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September 2005 Archives
8:06 PM Fri, Sep 30, 2005 | Permalink |
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The Garden Blogs list ("More garden blogs than you have time to read") got five new entries today -- from northwestern Maine, Harrisburg, Pa., Sacramento, Calif., Andalucia, Spain, and Hereford, England. They're all overdue for an airing, casualties of hurricane......
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10:48 AM Fri, Sep 30, 2005 | Permalink |
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BBC: This image of a peppercorn and a grain of salt taken by David McCarthy is the overall winner (and close-up category winner) in this year's Visions of Science Photographic Awards. 10 winning photos. At the Visions site, more......
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9:01 PM Thu, Sep 29, 2005 | Permalink |
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Updated 9:01 p.m.: Times confirms Miller will testify. And I've added some thoughts at the end of the story about the judge's order to release some the Abu Ghraib photos we haven't yet seen. NY Times reporter Judith Miller released......
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10:39 AM Thu, Sep 29, 2005 | Permalink |
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In August last year I blogged, Marine spokesman in Al Jazeera documentary silenced, may retire: Marine Lt. Josh Rushing was impressive in Control Room, the documentary about the Al Jazeera satellite TV channel's staff in Baghdad as they cover the......
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11:53 AM Wed, Sep 28, 2005 | Permalink |
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Whether you're making your own evacuation plan or would feel even more vulnerable elsewhere, Clair Wolfe at Backwoods Home Magazine offers concrete choices and lots of links: Fit, Not Fat, but Definitely Fifty: or What's in Claire's Bug-Out Bag? Don't......
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12:02 PM Tue, Sep 27, 2005 | Permalink |
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12:02 p.m. Here's a long, interesting interview with Dr. Ben Marble, the Mississippi emergency room doctor who, when diverted from getting to his Katrina-flooded Gulfport home by an official motorcade in his neighborhood, confronted Dick Cheney with the same obscenity......
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12:10 PM Mon, Sep 26, 2005 | Permalink |
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Monday 12:10 p.m. (Just a coupla links today, as I snuffle and ache. I'll add more if the internal congestion improves.) Katrina loosed Navy's armed dolphins ...Leo Sheridan, 72, a respected accident investigator who has worked for government and industry,......
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6:43 PM Fri, Sep 23, 2005 | Permalink |
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Hurricane Rita coverage: Houston Chronicle - Stormwatchers - Rita Blog - SciGuy Blog | KHOU.com - Rita blog | KPRC | KTRK | Houston-Galveston Emergency Blog Network | Where the refineries are RigLogix map that tracks Rita's path through the......
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11:37 PM Thu, Sep 22, 2005 | Permalink |
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Hurricane Rita coverage: Houston Chronicle - Stormwatchers - Rita Blog - SciGuy Blog | KHOU.com - Rita blog | KPRC | KTRK | Houston-Galveston Emergency Blog Network Where the refineries are around Houston. RigLogix map that tracks Rita's path through......
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12:55 AM Thu, Sep 22, 2005 | Permalink |
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Hurricane Rita coverage: Houston Chronicle - Rita Blog - SciGuy Blog | KHOU.com - Rita blog | Houston-Galveston Emergency Blog Network 12:56 Thursday Where the refineries are around Houston. 2:56 p.m. Ron Franscell, an editor at the Beaumont (TX) Enterprise,......
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2:23 AM Wed, Sep 21, 2005 | Permalink |
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George Clooney directs and plays CBS producer Fred Friendly to David Strathairn's Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck. Here's the trailer for Good Night, and Good Luck, the black-and-white movie about the confrontation between CBS newsman......
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2:46 PM Tue, Sep 20, 2005 | Permalink |
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What has happened to Iraq's missing $1bn? Outrageous. One billion dollars has been plundered from Iraq's defence ministry in one of the largest thefts in history, The Independent can reveal, leaving the country's army to fight a savage insurgency with......
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5:49 PM Mon, Sep 19, 2005 | Permalink |
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Traditional journalism lore says to write the most important thing first because you might lose the rest of it. In the old days, bad teletype connections or a tiny newshole could limit what you could get out there to readers.......
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12:13 PM Mon, Sep 19, 2005 | Permalink |
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Slate, the online magazine, goes looking for a safe place to hide from nature's furies (Where To Hide From Mother Nature), and finds... Rhode Island. Then discards it. ...only three (states) had a fatality rate lower than 0.01 per thousand......
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6:53 PM Fri, Sep 16, 2005 | Permalink |
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Shelley Powers' post, The Last to be Rescued, highlights interesting journalism about rescuing pets in New Orleans by Tim Carman, managing editor of the Humane Society of the U.S. website. Photos document many of the rescue tales, and there's video......
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8:04 AM Fri, Sep 16, 2005 | Permalink |
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"...the rest of your term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people." -- Bill Maher last Friday night I was hoping, as an American with no loyalty to any political party but a mighty desire for a government......
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10:19 AM Wed, Sep 14, 2005 | Permalink |
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Wednesday, 10:21 a.m. Chertoff delayed federal response, memo shows: Knight-Ridder reports, WASHINGTON - The federal official with the power to mobilize a massive federal response to Hurricane Katrina was Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, not the former FEMA chief who......
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11:10 PM Mon, Sep 12, 2005 | Permalink |
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Bob Fabrizio's first day back in Rhode Island after Katrina was exhausting, for all of us. (He arrived late last night from New Orleans after a week's detour in a Corpus Christi, Texas, shelter.) Here's the short version. When my......
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4:11 AM Mon, Sep 12, 2005 | Permalink |
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Quick links: The Interdictor (nola webcam) | wwltv - TV - blog | wdsu | nola.com - Nola View blog - breaking news blog | Baton Rouge - blog - WBRZ | Biloxi | Houston Chron - DomeBlog - KHOU......
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12:13 AM Mon, Sep 12, 2005 | Permalink |
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Quick links: The Interdictor (nola webcam) | wwltv - TV - blog | wdsu | nola.com - Nola View blog - breaking news blog | Baton Rouge - blog - WBRZ | Biloxi | Houston Chron - DomeBlog - KHOU......
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1:45 PM Fri, Sep 09, 2005 | Permalink |
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1:45 p.m. FEMA Chief Relieved of Katrina Duties: AP. Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown is being removed from his role managing Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, The Associated Press has learned. Brown is being sent back to Washington from......
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2:40 PM Thu, Sep 08, 2005 | Permalink |
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Quick links: The Interdictor | wwltv - TV - blog | nola.com - Nola View blog - breaking news blog | Baton Rouge - blog - WBRZ | Biloxi | Houston Chron - DomeBlog - KHOU | My San Antonio......
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9:53 AM Thu, Sep 08, 2005 | Permalink |
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9:53 a.m. Jon Stewart last night: "If you don't like the blame game it is usually because you're to blame." It's at One Good Move. 11:49 p.m. AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Irwin Thompson The band plays on. The mural......
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2:52 AM Tue, Sep 06, 2005 | Permalink |
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Updated Sept. 7 with more details. 12:45 a.m. I got a call from an old friend last night, a friend who's now a temporary resident of Ben Garza Gym in Corpus Christi, Texas. Bob Fabrizio (he'll be 59 on Monday)......
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3:28 AM Sun, Sep 04, 2005 | Permalink |
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Updated 3:28 a.m. Click photo to to see a larger image AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Irwin Thompson Mark Smith of the French Quarter Jackson Square Band carries his tuba near downtown New Orleans as the National Guard brings in......
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12:42 PM Sat, Sep 03, 2005 | Permalink |
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Updated 12.42 p.m. Doors never closed at this Big Easy bar: Nice Toronto Star report from the French Quarter. Updated 12.00 p.m. Quick links: The Interdictor | wwltv - TV - blog | nola.com - blog | Baton Rouge -......
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10:01 AM Fri, Sep 02, 2005 | Permalink |
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10.01 a.m. Quick links: The Interdictor | wwltv - TV - blog | nola.com - blog | Baton Rouge - blog - WBRZ | Biloxi | Houston Chron - DomeBlog - KHOU | My San Antonio 12.55 a.m. An opportunity......
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6:08 PM Thu, Sep 01, 2005 | Permalink |
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6:08 p.m. The Interdictor was hard to connect to for awhile, but it's back up with a new url for the streaming webcam at 610 Poydras St. (map) in New Orleans, in addition to the old link which was probably......
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2:00 AM Thu, Sep 01, 2005 | Permalink |
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2:00 p.m. Linked at the Baton Rouge Advocate news site, WGNO and WBRZ in Baton Rouge have joined forces with a live broadcast stream. They interviewed the driver of a bus on its way to Houston, and were told afterwards......
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