http://www.freyburg.com/ en-us Copyright 2007 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:49:56 -0800 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:57:07 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Author and filmmaker Jim Munroe was in Vancouver on September 23rd for Vidfest, a digital/new media conference. He was here to show Infest Wisely, a "lo fi sci fi" movie that replaces expensive special effects with ideas, and yelling crew... http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/10/jim_munroes_inf.html http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/10/jim_munroes_inf.html MAIN Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:49:56 -0800 I love it when people get away with sneaky living arrangements that don't really hurt anyone but get tighter-sphinctered folk bent out of shape because rules aren't being followed. So I was quite pleased to read about a bunch of... http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/10/artists_live_in.html http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/10/artists_live_in.html MAIN Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:42:33 -0800 A high watermark for both the classic and new series, Utopia is an hour of top-rate Who, and the Three comment on it mightily, including some off-color joking about by Warren (Mr. Jacobi, the remark was meant as a joke,... http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/10/radio_free_skar_66.html http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/10/radio_free_skar_66.html MAIN Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:44:10 -0800 According to Seymour Hersh, the Bush Administration has gotten it through their heads that the American people aren't buying the "OMG they has the nukes" argument a second time around, and have shifted their strategy to surgical strikes on Revolutionary... http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/10/bush_changes_hi.html http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/10/bush_changes_hi.html POLITICS Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:32:44 -0800 Rolf Potts is an excellent travel writer and a advocate of vagabonding. On a recent trip back to Tahiland, he heard tell that an old Burmese friend of his may have died, which launched him into this article about how... http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/10/death_of_a_burm_1.html http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/10/death_of_a_burm_1.html MAIN Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:46:08 -0800 American forces might have had Osama Bin Laden pinned down in Tora Bora, again, and lost him, again. This could all be speculation and conjecture on the part of intelligence analysts, but...c'mon, America! You have the same guy cornered in... http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/09/bin_laden_almos_1.html http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/09/bin_laden_almos_1.html POLITICS Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:48:53 -0800 With a surfeit of news, the premiere of the Sarah Jane Adventures and Blink, one of the seasons best episodes, as the subject of our commentary, the Three Who Rule had plenty to shoot their mouths off about. And shoot... http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/09/radio_free_skar_65.html http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/09/radio_free_skar_65.html MAIN Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:18:00 -0800 Ok, tactical nukes, which apparently have one-fifteenth the strength of the bombs at Hiroshima, and they'd be going deep underground and penetrating a bunker, not wiping out a civilian population. But JESUS H. CHRIST, NUKES? What kind of world are... http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/09/isreal_planning.html http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/09/isreal_planning.html POLITICS Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:53:52 -0800 Turns out the Pentagon either proposed or implemented a program of "baiting" where insurgent-friendly items like detonator cords, explosives and the like are left lying around and snipers shoot random Iraqis who pick the objects up. Sporting! And in an... http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/09/monday_morning.html http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/09/monday_morning.html POLITICS Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:55:47 -0800 Noted intellectual Douglas Rushkoff comes down squarely on the side of reason with a piece that explains that not only are 9/11 conspiracy theorists really reaching, they're also sapping vital dissent away from issues that matter. I have to agree... http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/09/douglas_rushkof_1.html http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/09/douglas_rushkof_1.html MAIN Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:30:52 -0800 Macleans knocks one out of the park with a story on how Bush has in effect, become Saddam by turning to his old henchmen now that America has run out of options. This week's issue also has a great cover,... http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/09/bush_is_the_new_1.html http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/09/bush_is_the_new_1.html MAIN Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:40:41 -0800 Well, that's certainly very reassuring.... http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/09/russia_is_run_b.html http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/09/russia_is_run_b.html POLITICS Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:34:19 -0800 Naomi Klein, the author of "No Logo", has a new book out called "The Shock Doctrine" about how corporations take advantage of disasters for profit. In an interview with Salon she ties together Iraq, New Orleans post-Katrina, Sri Lanka after... http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/09/naomi_kleins_sh_1.html http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/09/naomi_kleins_sh_1.html MAIN Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:28:09 -0800 Stephen Fry, one of the funniest men on the planet, now has a blog. Drop what you're doing immediately and read it.... http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/09/stephen_fry_has.html http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/09/stephen_fry_has.html MAIN Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:12:53 -0800 The New York Times has a rather extensive article on the art of couch surfing as a form of international travel. With the advent of social networking, people are hopping cheaply from place to place and getting to know new... http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/09/couch_surfing_a_1.html http://www.freyburg.com/archives/2007/09/couch_surfing_a_1.html MAIN Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:33:54 -0800