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May 13th, 2004

May 13th, 2004
01:18 am [Link]	US pulls the plug on Muslim websites Edit: The date on this article being September 10, 2001. I saw it posted elsewhere and didn't even look at the date before assuming it was current news. Islamic groups have condemned a government crackdown on a Texan telecoms company as part of a "witch-hunt", writes Brian Whitaker Five hundred websites - many of them with an Arab or Muslim connection - crashed last Wednesday when an anti-terrorism taskforce raided InfoCom Corporation in Texas. The 80-strong taskforce that descended upon the IT company included FBI agents, Secret Service agents, Diplomatic Security agents, tax inspectors, immigration officials, customs officials, department of commerce officials and computer experts. Three days later, they were still busy inside the building, reportedly copying every hard disc they could find. InfoCom hosts websites for numerous clients in the Middle East, including al-Jazeera (the satellite TV station), al-Sharq (a daily newspaper in Qatar), and Birzeit (the Palestinian university on the West Bank). It also hosts sites for several Muslim organisations in the United States, among them the Islamic Society of North America, the Muslim Students Association, the Islamic Association for Palestine, and the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. In addition, InfoCom is the registered owner of ".iq" - the internet country code for Iraq. (2 comments | Leave a comment)
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02:34 am [Link]	Deep Fried Goodness A comic, which is greatly NOT WORK SAFE, that rocks most completely: http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/RETAILERS/retailer.html In particular, I suggest checking out Clarissa's stories, because they're well-written and fucked up in truly impressive ways. They start on pages 4 and 24. And if you liked that, check out this one: http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/COMIX/Family/PAGE1.html I warn you, you *will* want to kill Clarissa's father, and probably the rest of her family, too, and possibly her kindergarten teacher for good measure. These are not happy comics. They are, however, amazingly *good* comics - and if you decide you want an antidote to Clarissa, Weapon Brown (a postapocalyptically insane Mad Max version of Charlie Brown) is also around and also infinitely good, in a much less nasty way. (1 comment | Leave a comment)
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03:42 am [Link]	Hubble sees 'planet' around star The historic first image of a planet circling another star may have been taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The "planet", 5-10 times the mass of Jupiter, is orbiting a small white dwarf star about 100 light-years away. Astronomers are being cautious, saying they require more data to be sure it really is a planet and not a background object caught in the same field of view. Confirmation will come if follow-up observations can show the planet and the star moving together through space. Over the past 10 years, scientists have discovered more than 120 so-called exoplanets. However, all have been found by indirect methods - none was photographed directly. (Leave a comment)