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News

Salon.com
slashdot.org
Alternet
SFGate
Washington Post

Blogs

boingboing.net
Scripting News
MetaFilter
Rebecca's Pocket
Violet Blue (nsfw)

Other stuff

dealmac/dealnews
craigslist
Red Rock Eater News
Google
Open Directory Project
Tastes Like Chicken

Comic Strips

Boondocks
Tom the Dancing Bug
Doonesbury
Dilbert
Something Positive

Radio Stations on the web

WPFW - Pacifica/Jazz from Washington, DC
KZSU - Stanford University's radio station; very eclectic format
KPFA - Berkeley Pacifica station
C-SPAN radio - from 90.1 in Washington, DC

Online references

Cybertimes Navigator
yourDictionary.com
Columbia Encyclopedia
Babelfish translator
Street Maps:

Weblog: July 2004

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Friday, July 23 2004

Fleep

Yet another comic strip about a guy trapped in a concrete-encased phone booth with a foreign-language phone book, prodigious grasp of mathematics and physics, and amnesia. Fleep.

A Softer World

A neat photographed (as opposed to drawn) "comic strip," where the text kind of goes with the images: A Softer World.

"We bet him five dollars that he would drown./.../A bittersweet victory."

Kind of Red Meat-ish. But not really.

Wednesday, July 21 2004

About Fox News

Moveon.org is gathering signatures to urge the FTC and Congress to stop Fox News from using the misleading phrase "fair and balanced":

"The FTC should prevent Fox News from using the deceptive trademark 'Fair and Balanced.' Fox News is free to present programming in any way it wishes, but the First Amendment does not permit false advertising."

Alternet's parent company has filed a legal challenge to Fox's use of "Fair and Balanced" as a trademark:
"Fox has actually registered those three words – 'fair and balanced' – as its signature trademark. Does this mean that all journalists and news organizations in the world are legally forbidden to use those words – not only to describe themselves – but for virtually any purpose whatsoever?"


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About this site

This is the personal web site for Edward (Ed) Piou. Consisting mainly of a blog (operational since 1999) and various photos.

Some online projects I'm working on

eppi.com : my one-man web development corp. (I'm for hire)
voteprotect.org : I'm helping build the Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS), and we could really use some volunteer sysadmins and PHP programmers interested in safeguarding democracy...

Politics

Talking Points Memo
Daily Kos
MoveOn
Contact your elected officials

Charity, Non-profits...

A while ago, I decided to put my money where my mind is on a (roughly) monthly basis and give to:


9/2005: Project Open Hand
8/2005: ACORN
7/2005: KPFA
6/2005: KALW
5/2005: EFF
4/2005: OxFam America
3/2005: ACLU
2/2005: Free the Slaves
1/2005: San Francisco Food Bank
12/2004: Amnesty International
11/2004: FreeBSD Foundation
10/2004: Union of Concerned Scientists
9/2004: Project Open Hand
8/2004: VerifiedVoting.org
7/2004: KPFA radio
6/2004: KALW radio
5/2004: John Kerry for President
4/2004: OxFam America
3/2004: ACLU
2/2004: Electronic Frontier Foundation
1/2004: Amnesty International
12/2003: Alternet/TomPaine.com
11/2003: San Francisco Food Bank
10/2003: MoveOn.org
9/2003: Free the Slaves
8/2003: KPFA radio
7/2003: Union of Concerned Scientists
6/2003: Project Open Hand
5/2003: UNICEF
4/2003: OxFam America
3/2003: ACLU
2/2003: Electronic Frontier Foundation
1/2003: Common Cause

Photos

Public events documented through pictures...


1. Jan. 18, 2003 San Francisco anti-war protest
2. Feb. 16, 2003 San Francisco anti-war protest
3. March 15, 2003 San Francisco anti-war protest
4. Power to the Peaceful Festival, Spearhead's free 2003 concert in Golden Gate Park
5. Oct. 25, 2003 San Francisco bring-the-troops-home rally
6. Halloween in the Castro, 2003
7. Love Parade San Francisco, October 2004
8. Folsom Street Fair 2004
9. Power to the Peaceful 2004
10. Halloween in the Castro, 2004
11. Illusion 3 at the MCCLA
12. Burning Man 2005
13. Halloween in the Castro, 2005