» 2008 » June

• Sci-Fi Channel Murders BSG? | Moonwolf’s Lair
  A … polite … narrative regarding the latest episode of Battlestar Galactica on Sci-Fi Channel.
  (tags: BSG Scifi)

There must be something in the water at Sci-Fi Channel headquarters - and if there isn’t, there should be, because that’s the only explanation I can think of that covers the total mess that is BSG Season 4.

Season 4 of BSG has felt like an amateurish rush job at the best of times, but come on guys, not even I could put this many choppy deus ex machina plot twists into a storyline!

• BBC NEWS - Canada apology for native schools
  (tags: FirstNations First-Nations)
• BBC NEWS - Legacy of Canada’s residential schools
  (tags: BBC christianity culture government NativeAmerican racism religion First-Nations FirstNations abuse Canada indigenous)
• BBC NEWS - ‘They wanted to brainwash us’
  (tags: abuse First-Nations FirstNations culture canada amerindian amerindians child+abuse Civil+Rights genocide indian NativeAmerican native-americans native racism)
• America’s Medicated Army - TIME
  An eerie report that reminds me of the depiction of the fictional army in the future from the pilot shows for Star Trek: The Next Generation - “Farpoint”
  (tags: Military veterans drugs Army iraq psychology Afghanistan suicide war)

• Comcast rolls out ‘bandwidth blacklists’ | The Register
  More reasons to jump to Verizon … Or SBC … actually, to anyone but Comcast. Heck, even Cox might be better!
  (tags: Comcast bittorrent throttling ISPs)
• BOFH: Testing the obscenity filters | The Register
  OK, this one got me laughing too hard not to share
  (tags: BOFH ElReg funny technology)

Linked from CNN’s iReport section.

The iReporter who submitted it wrote:

I was standing in Arlington Cemetery in V.A when a huge storm was rolling in. I noticed these Air force soldiers standing so perfectly still. As the weather took a turn for the worse, these magnificent soldiers stood there ground. I was truly amazing to see them just standing there as the winds and rain were blowing tress and power lines over. WOW.

• Nearby Firing Ranges Complicate Soldiers’ Recovery From Stress - washingtonpost.com
  “I can see how that would be a problem. It’s something we haven’t considered” but should.” - Well duh!
  (tags: veterans army military)

• BBC NEWS | Americas | Skydiving plane fails at 7,000ft
  Another news report of the advantages of ‘chutes!
  (tags: parachutes skydivers)
• BBC NEWS | Africa | Navies to tackle Somali pirates
  It’s about bloody time!
  (tags: piracy somalia extremist)

• BBC NEWS - Canada hears of native abuse pain
  The BBC reports on the beginnings of the “reconciliation” on Canada’s attempted genocide of First Nations peoples. Now if only the US would admit to its own genocidal policies.
  (tags: FirstNations abuse BBC government history indian religion canada)
• Marine, back from Iraq, shot dead in his home town - CNN.com
  To survive the war in the sandbox, then be murdered by pathetic scum who didn’t deserve to benefit from his service to the country. Semper fi, Marine, thank you for your service - here’s hoping the scum fry!
  (tags: marine murder crime ohio military iraq)

• EU project scans air passengers for terrorist tendencies | Register Hardware
  OK, now the EU surveillance society is getting downright Orwellian. It’s bad enough that just reading items deemed “suspicious” can get you interrogated somewhere, but now some computer is going to decide if you’re a terrorist on a plane, even if you mig
  (tags: terrorism planes surveillance eu)
• I think my wife uses this…
  Pic sent to me by jess … Interesting label
  (tags: labels funny)
• Uh, I don’t think that’s creamer…
  The opposite to the cream in the last link …
  (tags: funny)