There was another purdy sunset in DC tonight. More pics here.
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- Post date September 14, 2005
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Hi. I'm Newley Purnell. I cover technology and business for The Wall Street Journal, based in Hong Kong. I use this site to share my stories and often blog about the books I'm reading, tech trends, sports, travel, and our dog Ginger. For updates, get my weekly email newsletter.
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Five Blades or Bust
Google has just launched a new service called Blog Search. Early tinkering reveals that it works very well. And you can subscribe to RSS feeds for searches. Which is extremely useful. You have to wonder what sort of new features they plan to roll out in the future, as well.
Hello Google Blog Search, goodbye Technorati?
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Spam Poetry
I recently received a strange spam from a sender with the (ahem) evocative name of “Mastiff G. Adulterating.” (Is that particular breed prone to philandering?) The subject line was “nice gift for everybody,” and the complete text of the email read:
balcony by uttering just two words: ‘Hang him.’ To drive the convoy away as
—–[URL redacted]
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in just the same way. To Annushka’s credit it must be said that she was
the depths of a seedy garden, separated from the sidewalk by a fancy
🙂
Lovely in a weird sort of way. Almost reminiscent of James Wright, the great imagistic poet I studied during my undergraduate days. (Back in the fall of 1996, my last heady autumn on an American college campus, when I still believed that the workings of the world could be encapsulated in a few measured lines — “Beauty is truth, truth beauty — that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know” — I probably read this poem over 500 times.)
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Kevin Sites: Hired by Yahoo
A turning point in journalism?
War correspondent Kevin Sites, a veteran broadcast journalist, has been hired by Yahoo to “provide a unique, multimedia perspective on some of the world’s most troubled and dangerous places.” He’ll be embarking on a “yearlong journey as a solo journalist to cover every armed conflict in the world.”
Very, very cool. Blogs and independently-produced media can be much more effective — more personal, more hard-hitting — than traditional mainstream coverage. I expect great things from Sites.
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Adventure Travel for Bobos
IHT:
YUNNAN PROVINCE, China — In a world increasingly traveled, the remote destination has become the holy grail of the adventurous traveler. Even Mount Everest, the Antarctic and space (once the final frontier) can be yours if your pockets are deep enough.
Enter the remote guesthouse, part of a new breed of vacation hideaways that tap into our desire to escape the well-beaten path. From treehouses in Borneo to snowbound lodges in the Himalayas, they promise the chance to escape the modern world but without having to forgo luxuries.
(Via World Hum.)
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FEMA Suffers a Brownout
CNN:
Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Mike Brown, under fire over his qualifications and what critics call a bungled response to Hurricane Katrina, resigned Monday, senior administration sources told CNN.
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“We had to kill our patients”
Doctors working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leaving them to die in agony as they evacuated hospitals, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
With gangs of rapists and looters rampaging through wards in the flooded city, senior doctors took the harrowing decision to give massive overdoses of morphine to those they believed could not make it out alive.
In an extraordinary interview with The Mail on Sunday, one New Orleans doctor told how she ‘prayed for God to have mercy on her soul’ after she ignored every tenet of medical ethics and ended the lives of patients she had earlier fought to save.
What’s the over-under re: how long it’ll take the feds to indict these docs? A week? A month?
Catwalk chaos erupted last night as a bank of lights fell during the finale of Diane von Furstenberg’s Fall Fashion Week show, injuring at least two spectators.
Leggy supermodel Alek Wek and several other beauties were forced to scamper when the U-shaped lighting crashed down as they paraded in von Furstenberg’s studio in the Meatpacking District about 6:45 p.m.