June 26, 2004
Humanicide: a 21st century risk profile for humanity
which uses the symbolism of the Fisher King. [By and via I-Merge.]
June 24, 2004
The Boscombe Bowmen.
Archaeologists say that some of the builders of Stonehenge have been found.
June 23, 2004
Border crossings in Brooklyn.
"The post-9/11 sweeps left many immigrant families without friends or money. A Pakistani Muslim and an Indian Hindu worked together to help them." Part 3 of Salon's Heroes of Freedom series.
June 21, 2004
June 17, 2004
Ole!
This too is old, but it never fails to make me laugh (.wmv, NSFW.)
June 16, 2004
The Tao of Pee.
[Via the other Sullivan.]
June 15, 2004
Shirin Ebadi,
the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, says the Bush administration has made her work of promoting democracy and human rights harder by invading Iraq.
June 14, 2004
Jurannessic.
"At a time when there were no film makers, no technicians, no cameras and even no lights, a caveman created the first porno." [Flash, possibly NSFW.]
June 13, 2004
June 12, 2004
His other job is chief lama in Russian republic.
Meet Philadelphia-born Erdne Ombadykow, a.k.a. Telo Rinpoche the spiritual leader of Kalmykia, the only predominantly Buddhist region in Europe.
more inside
June 11, 2004
What An ACLU Suit Challenging An Important Section of the USA Patriot Act Tells Us About Surveillance and Secrecy.
A good FindLaw piece on National Security Letters.
June 10, 2004
The stupa
(or chorten) is Buddhism's universal piece of symbolic architecture. Borobodur in Java is probably the most famous while the Shwedagon Pagoda in Burma is the largest, and they abound in the Himalayas, even in caves.
June 09, 2004
"What we need to do is to help in the cause of, ah, downfall of California,"
an employee is heard saying on the tapes. "You guys need to pull your megawatts out of California on a daily basis." More Enron tapes from CBS. Too bad the Governator wasn't there to fight the bad guys.
June 08, 2004
October Surprise!
Where you can predict what will happen before the November 2004 election. [Via Boing Boing.]
June 07, 2004
Mali's people reap no reward from cloned wild-rice gene.
"Born a generation ago, partly in California laboratories and farm fields, biotechnology promised a banquet of benefits: It would bring more choice to consumers, pose no environmental threat to organic and conventional farmers, create little or no regulatory burden for government and, most tantalizingly, help feed the world's hungry. So far - like UC Davis' effort to aid Mali - biotechnology has not delivered."
June 04, 2004
"Prepositioned weapons of mass destruction"
for terrorists: America's chemical plants.
June 03, 2004
China silences Tiananmen critics.
"A leading Chinese doctor who criticised the Communist Party's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has disappeared on the eve of its 15th anniversary. Jiang Yanyong is one of several potential critics thought to have been taken from Beijing or put under house arrest ahead of the 4 June anniversary." But never mind that, "it's the economy, comrade."
June 02, 2004
Prankster, prophet, farmer, father,
Ken Kesey found his grail at home.
June 01, 2004
May 31, 2004
Kamat's Potpourri.
The History, Mystery, and Diversity of India.
Page
1
2
10
20
30
31
32
33
36
37