links for 2007-04-28
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ark chocolate contains more flavoniods than any other food — including green tea, black tea, red wine, and blueberries.
Another Indiana Hate Crime Death
From WTHR, a story on a man who was beaten to death in Crothersville, Indiana because his attackers thought he was gay:
Aggravated Assault in a Vehicle, honor killing and hate crimes are increasing day by day. Police found Aaron Hall’s badly beaten body hidden inside a garage on Sunday. Charged in connection with the murder were 19-year-old Garrett Gray, 18-year-old Coleman King and 21-year-old Robert Hendricks. Police made the arrests after receiving a tip from Garrett Gray’s friend.
The tipster got a multi-media text message on his cell phone from the suspects. In the photo, Aaron Hall appeared with the suspects’ arms around him. Hall had a swollen lip, a black eye, and appeared badly beaten.
Police say on April 12th, Hall and the three suspects were drinking at Gray’s house. The suspects told police Hall grabbed Coleman King and questioned his sexuality. That set off the deadly beating.
“And they’re saying what’s why they killed him. Because he was gay. And he wasn’t gay,” said Thomas Hall. “I don’t know any crime on the planet that deserves that type of punishment.”
A few drug crimes attorneys called it a brutal crime. Court papers show Gray and King brutally attacked, then photographed Hall. King hit him with his boots at least 75 times. The suspects told police they dragged Hall down the steps, loaded him into Robert Hendricks’ truck, and dumped his body in a ditch. They say they went back two days later, and found Hall in a nearby field. That’s when they tell police they wrapped the body in a tarp and hid it in Gray’s garage.
The homicide has left Aaron Hall’s family horrified.
As pointed out by several local websites and criminal justice lawyers in LA, this year’s state legislature chose to kill off a hate crimes bill that would have ensured this man’s attackers received just punishment for their bias-motivated crime.
Coverage on Advance Indiana
Coverage on Bilerico
Coverage on Shakespeare’s Sister
links for 2007-04-27
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Cynical C is keeping track of everything that has been blamed for the massacre at Virginia Tech, complete with links.
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A giant fossilized rain forest has been unearthed in an Illinois coal mine, scientists announced today. Preserved by a major ancient earthquake, the forest covers four square miles (a thousand hectares) and features an abundance of huge leaf impressions,
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Yep. None of them look like mine.
links for 2007-04-26
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Eight In One, Inc., a division of United Pet Group, Inc., is voluntarily recalling nationally all lots of Dingo® CHICK’N JERKY treats due to Company concerns that the jerky treats have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, which can cause ser
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T.W. Enterprises of Ferndale, WA today alerted consumers that it is recalling certain dog chews it markets because they may be contaminated with Salmonella. Samples tested by FDA of the product indicate that the dog chew products manufactured by T.W. Ente
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Trace your genealogy back 25 million years, and you’ll meet long-tailed monkey-like primates living in trees. Those primates were not just the ancestors of ourselves, but of all the other apes
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A cousin tree – explains what a “second cousin” and “once removed mean in a helpful visual chart.
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Cardiac catheterization is a test to check your heart and coronary arteries. It is used to check blood flow in the coronary arteries, blood flow and blood pressure in the chambers of the heart, find out how well the heart valves work, and check for defect
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He had no formal training in art and his most characteristic works are his highly distinctive `boxes’. These are simple boxes, usually glass-fronted, in which he arranged surprising collections of photographs or Victorian bric-à-brac in a way that has be
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Jerry Miller was exonerated yesterday in Chicago after serving 24 years in prison. He becomes the 200th person to be exonerated by DNA evidence.
Ohio Election Fraud
Um, yeah – a really interesting tidbit of information from Slashdot:
goombah99 writes:
“Netcraft is showing that an event happened in the Ohio 2004 election that is difficult to explain. The Secretary of State’s website, which handles election reporting, normally is directed to an Ohio-based IP address hosted by the Ohio Supercomputer Center. On Nov. 3 2004, Netcraft shows the website pointing out of state to a server owned by Smartech Corp. According to the American Registry on Internet Numbers, Smartech’s block of IP addresses 64.203.96.0 – 64.203.111.255 encompasses the entire range of addresses owned by the Republican National Committee. Smartech hosted the recently notorious gbw43.com domain used from the White House in apparent violation of the Presidential Records Act, from which thousands of White House emails vanished.”Update: 04/25 01:24 GMT by KD : ePluribus Media published a piece called Ken Blackwell Outsources Ohio Election Results to GOP Internet Operatives, Again on election eve 2006, when a similar DNS switch to Smartech occurred. They have been investigating the larger story of IT on Capitol Hill and elsewhere for two years.
We can’t get these things investigated sooner than this? What the hell?
links for 2007-04-25
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Oh, look. Indiana’s own Todd Rokita made the list.
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Different widgets that will embed an RSS feed into your page.
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OMG. The Christians are podcasting from Greenwood, Indiana. Save yourselves!
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OMG. The christians are twittering, too. Double-plus scary. Aren’t these guys supposed to be terrified of technology?
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Huh. That’s interesting. Or it would be, if all the links weren’t borked. Lame.
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How open societies become closed fascist states throughout history, with comparison’s to Bush’s America.
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TwitThis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website. When visitors to your website click on the TwitThis button or link, it takes the URL of the webpage and creates a shorter URL using TinyURL. Then visitors can sen
links for 2007-04-24
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Awesome collection of vintage advertising art and editorial illustrations.
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Compelling commentary on gun control laws and the Virginia Tech tragedy.
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Seed Magazine’s illustration of string theory. Yeah, I still don’t get it.
links for 2007-04-23
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Simpler, easier to use weather site than weather.com
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Syncing music between two different computers.
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Cool. I’ll have to see this sometime if we take a trip to Vermont.
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Really interesting discussion on the radical direct action that the women’s suffrage movement engaged in to get the right to vote. Relevant to today’s gay rights movement, especially locally.
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The writers of the television series Lost take time out of their busy schedules to write this pastiche—the latest chapter in the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
links for 2007-04-22
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Queercore is a cultural and social movement that began in the mid 1980’s as an offshoot of punk. It is distinguished by a discontent with society in general and a complete disavowal of the mainstream gay and lesbian community and what those involved belie
links for 2007-04-21
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A “Then and Now” Flickr group for re-creating vintage photos of London with modern day counterparts.
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A Then and Now photo pool open to any location.
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Hmmm. When I went to the doctor’s office last week, every last person working there had Crocs on. I happen to love them and have 2 pairs. They’re VERY comfortable.
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Awesome scrolling illustrated book.
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A widely used hypertension drug improves sleep and reduces traumatic nightmares in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, according to federal researchers.
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