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 Marie's Cohocton Hotel, western NY, 1991. More pitchas:
mephitic \muh-FIT-ik\, adjective:1. Offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odors. 2. Poisonous; noxious. [T]he mephitic stench from the bilge became overpowering. --Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 Over everything presides "a sort of mephitic fog," a pervasive sulfuric stink. --Dale Peck, "Way Outback," New York Times, March 22, 1998 ... unpoisoned by the mephitic vapours which poisoned the atmosphere of his police-office. --Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Mephitic is the adjective form of mephitis, "a foul-smelling or noxious exhalation from the earth; a stench from any source," from the Latin. from www.dictionary.com
View down a stairwell and other new (or new here) pics:
Current DVD: Bicentennial Man. I just wouldn't believe all the negative reviews this movie got. My mistake. This sucks hugely!
Current read: Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh. Much better than Bicentennial Man, but it's slow going translating the dialect.
Biked to work today. Winter's over.
Israeli soldiers "relieving" themselves at Arafat's compound. I'm dubious. I detect no characteristic spots, stains or streams. .
Three Segways sold in Amazon auction for more than $100,000 each. [Estimated price per gig: millions!]
Not long ago light was slowed considerably. Now light has been brought to a dead standstill and then released.
Shark 0, Homecoming King 1…or maybe Shark 0.25, Homecoming King 0.85 would be more accurate. Hoku Aki, luau dancer and homecoming king at Kauai High School, rips out a shark's eyeball to defend himself, losing only his left foot in the process. Beaches on the south shore of Kauai closed, including Poipu.
valetudinarian \val-uh-too-din-AIR-ee-un; -tyoo-\, noun: A weak or sickly person, especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health.adjective: Of or relating to or characteristic of a person who is a valetudinarian; sickly; weak; infirm. [H]e is the querulous bedridden valetudinarian complaining of his asthma or his hay fever, remarking with characteristic hyperbole that "every speck of dust suffocates me." --Oliver Conant, review of Marcel Proust, Selected Letters: Volume Two, 1904-1909, edited by Philip Kolb, translated by Terrence Kilmartin, New York Times, December 17, 1989 She affected to be spunky about her ailments and afflictions, but she was in fact an utterly self-centered valetudinarian. --Louis Auchincloss My feeble health and valetudinarian stomach. --Coleridge Valetudinarian derives from Latin valetudinarius, "sickly; an invalid," from valetudo, meaning "state of health," "good health," or "ill health," from valere, "to be strong or well." from www.dictionary.com
Tonight went to the 2nd organizing meeting for the Outrider's Boston-Provincetown ride. Looked at 4 lovely suggested t-shirt designs. Discussed where porta-potties would go this year. Tossed around ideas for the new website at the new domain (www.outriders.org I think). And gossiped viciously about anyone who was absent…except Stu.Just found this picture of me and Geoff up on the old Outrider's site: 
Osama's blog
The Fine Art of Being Come Out To: A Straight Person's Guide to Gay Etiquette "the world's first ever, comprehensive, all-inclusive, guaranteed ticket out of the morass of confusion, embarrassment and general lameness in which your less fortunate heterosexual friends will doubtless remain mired." (Very good stuff).
Kirk and Picard portrayed on a Liberian dollar coin. Really!
New iMacs selling at a rate of 5000 per week.
Louis G. Partridge
Starbucks
This should appeal to geeks and cat lovers. Possibly others as well.
Wet Pussy (sorry!)
Very cheap webhosting.
Rand Holmes, hippie doper cartoonist, died March 15. A sample of his work can be seen here.
Revolutiionary Cuba has solved the problems of computer viruses, Microsoft domination, spam and children viewing porn on the internet. (Interesting factoid in that article is that internet accounts cost $260 per month in Cuba! That's classlessness for you.)
Register yourself and other freedom-loving (but Constitutionally-ignorant) American patriots here. Before you get TOO excited, read the URL carefully.
Photo of a couple of buddies in NYC in the late 1980s. Also added these other pictures today:
New pic of the 48 star flag on Beacon Hill.
How did a libertarian get into Slate? Well. You take 'em where you can find 'em.
In the rest of the computer world vaporware is created by a simple and easy press release, or maybe even a press conference. Not at Apple! They haul boxes to Tokyo and rent heavy curtains and then, apparently, somebody from Apple invites the reporter from Wired to come up to his/her hotel room for a bit of blow. News ensues.
OTOH, Apple is going to get Bluetooth. To clarify a bit about what I wrote yesterday about the price of MP3 devices per gigabyte. Usually I do clarifications like this by private e-mail, but even as I wrote that yesterday I was asking myself "Self, will they understand that price per gig is not the only issue?" And I answered "Sure, Self, because you threw in that line about the iPod's superb engineering and its possible value to the user."
No, price per gig is certainly not the only issue, just as miles per gallon is not the only issue when buying a car, but it counts quite a bit. Some of those wacky little doofus cars probably get great mileage, but what good is that if you are crushed between two SUVs? The Archos has the lowest price per gig, but I also remember reading a review somewhere sometime that suggested its ability to handle shocks was not good. What I like are things that are made good enough, that are reliable enough, and that are reasonably priced. Compare a $150 room at Holiday Inn with a $500 room at the Four Seasons (do they actually come that cheap?). Four Seasons room better. No doubt. But would I get $350 worth of additional pleasure from it? Probably not. In fact I'd probably be irritated by the nagging feeling that some of what I was paying for was nothing but vaporous image, which does not bring me pleasure. Now, I had never even noticed that the old iPod had only 5 Gb. I hadn't researched it too hard, and in the advertising material they prominently said it could store XXX tunes, a real nonsense measurement (that others use too, not just Apple). It's worse than that old classic of explaining disk space to the uninformed in terms of "document pages." I've always thought those measurements should have an asterisk leading to a disclaimer saying something like "Equivalent to 3 million pages of text, unless you are going to use Microsoft Word, in which case you'll be lucky to get to the second paragraph." …but I'm sure I'm going off on a tangent…
Anyway, like I said, I didn't know it was only 5 Gb until I saw that they had come out with a 10 Gb model, and so now they were going to talk objective measurements and that means you can do some price per gig calculations, which is going to allow you to separate out the engineering quality from the issue of mere size. Of course only the iPod has Firewire, which is much faster than USB. That might be worth it for some people who have got to move real fast. If you're one of those guys who likes to take your iPod into the retail store to steal software from the display machines, then you sure don't want to be hanging around waiting for USB. (BTW, Bluetooth will certainly enhance the ability to do invisible shoplifting, eh?) Do I need such speed? Hardly. Let me tell you that I still spend energy and time doing sneaker-net with a Zip drive connected to my parallel port! You Apple users could not even conceive how slow that is, but it's good enough for me because it's reliable and cheap. Some people really, really need the latest BMW with leather and all the extras. Some people get such pleasure from excellent engineering, it's worth it to give up 15 Gb to get it (the 20 Gb Rio is the same price as the 5 Gb iPod). Not me. Lots of times when this midwestern, lower middle-class slob is faced with the possible purchase of the very latest and best technology, the rule I resort to is "WWAED?" What Would Auntie Em Do? Evan Izer (gay New Haven Apple manboy) says good things about his iPod in his March 22 entry and how it taught him that Walter Carlos became Wendy Carlos.
The bright and helpful employees of Wal-Mart welcome you!
Spotted this little scene on Tremont Street today. Where's Malcolm McDowell when you really need him?"Jesus is with you always." But of course. Did you know that meant even when you play the French horn?! Over the years I have heard nothing but good things about Iceland, despite its climate and isolation. Someday (I have thought) I must visit. And now I think I have a really good reason to do so: the Icelandic Phallological Museum, where they display the penises of Icelandic mammals. They are still waiting for a willing Icelandic man to die so they can display his prized object.
 Whale Penis
Besides the spring-y picture to the right, I've also added this photo of the memorial in Lexington Green (332 Kb) and this one of a Beacon Hill alley.
Justin Winokur gets horse testicles. No, really. Horse testicles. In a mason jar. Pictures, too.
Cleaning off the old magazine shelf: in the March 1998 issue of Windows Magazine…
A 360° panorama of Boston Common from near Beacon and Park Street. 768 Kb.
America West Express has the very highest of customer satisfaction standards:
"We're very satisfied that this passenger was alive when he boarded our aircraft," Patty Nowack, spokeswoman for the Phoenix-based America West Express, said Sunday. "We never would have allowed a passenger who had passed away to board an aircraft."Carol Fleagle, executive director of the Iowa Funeral Directors Association, sniffed: Though Arizona laws may differ, Iowa law states it is illegal for anyone except a funeral director to transport a body that isn't embalmed.No telling about those damn heathen Arizonans! Meaning of "Sni-a-bar" (I used to wonder about this when I lived in Kansas City, only now has it occurred to me I could use the internet to find the answer) according to Arthur Paul Moser:
Just below the town of Wellington in Lafayette County [Missouri], is Wolf's Island, which is made by an arm of the river circling and through the bottom on the south side of the river. This arm is called in the neighborhood the "Slough", but it has none of the characteristics of a slough. It is thirty or forty yards wide and the water flows through it from one end to the other swift and deep. This is the "Sni", so named by the French voyageurs in their early explorations of the river. There is another one in Illinois in the Mississippi bottom opposite Hannibal, Missouri, about thirty miles long, and it is known by no other name than the "Sni". The upper end of the "Sni" in question is peculiarly situated so as to catch the drift wood. In earlier times during the spring freshets great quantities of drift wood were brought down the Missouri River and thrown into the "Sni", effectually stopping all egress or ingress to or from it by water. I have seen piles of logs therein hundreds of yards long and twenty feet high, making an effectual bar to all navigation. This bar remained the year around, and so the voyageurs found it and named it the "Barred Sni", or "Sni-a-bar". Into this "Sni" two creeks empty, one much larger than the other. These are called Big Sni-a-bar Creek and Little Sni-a-bar Creek. Big Sni-a-bar Creek has its source in the southwest corner of Lafayette and the southeast corner of Jackson Counties. The adjoining townships in these counties have both been named Sni-a-bar Township for the stream which heads therein.I'm dubious about this explanation. I'm not able to find any other use of this word "sni." Here's a little more believable sounding explanation: It looks like a possible Native American word but it is a corruption of "Chenal Ebert" [Herbert's Channel], or "Schuyté Eber" [Herbert's Cut], both named after a trader or hunter who took a wrong turn into a bay instead of going straight up the Missouri River. It went through many languages and corruptions including German and French before the final name stuck. That's what the 1881 history says. Young's History, on the other hand, contends that "a-bar" comes from the fact that a Frenchman named A. Barrie was camping at the mouth of the Big Sniabar when Lewis and Clark came through. It further contends that "Sny" came from the French language and that it means "slough," given for the fact that the tributary was backed up and muddy. The editor of that book conflictingly states that the" a-bar" part comes from the fact that the Sni was "barred" by driftwood. Today there is the Sniabar Creek, the Little Sniabar Creek and Sniabar Township. 1941 map showing Sniabar farm near Grain Valley in Sniabar township. Here's that PC Magazine review of the Minolta Dimage X.
Cory: Sazerac in Boston. Where?
You can tell when spring comes to Boston - it starts to snow.
The April 9 issue of PC Magazine has me worried. Michael Miller, Editor-In-Chief, who usually has his head pretty far up his ass, has very nice things to say about the Minolta Dimage X. There's also a nice short review in "First Looks," but neither of these articles are on the web yet as I write this.
The Mini Cooper to be (re-)introduced to the US soon. Base price $16,000 something. The Tango alternative looks very dangerous. Somebody in Florida has second thoughts and "ATHEIST" stays.
Fascinating (or disgusting) report on a visit to a Thai enema resort. TMI?
For that Yahoo searcher who didn't find the information he wanted here: I will be trying to get the Las Vegas porn schedule updated real soon now! Keep watching.
Arrived yesterday, and here compared to your standard diskette. The Minolta Dimage X. Now, I gotta go out and get some pictures. (Little technical review with nice pictures here.) Click for full size Took the Air Glide out to Lexington today and used the Dimage X to create this pano of the Minuteman Statue there.
Spotted this today on the AIDS/Lifecycle rider's mailing list:
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 07:54:39 -0800I guess the little bit of chill we experienced in Boston today wasn't so bad!
I've enhanced my photo page. Click on any of the thumbnails and when the full size image pops up, you'll be able to easily advance (or retreat?) through the other photos. For instance, check out my picture of a Karmenn Ghia on the Longfellow Bridge last autumn.
DigitalConsumer.org proposed bill of rights. And here is an article about them.
A theory that PCs are preferred over Macs in corporate settings because the PCs require more support, thus enhancing the power of technology cliques. No, this makes just too much sense to be possible.
Here's an article discussing Apple OS X from the viewpoint of a Linux man. The Soundbug, new from Olympia (the typewriter company) can turn any flat surface into a loudspeaker. Just £29.99.
$50 million to MIT for nanotech suits for the Army.
Hunter Thompson. Still not dead. Defends Ayn Rand copyright as well as his own. God Bless Him! A little more info here.
No freedom of speech in Florida. (Are we surprised?)
Capitalism, bad spelling and flame wars come to a collision on eBay.
Walking past the Allston Super 88 Market tonight, it looked like it might be open. There was a sign hanging up that said "Grand Opening" and cars were going in and out of the lot, but the street windows were all blacked out. I was on the other side of Brighton Ave and didn't feel like rushing across to find out. Sorry.
The last few days I have been having some terrible lower back pain. I've never had that trouble before. It came on Sunday evening, not due to any catastrophic incident. I think it was a combination of raising my bike seat slightly, the cold air, deciding to forgo the usual fanny pack, being spotty about doing abs exercises this winter. The list goes on.
I skipped work the last three days and went to visit good ol' Dr. Stein every day. I guess the first two days were spent trying to get the muscle spasms to ease off enough so that today he could really wail on my pelvis and get it back in line. Seems to have worked. Yesterday I could hardly tie my shoes. Had trouble putting on pants. Would take me half an hour to figure out how to get out of bed. I could hardly walk. Now it feels only like I've badly overdone some nasty exercise. Tonight I carried groceries home from the Star Market. Dr. Stein neglected to tell me not to get back on my bike, so I'll probably give it a go Saturday, after lowering the seat.  "What have you done for the fulfillment of the Plan"
Isaac Asimov died of AIDS in 1983. This was just revealed in a biography of Asimov by his widow Janet Jeppson Asimov entitled "It's been a good life."
Sunday night I stopped into the new Virgin Megatstore at Mass Ave and Newbury Street in the old Tower Records location. I was a bit surprised to find out it had been open for a month and I hadn't heard a thing about it. But then I wonder where I would have heard about it. I don't read the Phoenix anymore. Don't listen to local commercial radio. However they chose to announce themselves, they didn't do it like Tower did when they moved in. That was huge. Within 48 hours after opening it seemd that every other Bostonian was carrying one of those bright Tower Record bags. That was a glorious dawn! Prior to that Boston had no good, big record stores. Even Kansas City had better record stores. Boston had only Strawberries, which seriously sucked.The Virgin Megastore is quite lovely. The walls are lined with listening booths, including a few machines where you are supposed to be able to bring a CD, scan its barcode, and then listen to it. I tried this twice and it didn't work either time. Once it said the album wasn't available. The second time it just seemed to get into a loop and gave me no meaningful messages. The joint also features dozens of HDTV screens and once again I found myself asking "What's better about these?" If a TV monitor could approach the quality of a movie, then I could imagine people would want to spend thousands. But these HDTVs looked only a smidgen better than regular TV. In the pop music section they were running MTV on every monitor and the sound at a very high level - including the ads! That was tacky.
If you tried unsuccessfully to view the really big scan of that ad in Entertainment Weekly that I claimed to have posted yesterday, I'm sorry it wasn't there, but it is now! I tried uploading it to rbgilbert.home.att.net because that's where all the 1995 AIDS Ride stuff is, but it failed every time. I don't know if ATT has some sort of size limit, or if my connection is just too slow. But I reduced the size of the image to the point where it is still quite readable but small enough to be uploaded.
Poking around in my old AIDS Ride stuff I came across the June 23, 1995 issue of Entertainment Weekly which contained a two-page Tanqueray ad that congratulated the riders of California AIDS Ride 2 and listed all our names.
For the first time I notice that the list of riders includes "P. Zamora." I don't know if this is supposed to be Pedro Zamora, but if it is, he was an honorary rider, as he died November 11, 1994 and the AIDS Ride was in May 1995.
The price of organic California broccoli at Bread & Circus has plummeted to $1.49 a pound, which is good for New England. But none of my several California correspondents wrote to share with me the fact that their weather had vastly improved! Not a word. It's obvious the next time I'm in California I'll have to cultivate a friend with more rural or agricultural interests.
Picked up the new wheel for my Air Glide (more about that another time) at Bicycle Bill's this evening. His domain used to be bicyclebills.com but he let that lapse and it got snapped up by one of those entrepreneurial fellows. So now his domain is bicycle-bills.com, and is not to be confused with the innocent bicyclebill.com
Set up your own automated alerts from the NY Times.
Collection of 20 good urban photos.
Scientists discover earlier error. The universe is actually beige like this:
JazzFM.com is supposed to be the world's most listened to radio station on the net. I listened to it. Nice.
Some other guy has decided to rate the designs on U.S. quarter dollars here and here. He likes Virginia's:
There is a conspiracy theory that no plane hit the Pentagon, that it must have been a truck bomb. The linked page shows photos of the Pentagon just after the explosion. And in a "common sense" sort of way, the damage area does seem too small for the plane that caused it. But I'm not so sure "common sense" is useful here. Who has experience with crashes of fully-fueled airliners at high speed directly into strengthened military buildings? "Normal" crashes occur with less fuel, less speed, and into empty fields or light buildings. So the gigantic questions left unanswered by the linked site are:
And now these photos from a security camera at the Pentagon have been released, but they certainly aren't going to quiet any conspiracy theorist. You never see a plane in the photos, and they show an incorrect date and are captioned, so you know they've been altered at least a little bit. One person says the plane is visible in the first photo. On the tree line near the right edge of the picture you can see a dark triangle jutting up just above the ticket machine. It is nowhere to be seen in the second picture. That may be the tail of the aircraft. Others suggest (more realistically) that this cheap crap digital security camera could not have caught any image of the plane at 400 mph, even if it happened to be right in the frame when the picture was snapped. What is the white squiggly thing that shows up in front of the tank only in the first photo? Not the plane certainly. Paper blowing in the wind? Kids skateboarding around the tank?      Here is a helpful photo illustrating the point of view of the camera. And here is an animated GIF combining the 5 images. You might find it helpful. And here someone has done it all with circles and arrows, but I think it's mostly imagination at work. A discussion of these five photos is occurring here. Washington Post article here. This is all very upsetting. Almost 40 years later and we are still looking at blurry photos wondering why that man has an umbrella on a sunny day, what is that bit of stuff on the trunk of the limousine, is that a puff of smoke from behind the fence, see how the head snaps back and to the left? Stats on the readers of Ron's LogYour browser: about 86% appear to be using IE (mostly version 5); about 13% appear to be using Netscape (mostly version 4). These can be incorrect. I use Opera, but I have it configured to report itself as IE. Your OS: 79% appear to use Windows, 16% Mac. Less than ½ % each use Linux or WebTV. Windows versions break down like this (rather crudely rounded off):
The dot com boom still lies in the future.
A website devoted to nothing but news about terrorism. You can really fixate here.
Everything you could possibly want to know about Raves and associated drugs, from the point of view of the British Columbia RCMP.
A line from some spam I received today: Most people buy a total of four sofas in their lifetime.I am dubious. I noticed this week that the MBTA seems to have started mounting American flags inside some stations. These are brand new 4 feet by 6 feet (or thereabouts) cloth flags bolted to the walls. Look nice now, but I'm wondering how well they'll be maintained.
Saw my first shirtless runner of the season today at lunch, and he was a nice one. But I thought there was still too much winter in the air to be comfortable.
www.pokrov.org is a site for those who, as children, were abused by eastern orthodox clergy. If anyone know of sites for other religions, pass 'em on to me and I'll list 'em.
It's happened. "Paul" has pulled into first place of search terms used to find Ron's Log. "Shanley" and "naked" are tied for second place. "Nude" doesn't even show up on the list. For whoever came searching for "skinny dipping photos little boys" I offer this: Click for full size I know they're not skinnydipping, but I bet they were before Mom showed up with the Bosco! Big collection of old magazine ads here.
Look at this text ad that came up when I used Google to search for "Boston archdiocese."
Intereactive Rubik's Cube.
Using Google as a phone book. Go to Google and enter either "rphonebook:" (for residential listings) or "bphonebook:" (for business) followed by your search terms. For instance, "rphonebook: oreilly ma" gets you all the O'Reilly households in Massachusetts. While "bphonebook: oreilly ma" gets you the Massachusetts business with O'Reilly in the name.
Christian Science Monitor article on how Bin Laden escaped to Pakistan.
30 years after its launch, Pioneer 10 is still functioning. It's 12 billion kilometers (7.4 billion miles) away. The radio signal takes more than 11 hours to travel one-way.
San Francisco's Musee Mechanique.
Some guy decides to rate the flags of the world on a scale of 0 to 100. Not a bad idea, but would have been better if he had been consistent. Check these scores of the simple horizontal bars of red, white and blue.
Compare his ratings of Thailand and Costa Rica
Huh! A webring devoted to Boston bloggers. How long has this been around that I've never run across it before?
My own photo here of a Segway being demonstrated at the Museum of Science. Museum employee on the Segway, lackadaisical Segway staff in the background.
Richard and Jimi (L to R). Click for full size The Vatican recently put out some info about the internet, and their opinions on it. I was a bit surprised to see that they seem to actually understand the internet. I mean really understand it. But then they finally reach conclusions the opposite of mine. You can go read the whole thing here but I want to highlight these tidbits:
Here, it was said, was a new realm, the marvelous land of cyberspace, where every sort of expression was allowed and the only law was total individual liberty to do as one pleased. Of course this meant that the only community whose rights and interests would be truly recognized in cyberspace was the community of radical libertarians. This way of thinking remains influential in some circles, supported by familiar libertarian arguments also used to defend pornography and violence in the media generally. Although radical individualists and entrepreneurs obviously are two very different groups, there is a convergence of interests between those who want the Internet to be a place for very nearly every kind of expression, no matter how vile and destructive, and those who want it to be a vehicle of untrammeled commercial activity on a neo-liberal model that "considers profit and the law of the market as its only parameters, to the detriment of the dignity of and the respect due to individuals and peoples".Got that right! …the Internet, along with the other media of social communication, is transmitting the value-laden message of Western secular culture to people and societies in many cases ill-prepared to evaluate and cope with it. Many serious problems result…You bet, like those Moslem women who get the notion that they might actually be human; or those people who learn that they should have the right to practice birth control; or those in China who find out that the state shouldn't have the power to dictate abortions; or so many people who discover that in some parts of the world homosexuals are allowed to live. Damn troublesome stuff. Freedom to seek and know the truth is a fundamental human right, and freedom of expression is a cornerstone of democracy. "Man, provided he respects the moral order and the common interest, is entitled to seek after truth, express and make known his opinions...he ought to be truthfully informed about matters of public interest". And public opinion, "an essential expression of human nature organized in society," absolutely requires "freedom to express ideas and attitudes". In light of these requirements of the common good, we deplore attempts by public authorities to block access to information—on the Internet or in other media of social communication—because they find it threatening or embarrassing to them, to manipulate the public by propaganda and disinformation, or to impede legitimate freedom of expression and opinion. Authoritarian regimes are by far the worst offenders in this regard; but the problem also exists in liberal democracies, where access to media for political expression often depends on wealth, and politicians and their advisors violate truthfulness and fairness by misrepresenting opponents and shrinking issues to sound-bite dimensions.Do I hear a "but" coming? Standing alongside issues that have to do with freedom of expression, the integrity and accuracy of news, and the sharing of ideas and information, is another set of concerns generated by libertarianism. The ideology of radical libertarianism is both mistaken and harmful—not least, to legitimate free expression in the service of truth. The error lies in exalting freedom "to such an extent that it becomes an absolute, which would then be the source of values....In this way the inescapable claims of truth disappear, yielding their place to a criterion of sincerity, authenticity and ‘being at peace with oneself"'. There is no room for authentic community, the common good, and solidarity in this way of thinking.Absolutely right. Radical libertarianism and "community, the common good, and solidarity in this way of thinking" are at opposite poles. But the Internet is no more exempt than other media from reasonable laws against hate speech, libel, fraud, child pornography and pornography in general, and other offenses."and other offenses" Oh my, there's a big ol' barn door we're gonna drive something through, for sure! Political offenses? Religious offenses? Circumstances sometimes may require state intervention: for example, by setting up media advisory boards representing the range of opinion in the community.Of course, state sponsored "media advisory boards!" Why didn't I think of that? I think China's got a good handle on that. Perhaps the Vatican is recommending that worldwide adoption of China's system which gives the state access to all information on all networks.
ShutterLine, digital photography.
ChillingEffects, intellectual property law and the first amendment.
To answer some Google searcher's question: Geoghan is indeed pronounced "GAY-gun."
Wow, I didn't know cool stuff like this still went on. Maybe I would have learned this in the advanced motorcycle class.
MANCHESTER, N.H. The state of the "Ellis The Rim Man" landmark these days. Click for full size
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