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Professor who criticized Bush added to terrorist 'no-fly' list Michael Roston Raw Story Monday April 9, 2007 A top Constitutional scholar from Princeton who gave a televised speech that slammed President George W. Bush's executive overreach recently learned that he had been added to the Transportation Security Administration's terrorist watch list. He shared his experience this weekend at the law blog Balkinization. Walter F. Murphy, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Emeritus, at Princeton University, attempted to check his luggage at the curbside in Albuquerque before boarding a plane to Newark, New Jersey. Murphy was told he could not use the ser…

I present to you... Tropfest 2007, the biggest short film festival in the world! Each film is <7 minutes long, and it's an annual event held in Canberra, Australia's capital and was attended by 17,000 film buffs this year :D The site hosts videos for all the finalists of Tropfest 2007, and some of the real good ones I've seen are An Imaginary Life, Between The Flags, The Grey Cloud and Road Rage. They're all good quality, the lot, with a proper budget and everything... Most of them have a cinematic feel to them, like you're watching something made for cinema, only that the footage is real short. :laugh3: Watch out for the sneezes (which is the compulsory item that m…

The former boss of a no-win no-fee compensation firm which told its 2,500 staff by text they would not be paid has been killed in a car crash. Mark Langford, 43, from Cheshire, fled to the continent after Manchester-based The Accident Group (TAG) collapsed with debts of £100m in May 2003. Mr Langford's car was involved in an accident in Marbella, Spain, on Monday night, the Foreign Office said. He was being sought by HM Revenue and Customs for £4.1m in unpaid tax. A Spanish Police official said Mr Langford was driving an Opel Corsa along the A7 highway near Marbella when he lost control of the vehicle. No other car was involved and Mr Langford was travel…

From the sublime to the ridiculous...... Check this out!! Police Swoop On Children's Hopscotch Game When Lisa Badland gave her five-year-old son Ryan some coloured chalks to mark out a hopscotch court outside her home, she expected him to have an afternoon of innocent fun. Little did she imagine that he would end up in trouble with the police. Yet that is what happened when two policemen, acting on a tip-off from a neighbour, arrived in a quiet cul-de-sac, lined up Ryan and five young friends and told them off for drawing "graffiti". Remarkably, when the children's parents emerged from their homes to find out what was going on, the constables instru…

Readers should be warned when they are reading blogs that may contain "crude language", a draft blogging code of conduct has suggested. The code was drawn up by web pioneer Tim O'Reilly following published threats and perceived harassment to US developer Kathy Sierra on blogs. The code begins: "We celebrate the blogosphere because it embraces frank and open conversation." The draft says people should not be allowed to leave anonymous comments. Blogs which are open and uncensored should post an "anything goes" logo to the site to warn readers, the code suggests. Readers of these blogs would be warned: "We are not responsible for the comments of any poster…

The concert grand strikes a note of discord as it takes a tumble A concert grand piano valued at £45,000 is thought to have been wrecked after falling off a removal lorry in Devon. The piano was being brought to the home of John and Penny Adie, the organisers of the Two Moors Festival, an annual music event on Dartmoor and Exmoor. But disaster struck when it toppled over and fell 2.5m (8.2ft) before landing on a bank, causing the piano to be very badly damaged. Removals firm G&R declined to comment on the incident. The moments before and after the fall were captured on camera by Mrs Adie, 54, who was hoping to record a highpoint for the festival. …

There are 40 million sheep in New Zealand and only 4 million inhabitants. After a genetic experiment goes wrong, New Zealand's sheep start turning nasty, and it's the humans who begin bleating. watch trailer here http://www.ifilm.com/video/2838762

Music-based social networking and Internet radio service Last.fm recently soft-launched a subscription service, according to Wired.com. The ad-free subscription service costs $3/month and offers more interactivity. A "full-fledged" subscription service would be available by the summer, according to Martin Stiksel, a founder of Last.FM. As previously reported, the company recently inked a deal with The Orchard and previously struck similar licensing deals with Warner Music Group and EMI. http://music.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1289164.php/Last.fm_soft-launches_a_subscription_service

Wolfowitz To Attend 2007 Istanbul Bilderberg Meeting Turkish journalist refers to ultra-elitist confab as "covert world government" Tuesday, April 10, 2007 In an interview with a Turkish journalist, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz brags of his upcoming attendance of the 2007 Bilderberg Group meeting in Istanbul Turkey, while the journalist who is also set to be an an attendee refers to the elitist confab as a "covert world government." Bilderberg is an annual conference of the global elite, the location of which changes every year. Power brokers from industry, oil, politics, banking, business, academia, royalty and the media get together to secretly discu…

O'Reilly's Foxing Of Facts Knows No Bounds What torture? What dead Iraqis? What protests? What war? Bill O'Reilly's pathetic attempts to counter Sunsara Taylor of anti-war organisation "The World Can't Wait" on his show this week again reveal how Fox News and other Neocon media outlets like it exist purely to silence anyone who criticizes the Bush Administration on any issue. O'Reilly exposed his own agenda to simply denounce everything any critic ever says as being wrong or untrue, by suggesting that Ms Taylor claimed the government has tortured children by crushing their testicles. O'Reilly went on to denounce Taylor as an unpatriotic and accused her of …

Tottenham have accused Spanish police of hitting a disabled fan during Thursday's Uefa Cup tie in Seville. Riot police charged away fans midway through the first half of the match as trouble broke out inside the ground. Spurs club secretary John Alexander said: "We know one disabled fan was hit with a baton with such force that it knocked him out of his wheelchair." Uefa has pledged an investigation but government official Faustino Valdes said drunken Spurs fans were to blame. Tottenham have offered their full support to the authorities. "Our initial reports suggest there was no fan-to-fan fighting at any stage of the proceedings," said a club statement.…

Government Report: Bio-Weapons Could Be Used To Combat Overpopulation MoD dossier outlines nightmare vision of new world order, ethnic cleansing, class warfare, brain chips by 2035 Paul Joseph Watson Monday, April 9, 2007 A British government Ministry of Defence report outlines a nightmare future society in which the population are forced to accept brain chips, immigration and urbanization ravages communities, class warfare ensues, and biological and neutron weapons are used to combat overpopulation. The MoD's Development, Concepts & Doctrine Center drew up the document to crystallize the "future strategic context" likely to face Britain's armed for…

who's watching? i've never seen a masters like this. ever.

Five more years in Iraq, say defence papers Sean Rayment London Telegraph Sunday April 8, 2007 Britain's "overstretched" armed forces will fight in Iraq for at least another five years. A confidential planning document drawn up by defence chiefs called the Operational Tour Plot, parts of which have been disclosed to this newspaper, reveals that troops will be serving on operations in the Gulf until at least 2012. News of the future operations can be revealed just three days after four soldiers, two of them women, were killed in a carefully planned ambush in Basra, taking the British forces death toll in Iraq to 140. Almost 100,000 of the 180,000 memb…

News review: You talking to me? London Telegraph Sunday April 8, 2007 CCTV cameras that berate people for misbehaving on Britain's streets are the latest staging-post towards the creation of a surveillance society. But is the Government really making us safer, or are we simply handing too much control to a Big Brother state? Ross Clark investigates The blunt Glaswegian voice of John Reid, the Home Secretary, is a formidable tool for bringing Labour rebels into line, but perhaps less suited to reassuring the public that a proposed network of talking CCTV cameras does not constitute anything sinister. Speaking last Wednesday of plans to extend a pilot sche…

Secret paper reveals Labour's lies over ID cards JASON LEWIS The Government faces damaging claims of misleading voters over ID cards after documents revealed it always planned to make the controversial scheme compulsory. Whitehall papers, which the Government has fought for two years to suppress, disclose that Labour intended to force the public to sign up to the programme. They appear to contradict commitments given by Labour in its 2005 Election manifesto, which pledged that the cards, and the national identity register containing people's names, addresses, fingerprints and other information, would be 'on a voluntary basis'. The briefing notes, releas…

Drug-Dispensing Tooth Could Be Controlled By Cell Phone Local 6 TV | April 5, 2007 Researchers in Europe and Israel are working on a tooth that can dispense medicine into a person's mouth, according to a Local 6 report. The tiny device would be able to release a specific amount of medicine at certain intervals, ensuring that the patient gets the proper dosage at the right time. It's attached to your existing teeth and could one day be controlled by using your cell phone, the report said. Patients often forget or find it too inconvenient to take medicine, especially during night. But, a dentist told the Associated Press that the device would rectify the pro…

There must be some pictures/photographs or anything else made by other people that you appreciate. It may be Van Gog or Manet, it also may be someone unknown from Deviantart or elsewhere, it may be any person except you. Here're some pictures I really really like. Edward Munch: The Scream Jack Vettriano: The Singing Butler Camille Pissarro: The Boulevard Montmartre Salvador Dali: Melting Clocks MC Escher: Eye Bomd of Union Jackson Pollock: The Deep Mural, 1950 That's just a few of my favorites, almost all of them a well-known. Spread the art love around :wings:

Ominous Signs Suggest Iran War Close Seizure of British marines could be "Gulf of Tonkin" long yearned for by warmongers Paul Joseph Watson Tuesday, March 27, 2007 As tensions surrounding Iran's seizure of 15 British navy personnel continue to build, ominous signs that war is nearing give an indication that this could be the new "Gulf of Tonkin" Bush and Blair have long yearned for to justify air strikes on Iran. The U.S. has escalated war games in the area, "The manoeuvres involve the USS John C. Stennis and the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, marking the first time the two strike groups have operated in a joint exercise under the US Navy's Fifth Fleet," reports …

Don't like ID cards? Hand over your passport Anybody who objects to their personal details going on the new "Big Brother" ID cards database will be banned from having a passport. James Hall, the official in charge of the supposedly-voluntary scheme, said the Government would allow people to opt out - but in return they must "forgo the ability" to have a travel document. With one in every eight people saying they will refuse to sign-up, up to five million adults could effectively be refused permission to leave the country. Campaigners reacted to Mr Hall's remarks with fury, saying they were yet more evidence of the lurch towards "Big Brother" Britain. …

Isn't there anything Google won't do? Today, Google Inc announce that they are moving into Broadband services, called TiSP "Sick of paying for broadband that you have to, well, pay for? Introducing Google TiSP (BETA), our new FREE in-home wireless broadband service. Sign up today and we'll send you your TiSP self-installation kit, which includes setup guide, fiber-optic cable, spindle, wireless router and installation CD. TiSP in-home wireless broadband is: * Free, fast and highly reliable * Easy to install -- takes just minutes * Vacuum-sealed to prevent water damage http://www.google.com/tisp/ Sounds good, I might just sign…

British Manufactured Gulf Maritime Border Map No such agreed upon border between Iraq and Iran exists, measurements show ship was nearer Iranian coast Paul Joseph Watson Friday, March 30, 2007 In claiming HMS Cornwall was within Iraqi territorial waters, the British government and the media have covered-up the fact there is no agreed upon Iraqi-Iranian maritime border, as other bizarre coincidences and dubious circumstances surrounding the hostage crisis begin to emerge. Former British Ambassador Craig Murray and others are highlighting the fact that the maritime border between Iraq and Iran is contested, and the British have essentially manufactured a borde…

MY SWEET LORD NY Gallery Cancels Naked Chocolate Jesus Exhibit A Manhattan art gallery canceled its Easter-season exhibit of a life-size chocolate sculpture depicting a naked Jesus.Reuters A Manhattan art gallery canceled on Friday its Easter-season exhibit of a life-size chocolate sculpture depicting a naked Jesus, after an outcry by Roman Catholics. The sculpture "My Sweet Lord" by Cosimo Cavallaro was to have been exhibited for two hours each day next week in a street-level window of the Roger Smith Lab Gallery in Midtown Manhattan. The display had been scheduled to open on Monday, days ahead of Good Friday when Christians mark the crucifixion of Jesus. But …

Large error has appeared over the area where I keep my music which isn't a major drama as I got it backed up on an external hard-drive. What is the major drama is that I have lost my iTunes library (all the play counts) and my playlists. Fair enough, but one of those playlists was "Dave's iPod playlist", which is slightly annoying because it was a hand-picked selection of songs. Anyways, the purpose of this thread is. Make sure you keep a backup of your hard-drive and does anyone know how to get a "itunes music database file" or an "XML Document" back into iTunes?

Yup. The Tales of Redwall series by Brian Jacques. Who here's read at least one? I've read most of them, and I'd have to say they're very good. :)