:: 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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[::..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

:: 4.01.2005 ::

:: "Spooks and the Art of the Dissenting Footnote" ::

Commentary by Robert Carlin (chief of the Northeast Asia division of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research from 1989 to 2002 and before that an analyst in the CIA)

A presidential commission is recommending that disagreements among intelligence analysts be clearly flagged to alert policymakers to the fact that the intelligence community, which likes to use the imperial "we," is not really of one mind. This is an idea that pops up now and again, no matter that it rarely seems to work. In fact, the IC has paid lip service to the importance of airing dissent for years.

Read more here.

posted by me

:: 10:06:00 AM [+] ::
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