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January 21, 2007

Politics, music, tech, news links while we wait for The Game

I'm cooking a turkey today. Gotta do something while we wait all day for The Game at 6:30 on CBS; we'll watch the Bears-Saints on Fox at 3, and the bird will be in the oven by then. No more pundit blather, just links:

(Michael) Brown: Politics played role in Katrina response. AP:

...former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown said party politics influenced decisions on whether to take federal control of Louisiana and other areas affected by the hurricane.

Brown, speaking at the Metropolitan College of New York, said he had recommended to President Bush that all 90,000 square miles along the Gulf Coast affected by the devastating hurricane be federalized — a term Brown explained as placing the federal government in charge of all agencies responding to the disaster.

"Unbeknownst to me, certain people in the White House were thinking, 'We had to federalize Louisiana because she's a white, female Democratic governor, and we have a chance to rub her nose in it,'" he said, without naming names. "'We can't do it to Haley (Barbour) because Haley's a white male Republican governor. And we can't do a thing to him. So we're just gonna federalize Louisiana.'"

(Louisiana Gov. Kathleen) Blanco reacted sharply to Brown's remarks.

"This is exactly what we were living but could not bring ourselves to believe. Karl Rove was playing politics while our people were dying," Blanco said through a spokeswoman, referring to Bush's top political strategist. "The federal effort was delayed, and now the public knows why. It's disgusting."

The BEAST: 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2006. And you think you're in a bad mood? Gives new meaning to "venting spleen."

The Most Photographed Barn in America at Flickr.

PointlessSites.com: "sites that; are completely pointless, don't have pop up/under ads or too many ads in general, are original, useless, are not offensive." Games, quizzes, dogs in bee suits, etc.

Free mp3s: Alice Coltrane live at UCLA’s Royce Hall on February 18, 2006. Obit wrap and more tracks by the jazz pianist (and John Coltrane's widow) who died Jan 12 in Los Angeles. (Alice Coltrane, Jazz Artist and Spiritual Leader, Dies at 69) at Destination Out.

An animated image showing what pi is. When you send it in an email, it keeps animating.

Entire village suspected of mayor's murder. "You ask why I don't live here? Honey, how come you don't move?"*

Make a winning play in time for Super Bowl: Or today, if you like: Wisconsin Journals offers recipes for basic chili, reuben casserole, reuben soup, Haight-Ashbury granola cookies (with Ghirardelli chocolate chips).

Joost - the new, new TV thing. Andrew Orlowski in the U.K. Register:

Joost is an interactive, IP-based TV software system from the people who brought you Kazaa and Skype...it's free to download and use and requires no special hardware; it's based on proprietary software; and the technology is cooler than the business case.

Surgeon General's Warning: Living Causes Cancer. At Reason.

Big blue sun. NASA.

Correction: In an earlier post, I inaccurately attributed HinesSight, due to a confusion with a similarly named blog. The would-be "anti-Drudge" is the brainchild of Richard Hines of Cincinnati and Atlanta, who publishes several news aggregators and real estate sites, including cincynation.com and atlantanation.com.

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