:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::

"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.

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[::..archive..::]

[::..What's all this then?..::]
"News is the first rough draft of history." -Philip L. Graham

[::..news to me..::]
:: google news [>]
:: wired news [>]
:: it news [>]
:: more it news [>]
:: nerd news [>]
:: media news [>]
:: art news [>]
:: the news [>]
:: other news [>]

[::..other blogs..::]
:: buffy [>]
:: meg [>]
:: places for writers [>]
:: wanna write? [>]
:: collaborative learning [>]
:: web weirdness [>]
:: digitalbutterfly [>]
:: runwithscissors [>]
:: synkronisiteez [>]
:: loopy librarian [>]
:: jen speaks [>]
:: russian beauty [>]
:: dave barry! [>]
:: douglas rushkoff [>]
:: this girl thinks [>]
:: radio free nation [>]
:: privacy digest [>]
:: pudding time [>]
:: dania's dailies [>]
:: straight on til morning [>]
:: a blog by any other name [>]
:: a mad-tea party [>]
:: nietzscheswife [>]
:: bloggy mountain breakdown [>]
:: linkfilter [>]
:: slingshot group [>]
:: a blog apart [>]
:: anti-blog [>]
:: destroy all blogs [>]
:: the world ends @ 9, pictures @ 11 [>]
:: notes from the overground [>]
:: the end of free [>]
:: started the same day as this [>]

[::..other things..::]
:: myelin: blogging ecosystem [>]
:: alternative tentacles [>]
:: are we having fun yet? [>]
:: mail art [>]
:: the mail art interview project [>]
:: the postcard project [>]
:: found magazine [>]
:: chuck palahniuk [>]
:: bill hicks! [>]
:: chomsky archive [>]
:: association of alternative newsweeklies [>]
:: the nation [>]
:: alternet [>]
:: the smirking chimp [>]
:: plastic - recycling the web in real time [>]
:: open secrets [>]
:: william s. burroughs [>]
:: beautify your lunch - eat an artist [>]
:: bartleby [>]
:: disinformation [>]
:: imdb [>]
:: rotten tomatoes [>]
:: aboutcultfilm.com [>]

[::..random..::]
"Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished." - Clifford Stoll

:: 9.26.2004 ::

:: So Weird ::

From Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird
(There are no new posts this week, so here's a gem from last. =)

Almost All True
Three of these four things really happened, just recently. Are you cynical enough to figure out the made-up story? (a) A British couple who hadn't been able to break their two-pack-a-day cigarette habit gave it up when their pet parrot developed a respiratory illness. (b) A leading British museum announced an experiment to cover a substantial portion of its utility expenses by converting visitors' excrement from museum rest rooms into electricity. (c) A local Islamic extremist organization in France, with ties to al-Qaeda, filed several lawsuits against the city of Paris for what it called "discriminatory tax harassment." (d) Meteorological officials in one Chinese province accused their counterparts in another province of "stealing" "their" clouds, in order to seed them for rain.

[Psst. Answer to "Almost All True:" c]

Send your Weird News to Chuck Shepherd, P.O. Box 18737, Tampa FL 33679 or WeirdNews@earthlink.net

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