2008-05-12

YeeHo! Why keep on keepin on? GangstaGrass


So fine. Not everyday you stumble on a CD with every track just too sizzling sweet.

Gangstagrass: a prime new mashup of hillbilly twanging beats and some of the finest voices of gangsta rap's homies and hos. One listen gives visions of grinning gangsta kids stomping with a gaggle o' good ol' boys. Guffaws galore.

And, if the mashup's producer Rench doesn't do a Gangstagrass vidi for Obama, there just ain't no justice in the world.

At time of writing, the band's website was 503'd (Service temporarily unavailable), apparently overloaded by just Boing Boing's mini-review and the news just hit Digg, so get a Bittorrent client and go to Pirate Bay for the whole 22-song album, as free mp3s, plus cover art and songs-artists list.

Look, call for more Gangstagrass. This is the best of the future you'll get.

Update-AD.2008.May.12.Mon.07h57.ICT: The lyrics rock, too -- and pleasantly remind of:
    My name is Eugene Debs Hartke, and I was born in 1940. I was named at the behest of my maternal grandfather, Benjamin Wills, who was a Socialist and an Atheist, and nothing but a groundskeeper at Butler University, in Indianapolis, Indiana, in honor of Eu­gene Debs of Terre Haute, Indiana. Debs was a Social­ist and a Pacifist and a Labor Organizer who ran several times for the Presidency of the United States of Amer­ica, and got more votes than has any other candidate nominated by a third party in the history of this country. Debs died in 1926, when I was a negative 14 years of age.

    The year is 2001 now. If all had gone the way a lot of people thought it would, Jesus Christ would have been among us again, and the American flag would have been planted on Venus and Mars. No such luck!

    At least the World will end, an event anticipated with great joy by many. It will end very soon, but not in the year 2000, which has come and gone. From that I conclude that God Almighty is not heavily into Numerology.

    Grandfather Benjamin Wills died in 1948, when I was a pIus 8 years of age, but not before he made sure that I knew by heart the most famous words uttered by Debs, which are:

      While there is a lower class I am in it.
      While there is a criminal element I am of it.
      While there is a soul in prison I am not free.

    -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, Hocus Pocus, 1990

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2008-05-01

SCRAPs, AD.2008.05.01.ICT - EDT Liberation Day & Labor Day ADdendum

Evacuation of Saigon from US Embassy Rooftop, 1975.04.30

You have just won an appointment to the United States Military Academy," he said. "I've got a son I can be proud of now."

Seventeen years later, in 1975, I was a Lieutenant Colonel on the roof of the American Embassy in Sai­gon, keeping everybody but Americans off helicopters that were ferrying badly rattled people out to ships offshore. We had lost a war!

Losers!

-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, Hocus Pocus, 1990







Today, to 10:59(AM).ICT is still within the 33rd anniversary of Saigon's Liberation Day, at AD.1975.Apr.30.23:59.EDT (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC/GMT-4). Being of two timezones is still confusing even after 18 years of it.

English online press coverage of the event finally caught up outside Vietnam, but the RAPs were still few and far between. By 10:59.ICT (23:59.EDT) today, Google News had about 128 reports for "Saigon Fall", down from 12 hours ago, but more of the RAPs were relevant. "Saigon Liberation" mustered 45 RAPs, up by five but also with more relevent RAPs.

And thus ends Liberation Day and liberation from this blog and its obsessive, economically suicidal Web SCRAPing.

To date, some 22,650 unique Web SCRAPs have been saved to disk since March 2007, each SCRAP listed being linked to the location it was saved from by this blog.

See BeLow. For more on method/madness, see right.

Yet again, enough's enough. Time to get out.

The Pic

From one of the Web pages SCRAP'd, BeLow. Paranthropus boisei, an early
branch of the human family tree, from Counterintuitive Evolutionary Lesson of
the Nutcracker Man | Wired.com

NotIons from the NotAbles
SCRAPs

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2008-04-30

SCRAPs, AD.2008.04.30.ICT - Liberation Day, Saigon

While re-synthesizing the LSD, he accidentally ingested a small sample (through his fingertips) [3] and serendipitously discovered its powerful effects. Three days later, on April 19, Hofmann deliberately consumed 250 micrograms of LSD before his bicycle ride home. This was followed by a series of self-experiments conducted by Hofmann and his colleagues. He first wrote about these experiments on April 22 of that year.

...

In December 2007, Swiss medical authorities permitted a psychotherapist to perform psychotherapeutical experiments with patients who suffer from terminal stage cancer and other deadly diseases. Although not yet started, these experiments will represent the first study of the therapeutic effects of LSD on humans in 35 years, as other studies have focused on the drug's effects on consciousness and body. Hofmann supported the study, and continued to believe in the therapeutic benefits of LSD.

-- From Wikipedia page for Albert Hofmann, 2008.04.30


Never thought much about the old inventor of "acid" (LSD), but it seems most of the media i monitor is eulogizing Albert Hofmann's "final trip" today. The "real" acid i remember back in the '70s was pretty scary stuff. I can't say i regret having tried it -- just the social consequences of tripping out among folks who aren't, and who have no idea why you're acting so nuts. Inevitable conclusion: go directly to nut-house; do not pass "Go". Somewhat surprisingly, Hofmann lived to be an apparently happy 102, even after what must have been some of the best acid trips known to man.

But today is also the 33rd anniversary of Liberation Day for Saigon -- what folks outside Vietnam (US Vietnamese mostly, it seems) call the "Fall of Saigon" -- AD.1975.Apr.30.ICT, the day Vietnamese forces took back Saigon and the US choppered the last of its official forces and government staff out to ships offshore, tails twixt legs.

Before heading home, of course, the US dumped more bombs and chemicals on Vietnam than were dropped on all of Europe over all of World War II.

Interestingly, for this sot at least, the English online press coverage of the event, both inside Vietnam and abroad, is virtually nada so far. Most news about Vietnam today was still fixated on the happy ending for the Olympic torch relay here and Vietnam's ending its US adoption program over US reports of baby sales.

By 21:00 today, in Vietnam, only the "organ" of HCMC Communist Party, Saigon Liberation (Sài gòn Giải phóng), had even mentioned Liberation Day on its Web front page. Not a word was to be seen on the Web fronts of the Viet Nam News Agency, VietnamNet or Thanh Nien (Youth) Daily.

Google news had about 140 reports for "Saigon Fall" and 40 for "Saigon Liberation", most not relevant -- which doesn't seem to bode very well for Vietnam's English-language "propaganda" efforts, as the Vietnamese media still call those efforts themselves.

Still, it's Liberation Day for yours truly at least, liberation from this blog and this obsessive Web RAP SCRAPing. Today, some 22,538 unique Web SCRAPs have been saved to disk since March 2007. That's enough. It's time to get out a bit more.

Yet again, each SCRAP listed is linked to the location it was saved from by this blog. See BeLow. For more on method/madness, see right.

The Pic

From one of the Web pages SCRAP'd, BeLow. The Taj Mahal, No. 7 in
concierge.com's Top 12 of TRAVEL'S MOST ENDANGERED PLACES

NotIons from the NotAblesSCRAPs

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2008-04-29

SCRAPs, AD.2008.04.29.ICT - EcoBuddhism?

As I filed out with the excited, chattering, and very young crowd, I felt the kind of heart-stopping pity that makes it hard for me to be hard on my students. After all, I’m not going to be around for that much longer. But these bright young beings, full of energy—do they think they can inherit the economy, but not the earth?

-- Wendi Adamek, of Columbia's Green Tara Dialogues, in The 'Economics of Climate Change' Koan, 2007.Jun.10


This day in IndoChina, the "NotAble NotIons" section evolved into "NotIons from the NotAbles", since it usually includes the most interesting, amusing or frightening SCRAPs from the most authoritative sources of the day. The "Pic" section became "The Pic".

And... the Climate Cull continues: more epidemic fears, more oil-addiction cold turkey, rich humans fearing they too may face feed shortages, more Asian rain-forest slashing for feeding more humans, another earthquake, in Okinawa this time, etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum.

Concurrently, humanity's over-stuffed, affluent oldies have been offered new software to counter senility. Canada's conservatives are outed on their attempt to sabotage the Obamanon. Iraqi children weep over Saddam Hussein's birthday. And Chinese kids are sold into slavery "like cabbages".

On the lighter side, there may have been "Crystal Meth[od]" in the madness of CNN's Richard Quest -- when he tied his balls to his neck with a friend in New York's Central Park. "Real" solutions to the Climate Cull are proposed. Buddhism has some suggestions, too. The Worldometer puts "real-time" stats online so we can all supposedly gauge global hope versus despair, whenever we want. Canadian strip club polecats complain they're losing work to Net porn. And the Stitch n' Bitch appears! (See knithappens.com ;))

And also today, some 22,347 unique Web SCRAPs have been saved to disk since March 2007. Each is linked to the location it was saved from by this blog. See BeLow. For more on method/madness, see right.

The Pic
EcoBuddhism web site
From one of the Web pages SCRAP'd, BeLow

NotIons from the NotAbles
SCRAPs

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2008-04-28

SCRAPs, AD.2008.04.28.ICT - Climate Cull

Set factories afire at last! Make a little room on the crippled earth! Depopulate it so that the grass may grow again, and woods, meadows, heather, stream and moor return to this world of dust and concrete.

-- Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf, 1929


Today, more from the many too many of us folks worldwide, all now facing petro-consumer cold turkey, environmental rejection and our own imminent culling by climate. Today we're mulling North American water wars, more food shortages, delusions of religion and toxic trash islands at sea bigger than Texas. On the lighter side, there was more mumbling over decriminalizing the Bud and more eroticomic "Unmotivational Posters" went online to spice up one's day.

And today some 22,244 unique Web SCRAPs have been saved to disk since March 2007. Each is linked to the location it was saved from by this blog. See BeLow. For more on method/madness, see right.

Pic

From one of the Web pages SCRAP'd, BeLow

NotAble NotIons
SCRAPs

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2008-04-27

SCRAPs, AD.2008.04.27.ICT - Facing Cold Turkey

Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we’re hooked on.

-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, Addicted To Oil And Violence, CounterCurrents, 2004.May.13


Today, the 22nd day of the 3rd lunar month, the 27th day of the 4th solar month, some 22,129 unique Web SCRAPs have been saved to disk since March 2007. Each is linked to the location it was saved from by this blog. See BeLow. For more on method/madness, see right.

NotAble NotIonsPic
From one of the Web pages SCRAP'd, BeLow

SCRAPs

He punched the playback button on the recorder before him, and I heard myself telling Paul Slazinger, privately, I’d thought, that the two principal currencies of the planet were the Yen and fellatio. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, Hocus Pocus, 1990

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2008-04-26

SCRAPs, AD.2008.04.26.ICT

Saved Copies of Reports, Articles & Presentations (SCRAPs), AD.2008.Apr.26.Sat.ICT

ToDay: 22,085 SCRAPs (well over 90% unique) have been saved to disk since March 2007 and linked to their original locations online (at time of saving) from this blog.

ToDay's Pic

Vint Cerf, A Father of the Internet
From one of the Web pages SCRAP'd, BeLow

ToDay's biggest NotIon fed by (re)considering the insurance industry's continuing existence depends mainly on its maximizing the accuracy of its predictions of the most costly risks imaginable, and that they likely spend more than anyone else, government or news outlet, on doing just that:


ToDay's SCRAPs

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2008-04-25

SCRAPs, AD.2008.04.25.ICT

Saved Copies of Reports, Articles & Presentations (SCRAPs), AD.2008.Apr.25.Fri.ICT

ToDay: Over 22,000 SCRAPs from the last year-plus saved to disk since March 2007, linked to their original URLs from this blog.

ToDay's Pic

From one of the Web pages SCRAP'd, BeLow

See particularly:

ToDay's SCRAPs

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2008-04-24

SCRAPs, AD.2008.04.24.ICT - World Wants Obama

Saved Copies of Reports, Articles & Presentations (SCRAPs), AD.2008.Apr.24.Thu.ICT


Now: Over 21,900 SCRAPs from the last year-plus, since March 2007, linked from this blog.

ToDay's Pic - Says It All

From one of the Web pages SCRAP'd, BeLow

See particularly:
ToDay's SCRAPs

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2008-04-23

SCRAPs, AD.2008.04.23.ICT - Earth Day EDT

Saved Copies of Reports, Articles & Presentations (SCRAPs), AD.2008.Apr.23.Wed.ICT - 4/22 Earth Day (EDT)

Now: Over 21,750 SCRAPs from the last year-plus, since March 2007, linked from this blog.

ToDay's Pic

From one of the Web pages SCRAP'd, BeLow

Earth Day AD.2008.04.22.EDT comes and goes. If you'll see a couple more RAPs about it, see:

ToDay's SCRAPs

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2008-04-22

SCRAPs, AD.2008.04.22.ICT - Earth Day

Saved Copies of Reports, Articles & Presentations (SCRAPs), AD.2008.Apr.22.Tue.ICT
-- 4/22 Earth Day, and two days after 4/20 (eh)

Today: Earth Day AD.2008.04.22.ICT, more on CNN's Richard Quest(ionable ;)), Iraq, US Presidential politics, global food crisis, cannabis, Canada, Linux, Vietnam, Saigon and a few bleeding-edge sci-tech, biz, Internet and just generally amusing new RAPs, plus a fantabulously hip Hindi dance vidi, the Oneness Temple Dance. See BeLow "ToDay's Pix".

Now: Over 21,500 SCRAPs from the last year-plus, since March 2007, linked from this blog, almost 4Mb-worth as a single page. See front page... Wait, what? That just got stopped. The front page now just shows the latest week's posts. (Still, the full 4Mb-worth again just loaded from scratch in just under 53 seconds today, in what's now late night [Tp] HCM City (ex/or Saigon), Vietnam [Việt Nam].)

ToDay's Pix

From one of the web pages listed next

Some Earth Day 2008/4/22 SCRAPs from today's full list (BeLow):
Another Vidi Very Much Worth Embedding:
The Oneness Temple Dance
From Global Oneness


ToDay's SCRAPs

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2008-04-21

SCRAPs, AD.2008.04.21.ICT

Saved Copies of Reports, Articles & Presentations (SCRAPs), AD.2008.Apr.21.Mon.ICT
-- One day before the 4/22 Earth Day, one after 4/20 (yeah)

Now: 21,480 RAPs linked to this blog's front page to date, and it still loaded from scratch in just under 33 seconds today, in now late night [Tp] HCM City (ex/or Saigon), Vietnam [Việt Nam].

Pic of the Day

From one of the web pages listed next

Yet again, i won't pretend to be hyped enough to sum up what's behind today's top online headlines for you. Just save, copy or click them yourself.

But i'll add again that the 21,000+ SCRAPs listed and linked on the home page were all consistently saved to disk over the last year-plus. Their original contents (less javascript) are recoverable from local directories on the Ubuntu Linux box on which they were saved, "madm@vice-h0:~/public_html/scrapbook/data/YYYYMMDDHHMMSS/". (Email this blog's author if you want some SCRAPs' original versions.)

The variable directory in capitals represents the time a copy of the "original" RAP was saved to disk, as listed hereon. (See BeLow). For example, the first SCRAP listed next was saved at "20080421210650" or AD.2008.Apr.21.Mon.21:06:50.ICT, where ICT means IndoChina Time (GMT/UTC+7) and AD indicates the solar calendar and yours truly, [Mặc] AD Marshall.

ToDay's SCRAPs

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2008-04-20

SCRAPs, AD.2008.04.20.ICT

Saved Copies of Reports, Articles & Presentations (SCRAPs), AD.2008.Apr.20.Sun.ICT - It's 4/20!!!

Now: 21,357 RAPs linked to on this blog's front page to date, and it still loaded from scratch in just under 81 seconds in less-than-sunny Saigon.

Pic of the Day

From one of the web pages listed next

ToDay's SCRAPs

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2008-04-19

SCRAPs, AD.2008.04.19.ICT

Saved Copies of Reports, Analyses & Presentations (SCRAPs), AD.2008.Apr.19.Sat.ICT
-- 21,289 RAPs linked to on this blog's front page to date. And it still loaded from scratch in just over 65 seconds today in less-than-sunny Saigon.

Pic of the Day

From one of the web pages listed next

CNN's Richard Quest takes the cake today with his bust for loitering in New York City's Central Park with another man, a baggy of meth in his pocket, which he confessed to the arresting officer, and a rope tied round his neck and genitals.

Whether Quest will be able to exploit this media sensation for a cozy retirement-padding career move or not remains to be seen.

From BeLow -- noting the HuffPo again scooped this one via RSS feed:



Today's SCRAPs, including the Adventuresome Quest

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2008-04-18

SCRAPs, AD.2008.04.18.ICT - Can't Touch This - The End?

Saved Copies of Reports, Analyses & Presentations (SCRAPs), AD.2008.Apr.18.Fri.ICT
-- 21,177 RAPs linked to on this blog's front page to date, and it still loaded from scratch in just over 72 seconds in freakin' Saigon.

Pic of the Day

From one of the web pages listed next

Today's blowout listing of almost 900 RSS headlines in Google Reader almost made continuing this project worthwhile. The most interesting ones are listed next.

But it's the 18th in the 4th solar month and 13th of the third lunar month and 900 a day is something i just don't want to see. Can't do this every day for yet another year... Nah... No way...

Still if it was only for this video, today's eXperience was well worth it in itself. Yo, Hill'y, McCrinkled! Can't touch this. From Bill3948 on YouTube:

Huzzahs to the HuffPo for breaking this first, yet again. See BeLow, or click next:


SCRAPs, AD.2008.04.18/13.ICT

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2008-04-17

SCRAPs, AD.2008.04.17.ICT

Saved Copies of Reports, Analyses & Presentations (SCRAPs), AD.2008.Apr.17.Thu.ICT

Pic of the Day

From one of the web pages listed next

I'm fucked off today and have nothing to say. See the list next for what looked marginally interesting today.

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2008-04-16

SCRAPS, AD.2008.04.16.ICT

Saved Copies of Reports, Analyses & Presentations (SCRAPs), AD.2008.Apr.16.Wed.ICT
* 20,819 timestamped links to the SCRAPs' online versions on this blog's frontpage to date
-- though i'm going to cut that back to a week's worth sometime soon --
still loading in under 30 seconds in Firefox 2x in Saigon, Vietnam,
excluding content linked to other sites.

Pic of the Day

From one of the web pages listed next.

Today had its amusing moments, indubitably. Today's Pic of the Day is for a BBC report about some researchers' confidence in their discovery that giving the ol' dolphin a floggin' is a can reduce prostrate cancer in men. That's, "Masturbation 'cuts cancer risk'". See BeLow.

Three of the big-four state-run English-language online news sites are reporting New7Wonders.com on-line vote has pulled the last of Vietnam's much (locally) ballyhooed entrants from their competition, purportedly due to continued brazen content-ripping from the N7W web site by the fourth of the big-four VN-English dailies, Thanh Nien (Youth), and a few other government-sponsored sites.

The pages not found at the end (ie, top) of today's SCRAPs mark the formerly infringing web pages of the Vietnam post office's eDirectory (Dial 1080) and the state's second biggest-circulation English-language daily, Thanh Nien (Young People). Those two pages, along with two others yet to go 404 (AWOL, disappeared), purportedly copied images and copy from the N7W site, reported Sai Gon Giai Phong (Saigon Liberation) and, also the post-office's VietnamNet.

Surgeons in the Phillipines reportedly apologize for posting a YouTube vidi of their removing an aerosol can inserted into the butt of a man who insulted the gay prostitute who embedded it there.

Rolling Stones gonzo guitarist 'Kief' Richards flips again and tells the press he really snort his father's ashes -- with or without coke remains in question.

Gotta go. More serious stuff includes Vietnam cluing in a bit more on the dangers of global warming and running stock markets without adequately free, transparent and comprehensive legal and financial infrastructures, the e-spionage threat, "green" TV's growing global popularity, relaxing "Zen" quotes, new online acronyms, France taking on skinny pop-culture ideals in fashion models, actresses, etc, etc, etc.

There's way to much to ponder, much less remember each day!

Ah! But can't forget today's RAP adding to the justification for this Kurt-Vonnegut commemorative SCRAPs4DM archive: the Columbia Journalism Review's When Online Stories "Evolve", which proposes the industry ponder guidelines for informing at least news web-site users when RAPs (reports, analyses or presentations) euphemistically "evolve", ie, change while online. No mention is made of pages the just go 404 by the CJR piece.

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2008-04-15

SCRAPs, AD.2008.04.15.ICT

Saved Copies of Reports, Analyses & Presentations (SCRAPs), AD.2008.Apr.15.Tue.ICT - The Hùng Kings' Holiday

Pic of the Day

From one of the web pages listed next

Today is the AD.2008 Hùng Kings' Holiday in Vietnam. The Hùng Kings' were the legendary founders and first rulers of Vietnam. It's a holiday based on a legend. OK? OK? See the Wikipedia entry on Hùng Vương for more information.

And today we're cutting back. Today's SCRAPs only go to AD.2008.Apr.15.Tue.17:52.ICT. Today's deadline was 6pm (18:00) ICT. Upcoming daily SCRAPS will be cut back step-by-step to a deadline of 15:00.ICT, which gives the "HoSE" (Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange, aka VN Index) time to update its web site with the half-day trading results, and, purportedly, gives me time to review and write about the day's SCRAPs , this year's and last year's, in time for publication the following day, this year.

The 20,724 more or less unique SCRAPs listed on this blog, to date, represent a quixotic commemorative attempt to supplement at least one mind, mine, with a rapidly recoverable repository of the issues that caught my attention over the last 360-plus days. They commemorate the life, works and death of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (See AlSo SCRAPs-2008.04.11 - On the Day God Died, BeLow.)

All SCRAPs listed here represent the varying interests and energy levels of this blog's author alone, as fed by his daily Internet news and news-feeds obsession, since AD.2007.Mar.01.Thu.09:33:39.ICT.

The time-stamp preceding each web page's title is in the format YYYYMMDDHHMMSS. For example, the SCRAP preceded by the timestamp "20070305093339" was saved at AD.2007.Mar.01.Thu.09:33:39.ICT. "ICT" is IndoChina Time, the UTC/GMT+7 timezone.

For more information on how these SCRAPs were selected, harvested, filtered and posted, see SCRAPs, 2008.04.06-09.

Copies of original reports saved to disk available upon request. It would be too expensive to mirror them all online.

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2008-04-14

SCRAPs, AD.2008.04.14.ICT

Saved Copies of Reports, Analyses & Presentations, AD.2008.Apr.14.Mon.ICT

Pic of the day

From one of the web pages just below.

For more information on how the 20,598 SCRAPs now listed on this blog's frontpage were selected, collected, filtered and posted, see SCRAPS-2008.04.10.

If you see apparent duplicates listed -- as immediately next -- these generally reflect the capture of multi-page RAPs. Though "print" or "single page" versions of multi-page RAPs are usually SCRAP'd, occassionally each page is SCRAP'd individually -- which is common in the case of image slideshows, for example.

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2008-04-13

SCRAPs, AD.2008.04.13.ICT

SCRAPs (Saved Copies of Reports, Analyses & Presentations)
AD.2007.Apr.13.Fri.ICT



+ For more information on how these SCRAPs are selected, collected, filtered and posted, see SCRAPS-2008.04.10. I'm too lazy to explain it again right now.

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2008-04-12

SCRAPs, AD.2008.04.12.ICT

SCRAPs (Saved Copies of Reports, Analyses & Presentations)
AD.2007.Apr.12.Fri.ICT

Kurt Vonnegut

From So it goes, by Jim Saturday, posted at "01:57 PM on April 12, 2007" (timezone unknown) on some blog called "TCPalm" -- which is apparently going AWOL, so it too got SCRAP'd.

A date with death was yet again missed due to confused timezones, economic constraints and exhaustion. But the same thing apparently happened last year, so it's okie dokie, folks. Instead of yesterday, the first anniversary Kurt Vonnegut's passing away, Apr.11 last year, news of "vonnegut" was Googled and SCRAP'd today.

Last year, it seems, similar obstacles were at work and news of Vonnegut's earthly demise apparently revived the SCRAPs after a week-long hiatus, two days later, Apr.13.

Today, this year, there was naturally yet another pile of other interesting RAP headlines to SCRAP. See BeLow.

All SCRAPs listed here represent the varying interests and energy levels of this blog's author alone, as fed by his daily Web, email and RSS-feed news obsession, since AD.2007.Mar.01.Thu.09:33:39.ICT.

The time-stamp preceding each web page's title is in the format YYYYMMDDHHMMSS. For example, the SCRAP preceded by the timestamp "20070305093339" was saved at AD.2007.Mar.01.Thu.09:33:39.ICT. "ICT" is IndoChina Time, the UTC/GMT+7 timezone. According to Wikipedia, "AD" stands for "Anno Domini (Medieval Latin: In the year of (the/Our) Lord), abbreviated as AD or A.D., is a designation used to number years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. More fully, years may be also specified as Anno Domini Nostri Iesu (Jesu) Christi ("In the Year of Our Lord Jesus Christ"). The calendar era which it numbers is based on the traditionally reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus. Before Christ, abbreviated as BC or B.C., is used in the English language to denote years before the start of this epoch." In other words, "AD" indicates a solar calendar based on the Christian ideology, as opposed to the lunar calendars based largely on harvest times which are still used throughout Asia.

Copies of original reports saved to disk available upon request. It would be too expensive to mirror them all online.