Bad Subjects: Item by Jonathan Sterne:
The scandal is that there is no scandal.
Orcinus
Orcinus Has an interesting article in PDF on Fascism.
Review of Pattern Recognition
This is what the cover looks like in NZ – nice! I am loving the book. I literally chose this book by the cover, I thought I’d brouse the SF section at Scorpio and see if there were any with nice covers. Usually SF books have the worst covers of all genre. Of course I was also swayed by the authors’s name, even though I have not liked all of his previous books. He coined the word cyberspace perhaps he will pull out another lightening bolt.
Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy:
…the core challenges for designing large-scale social software.
An excellent essay.
BLOGGER :: Dano FAQ
BLOGGER :: Dano FAQ: “BlogThis!”
Looks like I’ll be back in business – I lost my old Blog this! which slowed me down.
Workers of the World Unite
Loyalty Day, 2003 This is surely like a red rag to a bull (or its a joke!) How about we make all web pages red for a week!
This site has the story! May Day!
From here: History:
Our modern celebration of Mayday as a working class holiday evolved from the struggle for the eight hour day in 1886. May 1, 1886 saw national strikes in the United States and Canada for an eight hour day called by the Knights of Labour. In Chicago police attacked striking workers killing six.
The next day at a demonstration in Haymarket Square to protest the police brutality a bomb exploded in the middle of a crowd of police killing eight of them. The police arrested eight anarchist trade unionists claiming they threw the bombs. To this day the subject is still one of controversy. The question remains whether the bomb was thrown by the workers at the police or whether one of the police’s own agent provocateurs dropped it in their haste to retreat from charging workers.
In what was to become one of the most infamous show trials in America in the 19th century, but certainly not to be the last of such trials against radical workers, the State of Illinois tried the anarchist workingmen for fighting for their rights as much as being the actual bomb throwers. Whether the anarchist workers were guilty or innocent was irrelevant. They were agitators, fomenting revolution and stirring up the working class, and they had to be taught a lesson.
Albert Parsons, August Spies, George Engle and Adolph Fischer were found guilty and executed by the State of Illinois.
In Paris in 1889 the International Working Men’s Association (the First International) declared May 1st an international working class holiday in commemoration of the Haymarket Martyrs. The red flag became the symbol of the blood of working class martyrs in their battle for workers rights.
Mayday, which had been banned for being a holiday of the common people, had been reclaimed once again for the common people.
BACP New guidelines for online therapy
BACP News
I have always had respect for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy – it has a strong code of ethics and is the basis for many codes around the world. While I am not a member I belong to a similar though more psychotherapy focussed organisation in New Zealand.
The BACP have New guidelines for online therapy – which are summarised here. It is a balanced report. I am pleased to say my Psychotherapy Online practice meets all their recommendations.
From the streets of SF
People at the top say Shock and Awe!
People on the street say Stop this War!
Bush’s day of shame
I just received this from the Greens
Bush’s day of shame
Today’s onslaught on an impoverished country by the world’s biggest military superpower is a black day for humanity, Green Foreign Affairs spokesperson Keith Locke said today.
‘This is an unjust, illegal and immoral act of aggression,’ said Mr Locke. ‘There is no basis under international law for the invasion of Iraq and there is no UN mandate that grants any shred of legitimacy to this action.
‘The norms that govern international affairs have been fatally breached today and the authority that the United Nations has worked so hard to develop over the last 50 years has suffered a grievous setback.
‘Our thoughts are with the innocent men, women and children of Iraq. Having suffered a decade of unfair sanctions they are now bearing the brunt of a massive assault on their cities and towns.
‘We must continue to do everything to stop this war. Our government should move to call the UN General Assembly into urgent session, as it can do under the provisions of Resolution 377.
‘Green MPs will be participating in protest actions which will take place across the country,’ Keith Locke said. ‘I will be at the emergency protest to take place at Wellington’s Cenotaph at 5pm tonight.
‘We must challenge this unilateral use of brute force in international relations. It is such an affront to humanity, when there was so clearly another way of dealing with the Iraq crisis. The inspections were making progress and the United Nations engaged.
‘Unfortunately, the ramifications of this invasion will reverberate through the region and through the world for some time come.’
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Greens in NZ have had a very strong and clear position on this war all the way through. I hope they can maintain it as Labour has such trouble, constantly wavering on the edge. Worse than that actually having a ship in the Gulf and probably counted as one of the unamed of the 35 countries the Americans keep mentioning, because we support them trhrough having their military bases in this country. Get them out of here!