bucketFountain » politics http://bucketfountain.com Delayed coverage from Wellington NZ Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:38:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Eyes on the Prize II http://bucketfountain.com/2008/11/30/eyes-on-the-prize-ii/ http://bucketfountain.com/2008/11/30/eyes-on-the-prize-ii/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:44:40 +0000 ben http://bucketfountain.com/?p=899 Wow, just finished watching episode 14 (the final) of Eyes on the Prize. When I tell people it’s a 14 part doco they think it must be long and tedious. However is it has flown past too quickly, and I’ll be re-watching a few episodes. This series is incredible and I highly recommend it to anyone who has an interest in human rights or the civil rights movement, or social movements in general.

Notable personalities and stories in the series include:

  1. The amazing Fannie Lou Hamer
  2. Medgar Evers, helped the prosecution pursue the murderers of Emmett Till. He also helped desegregate the University of Mississippi, and was murdered by a KKK member outside his house
  3. Huey Newton, charismatic co-founder of the Black Panther Party
  4. Fred Hampton, the young Chicago Black Panther who was murdered by the police
  5. and of course, Dr King
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Bush in Tanzania

(Image courtesy of the fabulous redesign of the ‘The Independent’ newspaper’s website.)

]]> http://bucketfountain.com/2008/02/19/bush-in-tanzania/feed/ 0 The HTML 5 and standards crisis http://bucketfountain.com/2007/08/20/the-html-5-and-standards-crisis/ http://bucketfountain.com/2007/08/20/the-html-5-and-standards-crisis/#comments Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:13:37 +0000 ben http://bucketfountain.com/2007/08/20/the-html-5-and-standards-crisis/ A really intriguing thread about the crisis facing the future of HTML/client-side/standards at Molly Holzschlag’s site. I don’t quite grasp what the issues are, but a lot of commentors inferred that they understood the problem/s. I guess I’ll have to do a little more homework to find out what she meant. I want to understand. She even uses the ‘F’ word. Snicker.

Joe Clark injects a little humour into the discussion and simultaneously reminds me of an hilarious Eddie Murphy gag:

What *has* Tantek Çelik done for us lately?

Zeldman has a response of sorts on his site, indicating that he’d like specifics. Do those two not get along? And speaking of people not getting along, there’s some real love, respect and admiration being shown if you scroll down the thread.

Update There’s a follow-up from Molly here.

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[To the melody of Sadi Moma:]

Join us now and share the software;
You’ll be free, hackers, you’ll be free.
x2

Hoarders may get piles of money,
That is true, hackers, that is true.
But they cannot help their neighbors;
That’s not good, hackers, that’s not good.

When we have enough free software
At our call, hackers, at our call,
We’ll throw out those dirty licenses
Ever more, hackers, ever more.

Join us now and share the software;
You’ll be free, hackers, you’ll be free.
x2

You’ll find this on the Free Software Foundation’s site along with some recordings, including the obligatory death metal version.

Nudging Craig to do a recording of this.

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]]> http://bucketfountain.com/2007/02/14/wiki-magazines/feed/ 0 Obama 1, Howard 0 http://bucketfountain.com/2007/02/12/barack-1-john-howard-0/ http://bucketfountain.com/2007/02/12/barack-1-john-howard-0/#comments Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:21:57 +0000 wakeme http://bf.wakemeforfood.com/2007/02/12/barack-1-john-howard-0/ John Howard, aussie PM says in response to Barack Obama’s pledge to withdraw US troops from Iraq if he should win the Democrat nomination and then win the US Presidential election:

Mr Howard said Mr Obama’s stance on Iraq “will just encourage those who want to completely destabilise and destroy Iraq, and create chaos and a victory for the terrorists to hang on and hope for an Obama victory”.

Barack Obama fires back:

“I would also note that we have close to 140,000 troops on the ground now, and my understanding is Mr Howard has deployed 1,400, so if he is (ready) to fight the good fight in Iraq, I would suggest that he calls up another 20,000 Australians and sends them to Iraq.”

Hmmmm, something tells me John Howard wasn’t expecting a response like that. You’re not dealing with W now Johnnie Boy.

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