Microsoft offers quick fix for Mac Office 2008 bug

"January 25, 2008 (Computerworld) Microsoft Corp.'s Macintosh group has come up with a work-around to fix bungled installations of the new Office for Mac 2008. The move followed reports earlier this week that Microsoft's newest suite incorrectly assigned full read and write...

Slow Bleed Harry Reid’s district first…

"The military needs to concentrate any lay-offs and any cutting back or closing of military installations or *redeployment* of personnel on Harry Reid. Start with Harry Reid’s and Nancy Pelosi’s districts and then work their way down the Democrats list of districts. The...

Olafur Eliasson Exhibition at SF Moma: Take your time

"Widely heralded as one of the most important artists of his generation, Olafur Eliasson nimbly merges art, science, and natural phenomena to create extraordinary multisensory experiences. Challenging the passive nature of traditional art-viewing, he engages the observer as...

Guns in the Sand: Saudi Terror Plot Unearthed

The accused terrorists had hidden a cache of weapons beneath the esert sand in a long-term bid to attack a Saudi oil installation."Saudi security forces have arrested scores of suspects in a terror plot involving attacks on senior officials and government oil, military and...

Iraqi Journalists who read NowPublic: what is this?

A bit of a mystery that needs to be cleared up.This headline showed up in my RSS news reader: "More U.S. Military Assaults on Media".Strangely, the link to the article goes nowhere; as if it had been purposely removed.  Was there an attack by US forces on the Baghdad...

Avant Garde Art Fair "Fountain" Launches Tomorrow

This is a great take on the now-ubiquitous Art Fair format. The event takes its name from the famous readymade sculpture by Marcel Duchamp - otherwise known as "that urinal". This is a great list of galleries - including the omnisciently fantastic team at Glowlab - and it...

Troops in Iraq prevented from reading Wonkette

What they are allowed to read is controlled by Big Brother  >  "ALL SITES YOU VISIT ARE LOGGED AND FILED"

The new detention camps in the United States

POLL:    Illegal Immigrants / Dissident U.S. Citizens.

March 27, 1941 -- Takeo Yoshikawa arrived in Honolulu, Hawaii

Takeo was the Japanese spy inside Pearl Harbor. On December 6, 1941, Takeo sent his final message: *No barrage balloons sighted, Battleships are without crinolines. No indications of air or sea alert wired to nearby islands. Enterprise and Lexington [aircraft carriers]...

Light Works

"One of the most basic principles of making visual art, light as a medium itself takes many forms. From the continuum of fluorescent tube-based works—starting with Dan Flavin's pared-down constructions and more recent works by Leo Villareal and Spencer Fitch (Sunset (South...