Rocketboom: Moving Canvas

moving canvas by frédéric eyl, gunnar green and richard the with the digital media class, music: icy demons

Rocketboom did a whole video thingy on this idea and "implementation." Cool Beans. Go see.

Wired News: Killer Buzz Flocks to New Browser

Wired News: Killer Buzz Flocks to New Browser:

"Flock advertises itself as a 'social browser,' meaning that the application plays nicely with popular web services like Flickr, Technorati and del.icio.us. Flock also features widely compliant WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop blogging tools. The browser even promises to detect and authenticate all those user accounts automatically. It's a clear attempt to be the browser of choice for the Web 2.0 user."

Boing Boing: Deaf people not accomodated at film about deaf musician

From da boing:

Matt says: My friend Kathyrn (who is deaf) wrote the following article for L.A. Voice about the new documentary film, Touch the Sound, about deaf musician Evelyn Glennie. Apparently, the film's producers and director decided not to caption because they felt it would ruin the film's visual aesthetic! I think the LAV site is down at the moment due to the power outage, but check it out when it comes back up.

Finally: Bush takes responsibility

RealCities.com | 09/13/2005 | Bush takes responsibility: "WASHINGTON - President Bush accepted responsibility Tuesday for the federal government’s failures in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

After more than a week of White House refusals to play “the blame game,” Bush acknowledged that mistakes were made, and that the government’s halting, disorganized response raised questions about the country’s ability to cope with a terrorist attack."

Hunter at Tea

Hunter
Originally uploaded by Michelle R.

Hunter at tea, with Michelle, for her birthday.

on phones, mobility and pirates, arrr.

Dry Water

Yet there are those who would have us believe that the future of mobility is about phone networks where copying doesn't work all the time. If you take a picture with your phone, it will seamlessly move to another person's phone. But if you download a Hollywood movie to your phone, its bits will be imbued with some kind of magical huhu that keeps it from being copied to someone else's phone.">: "Yet there are those who would have us believe that the future of mobility is about phone networks where copying doesn't work all the time. If you take a picture with your phone, it will seamlessly move to another person's phone. But if you download a Hollywood movie to your phone, its bits will be imbued with some kind of magical huhu that keeps it from being copied to someone else's phone."

Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans | Ourmedia

Live video of an area in NOLA. Totally awful footage. No people in this one, only devastating destruction.

http://www.ourmedia.org/node/50534

Transcript for September 4 - Meet the Press, online at MSNBC - MSNBC.com

Transcript for September 4 - Meet the Press, online at MSNBC - MSNBC.com: "MR. BROUSSARD: ...that have worked 24/7. They're burned out, the doctors, the nurses. And I want to give you one last story and I'll shut up and let you tell me whatever you want to tell me. The guy who runs this building I'm in, emergency management, he's responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, 'Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?' And he said, 'Yeah, Mama, somebody's coming to get you. Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you on Friday.' And she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night.

MR. RUSSERT: Mr. President...

MR. BROUSSARD: Nobody's coming to get us. Nobody's coming to get us. The secretary has promised. Everybody's promised. They've had press conferences. I'm sick of the press conferences. For God sakes, shut up and send us somebody."

Boing Boing: Katrina: survivor first-hand account from Charmaine Neville

Boing Boing: Katrina: survivor first-hand account from Charmaine Neville

Our country, Tis of Thee. Shit, if I could, i'd go. I wish I had a helicopter. And some guns.

There were alligators eating people, babies floating in the water, hundreds of bodies of dead people..

"We understood why the police couldn't help us but we didn't understant why the National Guard wouldn't stop and pick us up from the roof...

"Some men came and they were raping our women...

If they hadn't left us out there like animals this wouldn't have happened... there are still thousands of people trapped down there downtown.. old people, young people, babies, pregnant women, nobody's helping them...

Boing Boing: Katrina: wish you were here.

Two photos, taken on the same day. Photoshopped together.


http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/06/katrina_wish_you_wer.html

slide2

slide2
Originally uploaded by smrdwn.

My daughter, on a slide at the AK state fair

photo courtesy of my wife

[IP] Hurricane Katrina Analysis - CFR Global Health Program

Hurricane Katrina Analysis
by
Laurie Garrett
Senior Fellow for Global Health
Council on Foreign Relations

7.) America, and this government, is going to witness an enormous
political backlash from these events, stemming primarily from the
African American community, if steps are not boldly taken to
demonstrate less judgment, and greater assistance, for the black poor
of the region. Cries of racism will be heard. In every disaster we
have been engaged in we have witnessed a similar sense by the victims
of disasters that they were being singled out, and ignored by their
government, because of their ethnicity, religion or race. The onus is
on government to prove them wrong.
8.) Much more thought needs to be given immediately to the needs
of medical and psychiatric responders located just outside of the
region. The patient flow they are now receiving is minuscule compared
to the tidal wave coming their way, whether they are in Baton Rouge,
Jacksonville or Houston. FEMA and HHS need to get a massive and
steady flow of supplies their way, and coordinate tertiary care needs
according to the skills base in each hospital. If it hasn’t already,
HRSA needs to issue clear waivers immediately for Medicaid coverage
for the poor, so that no hospital in the region, private or public,
has an excuse for turning people away.