joe feedback, custom style

Redesigned my journal to fit in better with the site. Woo. Tomorrow, a return to actual content.

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CNN Headline News had a report on all the increased security measures in the nation's capital, but didn't mention this guy.

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Dearest reader: If you're like me--that is, if you pride yourself on having learned once to read; if, in fact, the thought of yourself as not just literate but 'literary' gives you an inner glow of superiority; but if, in the passage of time, your attention span has proved barely sufficient to read the instructions on a package of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese--then you will probably enjoy Flash Fiction, a collection of very short stories. (Maximum length: 750 words.) Some of the stories are great; almost all are good; very few are bad; and all of them are over in four pages or less.

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Today's one of those laugh-or-cry news days. I don't normally repeat a lot of links I got from my friends list, but it seems like a good time for a roundup.

• "Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia banned broadcast media from an appearance Wednesday where he will receive an award for supporting free speech."
  
• "If the nation escalates to "red alert," which is the highest in the color-coded readiness against terror, you will be assumed by authorities to be the enemy if you so much as venture outside your home, [New Jersey]'s anti-terror czar says."
  
• The FBI recovered a Bill of Rights, missing for 138 years.
  
• This may come as a shock, but apparently there may be some casualties if we go to war.
  
• The surrender of fifteen Iraqi soldiers makes headlines.
  
• The U.S. failed to convince Turkey not to invade Iraq when we do.
  
• Oh yes, and Iraq has attacked northern Iraq.
  

LA driveby

This sounds like fun:

Before we split up, we review the rules then and pair each team with a nearby neighborhood to explore and photograph. You may have a few set shots to get, but largely, you'll be responsible for conveying an overall feel of a neighborhood in 10-30 images (plus or minus). Because you have a deadline of only 90 minutes, time's a-wastin', so you and your teammates must scurry along and find those central images that represent your designated 'hood the best.

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Ah, music and the war intersect in a different way:

Some of the biggest rallies this month have endorsed President Bush's strategy against Saddam Hussein, and the common thread linking most of them is Clear Channel Worldwide Inc., the nation's largest owner of radio stations.

In a move that has raised eyebrows in some legal and journalistic circles, Clear Channel radio stations in Atlanta, Cleveland, San Antonio, Cincinnati and other cities have sponsored rallies attended by up to 20,000 people. The events have served as a loud rebuttal to the more numerous but generally smaller anti-war rallies.

(Smaller?)

open mic report

I sang a little prayer for Salam Pax. Not much to say. Go read him.