As expected, Judge Jackson ruled that microsoft has violated anti-trust law. You can read the opinion in HTML or PDF as well as the earlier findings of fact.
posted by steve rhodes 4/3/2000 4:17:55 PM
Molly Steenson has an interview with Lisa Miya-Jervis, editor of Bitch Magazine, in Maxi. I wrote an article about Bitch three years ago (the original online version of Bitch was done by the people who created Maxi and my piece gives some background).
posted by steve rhodes 4/2/2000 6:03:16 PM
It looks like we're going to continue being in Elian overload for a while. I did watch the diane sawyer "visit" with Elian on 20/20. It was bad enough that she did the piece. It was even worse that she used loaded language like this near the end of the piece:If there’s one thing we learned from our two days with Elian, it’s this—he is not a symbol for political duels. He’s a real child who made a long, sad journey and miraculously survived. A child with the desperate need for comfort and protection, who instinctively chose a woman who could provide it. And his eyes ask a question—how can the US government enforce the law without hurting a little boy?His eyes didn't ask that question, Sawyer imposed her viewpoint on the story. You could just as easily argue that Elian will be hurt more in the long term by being kept from his father and grandparents.If people were really concerned about 6 year olds like Elian, they would work to get the US to stop the embargo I think the This Modern World cartoon from Jan. 31st on it is a pretty good take on the situation. A bunch or reader responses to it were posted on the This Modern World site.
Some PBS stations are airing Cuba: Paradox Found, the pilot for the Adventure Divas show/website this month. It looks at the lives of a number of Cuban women.
posted by steve rhodes 4/2/2000 4:01:25 PM
I realize I can just put links to articles I need to go back and read here. Like these articles on the crisis in men's college basketball from the NYT and washington post (the post link probably will only be good about two weeks). I've been watching too much of the men's and women's NCAA tournament the last couple of weeks.
posted by steve rhodes 4/2/2000 2:39:21 AM
wow, it works. I should have started a weblog a long time ago. I've been posting weblog like items to bud.com, a zine Justin Hall started for nearly two years.And I've been reading lots of weblogs - I'll add links to a bunch from this page when I figure out how to.
The Sunday Arts section of the New York Times has articles on a couple of filmmakers I saw speak at the Roxie in San Francisco - William Friedkin Tries Again for the A-List (he showed Sorcerer, his remake of Wages of Fear) and Hip-Hop, How They Love Ya which focuses on James Toback (he showed Fingers). There also is an interview with Toback in Salon. It gives a sense what it was like to hear him speak.
posted by steve rhodes 4/2/2000 2:30:02 AM
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posted by steve rhodes 4/2/2000 2:02:38 AM