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Blogging the Thailand coup: Preetang Rai at Global Voices (which won the 2006 Knight-Batten Award for innovations in journalism) posts a coup update. The top of it:

It was a holiday today in Thailand after the military ousted Prime Minister Thaksin’s government last night while he was away in in New York. There are no reports of violence and people are venturing out in the streets.

Stickman has pictures from Bangkok this morning and describes the situation on the ground.

The atmosphere was not really what I had expected. While tanks and armed soldiers are never the most comforting sight, they seemed to be relaxed, and no-one seemed to be too tense. For sure, it did not seem like they were on high alert or anything like that. Soldiers wandered around casually, chatting to each other, and many had the famous Thai grin from ear to ear.

The coup seem to be enjoying the support of Thai people.

A lot of the soldiers were given flowers by the onlookers, many also offered cold drinks. Without exception, everyone seemed to be in favour of the coup. Many people wore yellow, showing support for The King and all of the soldiers wore a yellow ribbon, not only on their person, but on their guns. All military vehicles and tanks also had a yellow ribbon - signifying their loyalty to The King.

There are more pictures at 2Bangkok.com)

There are more links to Thai blogs in the rest of this post, including 19sep: "Blog for Thailand 19 Sep 2006 Coup. All content are public domain."

Thanks to Liz Donovan for the pointer.

Salvador Dali's Disney Film Destino: See some clips at this post from Lukira that begins,

In 1946, Salvador Dali and Walt Disney planned a cartoon together. Destino is a six-minute film set to a Spanish song, devoid of dialogue and without a clear story line. It follows a dark-eyed ballerina on a journey among strange objects through a desert landscape in a dreamlike atmosphere.

The photo is of Dali at work at the Walt Disney Studio, circa 1946.

High jinx: The Top Ten College Pranks of All Time at the Museum of Hoaxes.

New Office Slang: Includes such instantly recognizable events as "Blamestorming - A group discussion of why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible."

Farewell to all that: Utne CEO, editor recounts magazine struggles is a nice post-mortem at the Bangor (Maine) Daily News. "Nina Utne spoke Friday at the Maine Businesses for Social Responsibility’s annual fall conference at the Rockport Opera House "about the June 1 sale of the Utne Reader (back issues) to Ogden Publications Inc., publisher of Mother Earth News and other magazines.

Eric Utne, "a magazine junkie," hit upon the idea of gathering essays, journalism and other writings from obscure publications around the world, and presenting them in a bi-monthly, nationally circulated magazine, she said. Issues usually have a theme, and while not partisan, the magazine has a decidedly progressive take on the world.

"He started thinking about what the world really needed," Utne said of her husband, and he hit upon the notion of harvesting from the wealth of good information being published in small to really-small newsletters, newspapers and magazines; sort of a Readers Digest for the Volvo, vegetarian and Noam Chomsky crowd.

Utne was able to talk some 2,000 publishers into giving him free subscriptions. The couple and their friends would dive into reading whatever struck their interest — the help was key, since Eric is "one of the world’s slowest readers," Nina said — and then at a potluck dinner in their Minneapolis, Minn. home, the group would nominate pieces for inclusion.

"It grew quite rapidly," she said, winning readers, "because we could be trusted to do the dowsing and winnowing." The goal was simple, yet lofty: "To inspire people," she said.

Once upon a time, we all thought we could change the world with projects that began around a potluck dinner table.

Alt-pub: Jim Romenesko: "NOTE TO EX-DMN STAFFERS: I'm interested in posting your unpublished farewell pieces. Send them to jromenesko@poynter.org"

Former Dallas News book critic Jerome Weeks published his swan song in "Critical Mass: the blog of the national book critics circle board of directors."

Former TV critic Ed Bark has his own site now, Uncle Barky's Bytes

Both took the buyout.