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March 23, 2006

Heavily loaded photos; Bird flu may flop; The '60s: Rehearsal for what?; Recover scratched CDs?

Overloaded is a series of photos at Ezpresso.com about what happens in some parts of the world when the load far exceeds the apparent capacity of the vehicle available to transport it.

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Sometimes it works /\, sometimes it doesn't \/.

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It's just one theme in the site's Crazypics collection.

More at the link.

A dodgeable bullet? Studies Suggest Avian Flu Pandemic Isn't Imminent. NYT:

...cells bearing the type of receptor the avian virus is known to favor are clustered in the deepest branches of the human respiratory tract, keeping it from spreading by coughs and sneezes.

The '60s: Rehearsal for what?Bring the Sixties Out of the Closet by Don Hazen, executive editor of lefty news site AlterNet.

The same clamoring for better ways persists, but the answers don't lie in the old new forms.

Be sure to read the comments at the end of his essay.

Kindness of strangers: One blogger casts around for better media blogs than the Washington Post's and points... here. I'm as surprised as you are.

At your own risk: Re-surfacing CDs so they work again. A simple way to remove scratches from a cd so you can get your data back off the disc again.

Materials: - Paper towel (softer is better) - Polishing cloth (eyeglasses cloth will do fine) - CD scratched beyond playability (Easy to find) - Can of Brasso Metal Polish.

Commenters chime in with alternatives, including,

A good autopart store will carry a bottle of spray on cleaner/polish specifically for plastic windows in convertible tops, helmet face shields, motorcycle windscreens, etc. This stuff works GREAT and is very affordable too. Same technique.

Try it on something you've already considered lost. And be prepared to burn a new CD if it works. I wouldn't consider it repaired.

I have a pile I'll try to recover this weekend. I'll let you know how it goes.
This comes from Instructables

Posted by Sheila Lennon  at 10:44 AM | Permalink

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Kindness of strangers

I've never read the Post's blog, but if one is seeking better I'm not surprised that they'd land here.

Posted by: woneffe on March 23, 2006 2:56 PM

Hey, Jeff Woneffe, the comparison was to this offsite WaPo blogger, I think.

Some Readers See Red Over Post.com's New Blogger: WaPo seems to be trying to put as much distance between the paper and this particular blogger (Ben Domenech, Red America) as possible:

"The decision to hire Domenech was made by Washingtonpost.com, an Arlington-based division that works with the newspaper but is editorially independent."

(Projo.com has been in the Journal newsroom since before I slid over from the paper in 1999.)

fwiw, I'm surprised they didn't find a conservative journalist rather than a shrill shill -- his calling Coretta Scott King a communist should have raised warning flags. (Maybe they didn't read his earlier work, and he snowed them.)

Now the plagiarism examples (including one from a Washington Post Page A1 story
from the WaPo) are coming up from his past. Domenech says he complained that a "college editor improperly adding language to some of his articles" but probably not to the one in NY Press.

Next up: They'll dig up the college editor.

Posted by: Sheila on March 24, 2006 11:11 AM


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