Another Ok GO video
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbdbVhBGETQ
October 25, 2006
Archives – October 25, 2006
FireFox 2.0
BTW, Firefox version 2 was released today, I would highly recommend it. It has a built in spellcheck ferchrissakes! Yippy! Oh yea, if you upgrade, you might have to install the Macromedia flash plugin to see any videos I embed in these here pages. (If you see something that looks like it is written in polish, but isn’t polish, you need the plugin.) But at least it was an auto install, unlike the old version of FF where you had to pretty much go through hoops to install that plugin. Oh yea, I also installed IE7 too, and it sucks donkey balls – big time. The interface is counterintuitive to any other windows format I’ve ever used. It was pretty annoying. It’s nice that they included tabbed browsing, but Yahoo came out with a toolbar for IE6 that added tabbed browsing too. I am going to try to go back to IE6 if possible. It will definitely suck for Vista users. Plus, I am pretty sure that it is not compatible with Windows 2000. Go figure.
October 25, 2006
US Free Press Ranking
Deterioration in the United States and Japan, with France also slipping
The United States (53rd) has fallen nine places since last year, after being in 17th position in the first year of the Index, in 2002. Relations between the media and the Bush administration sharply deteriorated after the president used the pretext of “national security” to regard as suspicious any journalist who questioned his “war on terrorism.” The zeal of federal courts which, unlike those in 33 US states, refuse to recognise the media’s right not to reveal its sources, even threatens journalists whose investigations have no connection at all with terrorism.
Freelance journalist and blogger Josh Wolf was imprisoned when he refused to hand over his video archives. Sudanese cameraman Sami al-Haj, who works for the pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera, has been held without trial since June 2002 at the US military base at Guantanamo, and Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein has been held by US authorities in Iraq since April this year.
Sigh. So much for the first amendment.
October 25, 2006
