links for 2006-10-09
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This week’s list is all the news that’s safe to print about Mark Foley.
Homophobia and anonymity online
Kim Ficera of Afterellen.com does some research on anonymous posters and homophobia on youtube.com and in online sites like myspace.com, after reading the story of a woman who had a fake myspace page created by her disgruntled students, who falsely claimed she was gay. After delving deep into the world of anonymous webspaces and open displays of anti-gay prejudice, Ficera admits she feels pretty squicked out.
It’s very hard to find words to adequately describe how I feel at the moment. Glad to be in a loving lesbian relationship? Happy to be committed to a woman who can spell? You bet! Betrayed? Sad? Soiled? Beaten ? Yes, all of the above, but to the power of hundreds of clicks and thousands of degradations. I am dispirited, broken by a combination of meanness, vulgarity and ignorance.
I know that there are very dangerous, damaged and just plain mean people in the world. I thought them scattered, though. You know, a Jeffrey Dahmer here, an Osama bin Laden there, and tiny clusters of Ann Coulters, James Dobsons and Mel Gibsons everywhere. I never imagined that I’d find so many crude bullies and emotionally retarded cowards, all feeding off of one another on the web.
Indy Undercover – Vague Recollections
You know, now that I think back, there was a version of Indy Undercover several years ago that was not anonymous. It was not a blog (this was before blogspot existed); it was a website. Maybe run by php-nuke or something? But the proprietor dude had his picture and bio on it. It was about Indianapolis politics and also purported to be from the “law enforcement” point of view, but I believe the guy identified himself as “retired” or something like that. It may even have been during the Goldsmith era – because they were taking swipes at the Dem Governor at the time.
I can still picture the site — it was a pretty amateurish three column thing – white center pane with teal columns on the left and right sides, and the guy in the picture was a fairly young, husky white guy with black hair, kicking back in a chair in an office near a desk.
I’ve searched everywhere for it, to no avail. I combed through my old bookmarks, searched my site in case I mentioned in in the past, googled and yahooed it, and made a lazy pass or two at the wayback machine before giving up and going to bed. There are still a couple places I can search, but I should at least invoke the lazyweb. Anyone remember this old version of the site, and more specifically, can you call up the wayback machine and find it?
links for 2006-10-07
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Damn! They don’t deliver to the U.S. Hey, Stacy….
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Sometimes I think I have a mild form of this.
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It’s no joke: IU study finds The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to be as substantive as network news
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A comedian sets up a website that busts illegal arms deals.
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Yeah, what he said.
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I think I’m in love.
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Holding hands is now more seen as more intimate that kissing or sex. What a crazy, mixed up world we live in.
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Apparently, the president came out to speak to busy reporters, and when they ignored him, he waved his hands and shouted at them to get their attention.
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Entertaining rubbernecking.
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“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” Sublime.
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Frightening how many of these I’m familiar with because they were on Sesame Street or Disney or other kid shows.
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Back in 1997, this was a craze in Germany when i was visiting. You’d steal someone’s gnome and replace it with a dead one.
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Elevator floor painted to look like the elevator shaft.
links for 2006-10-06
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Sure, because it’s not enough that these kids are the victims of a sex predator and a cover up — they need to be dragged through the media, too.
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Numerous websites featuring pictues of Mark Foley, especially the numerous pictures of his standing with kids, are deleting them.
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University of Missouri students discover their university’s homophobic past…
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Just keeping up with Sorkin. I’ll refrain from adding the tag “Moliére” although according to wikipedia, I could.
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Funny image…
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I understand every word of this. Yes indeedy.
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Community resource for helping others.
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This gives me some ideas….
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I really need a new office chair at home.
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new chairs
I got called the D-Word
No, no, not “difficult.” The other D-Word. The one that’s the equivalent of the N-word. You know… the one that if you had the balls to say it to my face, you’d be riding to the hospital in an ambulance. Yeah. THAT D-word.
And who busted out this lovely phrase? Only our Indianapolis’ Finest — [link redacted because Abdul hid the blog when he got in trouble with the law] our esteemed law enforcement officers at IndyUndercover.
Gee, I wonder why homicides are at a record high, petty theft is up 50% and we’ve got a major drug war on our hands? Could it be because our police force are sitting at home with their penises in one hand, typing furiously at the computer with the other, trying to intimidate Indy residents out of speaking their minds, and at the same time libeling every elected official in city government? I feel so safe with these guys “serving” and “protecting” me.
Okay, really, I do realize that IndyUndercover isn’t actually law enforcement — it’s a right wing hit site set up to try to influence the local elections (witness the date it was set up, the topics of conversation). Still, you’d think that actual law enforcement would be offended that these fakers and propagandists are out there defaming their name.
2019 Update: It turned out that the libelous IndyUndercover blog site was run by malicious Indianapolis blogger, public nuisance and noted homophobe Abdul Hakim-Shabazz. He got outed by the police when he revealed the name of a confidential informant who was working with arson investigators and she almost got killed.
links for 2006-10-05
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tout de suite!
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During their broadcast, screen graphics mis-labeled Foley. Apparently, the AP wire service did the same thing.
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That is hilarious. I can just see my dog using this.
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Webcams of the changing leaves around Indiana.
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Paula Scher’s book Make It Bigger, a beautiful overview of her outstanding career as a graphic designer.
links for 2006-10-04
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I don’t have time to write my own for these meme, but I hope to in the future.
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Making mental notes of what to pass along…
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Yay!
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Not that you’d ever need to do it, but if you had to disarm an atomic bomb, wouldn’t you like to be prepared? By Patrick Di Justo from Wired magazine.
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Wired’s list of must-see movies you don’t have to pay a cent for.
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mental_floss’ honor roll of the weirdest food-related disasters in history.
links for 2006-10-03
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Occasionally, you need to look at this page.
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Tonight, PBS will air Eyes on the Prize, a 14-hour series on the American civil rights movement that has long been in legal limbo due to copyright issues.
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Arianna notes that showing up late to the party shouldn’t get you accolades. She’s right.
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