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June 1, 2006

RFK Jr.: Was the 2004 Election Stolen? (and other links of the day)

Was the 2004 Election Stolen? Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Rolling Stone today.

The 100 Best Products of the Year from PC World magazine: The short list.
The long (annotated) version

Amazing music-themed wooden sculptures by Philippe Guillerm.

Collage: Blogs with a Face: What bloggers look like, with thumbnail links to their blogs.

The prettiest girl in the class has died. I got mail from my high school yesterday that classmate Linda Fidrych Kinski died May 17. It was extraordinary to receive such mail, even moreso because I also went to elementary school with Linda Fidrych. She was Cybill Shepherd with freckles, the golden girl.

Linda married PC basketball star Noel Kinski halfway through college, and moved with him to Cape Cod. I have vivid memories of her as a child. I wish I could pass those on to her family.
Here's her obit, and guest book.

Medicine shows, gospel singers, cowboys: Folkstreams: A National Preserve of Documentary Films about American Roots Cultures streamed with essays about the traditions and filmmaking. The site includes transcriptions, study and teaching guides, suggested readings, and links to related websites.
via The Fretboard Journal blog

Journalist of the edge: Peru: Hell and Back at National Geographic Adventure. Kira Salak has been National Geographic's wild woman, going where normal folks just won't. She's been kidnapped by Mozambican soldiers, explored the jungles of New Guinea, kayaked the 600-mile Niger River.

But now she's taken ayahuasca -- the Amazonian Spirit Vine -- a powerful psychedelic herbal blend, with shamans in Peru -- and written about it; there's some video at that link, too.

Here's a somewhat dated but thorough profile of Salak from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Launching today: Vox, by the maker of Movable Type blog software, is a combination of MySpace and blog software for people with no geek chops.

Tech Crunch describes it:

San Francisco based SixApart, which owns the Typepad, MovableType and LiveJournal blogging platforms, will start letting users test their new Vox (formerly Comet) hosted blogging platform on Thursday, June 1. Initially a few thousand people will be let in, and they will ramp up from there....
Vox is half a blogging platform for newbies (albeit with rich and deep functionality) and half social network. The “new post” functionality is WYSIWYG and allows very easy uploading of images, audio and video, as well as book information (for reviews) from Amazon. Privacy settings can be set for each post, as well as descriptive tags...

You can sign up here, and they'll get back to you.

A pro's notes:
Bob Keller's Jazz Page is a hefty links page from a professor at Harvey Mudd.

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