June 24, 2005 Archive

Culture

• Ice Hockey On Mars - A Week Of Space News

  News in Culture — by Bennett Dawson — on Jun 24, 2005

• Yahoo Cracking Down On Chat Rooms

  Yahoo has been forced to close its chat rooms after Pepsi and others cancelled their ads.

  News in Culture — by Regina Avalos — on Jun 24, 2005

• Friday femmes fatales No 11

  News in Culture — by Natalie Bennett — on Jun 24, 2005

• The PeTA principle...

  “A crisis is a violation of your organizational vision.” That's one of the best definitions of a crisis I've ever seen.

  News in Culture — by Ike Pigott — on Jun 24, 2005

• Woodstock Revisited

  But as Elvis Costello said years latter “What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding”.

  Review in Culture — by Richard Marcus — on Jun 24, 2005

Sci/Tech

• Interview: 1080up.org's Jeff Rivera

  Why the Nintendo Revolution needs HDTV and the group that wants to prove it.

  Interview in Sci/Tech — by Matt Paprocki — on Jun 24, 2005

• Indomitable Islamist female bloggers

  Opinion in Sci/Tech — by Deepti Lamba — on Jun 24, 2005

• 'Pod People

  Opinion in Sci/Tech — by Lisa Iannucci — on Jun 24, 2005

• International Nekid Blogging Day

  Opinion in Sci/Tech — by Marty Dodge — on Jun 24, 2005

• Cooper gets gig on Virgin

  News in Sci/Tech — by Marty Dodge — on Jun 24, 2005

Music

• The Ultimate B.B. King

  With his guitar strapped to his back in search of his destiny in Chicago, Riley B. King left the Mississippi cotton fields forever and became the legendary B.B. King.

  Review in Music — by MuzikMan — on Jun 24, 2005

• Coldplay-To #1 With A Bullet

  I have never been one to get all excited about bands that are at the top of the charts, well, maybe when I was 8 years old.

  Review in Music — by MuzikMan — on Jun 24, 2005

• Audible to Offer Podcasts and The Daily Music and Tech News

  News in Music — by Katharine Donelson — on Jun 24, 2005

• Live Webcast: I'd Rather Be At Glastonbury

  Opinion in Music — by Matt Freelove — on Jun 24, 2005

• Cd Review: Take Me To The Land Of Jazz, Bily Butterfield Joins Andy Bartha

  Review in Music — by Connie Phillips — on Jun 24, 2005

• Keith Jarrett Solo Carnegie Hall Date Announced

  News in Music — by Eric Olsen — on Jun 24, 2005

• Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan's Minor League Stadium Tour

  Review in Music — by Alex Pelan — on Jun 24, 2005

• Album Preview: Leela James

  Leela James will win you over with her soulful vocals and smooth rhythms.

  Review in Music — by Stone — on Jun 24, 2005

• Gig review: The Answer is yes!

  Review in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Jun 24, 2005

• The Friday Morning Listen

  It's prefab, but accurate.

  Review in Music — by Mark Saleski — on Jun 24, 2005

• Review: Life Of Agony - Broken Valley

  Review in Music — by Jeremy H. Bol — on Jun 24, 2005

Video

• The Lost Conversation

  Opinion in Video — by Chris Beaumont — on Jun 24, 2005

• Celebrity Death Match: Tom Cruise and Matt Lauer

  News in Video — by Eric Olsen — on Jun 24, 2005

• The Constant Gardener Coming in August

  News in Video — by Eric Olsen — on Jun 24, 2005

• It Killed Him. The Man With Three Wives

  Beau Bridges plays a doctor who marries three women, keeping up a six-year-long bigamous arrangement.

  Review in Video — by DrPat — on Jun 24, 2005

• New Movie Releases: 6/23/05

  News in Video — by Chris Beaumont — on Jun 24, 2005

• Will the real Van Gogh please rise?

  We in the television media saw them coming --- kids of a new generation armed to teeth with mini-dvs, laptops that are foldable editing suites, celphones that take video, cameras that shoot like film, all of them coming at us in quick time, riding the trojan horse that is reality tv.

  Opinion in Video — by miron — on Jun 24, 2005

• Blake vs. Potter.

  Opinion in Video — by Tony Figueroa — on Jun 24, 2005

Books

• Book Review: Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror

  Review in Books — by Tim Gebhart — on Jun 24, 2005

• Book Review: Close Case

  An intelligent novel about Oregon's justice system.

  Review in Books — by NancyGail — on Jun 24, 2005

• Hitchhiking Through the Universe

  Driving down to South Carolina for a long 20 hour road trip, my wife and I invested in audio CD’s. In particular, we listened Douglas Adams Hitchhiker guide to the Universe, as well as his Life, Universe, and Everything.

  Review in Books — by Tom Donelson — on Jun 24, 2005

• More from the Wormrunner's Digest Review: Science, Sex, and Sacred Cows

  Science, Sex, and Sacred Cows contains more irreverent articles gleaned from the infamous Worm-Runner's Digest.

  Review in Books — by DrPat — on Jun 24, 2005

• Another Damn Book About How to Get Laid

  Satire in Books — by Adam Ash — on Jun 24, 2005

• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

  What if Jesus had a crass best friend?

  Review in Books — by Anna Creech — on Jun 24, 2005

• Robert Frank: The Americans

  This is the real thing, the seminal work of photography and prose of the 1950's.. It was the beginning.

  Opinion in Books — by Howard Dratch — on Jun 24, 2005

Sports

• If only home runs generated moral mileage

  Hank Aaron must surely be fuming to think a cheater like Barry Bonds might break his record

  Opinion in Sports — by Mark Edward Manning — on Jun 24, 2005

• Futon Report: Can St. Louis not win the NL?

  Nobody's watching them tear up the competition, and that's fine by them.

  News in Sports — by Matthew T. Sussman — on Jun 24, 2005

Tastes

• Weekly Blogscan: The Organic Diet

  Scanning for yummy organic blogs...

  Review in Tastes — by DrPat — on Jun 24, 2005

Politics

• Why Resign on Stating Fact?

  Democrats are demanding that Karl Rove resign because of his comments on the way liberals reacted to what happened on 9/11. John Kerry has set up a petition to force him to resign. What did he say? What were these outrageous remarks of his that prompted Democrats to demand his resignation? According to JohnKerry.com he said that "that Americans were offering 'therapy and understanding to the attackers.'" Now what did he really say?

  News in Politics — by ApathyOnline — on Jun 24, 2005

• More Troops Killed- Who's Responsible?

  Why does the insurgency in Iraq seem to be gaining in determination, instead of fading away? The majority of Iraqi's expressed a clear desire for democracy in their historic election.

  Opinion in Politics — by SactoDan — on Jun 24, 2005

• White House Defends Rove's Ridiculous Statement on Democrats' Reaction to 9/11

  The White House won't ask senior advisor Karl Rove to apologize.

  News in Politics — by David R. Mark — on Jun 24, 2005

• On Tucker Carlson's Show, Two Conservatives Laugh At "Liberal" Facts About PBS

  Conservatives want to cut funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Has Cookie Monster become too liberal?

  News in Politics — by David R. Mark — on Jun 24, 2005

• Chinese Oil Company Offers $18.5 Billion for Unocal

  What could the effect be on US oil distribution and prices if one major player goes away and the reserves were no longer slated to be distributed here?

  Opinion in Politics — by SactoDan — on Jun 24, 2005

• "Liberal" Justices Turn Back Clock ... To the Year 1215

  Opinion in Politics — by Thomas M. Sipos — on Jun 24, 2005

• Rove Rewrites History

  The Congressional Record doesn't back up Karl Rove's claim of a divided America on 9/11.

  Opinion in Politics — by Terry Turner — on Jun 24, 2005

• A Loss of Innocence …

  Satire in Politics — by vinturella — on Jun 24, 2005

• The Fundamental Fear of Fundamentalists

  Fundamentalism is essentially cowardice in the face of change.

  Opinion in Politics — by JDCarmine — on Jun 24, 2005