Yea Anorexia?
Thinner Than Air - A Pro-Anorexia Movement in Cyberspace
At a time when American obesity is in the headlines, a pro-anorexia movement flourishes in cyberspace. Young women are starving themselves and supporting one another while doing it on the Internet, writes PNS commentator Shadi Rahimi. The websites known as “pro-anas? are run for weight-obsessed fans of anorexia and bulimia.On how many levels is this wrong? I’ll let you count the ways.
So, two months ago you have a baby. And you’re all happy. Then he gets a letter in the mail. Yeah, it’s addressed to your kid. And you’re happy to find out he’s chlamydia free and should probably wear a condom next time. They’re just so cute at that age.
Where did this come from?
Mandela: U.S. wants holocaust
Former South African president Nelson Mandela has slammed the U.S. stance on Iraq, saying that “one power with a president who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.”I think he’s still bitter about Cheney voting against freeing him. But, really, do what?!?!!! Mister Mandela, I respect you and the work you’ve done not only for the South African people but for all of Africa, but what’s with this? Holocaust? Huh?Speaking at the International Women’s Forum, Mandela said “if there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.”
Mandela said U.S. President George W. Bush covets the oil in Iraq “because Iraq produces 64 percent of the oil in the world. What Bush wants is to get hold of that oil.” In fact Iraq contributes to only 5 percent of world oil exports.
If recent rumours are to be believed, AOL is getting ready to add blogging to the homepage services it offers users in the next month or so. It’s a sign of how far these regularly updated pages of web links with personal comment have come in the past five years.You know, I still don’t think blogging is this huge new thing. Everyone’s always been able to have a website and update it as much as they want. All blogging software has done is modified the journal system and allowed people to update websites easier by just typing and clicking a button instead of programming and reuploading a page. So why is the media so amazed by all of this?When they first got started, these real-time online diaries were the preserve of the techno-literate. The advent of easy-to-use publishing services such as Blogger, launched in August 1999, began to bring it into the mainstream. In the past year or so, blogging has bloomed, becoming one of the most interesting and popular online phenomena. It’s mass market enough for AOL, but still innovative, thanks to software such as Moveable Type, which adds feedback and networking to the basic formula, turning weblogs into places where ideas can be developed by groups of like-minded friends and colleagues.
Weblogs are one of the few things online still capable of generating both media buzz and bucks. The libertarian blogger Glenn Reynolds turned himself into a marketable political pundit via his hugely popular blog and now appears on the news cable channel MSNBC. And the US-based, right-wing British blogger Andrew Sullivan recently netted around $79,000 in donations from his readers during a “pledge week” in which he appealed for funds to keep his site running.
Iraq sent spies from Canada to New York and Washington this month to snoop and stir up anti-war demonstrations, according to a government report obtained by the Daily News.Um… Well, most of these anti-war demonstrations seem American or European in origin. Or so the Iraqi’s would have us believe! And the Al Qaeda attacks if we hit Iraq? Well, that’s a no brainer. And Iraqi’s snooping? On what? American women? Cause, hell, the government’s not going to let any Arab, let alone an Iraqi near anything important, and, really, anything they need to know is broadcast on CNN and they didn’t have to come here to get that.The classified document also reveals a plot by Al Qaeda-linked militants in Zimbabwe to attack American targets in that country and elsewhere if the U.S. declares war on Iraq.
It suggests the group, Tablik Ja’maat, could be a “conduit for communication” between Osama Bin Laden’s terror network and Iraqi leaders.
Satire or anti-Semitism?
By the way, that’s supposed to be Ariel Sharon eating a baby while hellicopters scream “Vote Sharon, Vote Sharon.” I’m thinking no on the satire…
Sneaky Toolbar Hijacks Browsers
It’s the most evil thing on the Internet, according to some of its victims. But it’s not a virus, a scam or a raunchy porn site.Haven’t hit this yet myself, but I’m sure I’ll hate it when I do. If I do. Sons of bitches…It’s a browser toolbar that some swear is doing “drive-by downloads” — installing itself without users’ permission — then taking over their systems and making it impossible to uninstall.
Based on what you?ve read and seen in the media, what is not being said in the mainstream press about President Bush?s policies and the impending war in Iraq?How’s that for an update?That they are nonsense.
