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

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• 20080501120525: AFP: Asia tourism, airlines 'complacent' on climate change
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• 20080501120504: VietNamNet - President praises contributions of construction sector and tank force
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• 20080501120400: Saigon Liberation: US Students confront their country's darker history
• 20080501120348: Thirty-Three Years Ago Today, Saigon Fell To Communist Troops
• 20080501120338: Sai Gon Giai Phong - Google News
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• 20080501120210: NORML Blog » The Marijuana in NYC: Racial Bias in Police Policy 1997-2007
• 20080501120158: Inmates on Work Crew Uncover Garbage Bags of Marijuana: Code 911 : Kitsap Sun
• 20080501120145: Dope smokers get addicted to cigs: study - Breaking News
• 20080501120132: Brazilian court bans march for marijuana legalization _English_Xinhua
• 20080501120120: Police reject tougher action on cannabis | Society | The Guardian
• 20080501120103: On Arrests, Demographics, and Marijuana - New York Times
• 20080501120046: Father of three sentenced for role in marijuana grow operation
• 20080501120024: Brown says message must be sent on cannabis | UK | Reuters
• 20080501120009: Breaking: iPhone to Feature Unlimited Movie Downloads, 37-Foot Screen
• 20080501115954: More Mothers Breast-Feed, in First Months at Least - New York Times
• 20080501115935: Native Hawaiians blockade historic palace - CNN.com
• 20080501115917: Iran Condemns Clinton For "Obliterate" Comments - Huffington Post
• 20080501115903: BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Next decade 'may see no warming'
• 20080501115838: 50 Ways to Beat Walking Exercise Boredom: Wisdom for Walkers | Reader's Digest
• 20080501115817: Most common mistakes pet owners make - TODAY: Pets - MSNBC.com
• 20080501115803: Read the Book! 23 Film Disappointing | EW.com
• 20080501115749: You Are There: Big Sister Is (Still) Watching You
• 20080501115738: BigSister - erotic club online in Prague
• 20080501115726: Big Brothel: Internet-enabled surveillance prostitution in Prague - Boing Boing
• 20080501115706: ... Your New Unemployed Status - Huffington Post
• 20080501115650: BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | Identity 'at risk' on Facebook
• 20080501115633: Newspapers: Civil War At The Wall Street Journal
• 20080501115620: Sunlight Really is a Pretty Darn Good Disinfectant. | Sunlight Foundation
• 20080501115605: Websites Go Crazy Tracking Urban Eccentrics
• 20080501115551: MIT Class Calculates Carbon Footprint of "The Man" | Wired.com
• 20080501115538: High-Tech Dirty Tricks to Suppress Black Vote | Wired.com
• 20080501115522: Gas-Tax Holiday = Cheap Votes | Autopia from Wired.com
• 20080501115458: Cloud computing hysteria paralyzed by bolt of reality | The Register
• 20080501115446: In Brief | Grist | News | 30 Apr 2008
• 20080501115429: Shortages Threaten Farmers' Key Tool: Fertilizer - New York Times
• 20080501115413: My Appearance on Al Jazeera Yesterday on Global Food Crisis - Huffington Post
• 20080501115358: How to Help Girls Navigate Sexualization in the Media - Huffington Post
• 20080501115342: 6 Things You Didn't Know You Could Get Addicted To | Cracked.com
• 20080501115325: BBC NEWS | Health | Tree-lined streets 'cut asthma'
• 20080501115307: CNN Political Ticker: Ron Paul No. 1 on Amazon.com | Blogs CNN
• 20080501115256: Go Vap! - SighGone: MAD3M: MAD'M Meditation Method
• 20080501115244: verse - Definitions from Dictionary.com
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• 20080501115216: GTA IV: dude not dead yet but some suckas, playas, and hos are - Boing Boing
• 20080501115204: Stanford grabs $6m to shape the future of software | The Register
• 20080501115149: BBC NEWS | Africa | Surprise of Tanzania's albino MP
• 20080501115134: Chinese gather for torch relay in Vietnam | Markets | Reuters
• 20080501115122: The Associated Press: CDC: 3 out of 4 new moms in US now breast-feed
• 20080501115107: BBC NEWS | Business | Banks warned over lending fears
• 20080501115055: CJR: The Anatomy of Anger
• 20080501115038: BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Few gains for press freedom
• 20080501115015: Official Tearfully Admits He Sniffed Female Lawmaker's Chairseat - HuffPo
• 20080501114947: Grand Theft Are You F#cking Kidding Me - Boing Boing
• 20080501114931: steverubel's bookmarks tagged with "lifehacks" on del.icio.us
• 20080501114919: Instapaper
• 20080501114905: Micro Persuasion: Become a Knowledge Management Ninja with Google Reader
• 20080501114848: 43 Folders Series: Inbox Zero | 43 Folders
• 20080501114835: gapingvoid: human beings don't scale
• 20080501114812: ABC News: Ready for an E-Mail Diet?
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• 20080501114727: An elephant never forgets? George W. Bush's lost e-mails: Page 1
• 20080501114713: The Counterintuitive Evolutionary Lesson of the Nutcracker Man | Wired.com
• 20080501114656: BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Beijing is to impose smoking ban
• 20080501114636: Expert Support For Gas Tax Holiday Appears Nonexistent - Huffington Post
• 20080501114618: David Roberts: Obama Surrenders to Gas Price Terror - Huffington Post
• 20080501114603: Dubya archives White House email by hand | The Register
• 20080501114533: Kids scare each other by impersonating online pedophiles - Boing Boing
• 20080501114507: Short and to the point | The Japan Times Online
• 20080501114453: New trade deal would boost world economy | The Japan Times Online
• 20080501114440: Death penalty is no deterrent | The Japan Times Online
• 20080501114425: What exactly is the West? | The Japan Times Online
• 20080501114413: Food crisis endangering millions | The Japan Times Online
• 20080501114359: Civil servants made to murder | The Japan Times Online
• 20080501114342: Gas tax bill is rammed through Diet | The Japan Times Online
• 20080501114327: Hanks goes to war | The Japan Times Online
• 20080501114311: Chicks on Speed: Art Rules Kyoto 2008 | The Japan Times Online
• 20080501114257: Scientists Create Memristor: Missing Electronic Circuit Element | Wired.com
• 20080501114242: BBC NEWS | Business | Brazil's shares at all-time high
• 20080501114227: What women REALLY want: A husband by 25 ... called James | the Daily Mail
• 20080501114213: Recession? Not in the Advertising Business
• 20080501114159: Ontario police forces bust large meth lab
• 20080501114144: Lives remembered, rebuilt, attitudes changing: 33 yrs after South Vietnam fell
• 20080501114131: George Washington, Vietnam, and the Future - US News and World Report
• 20080501114117: The Internet And The Father Of Acid - Digital Life Blog - InformationWeek
• 20080501114101: GOP May 'Swift Boat' Obama Over His Former Pastor - washingtonpost.com
• 20080501114043: Clinton-McCain gas tax holiday slammed as bad idea | Reuters
• 20080501114032: Cool as a Still-Warming Cucumber | Grist | News | 30 Apr 2008
• 20080501113959: Peggy Drexler: I'm Mad At Everybody - Except My Dogs - Huffington Post
• 20080501113948: Aw, Shucks | Grist | News | 30 Apr 2008
• 20080501113931: Declassified NSA Document Reveals the Secret History of TEMPEST | Wired.com
• 20080501113913: An Open Letter to All $#@%&$! Pundits - 236 - The Room
• 20080501113857: BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Nuclear's CO2 cost 'will climb'
• 20080501113836: Country Reports on Terrorism, 2007 - Council on Foreign Relations
• 20080501113825: You Animals! | Grist | News | 30 Apr 2008