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The Guardian is on the Cod bandwagon, piling on the Whopper Virgins ad campaign. I had not realized how pervasively awful the campaign was -- in my day job, I have been spending some time thinking about the Global South, (aka the Hemisphere Formerly Known As The Third World), and even the ability to imagine people beyond the reach of quick food (for the moment), as "Whopper Virgins," is so chillingly imperialistic it would give Rudyard Kipling a postmortem Woodrow. But in its possess way, you know
4 Dec 2008, 9:18 am | click here for more
Piracy at sea A faithful reader is as fascinated as I am by the Somalian pirates whose latest target was a cruise boat, Oceania's Nautica (shown in my photo in Hong Kong last year). Here, the Weekly Standard offers an aggressive strategy for dealing with this "asymetrical" terrorism. When I was a passenger on the Nautica, I shook hands with the boat captain credited with using what tactics he had at hand to defeat the pirates. How he outran a tiny boat at 18 knots still eludes me. I'd tra
3 Dec 2008, 7:51 am | click here for more
Bloomberg: America Responsible for Somali Pirates.....
Bloomberg News has been giving al-Reuters a run for its money as of tardy. I'd put this article up against any Reuters or AP piece..... Somali Pirates Thrive After U.S. Helped Oust Their Islamic Foes- Bloomberg Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- International patrols at sea have done little to cease pirates from menacing ships off the coast of Somalia. Even less is being done to thwart them on land -- and for that the brigands may want to thank an unintended consequence of the U.S.’s war on terror. In
3 Dec 2008, 7:20 pm | click here for more
Campanas, Campanas! Oigamoslas todas que son cuentos de Piratas!
Publicado por Augusto en Diciembre 3, 2008 Piracy off of Somalia has doubled in 2008, with experts and officials urging against paying ransom (File) MOGADISHU/CAIRO/DUBAI (Jalal al-Sharaabi, Khaled Mahmoud, Courtney C. Radsch) El presidente de Somalia Abdullah Yusuf acusa de piratería a los grupos islamístas en su país. Le giftó sus disculpas a los árabes por la captura de un barco Saudi y otro del Yemen y le pidió al embajador del Yemen, Ahmed Omar, que los países ára
3 Dec 2008, 6:43 am | click here for more
The EU and the Pirates...
Yoav Gortzak and I have a piece on piracy and the European Union up at Foreign Policy.
3 Dec 2008, 4:43 pm | click here for more
Maritime troubles as an extension of state collapse
By Fester: The New Atlanticist is currently hosting two excellent essays/posts on Somali piracy and international order. I recommend that you read both of them, but I'll put up some of the key excerpts. The value of these two posts is that they look beyond the simplistic and seek some of the root causes and nuance of the situations. Easaw examines piracy with the simple economic question of 'what is the next best alternative' in a failed state situation that resembles a Hobbesian dystopia an
3 Dec 2008, 3:24 pm | click here for more
Web Hosting On-Demand SaaS Services, OpSource, Deployed by Entry.com (- InftekHosting.Com)
Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - December 3, 2008 - The Entry Software firm, an integrated work management solutions provider, has selected OpSource, to support its On Demand service, and deliver enterprise-class power and the highest levels of security and standards compliance available. Entry Software CEO Barry Cousins noted, ”We previously managed our possess hosting operation and realized that with our growth rate and the increasing customer demand for SaaS operational rigor an
3 Dec 2008, 3:00 pm | click here for more
iCoffee Table Stands Tall (- InftekHosting.Com)
iCoffee Table Stands Tall Back in May, CoM published a phone cam shot of a table that looked like an iPod found in a Milan hotel. We tracked down the guy who made it, Mirko Ginepro, an industrial designer, graphic artist and photographer. His iTable is made from Corian (frequently the stuff of kitchen and bathroom counter tops), [...] Back in May, CoM published a phone cam shot of a table that looked like an iPod found in a Milan hotel. We tracked down the guy who made it, Mirko Gin
3 Dec 2008, 3:00 pm | click here for more
Piracy is expanding now
Piracy is expanding now December 4th, 2008 by MK LiveNews - Passengers aboard a luxury cruise liner have given graphic accounts of a brazen attack by speed boat pirates in the Gulf of Aden. The Oceania Nautica with 684 passengers aboard, including 50 Australians and some New Zealanders, came below flame on Sunday in notoriously dangerous waters between Yemen and Somalia. The pirates were aboard two tiny boats fitted with outboard motors. “We didn’t think they would be cheeky enough to atta
3 Dec 2008, 2:46 pm | click here for more
New Firefox extension turns Amazon.com into an illegal free-for-all
A new Firefox extension called Pirates of the Amazon (note: link is currently down) lets users download movies, games, TV shows and MP3s free of charge by cross referencing Amazon's product pages with torrent files from the Pirate Bay. If the content can be found on the Pirate Bay's search index it shows up as a "Download 4 Free" link on the top of the Amazon product page. This links directly to the hosted .torrent tracker file, letting the user avoid having to purchase from Amazon in place o
3 Dec 2008, 2:17 pm | click here for more
Antisocial, tu perds ton sang froid
I know I keep going on about there being too many good games around at the moment, which as a hellish moral dilemma is right up there with having too many flavours of ice cream (”oh noes, after working through the mint choc chip and pistachio I’m so full I can’t manage any rum n’ raisin, whatever will I do!”), but then just as the copy of Grand Theft car IV I’d ordered a while back turns up in the post, City of Heroes goes and releases Issue 13 as well. It never rains but it pours (what’s that
3 Dec 2008, 1:43 pm | click here for more
Pirates of the Digital Millennium: How the Intellectual Property Wars Damage Our Personal Freedoms, Our Jobs, and the World Economy: John Gantz, Jack B. Rochester
Editorial Reviews Digital piracy. It’s a global war — and it’s just begun. Pirates of the Digital Millennium chronicles that war. every of it: media conglomerates vs. teenagers, tech companies vs. content providers, artists battling artists, nations vs. nations, law enforcement vs. organized crime. John Gantz and Jack Rochester cover every side and every the implications. Economics. Law. Ethics. Culture. The players. And over every, the realities — including the exclusive new findings of a 57-cou
3 Dec 2008, 1:37 pm | click here for more
Video madness: Ghostbusters, Riddick Dark Athena, Ready 2 Rumble Revolution...
Video madness: Ghostbusters, Riddick Dark Athena, Ready 2 Rumble Revolution... 0 commentsKevin Spiess - 12:10 PM (PT) ...Tatsunko VS. Capcom, Ether Saga Online, and pro Starcraft! Trailers and videos are nice, aren't they? Reading is such a chore. I'm just going to let every these moving images do most of the work today. First up we have a new trailer for Ghostbusters: The Video Game -- trailer #3. This game is coming for every Video Game playing machine currently known to mankind, including
3 Dec 2008, 1:25 pm | click here for more
Terrorists Say They'll Fight Somali Pirates
—Ace Gotta say I'm on the pirates' side here. The irony in this story is thicker than Rosie ODonnells thigh. A hijacked Saudi tanker, the Sirius Star, taken by pirates off the coast of Somalia last week, is being threatened by Islamic militants who say they will rescue the boat from the pirates. Stating the hijacking is a crime against Islam (and really, what isnt these days?), members of the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab arrived in the town of Harardhere to battle the pirates. Now bef
3 Dec 2008, 1:21 pm | click here for more
YouTube’s Days are Numbered
I am going to make a prediction. Hulu will be the winner in web video. Not YouTube. Now, many will think I am nuts for saying this. Especially since YouTube serves over 5 billion videos a month in the USA alone. But, I believe YouTube will go the way of Netscape. A once powerful asset that commanded monopoly sized market share of the Internet that is now reduced to a bit player on the web. I believe Hulu will ultimately overtake YouTube for the following reasons: Advertisers prefer Hulu over
3 Dec 2008, 1:20 pm | click here for more
Solana's fleet to take over anti-piracy operations from NATO
According to an article appearing today in the international edition of the New York Times (the International Herald Tribune), the European Union's fleet is taking over Somalian anti-piracy operations from NATO. Europe plans to manage the operation with six (6) warships and three (3) maritime anti-reconnaissance aircraft. The operation, per Javier Solana, is named "Operation Atalanta." Breaking news this morning was that a cruise vessel with 1,000 aboard was attacked by pirates in the Gulf of A
3 Dec 2008, 1:19 pm | click here for more
Maybe It’s Time to Rethink that Cruise Around the Horn of Africa
A bunch of wealthy white people from the U.S. almost became the latest victims of piracy when three skiffs fired at their cruise boat on Sunday morning. The 656 passengers each paid up to $10k for a luxurious cruise that lasts about a month. I bet the cruise line fires the activities director for this one. The pirates would have made off with 310 US citizens and 212 Canadians, though they likely would have fled the boat after having to put up with the jerks for only a few hours. As it was
3 Dec 2008, 1:18 pm | click here for more
Piracy and the rules of engagement
Piracy and the rules of engagement December 3rd, 2008 Homeland Security Group Each day there seems to be new reports of piracy close the coast of Somalia. The pirates have learned over time that a hostile takeover of an unwitting crew and cargo is big business. With each successful attack, they receive their prize – ransom. In the past, smaller cargo and fishing vessels transiting isolated shipping lanes along the coast were easy targets by pirates concealed by a variety of unprotected inlets. C
3 Dec 2008, 1:09 pm | click here for more
What Condition Our Condition Is In
(Photoillustration: "Big Red Letters on a Dead End Sign" by Evan Robinson, Group News Blog) Here We Are It's been seven months since I lasted addressed our condition. In the meantime we've finished a two-year campaign and election, with historic results. Those of you in America have survived the Thanksgiving Holiday (most of you), although not everyone overseas did, and there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth over Black Friday, even as sales seem to be going better than many feared. So
3 Dec 2008, 12:46 pm | click here for more
Piracy is expanding now
Posted by MK on December 3, 2008 LiveNews - Passengers aboard a luxury cruise liner have given graphic accounts of a brazen attack by speed boat pirates in the Gulf of Aden. The Oceania Nautica with 684 passengers aboard, including 50 Australians and some New Zealanders, came below flame on Sunday in notoriously dangerous waters between Yemen and Somalia. The pirates were aboard two tiny boats fitted with outboard motors. “We didn’t think they would be cheeky enough to attack a cruise boat,” We
3 Dec 2008, 10:29 am | click here for more
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