OK, I've been MIA for a month, busy with work, trip to NYC for WWW2004....
Good stuff gets added into the sideblog via furl, but here are some recommended links I've run across lately:
The Wave's 10 Best Internet Fads
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 trailer
Trailer for the first Lemony Snicket movie, A Series of Unfortunate Events
In 1971, Stanford psychology researchers found out that randomly selected, untrained, mostly unsupervised prison guards quickly turn extremely sadistic in what is now known as the Stanford Prison Experiment. In 2003-2004, the US Army in Iraq seems to have confirmed the research.
Why Pres. Bush and VP Cheney have hired private criminal defense lawyers regarding the Plame grand jury.
I find it amusing that the Bush/Cheney counsel article was written by John Dean of the Watergate era.
Speaking of Watergate, the December 2003 issue of _Smithsonian_ magazine has an article fingering Nixon's deputy counsel Fred Fielding as Deep Throat. Others have been fingered before as DT (including John Dean); the key here was searching a computerized database of Watergate figures, looking for times that DT was known to have been in town.
Posted by: Joseph H. Vilas | 2004.06.07 at 19:25
John Dean seems to be something of a legal commentator in demand. I've heard him opining on NPR, and he's got the FindLaw column. He also has an e-book "Unmasking Deep Throat" but I haven't been willing to shell out the $8 to find out who he's fingered. Not bad for the guy who blew the whistle on the President and spent 4 months in prison for his trouble.
Posted by: mg | 2004.06.08 at 20:06