March 31, 2004 Archive

Culture

• New Mortgage Applications, Real Estate Purchases Decline

  With mortgage rates inching upward recently, real estate purchases inched downward slightly.

  Opinion in Culture — by Mr. Real Estate — on Mar 31, 2004

• The Great Community Service Event/PR Stunt That Never Happened!

  Opinion in Culture — by RJ Elliott — on Mar 31, 2004

• Blogging 101: The Basics for Computer Dummies.

  in Culture — by Ms. Tek — on Mar 31, 2004

• News and analysis: Life . . . and limitations

  I have observed able bodied people treat disabled people as if they have a disease that can be communicated.

  in Culture — by Mac Diva — on Mar 31, 2004

• You Know You Want It

  in Culture — by davepell — on Mar 31, 2004

• Whose Fault Is It, Anyway: Terrorism Is Nothing New

  in Culture — by Ms. Tek — on Mar 31, 2004

• Wrong-Site Surgery

  in Culture — by bookofjoe — on Mar 31, 2004

• Legendary Radio Man Alistair Cooke Dies

  in Culture — by Eric Olsen — on Mar 31, 2004

• To Federally Fund Controversial Research or Not?

  in Culture — by mcconchie — on Mar 31, 2004

• 9/11 Families' Questions for Bush

  I thought you should see what questions the families of the dead would like answered by the two top men responsible for our nation's safety.

  in Culture — by Shark — on Mar 31, 2004

• Disturbing the piece: on receiving oral sex in public in Virginia

  in Culture — by bookofjoe — on Mar 31, 2004

• Decrying the Afghanistan War

  in Culture — by Mark Edward Manning — on Mar 31, 2004

Politics

• Condi, Dick and the 9/11 Boys

  Rather than try to figure out how to better fight the war on terrorism, the commission is mired in scandals involving who does and does not participate.

  Opinion in Politics — by James Golden — on Mar 31, 2004

• The NEXT Bush Cover-up

  The Bush administration not only failed to pursue and investigate foreign government involvement, the administration misused the classification process to protect the foreign governments that may have been involved in 9-11.

  Opinion in Politics — by Shark — on Mar 31, 2004

• Kerry's Sinister Advertising Hoax

  Opinion in Politics — by Mark Edward Manning — on Mar 31, 2004

• No baby, no baby, no baby - wham!

  Sure, it can be prohibitively expensive. And yes, daily medication is a pain in the ass. But Natalie Miller Moore wants to make sure she always has the option to control whether and when she gets knocked up, regardless of the current political administration.

  in Politics — by Dan Nied — on Mar 31, 2004

Video

• American Idol - Motown Results

  America gets it WRONG.

  in Video — by Scott Pepper — on Mar 31, 2004

• Queer Eye For the Cable Guy

  in Video — by Eric Olsen — on Mar 31, 2004

• Lar von Trier and Dogme95

  in Video — by bookofjoe — on Mar 31, 2004

• Super-Seinfeld

  in Video — by Jim Carruthers — on Mar 31, 2004

• Really Bad Nosebleeds

  24 returns - and is once more back on track.

  in Video — by Bill Sherman — on Mar 31, 2004

• The Duke On "Aileen Wuornos - Life And Death Of A Serial Killer"

  More Nick Broomfield malarky with the woman what Charlize Theron played.

  in Video — by Duke De Mondo — on Mar 31, 2004

• American Idol's Passion Is Motown Funky

  in Video — by The Raging Critic — on Mar 31, 2004

• The Shield - Shane Vendrell's stand-up bitch

  You have to love a woman that will get your back like this.

  in Video — by Al Barger — on Mar 31, 2004

Music

• Music 10 Years After Kurt

  in Music — by Jason Meltzer Patterson — on Mar 31, 2004

• Is An "Organization of Independents" an Oxymoron?

  in Music — by Eric Olsen — on Mar 31, 2004

• Brooke Hogan to be next Britney

  in Music — by Craig Lyndall — on Mar 31, 2004

• Click Track Concerns

  The usual timing variations that exist in most music (the guitarist is a little ahead of the bass player who's a little behind the drummer) works well enough in live situations when everyone can be in contact with each other (that contact should keep each other from running too far away from one another). This doesn't fly in a studio situation.

  in Music — by Casper — on Mar 31, 2004

• Vinyl Archeology #5

  "You're not into punk records, are you?"

  in Music — by Mark Saleski — on Mar 31, 2004

• Switchfoot - The Beautiful Letdown

  in Music — by Craig Lyndall — on Mar 31, 2004

• GnR pulls out of Rock in Lisbon

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Mar 31, 2004

• Hawkins on Glastonbury

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Mar 31, 2004

• Beasties not breaking up

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Mar 31, 2004

Sci/Tech

• Court to CRIA, take off, eh!

  in Sci/Tech — by Jim Carruthers — on Mar 31, 2004

• File Sharing Does Not Harm Record Sales According to Study

  RIAA apoplectic, threatens to sue the paper the report is printed on.

  in Sci/Tech — by Eric Olsen — on Mar 31, 2004

• Google: 70% of the Global Search Market

  in Sci/Tech — by Eric Olsen — on Mar 31, 2004

• File Swapping Legal in Canada

  in Sci/Tech — by Scott Pepper — on Mar 31, 2004

• Blogospherics: The blog stuff and the green stuff

  I believe the number of blogs included in what we call the ecosystem has at least quadrupled since I began blogging.

  in Sci/Tech — by Mac Diva — on Mar 31, 2004

Books

• The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn by Janis Hallowell

  A teenage girl as a modern Virgin Mary? Sounds weird I know but it is actually a thoughtful and tender look at the way people cope with the world around them.

  in Books — by Kevin Holtsberry — on Mar 31, 2004

• Confessions Of A Record Producer

  in Books — by Casper — on Mar 31, 2004