LONDON (AlertNet) – For years, military medics and humanitarian aid workers have relied on the protective power of the red cross and red crescent as they braved battle zones to help the wounded. Soon they’ll have a third emblem at their disposal to tout their neutrality: the red crystal. Planned changes to Geneva Conventions governing…
Month: September 2005
Burning Man 2005 The Comic Book
(This was sent in an update and then Kate sent it on to me…super cool overview…I can’t believe how much of this I missed….cd) Burning Man 2005 The Comic Book
Thursday Photos
I was working yesterday and in the course of driving people to various locations I had some time to wander around a bit while waiting for them to get back in the car. I stopped at the Foodland on Beretania street to pick up something to drink and came across a big sign at the…
BBC NEWS | Europe | Polish twins in leadership race
One of the more peculiar aspects of the upcoming Polish elections is the fact that identical twin brothers are running for president and prime minister. Some voters cannot even tell them apart. “They are very similar so sometimes I can’t tell who is who, so maybe it’s a problem for me,” said Rafal, who works…
gizmag Article: Deep Flight submarine
(I heard about this on NPR the other day, for some reason I couldn’t find it there though… Wish I had $12,000 to go to this school…cd) (** Here is a more recent link to the actual deep flight site…link gizmag Article: Deep Flight submarine Deep Flight is a radical new design approach to underwater…
Fighting Terrorism is Womans Work
One half of the population, here and in the Middle East, is barely being used when it comes either to causing terror or preventing it. Ninety seven percent of bombers and suicide bombers are male, as are over ninety percent of those conducting the so-called ‘war on terror’. Maybe it is time to consider what…
Kim Jong-il on Al Jazeera about USA
(I found this to be a pretty interesting article…not to mention the oddity of who it is and where it is published….cd) âU.S. emerged as a result of genocideâ?- Kim Jong-il 9/23/2005 7:00:00 PM GMT “Sinister plots are continuously being hatched by U.S. intelligence agencies” The six parties, involving China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea…
Mesa airlines entering the interisland market
Undeterred by the bankruptcies of Hawaii’s two largest airlines, a Phoenix-based regional carrier is planning to crowd into Hawaii’s interisland market in the first quarter of next year by offering low-cost, high-frequency service to all the major islands. Mesa Air Group Headquarters: Phoenix Aircraft: 182 Destinations: 165 cities, 44 states, District of Columbia, Canada and…
Boing Boing: Custom purses made from old books
(sometimes the strangest things pop up on boing boing…I’ve got a few books I might like to have made into purses…cd) Boing Boing: Custom purses made from old books Custom purses made from old books Rebound Designs makes purses out of old and unloved hardcover books — they will also do custom work if you…
Reality Studio
(For those who are fans of William Burroughs, here is a page of great links, excerpts, and more…cd) Dr. Benway Operates (from Naked Lunch) “The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals. In Naked Lunch, Soft Machine and Nova Express I show who they are and what they are doing and…