#440 Daily Source Code for Friday August 11th 2006
From Curry Cottage in Guildford, UK
The UK is still under a red-alert at all airports. Let’s fix this situation. I have a proposal on how to stop terrorism with the help of an unlikely force. Lots of great feedback from you on the voicemail lines, folders still have the edge at last tally…The music is perfect for a friday like today. Enjoy this to get pumped for the weekend!!!
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GoDaddy (use checkout code DSC3)
Acura
Music in this episode:
Panic at the disco – The difference between martyrdom and suicide is press coverage
David Ippolito – Through my nose
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Adam: We FireFox users are calling out to you. You have some goofy “browster-plugin” referenced on your curry.com (curry.podshow.com) web page, the one I am posting to at this moment. We are getting several “green puzzle piece” “Click here to download plugin” icons from FireFox, and we cannot install the missing plugins automatically. And as a warning to all DSC listeners and visitors to this site, do NOT go to http://www.browster.com and download their plugin. Their EULA doesn’t seem bad at first, and it appears they are trying not to be evil. However, it is a VERY heavy install. It takes a suspiciously long time, requires closing all browsers, installing the plugin lays down 58 megabytes under “Program Files”, you get a new Browster search bar (that tries to masquerade as a Google search bar), AND every hyperlink in any web page will now have a Browster icon appear next to it on rollover which, if you rollover the icon, pops up the page that the link is pointing to! It is, IMHO, horrible. I strongly suspect the browster plugin references are only on Podshow-related links. So please Adam, remove the references to the “browster-plugin” and go back to plain vanilla hyperlinks.
A Verry good, openly published production of three young people Korey Rowe / Dylan Avery / Jason Bermas i would like to bring your attention today.
Its quite long (1,5h) but the time spent watching it is worth it in the terrorism context. Brings in some new aspects. http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-5946593973848835726
It’s not only Muslims that do this sort of thing. I was raised Muslim,
but am largely secular now. George Bush is just as bad claiming “God
told me to attack” this and that. If God is truly talking to a man who
has the blood of 40,000 Iraqi civilians aand an unknown number of
Afghans on his hands, the world is truly rubbished. That said, the way
to reduce terrorism to a tolerable level — you can’t eliminate it
completely — is to:
1. Stop arming countries that attack other countries:
(a)the US and UK are complicit in Israel’s mass-scale carpet-bombing of Lebanon.
(b)Outside the middle east where the US is going to cause terrorism in
the future is the interference in the recent election in Mexico, where
president Bush rang the conservative candidate to congradulate him on
victory in said election before the Mexican electoral commission
finalised the decision.
2. Change the language used in the mass media:
President Bush calling for a “Crusade” after 9/11 did not win neither
hearts nor minds in the Muslim world. His use of the term
“Islamofascists” is almost as bad.
3. Britain has a LARGE Muslim population. In a large population such
as this, you will get some bad seeds. We as a society ought to be able
to separate the religion from the people.
BTW, It is rarely mentioned that Iraq’s former deputy prime minister,
Tariq Aziz, is a Christian, for instance.
4. Final point, and this is what gives me, a British Muslim, comfort,
is that EVERY group that has migrated has been branded as rubbish –
whether it was the Irish-Americans or the Japanese during WWII — and
has overcome it to be an accepted part of society. I believe we are
further ahead in this process in Britain, but it wil eventually come
to the US as well.
This has been duplicated to adam@podshow.com.
Doug,
This mysterious plugin. Using IE7, I have just looked at this page and other bits of PS that seem to ask for it. It doesn’t even show up. There are no extra bits showing. I was prompted to update my quicktime, but I don’t know if that was related because the green jigsaw pieces are still there when I go back to firefox.
I see now plugin-missing in IE6 either. Zip, zilch, nada
In firefox however, I see it, and have seen it in a Dr. Winthorp message on Podshow (about the weekend server upgrade).
I wonder if it’s some sort of infection?
Two things, we Safari users get that plug-in message as well. What is it for? Secondly, the quote, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” comes from Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first innaugural address in 1932 not JFK as you said. Just keeping you accurate Adam. Thanks for the great shows.
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