Monthly Archives: May 2005

Friday Ark

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Cats, Dogs, Spiders and ? every Friday.
ALERT 5/12: The ARK staff will be traveling on land from early, early morning Friday, 5/13, until late afternoon and likely without net access during this time. In the meantime please browse the comments and trackbacks. This weeks edition is up early so we can post as many as possible before we leave.
We’ll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals as I see them (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles).
Leave a comment or trackback to this post or email Modulator and we’ll add yours to the list. Check back regularly for updates throughout the day on Fridays and somewhat less frequently over the weekend.
Dog folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey’s Musings.
Cat folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and will be hosted this week by Aptenobytes.
And, check out Laurence’s fine graphical analysis of Friday Ark boardings.
Arkive editions of the Friday Ark.
Update (5/13 17:32 GMT): Found some net access and a few minutes to catch up with pings and comments and may be able to make another update in a couple hours before another long disconnect.
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Accidental Pron? Yea, Right….

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Here is the data:

Of the 500 people surveyed, just under a quarter of men admitted to looking at pornography at work, compared to 12 per cent of women. But only 17 per cent of men said that they ‘intentionally’ watched porn, compared to 11 per cent of women.

So, about 30% of the dudes who viewed pron at work just accidentaly ran across it? Yep, and I have some bridges to sell to you.

Not on My Car and Hopefully Not on Yours

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Mithras spoiled my night. No, whoever came up with this spoiled my night.
NB: I do not object at all to christians putting the fish symbol where ever it pleases them; I would have preferred that the folks who embedded Darwin’s name into the fish symbol had chosen some other creature; this, though, is disrespectful of just about everything; it is, well, unAmerican.
Oh, also check out these posts and their comment threads. Warning: language and humor may be offensive to some.

Are they Still in Jail?

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Track your favorite inmate(s) via Victim Information and Notification Everyday (VINE). They will, if you sign up, send notification of a change in status via email. They don’t cover everything online yet especially at the county and city level and I didn’t see any federal data in the spot checking I did.
I don’t know anyone in jail but I can see that this might be a very valuable service for someone who does be they victim, friend, or relative.

Just War and Proportionality

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Professor Bainbridge in the course of an interesting discussion of VE Day and the strategic bombings of German and Japaniese civilian populations notes:

Indeed, there seems little doubt but that the strategic bombing campaign violated the precepts of a just war. In particular, it violated the tenets of proportionality and discrimination. Proportionality holds that the response to aggression should not be disproportionate to the original aggression. Was the deliberate firebombing of Dresden or Hamburg, say, proportional to the Blitz? As for discrimination, there is no doubt that Bomber Harris and his US counterparts deliberately targeted German and Japanese citizens.

So, at point do the Afghani and Iraqi campaigns breach the proportionality principle? When we have killed 3000 of them? Destroyed property in value equal to the WTC buildings and related economic damage? Or, what?