links for 2007-09-29

• BBC NEWS | Technology | Apple iPhone warning proves true
  An Apple software update is disabling iPhones that have been unlocked by owners who wanted to choose which mobile network to use.
  (tags: article bbc hackers hacking hacks mobile tech technology iphone apple really+stupid+move)
• Flight of the Living Dead – Moviefone
  You have got to be kidding me.
  (tags: zombies airplanes dumb+movie wtf)
• Sadly, No! » Pick A Bale Of Stupid
  See, Michael Medved wants to set us all straight about the so-called evils of American slavery.

  Before we go on, I just want to stop and savor that line for a minute or two. Michael Medved. American slavery. Revisionist history.

  (tags: neocons progressive slavery medved stupidity wingnuts indefensible)
• US Senate votes to divide Iraq | The Australian
  The US Senate has approved a Bosnia-style plan to divide Iraq on ethnic and religious lines, as car bombs and other attacks killed at least 56 people in the strife-torn country in a day of mayhem.
  (tags: congress iraq war partition sunni shiite kurd)
• McClatchy Washington Bureau | 09/27/2007 | Blackwater blamed for deaths of reporter, 3 guards
  BAGHDAD — The Blackwater incidents cited by Iraq’s Interior Ministry as reason for the security firm to be barred from operating in Iraq include the deaths of four people with ties to Iraq’s government-funded television network.
  (tags: blackwater mercenaries shootings iraq war security stupidity video)
• BBC NEWS | Business | Euro enjoys another dollar high
  The euro has climbed to yet another all-time high against the dollar, as dealers anticipated the publication of weak US macroeconomic data.
  (tags: dollar economics euro fiscal)
• Verizon Reverses Itself on Abortion Messages – New York Times
  Reversing course, Verizon Wireless announced today that it would allow an abortion rights group to send text messages to its supporters on Verizon’s mobile network.
  (tags: abortion censorship mobile politics tech wtf)
• Media Matters – O’Reilly: “[I]f I could strangle these people and not go to hell and get executed … I would — but I can’t.”
  Shorter Bill-O: “Black people are too stupid to realize that I am really not a racist.”
  (tags: bill+o’reilly racism stupidity)
• How to Accept Criticism with Grace and Appreciation | zen habits
  Here’s one article Bill O’Reilly has never read.
  (tags: lifehacks self-improvement criticism tips happiness social inspiration toread growth etiquette career blogging beautiful article advice)
• BBC NEWS | Africa | Shock at archbishop condom claim
  The head of the Catholic Church in Mozambique has told the BBC he believes some European-made condoms are infected with HIV deliberately.
  (tags: bbc culture horror health ignorance religion weird hiv condoms sex africa)

~ by SAP on 29 September 2007.