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Is anyone who reads
mikel.org still using the blo.gs update service? Since Yahoo! took over I have noticed some strange problems, and I wonder if anyone else has noticed them. First, every so often blo.gs refreshes and the site names with apostophes are rendered incorrectly using escape codes. Also, and more importantly, I see a lot of “ghost” updates, by which I mean a site listed that has not really updated. I know that it happens spontaneously, because it lists my site as having been updated when nothing has changed.
Can anyone shed any light on what’s going on?
Federal and State officials
have been gingerly trying to throw out the idea that no one could have predicted the current disaster in New Orleans. Don’t believe ’em – it’s BS. It has been predicted for years, quite literally. One exhibit: Drowning New Orleans from the October 2001 issue of Scientific American. That’s not the only such prediction – just one of the most obvious.
They’re learning an interesting lesson
at the CBC during the CMG lockout. The Canadian Press reports that the games being broadcast without announcers have attracted record audiences – and not just for the first game presented in this format, which was a novelty – the ratings are going up each time.
Note that I would love to point to the Globe and Mail article on the subject, but they’ve locked it up behind a pay wall. So yet again a major newspaper has given up the opportunity to be authoritative and to make a contribution to the public dialogue on issues of interest to Canadians. As they do hundreds of times a week, every time they block a story.
Salon looks a little deeper
into the distinction in photo captions between “Looting” and “finding”. The differences were initially noted in many places, notably at Boing Boing on Tuesday.
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