From the NY Times:
"Ray Charles, Who Reshaped American Music, Dies at 73"
Goodbye Ray.
June 2004
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Thu 10 Jun 2004
Now here is someone who truly deserves respect and veneration
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Mon 7 Jun 2004
It really appears that the lunatics are running the asylum…
US 'not bound by torture laws'
Mon 7 Jun 2004
Foraging through my hard drive last night, I was looking for some photos to send to a friend, I happened upon some of these photos from when i was in Pakistan in 1997.
afghan photographer - he's got an old 8×10 camera that he used more like a camera obscura. he took a photo with of my travelling partner using a piece of photo paper, developed and fixed it inside the camera hooding, then, since he now had a negative, he contact printed two small prints (they were about 2"x2") from the paper negative. I think she still has the negative, i have one of the positives still.
Polo!: close up and action - more missing teeth than a Canadian backwater county hockey league. A few helmets in this full contact (with 1,500 lb horses) sport - in the action shot our man is serving the ball after a goal.
kafiristan - the descendants of Alexander. the photo needs some work, some day i'll clean all this stuff up…
Thu 3 Jun 2004
i've just been perusing some of the d-day memories on BBC and found these interesting:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3712245.stm - a german tank crewman and his thoughts on how we've learned nothing since then
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3736351.stm - a british cypherman and how keeping of a diary was a court-martial offence.
and an interesting bit about Irish who defied their government's neutrality and enlisted in the British army: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/3749629.stm
