Jan 1 & 2, 2008 at My Opera

1 January - 2008 Out with the Old

Tuesday, 1. January 2008, 07:16:30

Happy New Year!

It's funny. I had been impressed by an article on "Moving the Overton Window" on how 'framing discussions' works that appeared on

Last Left Turn Before Hooterville, click the picture for blowup, and found she had been writing on that. I had lost track because her blogging had been sporadic for months.Green acres we are there and her book ( in editing ) were about that. I actually had been sparked by an article by Needlenose, and Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, one of which was a Daily Kos reprint. So I had listed the Wikipedia entry and the others in the old blogroll.
However, Alicia is back at blogging and has Capitol Punishment cartoons up.

Another loss is BlueBloggin's post - except I had to send people to the cloud tags - and Berry Street Beacon - where I had posted links to articles on drinking water at hazard. That was first interesting because of a Common Dreams piece in storage : How Iraq's water supply was destroyed. Grist had a post similar to BlueBloggin's.

Berry Street Beacon has a post on James Madison and open Government up right now. On Dec 27 "Arms Suppliers: the real 'weapons' of mass destruction".

Mail is coming from people head-scratching over the Wordpress blog.

Semidi was reading the blog on Google Reader. I need feedback on whether the RSS links on my shared page ( Links List in the sidebar ) are accessible. There's more on Pageflakes and even a few on Netvibes that likely need to be collaborated on to get a group feed going that several of us can use.

While on sharing, play with del.icio.us too. I deliberately left public access open on almost all of it so that we would be good if we played nice. Definitely many will be p.o.'d if we lose that to idiots, so I suggest you do what I did : backup elsewhere. I used Yahoo Bookmarks but that's hardly the only option. I just found it convenient to double-list in both locations in one operation.
Hah. I was able to merge Semidi's del.icio.us links into my network.

If for some reason you want an IE based browser, Avant has played nice for quite a while : and has an online storage/bookmarking service available free.

 

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http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/show.dml/1634729

3arabwy
Police break photographer's arm
Solidarity needed with socialist trade unionist
Solidarity with the Suez strikers + Update
altmuslim
We have to honor the wishes of the Pakistani people
Deception: Pakistan,and the secret trade in nuclear weapons
AfroSpear
What Eddie griffin is grateful for
Agitprop
New Year's Unobtainable French car blogging
Yes,I'm an Alfisti
Science Debate 2008
HT Advice Goddess
American Leftist
Your Revolution Hip-Hop YouTube
The Two Hegenomies
Interview of Tariq Ali



2 January BlogRoaming
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/01/02/2-january-blogroaming

've been getting messages through StumbleUpon. That's a bit ironic. I had a period when I put it 'asleep' for awhile because I thought it interfering with one of the previous 'del.icio.us' add-ons in Firefox : but it is a growing source of info. Since 'Citizen J' is going to flog my contribution, I'm going to highlight another contributor's picks : just cuz.
Techiechild's website reviews and blog
Unusual hotels of the world : property listing
Eight Irresistable Principles of Fun
Requires Flashplayer enabled ( I didn't peek ) English/French/Spanish
Musicovery Web Radio
Another Flash Enabled - that I didn't
NoScript has been helping lock out Javascript for months. You whitelist sites : by individual services on them !
BBC : Surveys and Psychology Tests
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StopGunDeaths.Org
( Actually, I'm not too excited about guns in the country at all. I haven't ever really made much noise about them : but they seem something that should be kept under lock away from the kids at the very least. That said, I probably have more concern about drunk hunters than criminals: not that the 'help yourself' gang is absent. )
Greenspan book: "GOP swapped principles for power"
Bannaga
Solar carport
Create your own electronics device using 'the bug'
Bastard Logic
The Handmaid's Tale Revisited : Giving birth becomes the latest job outsourced to India
Blue Girl Red State
What do you give the federal agency that already has everything, including your Fourth Amendment Rights? A billion dollar biometric data base
The Countdown Begins
BlueBloggin
Nader rails against Clinton and supports Edwards
Texas Progressive Alliance Best of 2007
( Extensive rundown on what the blogging groups thought the best articles )
Growing concern in India about Pakistan power shifts
Campaign for America's Future
Gauging the fear inside the palace walls
Edwards taking the lead in positions appealing to the general electorate of both parties
Economic Objectorvism
GM, unplanned investment, and what about the environment?
Oil alliances: Gazprom(Russia) offers to take over Serbia'sstate-owned petroleum monopoly
How Britain became party to a crime that may have killed a million people
( One and a quarter million sound perfectly plausible to me )
Can the antiwar movement take advantage of Bush's 'spectacular' failure?
( The biggest 'failure' is for him to say what's really happening - ever. )
Molly's Blog
Total lunar eclipse February 20th
Homeland Security for Sale.Org
U.S. casualties in Afghanistan hit record high
The Daily Galaxy
Most Popular of 2007 ( Wild list )
NASA Mars images reveal a 'doorway' structure ( A-O.K. for the next sci-fi movie ?)
Are there really 'continents' of floating garbage? ( Good report )
Asteroid on target for Mars : Impact may solve mysteries


2 January - Early BlogRoaming
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/show.dml/1636603

Welcome to the Revolution has an interesting-looking YouTube clip on Bolivia's salty desert
Corner of the Sky had posted comments at Blue Girl Red State ( The Lawless Insanity of Mike Huckabee is up there now ) : and has good posts and commenters of her own : including some familiar bloggers.
pole hill sanitarium is not a daily blogger : but several people take an interest in his collection of opinions on music, politics, and personal anecdotes.
An Atheist and a Christian Love Story
( Does this ever clarify what should be obvious to followers of Jesus or Buddha : personal philosophy and conviction that our presence in this world is not the result of chaos is being perverted by "cults" brainwashing people into rigid obedience by doctrines of fear. This purporting to be teachings of leaders who advocated questioning the rigidites of society and using the path of Goodwill to all men. Prayer and Faith means Hope and Strength resisting the depressing conflicts faced in life : not slavery; mental or physical! Don't be hog-tied by small minds: or fear-mongers questioning the social order of Samaritans - wherever they may be.
So. Am I radical and communist? Yeshua was - I'm chicken ; but I don't own allegiance to Pharisees of any stripe.)
With that out of the way, it's time for a look atMonte Asbury's Blog
Newsweek : Bottom line in Candidates ( using Clipmarks )
Can you guess where these photos were taken ?
Why people don't have health insurance (about 47 million in US last time I checked the stats )
The Christmas Story in dark tones
Satire: Top 10 reasons to oppose universal healthcare
People's Geography - Reclaiming Space
(Be sure to check Page 2 for a great links list)
On this day in Peace History: the Greenham Common Women and other inspiring people power episodes
Christmas Week Picking on an Occupied Christmas
More Israelis declare the zionist project dead...as Palestinians continue to suffer
Al Jazeera's Wall of Shame series: West Bank
IPS - Israel-Palestine
IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding

2 January Articles and News
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/01/03/2-january-articles

 

No time for blogging. The following will be it until tomorrow evening.
Do check the Existentialist Cowboy. Len Hart is playing "Scoop McBlogger".
Another Inconvenient Truth: Bin Laden is dead.
Texas - The Gulag Wasteland Bush left behind.

I don't have time to precis. Don't miss them.

PR WATCH
Classroom propaganda of yesteryear
P.U.-Litzer Prizes
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
WAR STORIES
The Rhetoric Beat
Not worth mentioning?
U.S.A. Today: Pushing John Edwards out of the race?
Huckabee plays religion card, hides hand
ALTER NET
Presidential hopefuls need a reality check on Iraq
Obama, cozy with lobbyists, risks much with Edwards attack
Journalist tells Congress about suicide epidemic among vets
YAHOO!
Ten Saudis return home from Guantanamo
Sanctions hurt Iranians' Dubai business
New York Times
Surge in offroading stirs dust and debate in West
Infection hits a California prison hard
Losing an edge, Japanese envy India's schools
Web playgrounds of the very young
Guardian Unlimited
Russia will supply anti-aircraft missiles to Iran
Solar energy 'revolution' brings green power closer
Patients need inside NHS knowledge
This is the most important election of our lifetime
CBC
Energy efficient bulbs may trigger migraines
Edmonton group blogs its way into Guiness