Today’s Media Links
CleanXHTML 1.2 Released!
This new version, CleanXHTML 1.2, is now based on .NET 2.0 and is amazingly fast! CleanXHTML also installs as a ‘real’ Office Add-In just like any other .NET 2.0 Setup application. Download the trial copy of CleanXHTML 1.2 and any preexisting registration data should upgrade you automatically. In some cases you may have to enter your registration data again. For more questions feel free to contact Songhay System. Your patience with us is greatly appreciated!
TWiT.tv Goes Read-Only
From the Radio of Leo: “It’s not that I don’t welcome your comments, but I’m having all sorts of difficulties with the software over cookies and log-ins. Add to that the difficulty of moderating thousands of entries for spam, and I think you’ll see that it’s impractical for now to keep things as they are. At some point I hope to find a Drupal developer I can afford (Lullabot is way beyond my means these days) and I’ll be able to update this site to Drupal 5 and restore some of the interactivity.”
Leo Laporte could have easily hidden behind the mystique of being one of the so-called tech media elite and posted nothing about his real-world troubles. I appreciate his non-Hollywood-lawyer-like behavior. And, by the way Leo, I became interested in Drupal because of Lullabot.com but remain with WordPress and am no longer interested in their audio pod—I mean—net casts. What the WordPress people are doing with Askimet is great and even when it works with Drupal, I’ll still stay with WordPress until further notice.
Eco-junk at Monbiot.com
There is something wrong about the correlation of education and wealth and people who are into a ‘green movement’—George Monbiot agrees: “The media’s obsession with beauty, wealth and fame blights every issue it touches, but none more so than green politics. There is an inherent conflict between the aspirational lifestyle journalism which makes readers feel better about themselves and sells country kitchens and the central demand of environmentalism: that we should consume less.”
This issue touches me deeply because I am very, very sure that my social life would be far, far better in a world full of women—especially so-called “underclass” women “of color”—who are holistically and foundationally interested in natural law instead of corporate law. You call a woman “African woman” she is likely to not agree. She say I be lady. And The Lady is the wife of the European Lord. She must divorce this man and envy him not—and the world will be transformed.
“Humans Evolved From a Single Origin In Africa”
Africa reaches Slashdot.org outside of the context of $100 laptops with so-called “news” in “Humans Evolved From a Single Origin In Africa.” This “news” is such an old issue among scholars like the late Cheikh Anta Diop. The Slashdot comments about this post immediately show doubt and ambivalence about this issue. For people who care about Africa outside and inside the context of western science what’s important for us is to recall the evidence that genetic diversity is highest in Africa. This is strange to a devout racist raised on Benetton ads. When “we” see symbols of diversity in the West, “we” always see people of different skin colors frolicking together smiling. But the science tells us that true diversity is among people of roughly the same dark skin color—and you have to be ‘rough’ when you are looking from a western point of view. The other important scientific fact is to remember what genes are selected on this planet. You know the science will go totally Harry Potter when years from now you will see “news” about “the discovery” of dominant genes among African people.