Link Fu

July 20, 2005

I have plenty of stuff to write about, including another entry pending in draft mode, but for now here are some links to some enteresting blog entries.

At Art Machine, Glen “rips John C. Dvorak a new one”:http://www.art-machine.org/blog/about/734/creative-commons-smackdown over pontificating on a topic he knows nothing about:

bq. As for Dvorak’s other statements, he says, “I have sent notes to this operation and never received a reply, in case you’re wondering.” Well, he obviously didn’t read the freakin’ FAQ. [ "Art Machine":http://www.art-machine.org/blog/about/734/creative-commons-smackdown ]

The Balitimore Symphony Orchestra is getting a new conductor, and he might be a _woman_! The orchestra is scandalized! Is it chauvenism? Elfnoodles is “on the case”:http://www.elfnoodles.com/article/231/is-the-baltimore-symphony-chauvenistic:

bq. I noticed immediately yesterday that one of the “distinguished” players on the orchestra’s committee was a woman, and the Baltimore Symphony I know is fairly progressive programmatically, so this didn’t add up. It doesn’t strike me as a fusty and “hideboundâ€? organization. We’re talking about Baltimore, for Chrissake, not Vienna. [ "Elfnoodles":http://www.elfnoodles.com/article/231/is-the-baltimore-symphony-chauvenistic ]

Hilzoy at Obsidian Wings (currently my favorite lefty blogger) examines the “Wilson got a cushy boondoggle”:http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2005/07/come_to_scenic_.html of a junket to Niger plotline from the Neocon Pro-Rove handbook and finds it lacking (complete with pictures):

bq. What do you find when you arrive? Sand, mostly. About 80% of Niger is the Sahara desert. If you google-image Niger, you will find a lot of photos of SUVs up to their axles in sand in the middle of a trackless waste, with titles like “and this is our off-road vehicle, stuck in the sand!” [ "Obsidian Wings":http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2005/07/come_to_scenic_.html ]

Brad the Buddhist “eavesdrops on religious debate”:http://homepage.mac.com/doubtboy/watchtower.html between Jehovah’s Witnesses and Hare Krishnas in Japan:

bq. It was an amazing thing to behold. Two Japanese guys who’d been won over to a … shall we say non-standard version of Christianity most likely by some Whitey missionary battling it out in a vegetarian Indian restaurant in Tokyo with a Japanese couple who’d probably also been won over by some Whitey devotee of Lord Krishna while an American ordained in a Japanese sect of Buddhism sat watching in a ring side seat. [ "All Along the Watchtower":http://homepage.mac.com/doubtboy/watchtower.html ]

There’s more, but I’m sleepy. Have fun.

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