August 28, 2003 Archive

Books

• Bud, Sweat, and Tees by Alan Shipnuck

  An inside look at life on the PGA Tour from a different perspective: two immature twenty-somethings with a penchant for serious "socializing."

  in Books — by Kevin Holtsberry — on Aug 28, 2003

• "Quarantine"

  "Explanations are simply clumsy rationalizations with hindsight." - Ingmar Bergman

  in Books — by bookofjoe — on Aug 28, 2003

• "Are Quanta Real?"

  "A person integrated in a group produces spontaneous insights which would have been inaccessible to him in isolation."

  in Books — by bookofjoe — on Aug 28, 2003

• Al Franken: The World's Most Famous Liberal Author

  in Books — by Eric Olsen — on Aug 28, 2003

• The Dream Lives for 40 Years and Counting

  Forty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an oration on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, and ended up making history. The words the civil-rights leader spoke that day continue to touch the minds and hearts of good people around the world who share his dream of a planet free from bigotry, of a day where we are judged by nothing more than the content of our character.

  in Books — by Natalie Davis — on Aug 28, 2003

• The dead tell their stories in bones

  in Books — by Susanna Cornett — on Aug 28, 2003

• Thanks for nothing, Abe

  On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued his so-called "Emancipation Proclamation" supposedly freeing the slaves.

  in Books — by Al Barger — on Aug 28, 2003

Politics

• "Conservative rather than liberal political opinions are correlated with a sense of societal instability,

  in Politics — by bookofjoe — on Aug 28, 2003

• Will Martin's Dream Ever ComeTrue?

  in Politics — by Dawn Olsen — on Aug 28, 2003

• The Dream Lives for 40 Years and Counting

  Forty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an oration on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, and ended up making history. The words the civil-rights leader spoke that day continue to touch the minds and hearts of good people around the world who share his dream of a planet free from bigotry, of a day where we are judged by nothing more than the content of our character.

  in Politics — by Natalie Davis — on Aug 28, 2003

• Negotiate or Crush?

  in Politics — by Eric Olsen — on Aug 28, 2003

Music

• How do you tell a New York Steinway piano from one made in Hamburg?

  in Music — by bookofjoe — on Aug 28, 2003

• Give Them a Chance, George

  in Music — by Eric Olsen — on Aug 28, 2003

• The Top 100 Guitarists According to Rolling Stone

  I knew the list would suck. Still kind of disappointing.

  News in Music — by The Theory — on Aug 28, 2003

• Strummer's last album

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Aug 28, 2003

• Beck gets aggresive

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Aug 28, 2003

• Morcheeba - Parts Of The Process

  in Music — by Mark Saleski — on Aug 28, 2003

• Junior Senior's Happy Happy Joy Joy!

  You might compare them to Ren & Stimpy during the episode in which Ren wears the helmet that placates his evil nature and they do the “Happy Happy Joy Joy” song.

  in Music — by Jane Ripley — on Aug 28, 2003

Culture

• August 28, 2287

  in Culture — by bookofjoe — on Aug 28, 2003

• In life, we must take the bitter with the sweet. At least, until recently...

  in Culture — by bookofjoe — on Aug 28, 2003

• "Trop fort c'est pas manque"

  "Too strong is never wrong."

  in Culture — by bookofjoe — on Aug 28, 2003

• "At least everyone dies together. It's almost a party like that."

  in Culture — by bookofjoe — on Aug 28, 2003

• "The blind shall see"

  in Culture — by bookofjoe — on Aug 28, 2003

• "Where will you be when your heart stops?"

  in Culture — by bookofjoe — on Aug 28, 2003

• Special Children - Fear, Joy, Pain

  in Culture — by Dawn Olsen — on Aug 28, 2003

• Murses- Man Purses

  in Culture — by The Budget Fashionista — on Aug 28, 2003

Video

• Handling rejection

  in Video — by bookofjoe — on Aug 28, 2003

Sci/Tech

• RIAA - Making Friends and Creating Smiles

  in Sci/Tech — by Eric Olsen — on Aug 28, 2003

• Fed up with Windows

  in Sci/Tech — by Ken Edwards — on Aug 28, 2003