rocket09m
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You Can Choose Any Color You Want, as
Long as It’s Black
You Can Choose Any Color You Want, as
Long as It’s Black
09/03/2004 04:24 PMMicrosoft strongly supports consumer choice, with a few small
exceptions for things like, you know, operating systems, web browsers,
and file formats.
[5pm ET: Updated with a look at yesterday’s version of the
iPod help page for MSN Music users, which was in fact actually
helpful.]
Quick Color Class
Quick Color Class
12/02/2002 02:07 AMBecause it is often necessary to reproduce the colors in identity
materials when building a web page, it helps to know what to expect
from the displays that will actually see the page you create as well
as account for those users who may not perceive color in the same way.
WE SHARE
THIS LAND
WE SHARE
THIS LAND
04/15/2004 02:26 PM
Nothing cuts through to the
core
of the debate between those that believe all property should be
private
(notably the current US Presnit) and those that believe some, or even
most, property should be held in common, as public property available
for the enjoyment of all, than the issue of lakefront and riverfront
('riparian') access rights. Googling the topic brings up a horde of
lawsuits, neighbour vs. neighbour fights, and political grandstanding.
What is amazing is that, at least in North America, there appears to
be
no overarching principle, no constitutional right either to access of
recreational and wilderness land (notably beach and waterfront), or
alternatively to restrict access to such land as part of basic
property
'rights'. So these disputes are decided in the trenches -- in
municipal
courtrooms, based most often on the wording of ancient deeds and
easements than on principled grounds.
Yule Heibel has a delightful post this
week
that got me thinking about this again. She lives in Victoria BC, where
my wife and I lived for five years, and where public rights of access
to much (all?) waterfront areas are sacrosanct, under municipal law,
except for rare 'grandfathered' cases. She exults in the freedom and
the sense of community that such laws engender, and contrasts this
with
the situation in Massachusetts, where almost all waterfront areas are
restricted to individual owners and "residents". She says she learned
how to covet from her years there. My reaction would be anger, not
covetousness, and, like Yule, I might be tempted to chalk the
difference up to Canadian vs. US culture. In my community, we only put
up a fence if it is needed to keep pets in, and only then with
permission of the neighbours and an open invitation to use the gates
to
pass through. The Toronto waterfront is almost entirely public access,
with parks and walking trails running the entire breadth of the
city.
But I would be wrong to chalk this up to Canada-US cultural
differences. There are areas in the US where public beach and lake
access are enshrined in at least municipal law. And there are areas in
Canada where they are not. I remember going for a drive up to Lake
Simcoe, about an hour North of Toronto, and being astonished at the
signs wherever there was a lake view saying "No parking any time
without resident sticker -- strictly enforced". Visitors could drive
by, but not stop, not touch, this 'private' lake. And right in my own
municipality there is a small park with soccer fields, apparently
donated by a private citizen, with a municipal sign saying "Park use
by
permit only -- no dogs allowed".
As much as I am offended by these restrictions, no matter where they
may be (I was equally astounded to find many beaches in the Caribbean
off-limits to citizens, fenced and guarded to allow only foreign,
paying guests in), I am perhaps even more amazed that, in the absence
of any constitutional principle, the situation is not much worse. It
says a great deal for the people of those communities that do
protect the rights of citizens to the enjoyment of the 'best' land --
waterfront, recreational, parkland and wilderness -- that they do so
in
the face of those with money and power who would secrete these special
lands for the exclusive use of the privileged. I don't know how it
might be worded, but I believe it is time we enshrined the right of
all
citizens to access and enjoyment of all such land without
discrimination, before the forces of privatization take away what is
left, before the final act in the Tragedy of
the Commons is writ.
What is the law where you live? Is it as patchwork and arbitrary as it
is here? Or are you able to say, as Yule does,
This is mine, it's all mine, it all belongs to me, and it
belongs to
you, and to you, and to you, too! It's ours, ours, ours! How do you do?, lovely to see you, I hope
you,
too, are enjoying our beautiful land! This meadow?, this mountain?,
this ocean?, this view? Yes,
it's mine, and it's magnificent, isn't it? And I know you must believe
this, because of course it's yours, too! We share this!
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12/02/2002 01:17 PMFinally .. after long long long time ..
Sonique 2 beta released
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Sonique 2 beta released
12/21/2003 03:42 PMLos Angeles Times
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12/30/2003 02:57 PMjob creation .. reports .. my
life
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They're Off! (To the Gym) (Los Angeles
Times)
They're Off! (To the Gym) (Los Angeles
Times)
05/25/2004 05:16 AMLos Angeles Times - VERSAILLES, Ky. — Just days after
arthroscopic surgery to remove bone chips from an inflamed ankle, the
athlete was back in training, huffing hard as he jogged on an
underwater treadmill.
We Eat; Therefore, They Are (Los Angeles
Times)
We Eat; Therefore, They Are (Los Angeles
Times)
08/10/2004 05:24 AMLos Angeles Times - BETHESDA, Md. — Inside a packed ballroom at
the local Holiday Inn, 13 government-appointed scientists sat regally
around a table, debating servings of fish.
EFF suing on JibJab's behalf for "This
Land is Your Land" parody
EFF suing on JibJab's behalf for "This
Land is Your Land" parody
08/02/2004 03:02 AMEFF has taken things one step further with JibJab and their endangered
political parody of This Land is Your Land (Woody Guthrie's copyright
holder has threatened to sue them for their work).
We're bringing the fight to Guthrie's rightsholders, and suing on
JibJab's behalf, "to defend JibJab's fair use and free speech rights."
Check out Donna's excellent and heavily linked post for more.
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They May Protest Too Much (Los Angeles
Times)
They May Protest Too Much (Los Angeles
Times)
05/24/2004 07:52 AMLos Angeles Times - MEXICO CITY — Shakespeare warned about the
ides of March, and T.S. Eliot dubbed April the cruelest month. But
they never lived in Mexico City, where May delivers a special kind of
misery.
Los Angeles Times - Registration
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12/02/2003 12:28 AMMore Than One Can Conceive (Los Angeles
Times)
More Than One Can Conceive (Los Angeles
Times)
12/30/2004 06:51 AMLos Angeles Times - CLEVELAND — The elephant dung was no trouble
at all. When the circus came to town, Percy Skuy simply showed up with
a bucket and politely asked the keeper if he could collect a few
droppings.
Age Before Duty (Los Angeles Times)
Age Before Duty (Los Angeles Times)
06/08/2004 06:12 AMLos Angeles Times - SACRAMENTO — This is the age of
revolving-door democracy in California. It's the era of term limits
and recalls and contempt for the Legislature, a time when an erstwhile
action movie star can run the nation's largest state government and a
freshman lawmaker can rule the Assembly.
Cranking It Up (Los Angeles Times)
Cranking It Up (Los Angeles Times)
05/31/2004 05:38 AMLos Angeles Times - On a Sunday they'd hoped not to work, the Lakers
reported to their El Segundo practice facility and faced more of a
Western Conference finals they'd hoped not to prolong.
Olé? No Way, Say Chinese (Los
Angeles Times)
Olé? No Way, Say Chinese (Los
Angeles Times)
05/11/2004 05:02 AMLos Angeles Times - BEIJING — "Foreign Bulls Head for the Middle
Kingdom."
Fat, and Happy About It (Los Angeles
Times)
Fat, and Happy About It (Los Angeles
Times)
02/19/2004 06:41 AMLos Angeles Times - The newspaper ad inviting fat people to learn
about El Camino Hospital's new weight-loss surgery program held out
the opportunity to be not just a thinner person, but a better one.
Bluesman's Son Gets His Due (Los Angeles
Times)
Bluesman's Son Gets His Due (Los Angeles
Times)
06/02/2004 05:30 AMLos Angeles Times - CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Miss. — Inside the pink
brick estate he built with a blues fortune, 72-year-old Claud Johnson
cannot shake the habits he formed when he was a poor man.
The Los Angeles Times goes multimedia
The Los Angeles Times goes multimedia
03/21/2003 12:14 AM The Los Angeles Times goes
multimedia. For the past few weeks, the LA Times has begun a
significant push into offering video, audio, and interactive Flash on
their website. One of the most interesting aspects is that the paper
has moved one step beyond simply replaying AP Television clips as many
sites have done; the LA Times writers are stand before the cameras and
microphones themselves and report stories in a stuttering,
non-hairsprayed, introverted demeanor that I find very refreshing,
though so far I have gleaned very little additional information from
it. When does (or can) this mode of journalism on the web rise above
gimmickry or 'just because we can' and add value to a written article?
Can video/tv news rise above mere spectacle?
Going Away for the Gold (Los Angeles
Times)
Going Away for the Gold (Los Angeles
Times)
08/11/2004 04:42 AMLos Angeles Times - It is a quintessential Olympic moment, hundreds of
athletes marching into the stadium, drenching the field in the banners
and colors of their nations. But when the 2004 Summer Games in Athens
begin with this traditional opening ceremony, take a closer look.
Far From Ready for More War (Los Angeles
Times)
Far From Ready for More War (Los Angeles
Times)
05/15/2004 05:51 AMLos Angeles Times - FT. CAMPBELL, Ky. — From their first days as
"Screaming Eagles," the 18,000 soldiers of the Army's 101st Airborne
Division are taught to be ready for anything. As the force's proud
creed goes: "First in, last out."
An Icon, and Then He's Gone (Los Angeles
Times)
An Icon, and Then He's Gone (Los Angeles
Times)
06/04/2004 05:47 AMLos Angeles Times - BEIJING — For many foreigners, he is
Tiananmen Square's most recognizable figure, outshining even Chairman
Mao Tse-tung — whose body still lies in state at a far end of
the vast public space.
Here, It's Ladies' Day Every Day (Los
Angeles Times)
Here, It's Ladies' Day Every Day (Los
Angeles Times)
06/12/2004 04:43 AMLos Angeles Times - RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — There is no heavenly
sentry outside the Ladies' Kingdom, only a listless pair of khaki-clad
policemen ready to run off any errant men. The women make their way
past the gatekeepers, disappear behind frosted glass and step into a
shopping center all their own.
It Seems Everybody Has an Opinion About
Her (Los Angeles Times)
It Seems Everybody Has an Opinion About
Her (Los Angeles Times)
08/01/2004 05:16 AMLos Angeles Times - BOSTON — Teresa Heinz Kerry is a political
wife unlike any this country has seen. But can she affect an election?
Some think it's possible.
Down to Their Blast Strike (Los Angeles
Times)
Down to Their Blast Strike (Los Angeles
Times)
09/20/2004 04:50 AMLos Angeles Times - DENVER — A defining moment can occur in any
game for a team in a tense playoff race.
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