Thank God, this seems to be confirmed. It’s so weird reading about these details in blog comments before the mainstream news picks it up. Although it can backfire – an air transport company was getting tons of activist mail, and they got pretty irritated about it and tracked down at least one activist blog to complain. Basiccally, they were saying “call your people off, we’re not transporting the arms”
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Soul diva Amy Winehouse cautioned by police over assault – Yahoo! News
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After all the serious imagery, today’s Get Fuzzy was a welcome relief.
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BBC NEWS | Africa | Civil society’s triumph on Zimbabwe Image: South African church groups protest the Chinese arms ship An Yue Jiang at Durban harbor last week. UN Move on Robert Mugabe as police round up MDC Image: activists arrested from in front of the Chinese embassy in South Africa. One of these activists is a young man who still had his cell phone with him. The pastoral sponsor of the youth organization is the Rev. Mufaro Stig Hove, who runs a plethora of Zim blog sites. The activists may already have been deported by now. The sign says…
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Celia W. Dugger – The New York Times Story files of the NYT reporter filing most of the Zimbabwe news.
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I got really annoyed last night as WordPress wasn’t behaving; it would not insert an image using the fancy schmancy image uploader. So I had David upgrade Image Manager, which is working again (but still has the annoying behavior it’s always had where the window has to be resized by hand). And then today, there’s a new version of WordPress out, 2.5.1. Among security fixes, it also supposedly fixes the problem with the image uploader, and also adds to or upgrades the visual editor. So it’s time to test this with a few images from my cameraphone. And blather. First…
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In Zimbabwe Raid, Hundreds in Opposition Party Detained – New York Times He said the people detained were wanted on suspicion of “assault, grievous bodily harm, and arson.†They had been taken by bus to a police station less than a mile from the opposition headquarters, he said. No, that’s “wanted in order to commit assault, grievous bodily harm, and arson” upon them or their property in the comfort and privacy of the back yard of the local hoosegow.
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Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: At last By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 25 Apr ’08, 7.51am CDT PST Ginny I can has iPhone?
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Wow. I still can’t believe that I had a chance to see the McDades at the Abbey Pub, a well known Chicago institution. And that my husband David and I got to see them gratis, a fact that makes me absurdly grateful and humble. Hell, this blogging gig is pretty cool if people contact you out of the blue and give you free stuff and invite you to all the best parties. Okay, enough about that, I’m a mere amoeba on the Great Evolutionary Chain of Blogging Being. The thing I REALLY can’t believe that there were only about 10…
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Hopes of finding ballooning Brazilian priest fade – Yahoo! News This is sad – a priest pulling a “Mythbusters-like” stunt with hundreds of helium balloons is feared lost at sea.